The Association for Information and Image Management or AIIM (pronounced aim) is an international industry association focused on enterprise content management (ECM). AIIM defines ECM as "Enterprise Content Management is the technologies used to Capture, Manage, Store, Preserve, and Deliver content and documents related to organizational processes." ...

AIIM was founded in 1943 as the National Microfilm Association.

AIIM publishes a magazine called E-DOC Magazine, and hosts a number of seminars, expos, webinars, etc. The annual AIIM Expo and Conference is the largest trade show in the USA devoted to document management. The AIIM Expo and Conference, through volunteer show judges, awards several best of show awards. There are 37 local chapters in the continental US as well as one chapter in Hawaii and another in Puerto Rico. Chapter leaders meet for one day prior to the annual conference to discuss the industry, the state of AIIM, and to receive chapter awards. A Webinar is a seminar which is conducted over the World Wide Web. ... A trade fair (or trade show) is an exhibition organised so that companies in a specific industry can showcase and demonstrate their new products and services. ... Originally, a document management system was a computer program (or set of programs) used to track and store images of paper documents. ...

AIIM is actively involved in standardization efforts with over twenty committees of volunteers. AIIM committees have authored over 80 approved ANSI Standards, and it holds the secretariat for ISO/TC 171 (Document Management Applications) and ISO/TC 171 SC2 (Document Management Applications, Application Issues). Standardization, in the context related to technologies and industries, is the process of establishing a technical standard among competing entities in a market, where this will bring benefits without hurting competition. ... The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is a private, non-profit standards organization that produces industrial standards in the United States. ... Secretariat may refer to: A racehorse who won the Triple Crown in 1973, see Secretariat (horse) In a Communist Party, a Secretariat is a key body that controls the central administration of the party, and if it is a ruling party, the country. ... Logo of the International Organization for Standardization The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from national standards bodies. ...

External links

For more information about AIIM, see http://www.aiim.org

AIIM E-DOC Magazine: http://www.edocmagazine.com

AIIM ON DEMAND Conference & Exposition: http://www.aiimexpo.com/

AIIM Midwest Chapter[1]: http://www.aiimmidwest.org