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Document Manager Magazine November/December - Vol 20 No 06 |
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| Tim Brosnihan, European product marketing manager,
Canon Europe, explores the decentralisation of image
capture and the role technology can play in realising
the associated cost, time and security efficiencies |
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| South African BPO organisation Anderson Group has invested in a high volume capture
solution from ibml to scan 700 million land registry documents within a challenging time
frame |
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| DM Editor David Tyler caught up with Robert Young,
head of channel development for EMEA at PFU Fujitsu,
at the company's recent Imaging Channel Conference
in Barcelona |
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| Cardiff-based housing association Hendre has
slashed invoice payment times by automating the
process using a solution from Invu and ABBYY |
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| An affordable and easy-to-deploy (and use) tool with very obvious benefits, PDF Compressor Pro could pay for
itself in next to no time. |
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| Howard Frear of EASY Software highlights three
UK organisations which use electronic document
management and workflow to streamline their HR
departments |
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| In the 2012 DM Awards Premier Project of the Year,
Aintree NHS Trust has achieved huge ROI from lower
operational costs and better use of estate, in a project
digitising over 40 million pages. |
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| Orange Business Services has been able to transform
the effectiveness of its purchasing process by a
combination of A/P automation, invoice scanning, and
intelligent classification and validation |
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Document Manager Magazine September/October - Vol 20 No 05 |
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| Before moving capture applications from a centralised 'Point of Entry' to the 'Point of
Origination', argues Dan Lucarini, Chief Marketing Officer at ibml, organisations need to
consider the potential impact on staff or customer productivity.. |
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| It should be no surprise to practitioners of document
and content management, says Martyn Christian, CMO
at Kofax, that banks are struggling to manage the everincreasing
volume of correspondence and complaints
arising from the PPI mis-selling scandal |
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| Telecoms giant, Cable & Wireless has simplified its Caribbean accounts processing
function from 13 separate business units into one centralised shared service and is saving
time.. |
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| Document management in the cloud just might turn
out to be the 'killer application' that the IT industry has
been waiting for, argues Simon Shorthose, Managing
Director, ReadSoft UK |
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| CCube Solutions' approach to eForms is a concept far more advanced than simply collecting data and passing it
to a database. Their approach allows a huge range of intelligence to be applied to the process from start to finish.. |
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| Utility companies process a large amount of information on a daily basis, which, given
the need for strict regulatory compliance and their high customer numbers, needs to be
easily and quickly accessible.. |
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| Ingeniously designed to combine the best elements of a desktop scanner and a mobile device, the ScanMate i940
can handle almost anything you might care to throw at it, without breaking a sweat. |
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| Doug Rudolph, General Manager of Marketing at PFU
Imaging Solutions Europe, discusses the true costs of
paper consumption, and suggests some ways that
businesses can benefit from working smarter |
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| DM Editor David Tyler speaks to Günter Hensges,
CEO of I.R.I.S. AG about its recent inroads into the
UK marketplace |
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| The DR-C130 is a well specified device in its sector, lightweight and intuitive to use, with a surprisingly comprehensive
range of software and plug-ins to suit almost any requirement, even to the extent of including straightforward
cloud integration. |
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Document Manager Magazine July/August - Vol 20 No 04 |
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| FileBound is an all-in-one document
management and workflow solution
that improves the way you retrieve,
share, manage and process information
within a department or across the
enterprise. |
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| Enterprises must retain reports and
fixed content as part of their
compliance efforts. |
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| Electronic forms (eForms) have been around for a few short years, while mobile and tablet devices are more recent and have had a rapid effect on the computing experience. |
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| However long it takes for the economy to recover, new
business growth will come. But preparing for it means
managers across an organisation need unprecedented
insight into operational performance - and the ability to
deftly seize new opportunities. |
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| For many years, the scanning function within most end user organisations has lain
at local, departmental or workgroup level. |
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| Since implementing an in-house digital mailroom, solicitors Goldsmith Williams is
saving 98 hours per week of non-billable time, while improving data protection and
eliminating document loss |
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| DM Editor Dave Tyler
caught up with AIIM
President John Mancini
as he visited the UK for
the recent AIIM
Roadshow events |
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| EDRMS solutions are
helping Staffordshire
County Council to
respond more quickly to
the information
requirements of the
public as well as their
own staff |
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| Xenos has gone from strength to strength since its
acquisition two years ago. General Manager Jeff
Mills talks to DM Editor David Tyler about
repositories, Big Data, and handling Chinese
characters |
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| A totally different approach to document scanning, the Sceye is a quick and easy-to-use solution to occasional
capture requirements where the user has a variety of different document types to scan. |
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| Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) automation is an area where great savings can be made, and
ITESOFT are a recognised award winning provider of one of the market leading
solutions. |
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| Kofax Transformation Modules (KTM)
is a suite of add-on applications for
Kofax Capture that streamlines the
transformation of documents |
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| The versatile multi-user editing capabilities and cloud connectivity make this the most 'professional' version of PDF Converter
yet, without compromising on Nuance's trademark ease-of-use. |
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| According to the Audit Commission local authorities face an enormous challenge
to balance budgets. Councils will need to cut services, raise charges and increase
efficiency. |
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Document Manager Magazine May/June - Vol 20 No 03 |
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| The DVLA has been able to enjoy productivity
enhancements alongside improved customer service as
a result of significant improvements to its existing
document capture and imaging platforms |
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| The ImageTrac has become almost the de facto standard device for larger scanning bureaux and BPOs - the 'Lite'
version will help the company to reach a much wider audience |
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| DM Editor David Tyler caught up with Kofax CTO
Anthony Macciola at the company's recent
CustomerConnect event in London, where the focus
was very much on the recent acquisition of BPM
specialist Singularity… |
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| Lindenhouse is hardly a new operator in the market, but the security, powerful integration and embedded portal
approach of its Virtual Cabinet product will undoubtedly open up whole new markets for the company… |
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| PFU Fujitsu's Doug Rudolph speaks to DM Editor David
Tyler about making capture more accessible for
knowledge workers, and the need for centralised admin
of decentralised scanning |
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| In an application that won the DM Award 2011 for
best Mobile Technology Project, ABBYY mobile OCR is
powering a unique number plate recognition system |
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| DM Editor David Tyler speaks with Neil Murphy,
Northern Cluster Sales Manager for Kodak's Document
Imaging (DI) division about recent developments within
the company and across the industry as a whole |
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| The Intelligent Data Extraction Technology that powers business process automation
solutions for global brands like Holcim, Bridgestone and TNT will now be more
easily available to UK organisations through dedicated UK partners |
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| EASY Software recently held
its first major partner event
for the UK in central
London, and DM Editor
David Tyler was there |
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| Archie Menzies, NHS Sales Director at CCube Solutions, talks to DM Editor David
Tyler about the ongoing challenges of catering to an ever-changing healthcare
marketplace |
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| Next month's AIIM Roadshow for document and
enterprise content management offers some fascinating
new insights into the changing shape of information
management over the next decade… |
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| TNT is one of the world’s leading providers of express delivery services, with 83,000 staff globally.
