The AIIM Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Certificate Program is designed from global best practices among our 65,000 associate and professional members. The training program covers the strategies, tools and technologies to capture, store, manage, preserve and deliver information in support of business processes. It provides you with a framework which enables the management of information assets across an organization, and it ties in relevant components and technologies. This could be Imaging, Electronic Document Management, Electronic Records Management, Workflow, Web Content Management, Document Centric Collaboration, or Enterprise Search technologies.

AIIM provides education, research, and best practices to help organizations find, control, and optimize their information. For over 60 years, AIIM has been the leading non-profit organization focused on helping users to understand the challenges associated with managing documents, content, records, and business processes. AIIM is international in scope, independent, implementation-focused, and, as the representative of the entire Enterprise Content Management industry - including users, suppliers, and the channel - acts as the industry's intermediary.

ARMA International is a not-for-profit association serving more than 10,000 information management professionals in the United States, Canada, and over 30 other nations since 1955. ARMA International members include records and information managers, IT professionals, imaging specialists, archivists, hospital administrators, legal administrators, librarians, and educators. The Greater Washington DC Chapter also services a diverse community of professionals providing information management services to entities including government, trade associations and law firms.

The ECM Practitioner Training Class provides you with a good understanding of strategies, methods and tools for managing content. This includes technologies and global best practices for information architecture, scanning/imaging, metadata, taxonomies, content security, process management and automation, findability, delivery, and presentation.

You will be awarded the AIIM ECM Practitioner (ECMP) designation after passing the online exam. This is an AIIM standard for industry professionalism and knowledge. By earning this designation, you can call yourself an AIIM ECM Practitioner. You can use the associated logo and title on your business card, email signature, web page, etc. The exam is available via the internet – you have 6 months to pass the test after attending the training course. The designation is valid for 5 years. 

Benefits of becoming an AIIM ECM Practitioner (ECMP):

• Position yourself to be tomorrow's leader by enhancing your business and professional skills

• Learn global best practices for planning ECM

• Discover real world solutions and best practices for challenges you face

• Learn from experts in the field who are able to answer your questions, address your comments,

• and are willing to accept your feedback

Revised and Updated

AIIM has revised and updated the ECM Certificate Program based on changes in the industry with new content types, solutions, and best practices, but also incorporated comments made by the thousands of students that have taken the courses, online or in our classrooms. Students who have previously completed the ECM program should consider taking this newer version to enhance their skills and strengthen their learning from the previous course. In addition to updating their certificates and designations, attending the revised Practitioner program will bring benefit from the expanded focus on available solutions (e.g. SharePoint 2007); new content types (e.g. wikis and blogs); taxonomies and folksonomies; new preferred approaches (platforms/solutions); and new best practices and standards (e.g. PDF/A and MoREQ2).

• Business benefits of ECM

• ECM technologies such as document management, imaging, records management, workflow

• web content management and collaboration

• Preferred approaches, platforms vs solutions, enterprise vs departmental

• Information architecture, interoperability, and integration

• Sources of information and appropriate capture and migration mechanisms

• Metadata and indexing

• Types of taxonomies and their value

• Ontologies and folksonomies

• Different levels of access control and security

• Process improvements and automation

• Search and retrieval technologies

• Different ways of delivering information and content to employees, partners and customers

• Existing and emerging trends such as Web 2.0, SaaS, and Open Source.

The ECM Practitioner Class provides a detailed coverage of Enterprise Content Management for people working in both the public and private sector. Through attendance in this program, students will be able to consolidate their current position and standing, as well as prepare for future career development in a more senior role in the management and development of an organization’s information management strategy.

The ECM Practitioner Class is designed for Business Managers, IT Managers, Compliance Officers, Risk Managers, Records Management Professionals, as well as for solution integrators and providers, sales consultants, project managers, and technical staff.

Course Material

You will receive an ECM Workbook and access to supporting ECM online courses and exam. This is also accompanied by course notes, reference handouts, and an abbreviated glossary.

Course Agenda

·         Introduction to ECM

·         Technologies and Functionality

·         Information Architecture

·         Capture

·         Metadata

·         Taxonomy

·         Security and Control

·         Process Automation

Registration

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Registrations are required no later than 5:00PM on Friday, April 1st.  Online registration will close after the first 40 registrations.

Program Committee Mission Statement:

To provide a forum, at the local level, which contributes to the effective development and application of enterprise content management technologies and services?  The to meet at regular intervals to advance professional knowledge and techniques of our members through educational programs, workshops, seminars, and by sharing and exchanging experiences and information related to the industry via peer networking.  The goal of these forums is to offer topic-centric program content that provides a well-rounded and balanced perspective of the issues related to the industry.