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Carbon, Compliance, and Content: Why Your ECM Strategy Should Consider Sustainability

By Dick Weisinger

It’s easy to think of document management as just a question of organizing information, but there’s an environmental angle to every gigabyte stored. Data centers, the backbone of content management have a real impact on an organization’s carbon footprint. Every…

Governance as a UX Problem: Making Compliance Feel Natural

By Dick Weisinger

When most people think about compliance and governance, they imagine rules layered onto their work: extra steps, extra approvals, and extra friction. But one of the biggest challenges in information governance has little to do with the rules themselves and…

Metadata Automation: How RPA Can Enhance Classification Without AI

By Dick Weisinger

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) provides a powerful way to automate metadata classification in enterprise content management by applying predefined business rules instead of relying on AI algorithms. Bots can be programmed to assign metadata based on clear criteria such as…

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…