The Document Management conference took place on 30th and 31st Jan 2007 in the Congress Hall at the Zagreb Fair. The conference was organized by Infoarena and partly sponsored by Ericsson Nikola Tesla. It was attended by some 200 representatives of Croatian companies and institutions. Such a great interest was not surprising considering the fact that businesses in Croatia are involved in an intensive search for and selection of a specialized document management system.

This is closely connected with EU guidelines which recommend the documents to be managed in a quality-oriented, transparent way and to process and archive them (e-mails, talks, SMS, contracts) in a defined, standardized way. The CARDS program provided certain amounts from the EU funds for such projects and some of them already have been successfully implemented, for instance in the judicature and government administration. In addition to that, in 2005 the Croatian Sabor (Parliament) enacted the Electronic Document Bill. It is a key tool defining the digitalization and digital storage of documents and contents and it supports the implementation/ introduction of digital documents into business operations, and consequently it encourages the implementation of advanced document management solutions.

The ETK specialists responsible for system integration took an active part in the conference program. On the first conference day Grgo Miočić, a certified specialist for FileNet solutions in System Integration department held a presentation titled "The Implementation of  FileNet ECM in business processes of Ericsson Nikola Tesla". He presented automated business processes for archives digitalization, the settlement of accounts and contracts management. He emphasized that FileNet Enterprise Content Management had been successfully implemented in the company's internal business processes by the specialists from System Integration and Change Management units.

During the conference our specialists were available at the stand of Ericsson Nikola Tesla to assist a great number of interested visitors who wished to learn more about the comprehensive FileNet solution which connects people, information and business applications within the business processes. Our specialists readily shared their experience and knowledge gained during the implementation and project-related work in and outside the company with interested visitors.
In short, the conference provided an opportunity to acquire new knowledge, ideas and contacts about how to organize a "paperless office" i.e. how to substitute for paper archives with electronic ones and thus to save money and human resources and at the same time to protect data and make collaboration easier. 

Communication Unit Ericsson Nikola Tesla