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Document Manager Magazine November/December 2009 - Vol 17 No 06
Winds Of Change   
Havant Borough Council has transformed productivity, operational efficiency and customer service, while halving its paper burden, thanks to a highly flexible electronic document & records management solution
Nuance Sets The Tone   
One of the most interesting of this year's continuing raft of announcements of mergers and acquisitions was that of eCopy by Nuance. DM Editor Dave Tyler finds out more from Robert Weideman, Senior VP of Nuance's imaging division
Oldest scanner in use wins top prize!   
PFU Imaging Solutions Europe Limited is launching a competition in Germany,
Rocela And Version One Bring Document Management To Oracle Financials Users   
Leading independent Oracle consultancy, Rocela (www.rocela.com), and Version One (www.versionone.co.uk), have entered a partnership to deliver integrated document management and imaging software to Rocela’s Oracle Financials customers.
All Wrapped Up   
Pregis Protective Packaging Europe has seen such rapid and measurable success from automating its invoice processing that the company is looking to introduce DM technologies across many other business areas
Protect And Survive   
DM Editor Dave Tyler talks streaming video, smartphones, and house fires with Open Text President and CEO, John Shackleton
Compliance on trial   
Even among organisations which are using DM systems, take-up of Records Management remains surprisingly low. Dr. Vijay Magon of OITUK argues that a more practical approach - with less emphasis on standardisation - may be what is needed
 
Document Manager Magazine September/October 2009 - Vol 17 No 05
Building for the future   
Leading property developer Crest Nicholson is using ITESOFT's processing solution, ITESOFT.FreeMind for Invoices, to help streamline data capture from invoices
The central line   
For many years, the scanning function within most end user organisations has lain at local, departmental or workgroup level.
Volume control   
Leading scanning business EDM Group has been able to achieve higher speed and versatility as a result of investment in ibml’s ImageTrac scanning platform
Raising the bar   
Whitney Tidmarsh is Chief Marketing Officer for the Content Management and Archiving (CMA) Division at EMC, responsible for the marketing of the EMC Documentum product family. 
Wise council   
Daventry District Council found a cost-effective solution when faced with a potentially expensive upgrade of their existing centralised scanning system
On the right tracks   
Railway industry specialist Volker Rail has seen significant improvements in its invoice processing since implementing a SharePoint based automation solution
Finding the right tool for the job   
Bruce Sharpe of JustSystems argues that the best way to drive structured content into the enterprise is by giving content owners and creators the tools appropriate to their business function
Crest Nicholson Builds Efficient Accounts Payable Department   
Leading property developer uses ITESOFT’s processing solution, ITESOFT.FreeMind for Invoices, to help streamline data capture from invoices
Understanding public sector EDRMS   
DM Editor David Tyler speaks to Paul Symes, Programme Manager, Arun District Council, about the importance to public sector users of a partnership approach when dealing with an EDRMS provider
Recipe for success   
Several real time advantages have proven themselves over and over again since we implemented this solution.
Will the paper office go up in smoke?   
Mark Hatton of RR Donnelley Global Document Solutions (GDS) looks at three document management related issues facing businesses both large and small
Bridging the Gap   
Whether you poke on Facebook or you follow on Twitter, there is no escaping the global communication boom.
Paper cuts can ease business pain   
Which processes can be restructured quickly to reduce costs and boost efficiency? ITESOFT's Bill Webb looks at how cutting out paper delivers benefits
 
Document Manager Magazine July/August 2009 - Vol 17 No 04
On track to reduce business pain   
Which processes can be restructured quickly to reduce costs and boost efficiency?
Will the paper office go up in smoke?   
Mark Hatton of RR Donnelley Global Document Solutions (GDS) looks at three document management related issues facing businesses both large and small -
Aia ITP Document Platform   
Forrester Research calls it 'Document Output for Customer Communications Management', or DOCCM.
Staying ahead of the game   
“It requires a lot of research and investment to make the switch from a traditional Windows based client to a browser based client, while still delivering the ideal user experience.
Understanding public sector edms   
DM Editor David Tyler speaks to Paul Symes, Programme Manager, Arun District Council,
The Central Line   
For many years, the scanning function within most end user organisations has lain at local, departmental or workgroup level.
Picking the Right Flatform   
Daventry District Council found a cost-effective solution when faced with a potentially expensive upgrade of their existing centralised scanning system
Wise Council   
Daventry District Council found a cost-effective solution when faced with a potentially expensive upgrade of their existing centralised scanning system.
Bridging the gap   
Whether you poke on Facebook or you follow on Twitter, there is no escaping the global communication boom.
 
