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Integrating RPA with ECM Platforms: Alfresco, SharePoint, Hyland OnBase, etc.

By Dick Weisinger

Bringing RPA into enterprise content management platforms like Hyland Alfresco, SharePoint, and Hyland OnBase demands the right connector strategies and technical choices. The most robust integrations lean on APIs. These hook into the back end of ECM platforms and expose…

Bot Governance: Versioning, Auditing, and Lifecycle Management

By Dick Weisinger

Successfully governing RPA bots in enterprise content management means treating them as living software assets with distinct lifecycles, spanning development, testing, deployment, ongoing monitoring, and eventual retirement. Bots are first developed to automate well-defined tasks, then promoted through test environments…

The Human Factor: How RPA Impacts Knowledge Workers

By Dick Weisinger

As robotic process automation (RPA) makes its mark in enterprise content management, its effects ripple through the ranks of knowledge workers: records managers, compliance officers, and content curators. Far from just swapping out human effort for bots, RPA transforms how…

Identifying Automation Candidates: Not Every Process Deserves a Bot

By Dick Weisinger

Automating enterprise content management tasks with RPA can deliver speed and efficiency, but choosing the right process is critical. Not every job should be handed off to a robot, no matter how tempting it seems. The main criteria for automation…

RPA in Enterprise Content Management: Legacy Workflows Meet Robotic Bots

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprise content management has long relied on batch jobs and legacy scripting, for example, Job Control Language scripts, chained triggers, and shell-based automation, for critical routines like nightly data feeds or mass document conversions. These scripts do the heavy lifting…