{"id":4859,"date":"2011-07-09T06:05:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T06:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hbyconsultancy.com\/?p=4859"},"modified":"2011-07-09T06:05:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T06:05:41","slug":"the-future-of-cdia-after-december-31-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hbyconsultancy.com\/2011\/07\/the-future-of-cdia-after-december-31-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"The future of CDIA+ after December 31, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"
Eight months ago I started a discussion in Linkedin\u2019s CDIA+ Certified<\/a> group titled \u201cThe future of CDIA+ after December 31, 2011\u2033 :<\/p>\n As you might know CDIA is quiet old certification and will be retired in 2011, is there an alternative for document imaging professionals ? how do you see the future ? would love to hear CDIA\u2019s opinion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Well, I was not expecting too much feedback for a certification that is retiring. I\u2019m more interested to the CDIA knowledge, much more than the certification itself. The CompTIA Certified Document Imaging Architect (CDIA+)<\/a> certification ensures critical knowledge for a career in the document imaging and document management industry.<\/p>\n It\u2019s an international, vendor-neutral certification covering all major areas in the technologies and best practices used to plan, design, and specify a document imaging management system. The exam was last updated in 2009, and I think that the CDIA+ knowledge need lots of refreshments with new technologies, techniques, and best practices.<\/p>\n I have a small experience with document imaging solutions, and I have done a research \u2013 maybe in 2006 \u2013 as part of my job about different imaging solutions available, their benefits, features\u2026 etc. I have also implemented with my colleagues a very small but terrible imaging system based on open source tools, which is actually running in high-demand environment and serving million of documents, and hundreds of new documents archived daily\u2026 and this was a substitution to a commercial closed software which was expensive, limited, and poorly supported. So somehow CDIA+ knowledge was part of my daily job even if I was not certified at that time, but I was reading a lot about it.<\/p>\n I would like to thank Chuck Romano \u2013 SME Technical Advisory Committee member at CompTIA, who was probably the most enthusiast to keep this certification active and updated in the linkedin groups. Many CDIAs joined and welcomed the idea later ! And guess what ? Even CompTIA posted an updated about this certification<\/a> and is actually recruiting subject matter experts (SME) to help keep this exam current and relevant for the industry, it\u2019s not retiring anymore !<\/p>\n \u201cThis is where we\u2019ll need all of you. To successfully complete the update of a certification exam it requires a minimum of 15 subject matter experts to participate in three separate workshops (job task analysis (JTA), item writing and cut-score workshop).\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n