Conference   2007

Nigel is nationally recognised in the Information Management) field with over 15 years experience in the public and private sector. He has previously been an IT and IM Adviser in Department of Finance and Office of Government Information Technology, and is currently a director of iCognition Pty. Ltd., a company that provides advice and implementation support to organisations seeking enterprise IM outcomes.

Nigel works with clients to develop IM strategies and frameworks, and provides advice on meeting best practice and specific business needs, particularly in document and records management needs. He analyses organisational requirements and business processes, developing practical strategies for increasing the efficiency of these, and developing knowledge and IM solutions to meet these strategies.

About Presentation (Abstract)

We are entering the era of 'content management for everyone', where simple, commodity driven, low cost products will provide basic content services across the enterprise. This is driven by large market forces such as Microsoft, and Enterprise Content Management vendors are responding with cut down versions of products.

But at the other end of the market, organisations are demanding innovative IM line-of-business solutions, implemented to achieve strategic corporate outcomes. Basic content products do not cut the mustard in this world, or need to be complimented by innovative IM strategies using solutions developed to achieve line-of-business outcomes.

This innovative approach is where ECM software can be used as an enterprise platform to build or underpin multiple vertical solutions such as case management, asset management and distribution management solutions. These vertical solutions may be custom built over ECM products, or achieved by integrating ECM products to other applications. Key to this is the fit to an overall IM strategy to ensure a robust and flexible platform that does not cost the earth to maintain.