Document Manager Magazine June 2010 - Vol 18 No 03 |
| Top of the form |
| UK not-for-profit organisation Connexions Berkshire has leveraged ABBYY's FlexiCapture offering in order to automate the collection of survey results |
| Document Management for Small Businesses |
| Peter Silcock, Market Development Manager for Epson UK comments on document management for small businesses. |
| Knowledge, working |
| Simon Hill, Sales Director at Nuance's Document Imaging Group speaks to DM Editor David Tyler about developments since the acquisition of eCopy |
| Mail ordered |
| The Isle of Man Post Office has implemented Kodak's flagship i1860 production scanners to add to its document imaging capacity |
| Speaking volumes |
| Scanning services provider documentscanning.net needed to become more competitive: scanning higher volumes in shorter timescales, while driving down their costs per scan. Technology from ibml has helped them achieve their goal |
| The enterprise approach to capture |
| Margot Weigl of Kofax offers a compelling business case for automating document-driven business processes |
| A healthy scan |
| Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has achieved remarkable scanning results despite having to handle a variety of different documents in collating patient records, thanks to unique technology offerings from Opex |
| A matter of Trust |
| DM looks at why the Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust has opted for an in-house scanning service as opposed to an off-site alternative |
| A moving experience |
| Europe's most successful independent estate agency group make the difficult move to a paperless business |
| Best of both worlds |
| Apart from the smallest companies, the question of centralised versus distributed scanning has exercised the minds of most IT departments for a long time. |
| Cloud cover |
| At the start of 2009, DocuWare announced it was to channel an additional 1,000,000 euros into the development of web-based solutions. DM Editor David Tyler spoke to co-president of the company, Jürgen Biffar, about the reasoning behind this strategy |
| docxp quickinvoices |
| DocXP QuickInvoices is a new development from Milton Keynes-based data capture specialists DRS, intended to fill a large and potential lucrative gap in the market: |
| Experts in high volume digitisation |
| Genus IT is attending all four days of the AIIM Roadshow with "High Volume Digitisation" being the theme of their show. |
| Fujitsu fi-6800 |
| The fi-6800 claims to be simultaneously the best performing A3 scanner in its price range, and the smallest in its class - no mean achievement! |
| Health, wealth and happiness? |
| While the general public perception is that things are still far from perfect, IT implementations within the NHS are actually in far better health these days than for a long time, as OITUK's Archie Menzies explains to DM Editor David Tyler |
| State of the ECM Industry 2010: meeting the demands of a new decade |
| The annual AIIM survey into ECM drivers and strategies shows that although cost savings and productivity improvements are the overriding business drivers, content chaos is the main buying trigger for ECM systems. |
Document Manager Magazine April 2010 - Vol 18 No 02 |
| Standing out from the herd |
| Crowe Livestock Underwriting has transformed productivity and efficiency whilst
dramatically reducing its paper burden, thanks to a flexible, portable electronic
document management solution from EASY Software |
| Services rendered |
| DM Editor Dave Tyler speaks to Martin Tierney, Director
of Document & Print Services at Kyocera, about the
company's increasing focus on managed document
services |
| Changing channels |
| An increased emphasis on partnership deals has led to
continued success in a difficult climate for OPEX. DM Editor
Dave Tyler caught up with the company's Director of Operations
for EMEA, Shaun Lee |
| Point of capture |
| For enterprises and bureaux/BPO service providers alike, large
scale capture is becoming less about document management
and more about business process management, as ibml’s
Ashley Keil explains to DM Editor Dave Tyler |
| Energy saving |
| Leading Nigerian integrated energy company, Oando, has deployed Kodak's Scan
Station network scanners to improve information access, enhance efficiency and
reduce costs |
| Write turn |
| The Destiny digital pen solution helped DocuWare to win a Project of the Year Award at
the 2009 DM Awards. DM Editor Dave Tyler catches up with destiny's Tom Thiselton to find
out what the future holds for
these technology innovators |
| Can eForms help us break the paper habit? |
| Dr. Vijay Magon of OITUK attempts to dispel some of the myths surrounding
electronic forms: is this a technology whose time has finally come? |
| Capture: local, central, outsourced - what's working best? |
| A recent AIIM survey highlights a renewed interest in
centralised scanning, driven by increased investment in
capture and recognition software. |
| Long life and happiness |
| Last year Genus bought out its largest microfilm business
competitor, Germany's MikrofilmHaus, creating one of Europe's
largest independent micrographics specialist suppliers. |
| Vizit SP |
| Microsoft SharePoint is very good
at a number of things, but many
readers would agree that it is
sometimes lacking in 'document
functionality'. |
| Going with the flow |
| Leading UK charity Asthma UK has been able to reduce its paper records and
improve Gift-Aid audit trails, thanks to document management technologies |
Document Manager Magazine January/February 2010 - Vol 18 No 01 |
