AIIM, a non-profit organization focused on helping users to understand the challenges associated with managing documents, content, records, and business processes, recently published a report that studied the state of the enterprise content management (ECM) industry. An April 1st article in Wall Street & Technology summarized the key findings.

The AIIM study surveyed 962 firms and revealed some interesting results related to the content challenges many organizations face today, as well as the business issues they prioritize most in regards to IT investments and specific technologies likely to boom in 2009.

John Mancini, president of AIIM said, “for many organizations, poorly managed and out of control information represents a huge potential source of bottom line savings in this tight economy — if only organizations would just take this cost saving seriously.”

Mancini continues to note that controlled content can be fed into business processes to speed them up, cut down travel via project collaboration, and form a knowledge base for the business. He says that uncontrolled content represents a lost opportunity.

With a pervasive concern to manage content for reasons related to cost savings, efficiency and compliance, the study revealed that BPM is likely to grow strongly in 2009 – a common thread that exists throughout the IT community. In fact, Jim Sinur, an analyst for Gartner, recently noted in his blog that in these economic times, “BPM is not considered a luxury but a necessity.”

More than 500 business executives attended the Gartner BPM conference to learn how to “survive, thrive and capitalize,” the theme of the event. Sinur says:

• “BPM helps organizations survive by bringing unnecessary shadow processes to light for potential savings.”

• “BPM can enable organizations to thrive by turning up the volume on process improvement.”

• “BPM allows selected organizations to capitalize by purposely facing strategic problems.”

The spotlight seems to be on BPM as a number of executives reevaluate their IT dollars to ensure that their organizations are poised for efficiency and growth.

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