Document Manager Magazine May/June 2009 - Vol 17 No 03
Anydoc Invoice   
The The AnyDoc vision is to offer complete 'all-in-one' solutions to specific business requirements using the right combination of their standard products.
Kodak scan station 500   
Built around Kodak's highly successful i1220 scanner, the new addition to the Scan Station range, the 500 series, takes the Scan Station concept - user-friendly network scanning - to the next level.
Invoice outsourcing: cleared for take-off   
Virgin Atlantic has been able to "regain ownership" of its entire Accounts Payable process, with significant customer service benefits, by automating and outsourcing its invoice processing
Lowering TCO while managing more content: how to strike the balance   
In a fragile economy and an expanding digital universe, asks Chris Blaik, Marketing Director, EMC EMEA, is it still possible to reduce total cost of ownership of content management, whilst having to manage more content than ever before?
Speed isn't everything   
There is a great deal more to choosing the right scanning solution for your organisation than simply comparing throughput speeds or even paper handling, argues Scott Maurer, Vice-President of Marketing, OPEX Corporation
AIIM Roadshow 2009 - bigger and better than ever   
New venues, new dates, but the same approach to informing and assisting potential users: the AIIM Roadshow continues to go from strength to strength, as DM Editor Dave Tyler reports
eForms: helping us to break the paper habit   
Is there something in our genes that inextricably binds us to paper? While we wait for an enterprising pharmacist to develop anti-paper tablets we can take every morning, what do we do in the meantime?
Howard's way   
DM Editor Dave Tyler finds out what makes Howard Frear, recently appointed sales & marketing director at EASY Software, confident about his company's future prospects in an increasingly difficult business environment
Omnipage 17 professional   
Studies by IDC have suggested that knowledge workers typically spend between 3 and 4 hours each week on task that could be defined as recreating and/or reformatting content in documents -
Unlocking the legacy   
Leon Phillich, CEO of Aia Software, describes the first steps towards truly integrated customer communications
 
Document Manager Magazine March/April 2009 - Vol 17 No 02
Driving Business Efficiency with Purchase to Pay Automation   
With organisations under increasing pressure to reduce costs while improving efficiency, forward-thinking managers are investigating automation of the Purchase to Pay process, as Jason Howard of ITESOFT explains
Electronic patient records: achievable at last?   
Dr. Vijay Magon, Managing Director, OITUK Ltd., explains how NHS Trusts can realise tangible benefits by careful use of existing technologies to deliver the electronic patient record
Focusing on the 'I' in IT   
Hyland Software continues to buck the global trend towards consolidation and cutbacks, with average annual growth figures of 30% over the last 9 years.
Magicolor 4695mf   
Konica Minolta's Magicolor 4695MF is a reasonably priced and easy to use multi-function device targeting workgroup users with relatively high volume requirements (its rated duty cycle is 120,000 pages a month),
Let's get this show on the road!   
Dave Tyler, Editor of DM Magazine speaks to Doug Miles, UK MD, AIIM Europe, about the upcoming AIIM Roadshows
Xenos xpression   
The Enterprise Server (ES) product suite from Xenos is relatively new as a product, but many of the functions pulled together under the 'ES umbrella' have actually been available for some time, albeit in different guises.
Kodak capture pro   
Kodak has confidently thrown down the gauntlet to competitors with the new release of its Capture Pro software offering, optimised for what the company describes as 'mixed scanner environments'.
The only way is up   
Fujitsu's annual channel conference took place recently in Marrakech, Morocco, where DM Editor Dave Tyler caught up with the company's General Manager of Sales for EMEA, Mike Nelson
Controlling the volume   
Glasgow-based document capture specialists ADS have secured significant competitive advantage and enhanced service delivery, thanks to high-volume scanning solutions from IBML
 
