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. |
