AIIM Future Trends Forecast

Our EmTag (Emerging Technology Advisory Group) predicts the most significant industry trends during the next eighteen months.

• More focus on Searching, Navigation, and Auto-Categorization
• Voicemail will be recognized as records from VoIP and unified communications
• A groundswell adoption of Enterprise 2.0 over the next 2-3 years
• The emerging technology of desktop containers
• Virtualization of ECM with SOA services and standard APIs, such as JSR-170
• Content security
• Auditability of content due to pending federal legislation in the US
• Enterprise Records Management
• BI and ECM
• Litigation and Compliance as an “enterprise” driver
• The redefinition of SOA to embrace ECM, BPM, Portals, and Web 2.0
• Automated translation and/or transcription
• The digital home
• Individual lines-of-business within companies are unwilling to wait for an enterprise DM solution

The latest AIIM E-DOC Magazine has an article that addresses this in more detail.

By Atle Skjekkeland.

Comments

[James]

Did you predict that the ECM domain would be dead last in terms of participating within an SOA? Will they also be dead last in terms of supporting security standards such as SAML?

[Atle Skjekkeland]

Hi James,

I am not able to answer your question on behalf of the EmTag committee (I am not part of this committee), but my personal opinion is that the term ECM will continue to be used within SOA at least for the next 18 months. Some of the “powerhouse” vendors are really pushing the ECM term.

I still think that ECM will continue its evolution over the next few years, and Gartner's vision for the evolutionary path of content technologies is called enterprise information management (EIM)…

And I really recommend you to become involved in the EmTag committee!

Kind regards, Atle.