Document Manager Magazine January/February 2009 - Vol 17 No 01
"Is it safe?"   
Document Management technologies can contribute toward safeguarding not just information, but also the reputation and productivity of an organisation, argues Adrian Butcher, Strategic ECM Consultant at Open Text
The right combination   
When a restructuring of Northern Ireland's health and social services organisations led to the merger of four health boards into one, document management and control became a critical issue
Rising to the challenge   
ECM consolidation offers a viable path to profitability and productivity, suggests Jeff Mills, Managing Director, Xenos Europe
Iriscan executive 2   
Much like their 'big brothers' in production and workgroup capture applications, portable scanners like the IRIScan just keep getting better:
Xbound   
Hamburg-based foxray has recently made its 'xbound' platform available in the UK via Surrey consultants Datafinity UK,
Omnidox   
As highlighted by its unexpected win at the 2008 DM Awards, Omnidox from Stortext is finding favour among all kinds of clients,
Re-writing history   
Working with unique and irreplaceable documents presented some very unusual challenges to genealogical research services website Findmypast.com
Playing the percentage game to win   
One of the longest established EDM vendors in the UK market has managed to remain a relatively small-scale success story. DM Editor Dave Tyler speaks to Dr. Vijay Magon, managing director at OIT UK
 
Document Manager Magazine January/February 2007 - Vol 16 No 01
An eye on the future   
Eyecare specialist Alcon UK has rolled out EDMS technologies to numerous departments in a successful implementation that started back in 1999
Streets Ahead   
Street furniture supplier Broxap has improved the way it manages paper thanks to an Invu EDM and Kodak scanner solution, which has improved efficiency and customer service
Classified adds   
Dr Matt Lees, VP Data Capture Division at Basware UK, looks at what separates truly efficient automated mailrooms from the post rooms of yesterday
12 steps toward practical ECM   
With the proliferation of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions available in the marketplace, organisations must resist accepting a solution at face value and instead adopt a thoughtful, practical approach to meeting ECM needs,
ImageNow Interact   
Interact is a suite of products developed from the award-winning ImageNow technology, which aims to bring DM and workflow functionality closer to business users' actual working environments.
Mind the gap   
Tony Bridgeman, UK Managing Director of ReadSoft discusses how banks can bridge the 'chasm' between document input and core system processing to improve efficiency and customer service
FineReader 9.0 Professional   
As OCR software has become more and more efficient at its core task,
E-Disclosure? Don't Panic!   
We all need to be aware of e-disclosure (or 'e-discovery' as our US cousins refer to it), says David Oates, EMEA Vice-President of Tower Software - but what exactly is it, and how should businesses prepare for it?
FileStore EDM   
Data Capture Solutions of Slough has been in the bureau & services business for a very long time, but it may be less well known that the company has been developing and marketing its own document management software for around 4 years.
Is BPM heading down the wrong track?   
A new report suggests that the way forward for BPM involves better alignment between what the technology vendors think is required, and what the end users are actually looking to do with their solutions
Rank and file   
A return on investment in excess of three years is simply not feasible for an SME implementing ECM technologies - corporate management company Noble Management found a more effective solution
 
Document Manager Magazine November/December 2007 - Vol 15 No 06
Scope for improvement   
An Avanquest solution at Travelscope delivers sustainability and improves operational efficiency
ECM: What's in it for SMEs?   
There are currently around 4.5 million SMEs operating in the UK. Does this represent an opportunity for vendors of Enterprise Content Management systems?
A clean bill of health   
South Wales health workers and police are able to work together to ensure best use of resources, thanks to an innovative use of document management technologies
The Glittering Prizes   
At the end of October the first ever DM Awards ceremony took place in central London. We take a close look at what looks likely to become the unmissable industry event of the year
Ecopy   
With European sales now representing some 30% of worldwide business, eCopy is becoming as major a player here as it is has long been in its home market, the USA.
EDRM delivers more than Compliance   
Meridio's Bob Ward discusses the wider business benefits of Records Management
 
Document Manager Magazine September/October 2007 - Vol 15 No 05
OmniPage Professional 16   
Nuance, despite its continued emphasis on voice/speech technologies, is still very busy in the imaging sector: its OCR, PDF and document management tools now account for around 20% of the company's revenue, and are among its most profitable lines.
Fault intolerant   
Technical documentation innovations can assist with fault diagnostics
Film stars   
Steven Godfrey, Commercial Director at SunRise Imaging (EMEA) Ltd., examines the benefits - and possible pitfalls - of modern film scanning technologies
Opex AS3690i   
In the real world, the issues relating to the digital mailroom extend far beyond just image capture and classification:
Retail therapy   
Major high street retailer New Look is using an online trading and document imaging solution that enables it to fully automate its invoice processing - delivering immediate cost savings and improved efficiency
Cincom Eloquence   
The Cincom Eloquence product targets the growing market for increasingly personalised customer communications, using an approach that Cincom calls "Dynamic Document Composition".
Curing your information ills   
This year's Documation UK show promises more than ever in terms of business and technical education sessions. DM takes an advance look at the programme to help you decide what you need to put in your Documation diary
Standard bearer   
A lack of standardisation is fundamentally compromising the value of ECM investments,
A shipshape solution   
Cory Brothers Shipping Agency chooses Alchemy to stem a tide of paper
Seek and ye shall find…   
Rob Gray of Microsoft argues that the emphasis, in the modern enterprise, needs to be as much on what you find as how you search
Film stars   
Steven Godfrey, Commercial Director at SunRise Imaging (EMEA) Ltd., examines the benefits - and possible pitfalls - of modern film scanning technologies
 