| Doing the right thing |
| In challenging economic times, local councils are faced with the prospect of delivering better for less. Information can help and hinder this process. |
| Version One Announces Integration into Sage ERP X3 |
| Version One has been integrated into Sage’s most recently launched enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for organisations worldwide |
| Avoiding a Painful legacy |
| A major issue for organisations migrating to a new ERP or financial system is the potential cost of ongoing parallel running of both systems. |
| PSI:Capture |
| Datafinity is fast making a name for itself as an 'ahead of the game' distributor for DM and ECM technologies. |
| Paper patches? |
| For organisations that can't kick the paper habit altogether, there is a middle path which may be more palatable. Deirdre O'Neill, Head of ECM at Kainos, sets out some best practices for covering the middle ground, which can have transformative results |
| Genned up |
| DM Editor Dave Tyler speaks to Gary Sawyer of Genisys Technology about the company's continuing success in the health sector, and particularly in the purchase-to-pay arena |
| ABBYY FineReader 10 Professional |
| Very few readers of DM will need to be convinced of the benefits of software such as FineReader or its competitors: |
| 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 OITUK LTD |
| Digital mailrooms: first past the post? |
| More and more businesses hope to increase operational efficiency and reduce costs by switching to a digital mailroom model, argues Roger Williams, Solutions Architect, RR Donnelley Global Document Solutions |
| Law, in order |
| Law firm Browne Jacobson LLP has been able to free up its partners to focus on strategic -and billable - tasks since implementing a mailroom automation solution from eCopy |
Document Manager Magazine November/December 2009 - Vol 17 No 06 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Oldest scanner in use wins top prize! |
| PFU Imaging Solutions Europe Limited is launching a competition in Germany, |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Document Manager Magazine September/October 2009 - Vol 17 No 05 |
| 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 |
| On the right tracks |
| Railway industry specialist Volker Rail has seen significant improvements in its invoice processing since implementing a SharePoint based automation solution |
| Wise council |
| Daventry District Council found a cost-effective solution when faced with a potentially expensive upgrade of their existing centralised scanning system |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| The central line |
| For many years, the scanning function within most end user organisations has lain at local, departmental or workgroup level. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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 |
Document Manager Magazine July/August 2009 - Vol 17 No 04 |
| Understanding public sector edms |
| DM Editor David Tyler speaks to Paul Symes, Programme Manager, Arun District Council, |
| 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. |
| 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 - |
| On track to reduce business pain |
| Which processes can be restructured quickly to reduce costs and boost efficiency? |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Unlocking the legacy |
| Leon Phillich, CEO of Aia Software, describes the first
steps towards truly integrated customer
communications |
| 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 |
| 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 - |
| 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. |
Document Manager Magazine March/April 2009 - Vol 17 No 02 |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Xbound |
| Hamburg-based foxray has recently
made its 'xbound' platform
available in the UK via Surrey
consultants Datafinity UK, |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Iriscan executive 2 |
| Much like their 'big brothers' in
production and workgroup
capture applications, portable
scanners like the IRIScan just keep getting
better: |
| Rising to the challenge |
| ECM consolidation offers a viable path to profitability and productivity, suggests Jeff
Mills, Managing Director, Xenos Europe |
| "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 |
Document Manager Magazine January/February 2007 - Vol 16 No 01 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| FineReader 9.0 Professional |
| As OCR software has become more and more efficient at its core task, |
| 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, |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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? |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Document Manager Magazine November/December 2007 - Vol 15 No 06 |
| 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 |
| 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? |
| EDRM delivers more than Compliance |
| Meridio's Bob Ward discusses the wider business benefits of Records Management |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Scope for improvement |
| An Avanquest solution at Travelscope delivers sustainability and improves operational efficiency |
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. |
| Film stars |
| Steven Godfrey, Commercial Director at SunRise Imaging (EMEA) Ltd., examines the benefits - and possible pitfalls - of modern film scanning technologies |
| Fault intolerant |
| Technical documentation innovations can assist with fault diagnostics |
