Gimmal is proud to be exhibiting at ARMA Houston's 2019 Spring Conference. This year, we're empowering records managers with the keys to successful information management in the cloud.

On the Hawaiian island of Maui lies the world’s largest dormant volcano: Haleakala. You can look out above the clouds from the viewing platform atop, getting a unique perspective at the skyborne condensation that bring soft rains to the lush island below.

We were talking to Microsoft SharePoint MVP Becky Bertram a few weeks back about this new tool called Kaizala, and were interested because being in the Compliance and Governance space, we had heard this new tool could resolve some of the problems with messaging applications not managed by an enterprise.

The Hana Highway on the Hawaiian island of Maui stretches from the town of Kahului to the remote town of Hana, but the portion from Pa’ia to Hana is infamous for how winding and narrow it is. It takes over two hours to make the drive, even though the towns are only about 50 miles apart.

This Valentine's Day, take some time to remember one of the most neglected types of content: documents that support ERP transactions. This content is mission-critical and frequently sensitive, but many times organizations are not able to give it the attention it craves and deserves. There are a couple avenues companies can pursue when considering an enterprise content management (ECM) strategy for content tied to SAP processes.

Records Management technology hasn’t always been at the forefront of technological innovation. Since records management systems and processes work best when coupled with an organization's current business processes, progress is dependent on the innovations within the workplace. But, over the last couple of years, we have seen a sharp increase in the adoption of modern technology in the workplace which has allowed our industry to innovate as well including, web and cloud-based platforms, cross-repository systems, and machine learning.

Gimmal is proud to announce that we've released a FileNet connector for Gimmal Records Management. FileNet now joins Box, Documentum, Office 365, and others in our roster of supported repositories. Records Managers now can easily manage and declare records, apply policy, and manage disposition in FileNet alongside the rest of their mission-critical content.

2018 was a year of massive change at Gimmal. This year, we've added a bunch of new features to our next generation records management platform, including connectors for Documentum and Box. We believe intelligent, cross-repository records management will continue to grow in importance to organizations next year, as leaders begin to understand that records management departments have the potential to unlock vast amounts of value stored in otherwise neglected information.

Even though Microsoft SharePoint has been recognized as a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Content Services platforms for multiple years in a row, when it comes to using SharePoint as an enterprise content management (ECM) platform many users coming from the world of traditional legacy ECM hold the opinion that SharePoint is just great for collaboration and not a great platform to manage content and the information essential to business operations. That's not quite right.

Getting everyone in your company, from the executives to the end-users, on board with a records management project is always a challenge. Why? One of the biggest reasons is that records management technology by itself is not a complete solution.