Document Manager Magazine July/August 2007 - Vol 15 No 04
Meridio 5.0   
Meridio has seen considerable business success in the last year or so, including one of the world's largest records management projects at the Ministry of Defence.
Vertical ascent   
Perceptive Software shot into the UK limelight a couple of years ago when the company's ImageNow walked away with 'DM Product of the Year' at the IM Awards. David Tyler found out what's happened since from International Sales Director Paul Hunt
Mail Order   
The digital mail room is at last becoming a business reality, argues Ashley Keil of IBML, thanks to a combination of advances in technology, wider acceptance of electronic systems, and legislative & regulatory pressures
DocXP   
While DRS has been a market leader in OMR data capture for over 35 years,
Changing Shape   
Unprecedented market growth, combined with a period of consolidation and acquisitions, are leading to a shift in the dynamics of the ECM marketplace, suggests Bill Priemer, COO, Hyland Software
Information on tap   
Implementing ECM has enabled water industry contractor KMI Plus to remove all in-bound paper, streamline processes and deliver the information transparency required to support strong partnerships clients and the supply chain.
Pole Position   
The ING Renault F1 team can boast world-beating document and content management since implementing a secure ECM system from Oracle
Lost in Space?   
Darren Howe, business development manager at Anite, warns that ignoring the perils of mass uncontrolled storage will be a step backwards
The manual is automatic   
BMW Motorcycles engaged the STAR Group to assist in implementing a new technical editing system, as Karl Darr explains
SharePoint Services made easy   
Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) are being adopted across many organisations.
Yorkshire more   
The introduction of intelligent document and data capture at the UK's largest formally constituted Local Authority purchasing consortium has halved the resource responsible for customer orders, whilst dramatically increasing processing levels
 
Document Manager Magazine May/June 2007 - Vol 15 No 03
Winning Promotion   
The marketing group at Merrill Lynch is better able to realise its vision thanks to improved customer relationship statement systems
CANON DR-4010C   
PRODUCT FOCUS CANON DR-4010C VERDICT: The DR4010-C is a compact and robust device which manages to introduce some very sensible and attractive new functions and improvements without sacrificing image quality or scan speed.
In it to win it   
While many ECM vendors are understandably nervous of Microsoft's increasing encroachment into 'their' territory, Mobius remains quietly confident, as DM editor David Tyler found out when he met with Senior Vice President Karry Kleeman
Beware the Pitfalls!   
What are the potential traps to avoid in email archiving? And how is technology playing its part as new solutions come on stream? Brian Wall reports
Rock steady   
In a period of major upheaval for much of the industry, with almost frenetic acquisitions activity becoming the norm, one company has remained outside the feeding frenzy, maintaining a steady growth as it did so.
The chemistry set   
British Biotech Pharmaceuticals Ltd. has implemented document management systems to manage quality assurance and regulatory documents across its Intranet
Clean bill of health   
At Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, high speed access to healthcare documents is leading to major improvements in efficiency and patient care
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007   
When a product attempts to form one allencompassing platform by combining the functionality of many applications the reaction is generally predictable.
Are you Open-minded?   
A new way of looking at Open Source software offers a more confident future for users, argues Arnaud Lefevre, VP of Sales and Marketing, Nuxeo
PROQUIS ALLCLEAR 7.10   
Aconstant bottleneck for process documentation is the flowcharting function: so many organisations still rely on basic charting/drawing tools for this crucial step.
 
