AIIM Announces Winners of Best Practices" Award

Winners Demonstrate Creative Use of Technology, Business Value, and Return On Investment in Enterprise Content Management Implementations

New York, NY (PRWEB) March 8, 2004 ---AIIM Conference and Expo, March 10, 2004 - AIIM announces the winners of the AIIM Best Practices Award" at the AIIM 2004 Conference & Exhibition. The AIIM Best Practices Award recognizes excellence in the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) field. The term "Best Practice" denotes a standard of excellence that has been achieved within an organization and refers to a process that can be quantified, adapted, and repeated.

The award recipients are selected by AIIMs Emerging Technology Advisory Group (EmTAG), a volunteer committee comprised of consultant and end-user members who provide market and technology insight as well trending information. EmTAG selected the companies which in their view demonstrate the vision, leadership, creative use of technology, business value, and return on investment that are the hallmarks of Best Practices award winners.

The creation, management, and administration of company documents is rapidly becoming a top priority and concern for businesses today. It threatens the continued existence of those businesses that ignore it and offers an immense opportunity to improve profitability, reduce business risk and pain, increase performance, and improve security for those who master it," explained John Mancini, president of AIIM. The companies selected to receive the AIIM Best Practices Award for 2004 have demonstrated that Enterprise Content Management technologies have a tangible and short-term ROI and we are pleased to honor these excellent, innovative implementations. They are the end result of user commitment, supplier technologies, and partners with a solution focus."

AIIM Best Practices Awards

Awards were presented in the following categories:

Banking and Finance
•   American Express Financial Advisors -- for pioneering the creation of a digital mailroom within its Financial Advisory Business Group.
•   Captiva Software -- for the successful creation of a digital mailroom at the Financial Advisory Business Group of American Express.

Insurance
•   Allstate Insurance Company -- for a robust set of enterprise web services providing federated access to multiple and disparate content sources.
•   FileNet -- for a robust set of enterprise web services providing federated access to multiple and disparate content sources at Allstate Insurance Company.

Healthcare/Pharmaceuticals
•   Geisinger Health System -- for the creation of a comprehensive HIPAA compliant electronic patient medical record system.
•   Tower Technology, Inc. -- for the creation of a comprehensive HIPAA compliant electronic patient medical record system at Geisinger Health System.

Education
•   Columbia University -- for the implementation of an integrated solution to admissions and financial aid processing.
•   Hyland Software, Inc. -- for the implementation of an integrated solution to admissions and financial aid processing at Columbia University.

About AIIM
AIIM, the international authority on Enterprise Content Management (ECM), is leading the way to the understanding, adoption, and use of ECM technologies. These technologies, tools, and methods are used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content across an enterprise in support of business processes. As a non-profit association for more than 60 years, AIIM provides industry news and information, educational events and professional development, market analysis, industry standards development, publications, regional chapters, and executive networking. Complete information about AIIM is available at www.aiim.org.

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