AIIM 2004 NEW YORK--March 3, 2004-- Advanstar Communications today announced the preview for the upcoming AIIM 2004 Conference & Expo, taking place March 8-10 at the Javits Convention Center in New York City. Co-produced with AIIM International and co-located with ON DEMAND 2004 and the Digital Marketing Symposium, AIIM 2004 is the largest enterprise technology event in New York City. It is the only conference and exposition to focus on the complete enterprise content and document management industry. AIIM 2004 is a platform for thousands of attendees to explore cutting-edge Enterprise Content Management (ECM) hardware, software, and services from over 500 exhibitors, including IBM, Ricoh Corporation, Xerox Corporation, Documentum, Hyland Software, and Oracle. For more than 50 years, AIIM has attracted business professionals seeking the latest technologies to develop, capture, manage, and store documents and digital content to support business processes, comply with governmental regulations, drive down costs, and gain a competitive advantage. Paul Macek, chief enterprise architect for T. Rowe Price and the newest addition to the keynote line-up, will discuss how a robust platform enables a financial organization to improve business efficiency, leverage existing technology, and deliver more effective customer-facing materials in his presentation titled "Building an Enterprise Content Management Architecture for Financial Services." Other keynote presenters include: -- Anne Mulcahy, chairman of the board, CEO of Xerox Corporation March 8, 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. -- Seth Godin, former Yahoo chief marketing officer, best-selling author, and entrepreneur March 8, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. -- Tom Peters, author, management guru, and business visionary March 9, 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. -- Randy Kahn, industry analyst and author March 9, 12:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. -- Paul Macek, chief enterprise architect of T. Rowe Price Investment Technologies March 10, 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Six tracks with over 70 conference sessions will feature insights from industry experts, as well as real-world case studies on innovative enterprise content and document management solutions. The comprehensive, educational conference tracks include: -- Business Process Management & Workflow (sponsored by Oracle) -- Content and Document Management (sponsored by Xerox) -- ECM in Practice (sponsored by FileNet) -- Electronic Records Management and Legal & Regulatory Compliance (sponsored by IBM) -- Imaging, Scanning & Forms Processing (sponsored by Captiva) -- Storage and Preservation (sponsored by Ricoh) The SolutionCenter The SolutionCenter, sponsored by Sun Microsystems and Doculabs, is an area on the show floor to identify the right choices for content management success. The SolutionCenter Theater offers quality, objective, free education, providing the opportunity to ask industry experts ECM questions on how to stay competitive. Government Day at AIIM 2004 - Special Education for Federal Employees New to the show floor is the Government Pavilion, an exclusive area for educating government attendees about the technologies available in a federal government environment. Partnering with Advanstar to produce this Pavilion is The National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition & Assessment Center (NITAAC) and the Department of Health and Human Services. Within the Government Pavilion is the new Government Procurement Zone, which showcases case studies and successful implementation of content and document technologies within government procurement areas. The JDF Workflow Tour New to AIIM 2004, the JDF Workflow Tours demonstrate workflow functions being automated through the use of JDF (Job Definition Format). This is a large-scale presentation of industry vendors integrating multiple products to create an automated workflow using the JDF standard. Participating tour vendors include Creo, EFI, HP, Printable, WAM!NET, Objective Advantage, and WAVE Corp. The JDF Workflow Tours exhibit interoperability across vendors to show real-world, complex inter-relationships and implementations, as well as financial benefits. An exclusive tour for press will be held on Tuesday, March 9, at 3:30 p.m. Channel Connection A special area on the show floor, Channel Connection provides suppliers, Value Added Resellers (VARs), systems integrators, and consultants a place to meet and build a great network for increased distribution and sales. Sponsored by Business Solutions magazine and AIIM International, Channel Connection is a direct way to network, provide education for greater success, and to solidify long-standing partnerships with leading vendors and manufacturers. The following informative education sessions have been developed and designed specific to the VARs perspective and needs: -- Monday, March 8 12:00 p.m. - State of Enterprise Content Management 2:00 p.m. - Responding to Request for Proposals (RFPs) -- Tuesday, March 9 2:00 p.m. - Beyond Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) Hype 3:00 p.m. - State of Enterprise Content Management For additional information or to register for AIIM 2004, please visit www.aiimexpo.com/.