Document Manager Magazine March/April 2007 - Vol 15 No 02
FUJITSU FI-5900C   
Fujitsu has introduced a series of enhancements to its already successful fi-5900c production scanner aimed at making it even more attractive to mid-volume users (typically processing up to 100,000 documents a day).
Easy as 1,2,3   
Glenn Perachio, European Director, ZANTAZ introduces a three-step process to help decide whether a hosted or licensed content archiving solution might be appropriate for your business
PLUSTEK SMARTOFFICE PS256   
Taiwan manufacturer Plustek may well be a new name to most of our readers, but the company as been around since 1986, originally making OEM scanners for other manufacturers.
Almost blue   
The recent release of FileNet P8 v4.0 gave Document Manager the opportunity to catch up with FileNet's Director for Product Marketing, EMEA, Doug Coombs, to discuss the company's acquisition in 2006 by IBM, as well as the new product launch
 
Document Manager Magazine January/February 2007 - Vol 15 No 01
Counting the true cost of scanning   
Ashley Keil of Imaging Business Machines Ltd (IBML) explains how intelligent scanning technologies can reduce costs and improve efficiency
KeyScan KS810   
Say 'multi-function device' to anyone working in the document or content management industry and they will almost certainly picture a piece of kit that offers printing, scanning, copying and perhaps faxing capabilities
Kofax Document Scan Server   
There is little question that one of the barriers to wider acceptance of distributed capture - despite its potential cost and efficiency benefits - has been the difficulty of managing not just the distributed hardware, but the capture process itself.
MailSafe   
According to IDC, over 25 billion emails are being sent every day around the world. Many of us may be feeling like most of them are arriving in our own in-boxes!
Blue-sky thinking   
BAE Systems has created a place that any worker can go to in order to find knowledge held within the organisation, share best practices on a global scale, and bring people together
A platform announcement   
DICOM's recently launched Intelligent Capture & Exchange Suite is the market leader's most significant strategy announcement in recent times. DM Editor Dave Tyler caught up with DICOM's vice-president of marketing, Andrew Pery
More BAM for your buck   
Doug Coombs, Product Marketing Manager at FileNet, asks whether businesses are getting the right sort of intelligence about their businesses from the tools they are investing in
Breaking the mould   
Plastics moulding firm Georg Fischer DEKA GmbH has freed up significant
ILM: compliant by design?   
Next generation ECM should make ILM ubiquitous - even if we no longer notice it's there, argues Darren Strange, senior product manager, Microsoft UK
 
Document Manager Magazine January/Febuary 2006 - Vol 14 No 1
The flexible Friendly   
Private healthcare specialist Exeter Friendly Society has selected Open Connections to provide a document management system based on a FileNet content management solution
Post perfect - Towards the digital mailroom   
June Dean, managing director of ITESOFT UK looks at how the digital mailroom is moving from theory into practice
Remote control   
Kofax distributed capture solutions bring efficiency gains to UK dairy giant
Compliance and the CFO   
ECM should be attracting more attention from senior finance executives, argues Damian Hyland, VP Northern Europe, Open Text UK Limited, in a business environment in which compliance is increasingly no longer just about cost,
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 Mobile   
Nuance (formerly ScanSoft) has a good reputation among users, supported by our own experience when reviewing their products, as a company that has a clear understanding of the requirements of PC-based document management tools.
Fujitsu fi-5120C   
As mentioned elsewhere in this issue's review pages, the workgroup scanner market is becoming ever more competitive, with various vendors keen to make their mark and steal away customers from the long-standing 'alpha-male' of the sector, Fujitsu.
Criminal intelligence   
Essex Police is bucking the trend with impressive reductions in crime figures, due in no small part to a 'zero tolerance' policy, a new Chief Constable, and the use of business intelligence technologies.
XEROX DOCUMATE 262   
As advanced paper handling and image enhancement technologies continue to cascade down from high-end production scanners to smaller devices, the market for small & medium use scanners shows no sign of saturation.
The glittering prizes: IM Awards winners announced   
The 2005 Awards were presented at the Awards dinner at the Grosvenor House Hotel on Thursday 1 December in front of an audience of nearly 1300 finalists, press and guests.
Presenting a smarter image   
DM outsourcer Preview Services has reduced its scanning overhead, increased efficiency and scalability, with the implementation of an IBML intelligent document scanning platform
 
