Expect Experience and Quality with EID

EID has been recognized by the industry as being one of the industry’s oldest truly vendor neutral content/records management industry analysts. Robert Blatt, founder of EID, is frequently asked to develop articles for magazines and to provide guidance and direction throughout the industry and is a frequent speaker on the topics of Trustworthy ECM solutions and overall ECM technologies.

Along with an extensive technical background (Beginning at Bell Labs), Mr. Blatt also has a law enforcement background and participated in numerous large national forensic investigations over the past several years, primarily focusing on Electronic Document Forensics. These investigations have included data and pattern analysis, data recovery from enterprise systems, and technical guidance to regulatory/enforcement counsel throughout several cases along with other technical forensic services.

Mr. Blatt is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Morris County Police Chiefs Association, and National Sheriff’s Association eForensics certification (CHPP #306739). Mr. Blatt also has led the development of most of the ECM industry ISO/ANSI standards on Trustworthy ECM Solutions and numerous other standards, technical reports, and technical specifications. Other members of Senior Staff hold additional certifications and qualifications available upon request.

Proffesional Associations & Industry Participation

Association for Image and Information Management (AIIM).
2008 – Received Thomas Bagg Standards Award
2005 – Inducted into AIIM Company of Fellows (#173)
2002 – Received Distinguished Service Citation
2002 – Received National Standards Leadership Award
2000 – Received ANSI/AIIM Standards Excellence Award
1998 – Appointed to the AIIM – U.S. Technical Advisory Group
1998 – Awarded Laureate of Information Technologies in Workflow
1998 – Awarded Laureate of Information Technologies in Document Image Management
1997 – Awarded Master of Information Technology

National & International Standardization Participation

2007 – 2014: Member ANSI/AIIM Standards Board
2006 – 2018: Co Chair US TAG to ISO/TC/171
2006 – Present: ISO Liaison Officer TC/171 to TC/46/SC11
2004 – 2020: Chairman of ANSI/AIIM C21 Advanced Data Storage
2002 – Present: ISO/TC171 SC2 ISO 22957 – ISO Project Leader
2002 – Present: ISO/TC171 SC2 ISO 22938 – ISO Project Leader
2000 – Present: Chairman of ECM Industry Working Group
1999 – Present: ISO/TC171 SC2 Technology – Chief US Delegate
1999 – 2020: ISO/TC171 SC1 Quality Issues – Document Imaging – US Expert
1999 – 2020: ISO/TC171 SC3 Legality Issues – Document Imaging – US Expert
1998 – Present: Member of ANSI US TAG to ISO TC/171 SC2

2018 – Present: Liaison Officer between ISO TC/171 SC2 & ISO TC/272

Short list of ANSI/AIIM/ISO Standards Developed (Additional Standards available)

ISO 18759 – Trusted WORM Specifications (ANSI/AIIM 25)
ISO 18829 – Trusted System Assessments
ISO 15801 – Information Stored Electronically – Recommendations for Trustworthiness and Reliability
ISO 22938 – XML Data Interchange
ISO 22957 – Analysis, Design, and Implementation Guidelines for ECM technologies (AIIM ARP 1)
ISO DIS 12029 – Forms design optimization for electronic image management
ISO DTS 12033 – Compression Technologies
ANSI/AIIM 25 Trusted ECM System Assessment
ANSI/AIIM ARP 1 – Analysis, Selection, & Implementation Guidelines for ECM Technologies
ANSI/AIIM TR41 – Optical Disk Storage Technology, Mgmt., and Standards (ISO NWI)
ANSI/AIIM TR45 – RFP guidelines for ECM technologies (Chairman) (ISO NWI)
ANSI/AIIM TR35 – Human/Org. Issues for Successful EIM Implementation
ANSI/AIIM TR39 – Guidelines for the Use of Media Error Monitoring & Reporting
ANSI/AIIM MS59 – Media Error Monitoring/Reporting Techniques for Data Verification
ANSI/AIIM TR27 – Information/Image Mgmt. Electronic Imaging RFP Guidelines (ISO NWI)
ANSI/AIIM MS55 – Recommended Practice for ID and Indexing of Page Components
ANSI/AIIM MS56 – Recommended Practice for Index Fields for Retrieval of Documents
ANSI/AIIM MS66 – Metadata for Interchange of Files on Sequential Storage Media
ANSI/AIIM MS71 – Conformance Tests for ANSI/AIIM MS66 – FSMS Metadata
ANSI/AIIM MS59 – XML data Interchange format

Articles & Whitepapers

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EID Team Certifications & Associations

Trusted State Agency Technology Change Agent

Experienced in Software integration for state organizations

We assist state agencies through successful implementation applying industry standards and best practices with off-the-shelf systems for small and large public organizations, including:

Customer Relations Management (CRM)
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

Our experience includes:

Guiding State organization to adopt of-the-shelf software solutions
Match software solutions to meet organization’s requirements
Years of insight to the State’s Technology culture
Worked in the State’s decision making process
First hand knowledge about the Technology project approval via the Dept. of Technology
Meet reporting requirement established by the Department of Technology policy and procedures
In depth experience to adopt new technology in State organizations
Helped numerous State organizations successfully implement projects on schedule and within budget solutions.

Data Conversion

We provide real experience with data conversion efforts following a multi-step approach to getting data from an old application system over to a new software system without multiple interactions.

Training on data conversion strategy, approach, and risk
Experience to prepare a high level description to capture data and approach to follow
Knowledge to create data integrity and synchronization approach
Know how in data recovery and backup options
Practical experience with data security to restrict sensitive data to certified personnel
Skill to validate and analyze cleanse data

IT Governance

We help organization align IT strategy with business strategy following the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) method. We can direct an organization to achieve their technology goals and objectives and also implement proven techniques to measure performance outcomes.

Guide State organizations to create internal project governance framework
Discover strategic direction, policy guidance, and identify key stakeholders
Define role and responsibilities of the project Executive Technology Steering Committee
Review and verify project(s) will continuously meets Business goals and case
Decide criteria on how to conduct resource management and Technology Team return on investment
Establish risk management methodology
Design procedure to continuously measure performance using a Balance Scorecard approach
Assess whether standards such as the Software Development Lifecycle is being consistently applied

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