Want to take control of the unstructured information that overwhelms your office? Looking to automate business processes and improve management of your corporate intellectual property? Are you unsure of how to choose the right Workflow and BPM provider? If your organization would like to gain substantial improvements in business processes, while reducing paper costs, here are seven tips to help you select the solution that will help you achieve your goals and get a quick return-on-investment (ROI).

1. Proven ROI

When selecting an ECM solution for your organization, look for one that offers a proven and quick return-on-investment. Some ECM providers have enabled customers to successfully achieve ROI in as little as 6 to 9 months. This can be realized in a number of ways including fast implementation, smooth integration with other business applications and more.

When evaluating ECM solutions, consider both the direct savings–such as reduced resources and hardware costs—and the “soft dollar” benefits. By increasing productivity from 50% to 500%, organizations can enjoy significant savings by redirecting valuable resources to other critical areas of the business.

2. Knowledgeable Professional Services Team

When your organization is evaluating ECM solutions, make sure to -by-side to ensure that deployment strategies and product integrations are properly planned and supportable. A knowledgeable professional services team with document management and workflow experience can make all the difference in a smooth implementation.

Over the past few years, I've heard a lot of good things about Liferay and their flagship product, Liferay Portal. The portal is an open source enterprise solution for portals, publishing, content, and collaboration. However, I must confess, beyond the demo and some positive word-of-mouth comments, I haven't had much chance to explore their products, services, and community behind the product. My lack of knowledge about Liferay is all going to change next month, because CMS Report will be at this year's Liferay West Coast Symposium in Anaheim, California.

Liferay recently announced their keynote speaker and the agenda is starting to shape up quite nicely. For those that are interested in attending the symposium, I've attached their latest press release on the symposium below. Early bird registration ends August 20th, so I wouldn't hesitate in registring for the symposium if you plan on attending this year.

Industry Experts Lead Discussions at Liferay West Coast Symposium

Leading open source portal provider to present talks from Liferay executives, engineers and a veteran Internet journalist.

LOS ANGELES--(PRWeb)--Liferay, Inc., provider of the world’s leading enterprise-class open source portal, announced today the speakers for its 5th annual West Coast Symposium (WCS) in Anaheim, CA on September 21-22, including a special keynote by seasoned technology and open source writer Dana Blankenhorn. The symposium will feature talks from Liferay’s executives and the company’s core product engineering team, who will be debuting the new Liferay Portal 6.1EE and Liferay Marketplace at the open-source industry event.

How do you do more with less? Reduce your reliance on paper processes and start automating your workflow? Can you really create a paperless office? Why has this been a pipe dream until now?

Myth #1: You can scan your way to a paperless office.

REALITY: SCANNING STRATEGIES ARE MISALIGNED. THE REAL FOCUS SHOULD BE ON DATA CAPTURE, WHICH WILL OVER TIME REDUCE DEPENDENCY ON PAPER.

To really succeed in becoming “paperless,” you have to forget about trying to go paperless, for a few reasons.