Document Manager Magazine November/December 2006 - Vol 14 No 06
New Information Management event for London   
Only half of organisations have an information strategy designed to cope with a disaster scenario,
Legal Ease   
E-discovery is being joined by e-disclosure in the next generation of enterprise search tools, explains Dr Johannes Scholtes, CEO, ZyLAB Technologies
Kodak Scan Station 100   
As organisations try to encourage employees to make wider use of networked devices in order to maximise their ROI, it becomes clear that a major barrier to acceptance of distributed scanning is the perceived complexity of the process.
Core values   
Master Data Management (MDM) represents a paradigm shift in how businesses should view, value and manage their core business data, explains Chris Livesey, Information Management Executive UK, IBM Software Group
The Finnish line   
Finnish capital Helsinki has improved citizens' access to information while also reducing storage costs, thanks to a combination of ECM and BPM technologies
Home pages   
Conveyancing services firm Hammondsdirect is able to process up to 30,000 documents a day since implementing Content Management technologies
More BAM for your buck   
Doug Coombs, Product Marketing Manager at FileNet, asks whether businesses are getting the right sort of intelligence about their businesses from the tools they are investing in
Debunking the BPO myths   
Attention-grabbing headlines have caused some organisations to question the entire BPO concept when all they need do is ask their provider for evidence of watertight processing, explains Graeme Scott, CEO, Stortext FM
IM Awards finalists announced   
The BCS Information Management Awards are the premier European recognition of excellence and innovation in the management of business information.
 
Document Manager Magazine September/October 2006 - Vol 14 No 05
In plain sight   
Sophisticated document technologies allow Merrill Lynch to realise its marketing vision
London calling   
Visit Documation UK to solve your information management challenges
Housing benefits   
Housing association Mosscare has seen measurable benefits in both financial and customer service terms since implementing a DM system
EXPO Witness   
What to look out for as the DMS EXPO takes place in Cologne for the first time
Plus points   
A paperless environment is key to the success of property lawyers breezeplus+
SoftCo Rondo   
Back in the 1990s SoftCo was best known as a reseller, and later the acquirer, of PC-DOC (not to be confused with PC-DOCS), but the Dublin company is now enjoying notable success with its Accounts Payable solution, Rondo.
PaperPort Professional 11   
Desktop document management - in the UK at least
Beyond Recognition   
It isn't the OCR element that determines the efficiency of your automated capture solution. Jason Howard of ITESOFT dispels the OCR myth and highlights the true path to efficient capture
Single file   
How SJ Berwin's digital approach to matter management has closed filing cabinets across the firm - and is potentially saving millions in the process
 
Document Manager Magazine June 2006 - Vol 14 No 03
BÖwe Bell + Howell Truper 3600   
Designed to complement the flatbed 3200 Truper….
 
Document Manager Magazine April/May 2006 - Vol 14 No 02
Kodak Capture Software 6.9   
Verdict: In an increasingly commoditised scanner marketplace, Kodak continues to make advances in the way it differentiates it products from the crowd.
Something for everyone   
DICOM's Kofax business continues to grow apace, as Sales & Marketing Director John Stinchcombe tells DM Editor David Tyler
Hyland gains   
Geoff Wingar, International Director, Hyland Software spoke to DM Editor David Tyler at the company's recent ROGUE (Regional OnBase Group User Experts) conference in Birmingham
The boys in (big) blue   
Cheshire Constabulary's email archiving solution has been implemented with an eye on the bigger picture: a strategic DM/CM vision for the future
Kodak Capture Software 6.9   
Kodak has included its own capture software with its scanners for some time, and clearly sees merits in not being tied to an external supplier for such a central component of their imaging offering.
A healthy outlook   
Cambridge-based Addenbrooke's NHS Trust has achieved what for most UK Trusts is considered the 'holy grail' of information management: critical information is available to clinicians at the point of care in real time, as it is created.
You've got mail - now what are you going to do with it?   
Adrian Palmer, Managing Director, Ontrack UK, takes a look at the tricky task of email excavation
ECM on Show   
Is ECM a genuine enterprise-wide solution or just a collection of technologies related to document management? As the AIIM Roadshow sets off on its annual tour, Doug Miles, UK Managing Director of AIIM Europe, claims it can be both.
The Compliance Conflict   
There are good business arguments for combining emerging EDM technologies with analogue archiving, suggests Chris Haden, UK Managing Director, Anacomp
eXPert PDF Pro 4   
Avanquest's eXPert PDF Pro 4 is yet another productivity tool aimed at PDF users, who may not need the full functionality of Adobe's Acrobat product: and let's face it, that means most of us!
Character building   
The construction industry offers a unique set of challenges in information management. DM Magazine takes a close look at recent developments and success stories from the sector.
Character building   
The construction industry offers a unique set of challenges in information management. DM Magazine takes a close look at recent developments and success stories from the sector.
 
