AIIM is the community that provides education, research, and best practices to help organizations find, control, and optimize their information.

Our work is shaped by these core beliefs:

• We believe that the effective management and application of an organization's information assets is the surest path to reduce risk, improve productivity, and increase customer value.
• We believe that the individuals in organizations who understand and can act upon this relationship between information stewardship and business value will be the primary change agents for their organizations in the decade ahead.
• We believe that the wisdom in the collective experience of those who have actually implemented information management solutions (users, providers, and consultants) has far more practical value than the opinions of experts.
• We believe that users are not simply marketing targets for vendors. Nor are solution providers to be feared by users. Informed and educated users and solution providers are needed to build effective information strategies.

Consistent with these beliefs...

AIIM provides market research and information that:

• Empower end-users to make smarter information management decisions.
• Help vendors, consultants and solution providers reduce the amount of uncertainty involved in developing, marketing and selling their products and services.

AIIM provides educational services that:

• Help users, project managers, and business executives become more savvy information managers, strategists and technology buyers.
• Improve the effectiveness and efficiency of sales and marketing executives from solution provider companies.

AIIM creates networking opportunities and communities that:

• Allow users, vendors, consultants, and solution providers to connect with each other in a vendor-neutral and non-profit setting.
• Provide a means for the industry to communicate the value of effective information management and its impact on organizational effectiveness.

For over 60 years, AIIM has been the leading non-profit organization focused on helping users to understand the challenges associated with managing documents, content, records, and business processes. AIIM was founded in 1943 as the National Microfilm Association and later became the Association for Information and Image Management. AIIM is also known as the enterprise content management (ECM) association.

Today, AIIM is international in scope, independent, and implementation-focused. As the industry's intermediary, AIIM represents the entire industry - including users, suppliers, and the channel.

As a neutral and unbiased source of information, AIIM serves the needs of its members and the industry.