AIIM E-DOC Magazine launched its Best of Show Awards programme to recognise the best of the best on the AIIM exhibit floor. A panel of 20 industry experts including users, analysts, and consultants, all with real-world experience in the industry, were the judges for this award.

Hummingbird introduced its records management solution in 1998 and was the first content or document management vendor to add governance and lifecycle management capabilities in a single repository for all in-process content and final records in physical and electronic formats. The solution has been certified against the DoD 5015.2 records management standard since 1999, and has been approved for use by the UK PRO since 2000.

Hummingbird RM creates an organised, secure environment to manage the complete lifecycle of all physical and electronic corporate knowledge assets, such as uncontrolled paper-based and electronic documents, business transactions, emails, and scanned images from creation to ultimate disposition.

"Hummingbird is honoured to receive this prestigious award validating our market leadership in records management solutions," says Andrew Pery, chief marketing officer, senior vice president, Hummingbird. "Hummingbird RM extends the Hummingbird document management solution, Hummingbird DM, into a standards-compliant records management solution, protecting our client's content assets from exposure to risks such as legal action or disaster while meeting comprehensive industry and government standards."

AIIM International (www.aiim.org) is the global authority on enterprise content management (ECM), the technologies, tools, and methods used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver information to support business processes. AIIM promotes the understanding, adoption, and use of ECM technologies through education, networking, marketing, research, standards, and advocacy programmes.

AIIM E-DOC Magazine is an unrivalled and unbiased industry source for information on ECM topics that help management professionals worldwide make informed and effective technology decisions. Published six times a year by AIIM International (the enterprise content management association), AIIM E-DOC Magazine is written by technology experts and experienced executives.

Each issue includes insightful feature stories, targeted case studies, lessons learned, and problems solved. It explains how content management technologies can be put to work to harness the unstructured information and data in a company - the topics ECM professionals care about.

Hummingbird Enterprise offers customers a 360° view of their knowledge assets by bringing together Hummingbird''s industry leading portal, connectivity, document management, records management, knowledge management, business intelligence, collaboration, and data integration solutions into an integrated enterprise information management system (EIMS). Hummingbird Enterprise offers everything organisations need to manage the entire lifecycle of their business content.

Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Hummingbird is a global enterprise software company employing 1,300 people in nearly 40 offices around the world. The revolutionary Hummingbird Enterprise, an integrated information and knowledge management suite, manages the entire lifecycle of information and knowledge assets. Hummingbird Enterprise creates a 360° view of enterprise content with a portfolio of products that are both modular and interoperable. Today, 5 million users rely on Hummingbird to connect, manage, access, publish and search their enterprise content.