Document Manager Magazine September/October 2005 - Vol 13 No 05
Context sensitive   
Vignette Chief Technology Officer Conleth O'Connell offers his perspective on the impact of enterprise content management
ABBYY FineReader 8.0   
Each generation of ABBYY's excellent OCR offering has added functionality to improve its appeal to individual, workgroup and enterprise users, and version 8.0 is no exception.
EMC to buy Captiva   
Acquisitions activity signals further consolidation on DM/CM sector
FaxPress Premier   
Increasingly, network fax servers are reducing the burden on the network and IT teams of managing in- and outbound faxes.
Brought to account?   
'Treating Customers Fairly' (TCF) regulation is receiving more attention than ever from the retail financial services industry.
Balance of power   
FileNet's integration of ECM and BPM makes for a uniquely powerful combination, as Regional Vice President, Brenda Morris, tells DM editor David Tyler
Indicius 5.0   
Since Neurascript's acquisition by Kofax/DICOM, the new parent company has been careful to ensure that the unique technology advantage of the Cambridge software developers has been maintained.
Educating, neater   
Bilborough Sixth Form College is using Tokairo's document management and student attendance monitoring systems to dramatically improve its academic and business management processes
Playing his cards right   
Hummingbird's Tony Heywood, Senior VP, EMEA, spoke to DM editor David Tyler at the company's recent Summit Conference
 
Document Manager Magazine July/August 2005 - Vol 13 No 04
Böwe Bell + Howell Truper   
Illinois-based Bell + Howell (or more properly since 2002’s acquisition by Böwe Systec AG, Böwe Bell + Howell) is one of the longest established hardware vendors in the DM industry,
Blue notes   
“We see regulatory compliance and legislation as one of several key market drivers.
Meridio 4.3   
Having won the IM Award several years running for DM Product of the Year, where could Belfast based Meridio go next? The short answer seems to be ‘from strength to strength’.
Volume Control   
Several factors, from the digital mailroom through compliance to Business Process Outsourcing, are contributing to continued growth in the high volume production scanning market. DM Magazine takes a closer look at what’s happening ‘at the high end’
 
Document Manager Magazine March/April 2005 - Vol 13 No 02
Storage plus content management: the safe combination   
Karry Kleeman, SVP EMEA of Mobius Management Systems Inc., discusses the implications of changing storage needs for content management in light of recent regulatory changes
Compliance: a good thing!   
Tom Jenkins, CEO of Open Text Corporation, examines ways in which responding to regulatory changes can provide a foundation for growth as well as a protection from risk
Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional   
With every version release, Adobe has been slowly and quietly establishing Acrobat as the de facto standard tool for PDF users within the enterprise
Ricoh Aficio is300e   
Ricoh’s Aficio product range is intended to offer optimum flexibility to the office and workgroup user of scanning/imaging systems.
 
Document Manager Magazine Jan/Feb 2005 - Vol 13 No 01
Finders keepers?   
Liz Maloney, UK managing director at Hummingbird, discusses the dilemma facing every organisation…to keep or not to keep?
Regaining control   
Construction & engineering industry specialist Lorien has seen huge efficiency gains and cost savings from implementing a DM system for timesheet and project management
Risk Management - The Burning Issues   
Risk management is not just about ensuring business continuity in the event of a major catastrophe, but the creation of strategies that underpin and
GFI MailArchiver for Exchange   
In an age of almost daily legislative changes, GFI MailArchiver has a clear role to play and looks to be a very effective tool
 
Document Manager Magazine November/December 2004 - Vol 12 No 06
Unparalleled parking   
Private parking firm Airparks has increased operational efficiency and customer service thanks to innovative use of integrated accounting and document management systems
ScanTo Office 1.0   
In an industry sector where, for the most part, software applications have long been getting more and more complex, ABBYY's new offering stands out as a model of simplicity.
SOX, lies and magnetic tape   
Tom Fox of ITESOFT UK takes a look at achieving sound Corporate Governance through IT
Many happy returns   
The Belgian Ministry of Finance plans to scan 4 million VAT forms a year using I.R.I.S. and Kodak solutions
Fujitsu fi-4120C2   
Fujitsu has released the 4120C2 model as a development of their 4120C, to offer low cost workgroup scanning.
The big noise in low volume   
David Whitton recently joined Kodak as Business Development Manager, EMEA with responsibility for the company's 'low volume' scanner products, from their main competitor in the market, Fujitsu. DM editor David Tyler discusses the changes
The golden age of film?   
From microdots in spy movies to rolls of film gathering dust in libraries, microfilm is actually a much misunderstood medium. DM shines some light into this shadowy world
Dressed for success   
How the world's leading provider of bar code and other technologies to support the apparel retail supply chain chose and implemented document management
Going public   
Since the e-Government agenda was set out four years ago, local authorities throughout the country have been rising to the challenge of bringing services on-line, heralding in an era of increased efficiency and improved service levels.
 