| 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 |
| Film stars |
| Steven Godfrey, Commercial Director at SunRise Imaging (EMEA) Ltd., examines the benefits - and possible pitfalls - of modern film scanning technologies |
| 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 |
| Opex AS3690i |
| In the real world, the issues relating to the digital mailroom extend far beyond just image capture and classification: |
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. |
| The manual is automatic |
| BMW Motorcycles engaged the STAR Group to assist in
implementing a new technical editing system, as Karl Darr explains |
| 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 |
| Pole Position |
| The ING Renault F1 team can boast world-beating document and content management since implementing a secure ECM system from Oracle |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Lost in Space? |
| Darren Howe, business development manager at Anite, warns that ignoring the perils of mass uncontrolled storage will be a step backwards |
| 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 |
| SharePoint Services made easy |
| Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) are being adopted across many organisations. |
Document Manager Magazine May/June 2007 - Vol 15 No 03 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| The chemistry set |
| British Biotech Pharmaceuticals Ltd. has implemented document management
systems to manage quality assurance and regulatory documents across its Intranet |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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. |
Document Manager Magazine March/April 2007 - Vol 15 No 02 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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). |
Document Manager Magazine January/February 2007 - Vol 15 No 01 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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! |
| 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. |
Document Manager Magazine January/Febuary 2006 - Vol 14 No 1 |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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, |
| Remote control |
| Kofax distributed capture solutions bring efficiency gains to UK dairy giant |
| 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 |
| 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. |
Document Manager Magazine November/December 2006 - Vol 14 No 06 |
| IM Awards finalists announced |
| The BCS Information Management Awards are the premier European recognition of excellence and innovation in the management of business information. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| New Information Management event for London |
| Only half of organisations have an information strategy designed to cope with
a disaster scenario, |
Document Manager Magazine September/October 2006 - Vol 14 No 05 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| In plain sight |
| Sophisticated document technologies
allow Merrill Lynch to realise its marketing vision |
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 |
| 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 |
| 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! |
| The Compliance Conflict |
| There are good business arguments for combining emerging EDM technologies with analogue archiving, suggests Chris Haden, UK Managing Director, Anacomp |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Something for everyone |
| DICOM's Kofax business continues to grow apace, as Sales & Marketing Director John Stinchcombe tells DM Editor David Tyler |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| FaxPress Premier |
| Increasingly, network fax servers are reducing the burden on the network and IT teams of managing in- and outbound faxes. |
| EMC to buy Captiva |
| Acquisitions activity signals further consolidation on DM/CM sector |
| Context sensitive |
| Vignette Chief Technology Officer Conleth O'Connell offers his perspective on the impact of enterprise content management |
| 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 |
| Brought to account? |
| 'Treating Customers Fairly' (TCF) regulation is receiving more attention than ever from the retail financial services industry. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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’ |
| 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, |
| 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’. |
| Blue notes |
| “We see regulatory compliance and legislation as one of several key market drivers. |
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 |
| Ricoh Aficio is300e |
| Ricoh’s Aficio product range is intended to offer optimum flexibility to the office and workgroup user of scanning/imaging systems. |
| 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 |
Document Manager Magazine Jan/Feb 2005 - Vol 13 No 01 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Document Manager Magazine November/December 2004 - Vol 12 No 06 |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Fujitsu fi-4120C2 |
| Fujitsu has released the 4120C2 model as a development of their 4120C, to offer low cost workgroup scanning. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Unparalleled parking |
| Private parking firm Airparks has increased operational efficiency and customer service thanks to innovative use of integrated accounting and document management systems |
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. |
