At Aptus, we believe in managing information right from the point of capture or creation through to storage, archiving and disposal. All information assets have a lifecycle and the closer that lifecycle is modelled through the systems used to access the information, the better aligned your information architecture is with your business.

And that is important because information is probably the most important asset for your organisation. Hence information asset management (IAM).

Case management, collaboration, knowledge management, records management and syndication are all patterns characterising what you do with information. IAM embraces these patterns but extends to how you organise your information so that your ambitions become technically and economically achievable.

Most of our work focuses on unstructured content (the stuff that does not live in a database) because we find that unstructured content is often also unmanaged. When you actively manage your unstructured content via IAM, all the different content patterns become possible.

Perhaps in the future, it will be inconceivable for unstructured content to be unmanaged - but right here, right now, we have to actively establish good practices for managing our information assets.

In this section of our website we share our thinking about IAM, about managing unstructured content, about information storage and other subjects. Feel free to read what we have to say or contact us to discuss further.