Document Manager Magazine Jul/Aug 2004 - Vol 12 No 04
Fujitsu fi-5750C   
The medium volume scanner market has become a difficult place to trade over the last few years.
Fair shares   
DM Editor David Tyler speaks to Darren Holland of Imagistics
 
Document Manager Magazine June 2004 - Vol 12 No 03
Storing up trouble   
Mark Maby, director of Information Lifecycle Management at StorageTek discusses how organisations might – and indeed must – take better strategic control of archiving and compliance
ScanSoft PDF Converter Professional 2   
PDF Converter Professional 2 enables users to easily convert PDF documents into Microsoft Word PC documents, and also…
 
Document Manager Magazine April 2004 - Vol 12 No 02
Incomplete Control   
Richard Jeffrey-Cook of In-form Consult argues that for successful email management in the modern business, an email policy is only the first step
The Quiet Revolution   
To win the DM Product category at the IM Awards three years running demonstrates considerable commitment to quality and innovation, but Meridio….
Kodak i640   
Kodak’s new i600 range of mid-volume scanners has been launched to replace the company’s 3500, 5500 and 7500 devices
 
Document Manager Magazine Jan/Feb 2004 - Vol 12 No 01
Cardiff LiquidOffice v3.0   
LiquidOffice is a Web-based forms automation solution for creating, deploying and automatically managing the routing, tracking and approval processes for electronic forms
 
Document Manager Magazine Nov/Dec 2003 - Vol 11 No 06
Tesco finds right ingredients for success   
How automationg the capture of data from its annual employee survey is helping the UK's leading foord retailer grow its business
ScanSoft PDF Converter   
ScanSoft's PDF Converter is aimed at doing one simple thing, and does it very well indeed: dedicated PDF conversion.
Measuring web value   
Most organisations are unable to identify and quantify the benefits from their web initiatives because they did not define the metrics against which they could measure their performance, argues Conleth O'Connell, CTO at Vignette.
 
Document Manager Magazine Sep/Oct 2003 - Vol 11 No 05
A historic challenge   
Documents filed within the Land Registry's Land Charges Department can be up to 150 years old, on coloured and/or wax paper, with labels, pencil marks and stamps. DM finds out how they rose to this historic challenge
Reporting for duty   
Output management systems can help organisations manage a move away from paper, argues Iain Gallacher, MD of
IRIS Business Card Reader II   
As more and more serious business tools like the BCR II come onto the market, workers at all levels are being exposed to the benefits of document technologies - and that can only be a good thing.
 
Document Manager Magazine Jul/Aug 2003 - Vol 11 No 04
Fujitsu ScanSnap!   
When you look past the marketing, it is clear that Fujitsu have decided that firstly, there is an untapped market for such a scanner, and secondly, that this is the machine to do it.
Culture change is not an optional extra   
Mike Mitchard, Vice President of Global Operations & European Systems, ACE International, argues that culture change is the first prerequisite of implementing any IT project
The co-operative approach   
Unimer drives down invoice processing costs with INDICIUS for Invoices from Neurascript
 
Document Manager Magazine May/June 03 - Vol 11 No 03
Microsoft eyes the DM prize   
Angela Ashenden, senior analyst in Ovum's Knowledge Management group, looks at Microsoft's recent moves into the DM/CM marketplaces, and predicts major changes ahead for the industry's established players
Web-based Document Management   
Document Manager meets Paul Bedford, Managing Director of Straight Banana Software, a company with an innovative approach to charging for web-based document management services.
Lexmark X5190pro   
The X5190pro is at the lower end of that business target, but is nonetheless a highly functional MFD with a wealth of intelligent features that will make it appeal especially to less IT-literate users.
 
Document Manager Magazine Jan/Feb 2003 - Vol 11 No 01
KnowledgeBase   
KnowledgeBase is certainly a versatile and easy to use method of managing diverse data sources, and appears well suited to the corporate marketing functions at whom it is aimed.
e-MARC for Exchange   
e-MARC for Exchange offers integrated server and client document archiving with low administration costs. Simple Full Content Search and the ability to view documents without launching the native application make this product an appealing tool
Fujitsu Scanpartner fi-4010   
A capable and well-bundled low volume offering, the Fujitsu Scanpartner fi-4010 Office costs £399 and is available from Fujitsu's scanner channel.