AIIM 2004

I wasn’t able to go to the AIIM Conference this year. Here are some of the highlights:

Vendors Take AIIM At Content Management

Adobe was among the major players with announcements keyed to the AIIM crowd. Adobe unveiled new technology that will add bar codes to PDF formatted documents to speed forms processing, the company said Monday.

Among the first customers of the new technology will be the U.S. tax collection agency, the Internal Revenue Service. The bar codes, which are a "2D" format -- rather than simple lines, as in retail product bar codes, these include more information by using both lines and blocks of ink -- can be added to PDF forms by users equipped with Acrobat Professional 6.0, the company's top-of-the-line PDF authoring software (a plug-in will be provided for the bar code feature) or the upcoming edition of Adobe Designer.

AIIM highlights content control,FileNet, Documentum unveil offerings

FileNet plans to unveil TCM (Team Collaboration Manager), an integrated platform for collaboration management. ...

Because content in the team space is the same content as in the repository, records management policies can be applied on any individual item in the team space, for example. In addition, TCM can version and lock down discussion threads and e-mail attachments, and collaboration sessions can be declared as records without users being trained on records management policies. ...

Documentum will use AIIM 2004 to launch its Compliance Manager, a Web-based application for securely creating, storing, and distributing information in an audited environment. Compliance Manager also allows users to develop and monitor content-related processes in accordance with regulatory requirements, company officials said. Compliance Manager was built on the Documentum DocControl Manager product and leverages the Documentum ECM platform.