TNT also offers a wide range of outsourced services spanning information management,
facilities management, records management and logistics. |
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| Introducing the SCAMAX 4x3 Series from InoTec |
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Document Manager Magazine March/April - Vol 20 No 02 |
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| The change to an effective Electronic Records System is often easily within reach
of departments, but often resistance is encountered because it can threaten the
usual way of doing things, with which people are familiar and comfortable… |
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| As is often the case with a relatively small company, Filestream has focused on developing an absolutely top class
product rather than diluting investment into sales/marketing… |
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| DM Editor David Tyler introduces this issue's in-depth focus on the healthcare sector,
examining how technologies such as document management and enterprise
content management are helping beleaguered NHS Trusts to improve service and
reduce spending. |
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| East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust has completely overhauled its Booking Centre
process, drastically reducing the amount of documents being lost and boosting
productivity significantly |
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| An NHS Trust's 'invest to save' approach has achieved huge ROI from lower
operational costs and better use of estate in a project that aims to digitise over 40
million pages… |
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| Kainos has been one of the fastest growing IT success stories in the health sector in
recent years, and its Evolve product continues to impress NHS managers across the
UK. |
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| Greenwich's Queen Elizabeth Hospital has successfully
automated the processing of patient test request cards |
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| The imageFORMULA P-215 from
Canon is an incredibly fast, versatile,
USB-powered scanner. |
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| Exmoor National Park Authority has achieved ROI in under six months on an
automated workflow solution for correspondence handling, while at the same time
improving staff and public satisfaction |
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| Award-winning technology from the UK is being used
by emerging democracies around the globe to
implement and manage fair and efficient voting… |
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| Document Management has taken HWB
Accountants on a journey from 'paper intensive' to
'massively paper reduced' - delivering significant
efficiency improvements along the way |
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| A new study which Iron Mountain has conducted with PwC reveals that
mismanagement of information is exposing businesses to risk - and that
complacency, ignorance and poor management are widespread. |
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| Fujitsu continues to be the company setting the bar for professional scanning, and the many innovative ideas behind the
Z-Generation series will undoubtedly help them to maintain their current momentum in the market. |
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| Paint and chemicals giant AkzoNobel has streamlined
its HR operations thanks to a combination of scanning
and web-based DM |
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| Private healthcare providers face many of the same issues as the NHS, especially with
regard to speed of turnaround of documents coming into the organisation… |
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Document Manager Magazine January/February - Vol 20 No 01 |
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| This is the first truly mobile scanner we have seen, and it's a very nice, simple-to-use piece of kit. For travelling
staff or occasional use, the rechargeable battery and wi-fi connection are simple, yet ingenious touches
from Xerox. |
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| Over the following pages we take an in-depth look at recent developments in the
AP/invoicing function; an area that has long been seen as an 'easy win' for document
and content management technologies. DM Editor David Tyler sets the scene |
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| The perception of most SME's remains
that AP invoice automation is
expensive… |
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| DM Editor David Tyler discusses invoice automation issues - and how to get your FD
to 'open his purse' - with EASY Software's Howard Frear |
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| This £65 million publishing company has successfully applied imaging, document
management and workflow technologies in order to achieve substantial financial
savings through streamlining and improving Accounts Payable processes… |
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| November 2011 saw the UK's largest Accounts Payable
user conference take place in Reading, the International
Accounts Payable Professional's (IAPP) 'AP Evolution'. |
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| Adactus Housing Group has implemented Document Management software to
automate the processing of over 700 suppliers' transactions… |
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| When Gebrueder
Schuon Logistik GmbH
created a new
intelligent orderpicking
solution based
on cloud services, it
chose the Fujitsu
fi-6130 for its scan-tocloud
functionality -
providing a 'gateway'
to its fulfilment system
in the cloud |
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| Kim Sadler, business consultant with Bosoco Ltd, explains how Bedfordshire &
Hertfordshire Police Cold Case Review Team overcame an initial mistrust of scanning
technologies to achieve space savings and process efficiencies |
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| BPO specialist TNT Business Solutions has been able to
improve efficiency and enter new value-added markets
as a result of investment in new high-volume scanning
technologies |
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| The acquisition of print management specialist Equitrac
in late 2011 has made Nuance a 6000-plus employee
global player, with a uniquely broad product offering
including print, imaging and speech. |
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| Law firm Browne Jacobson has integrated an eCopybased
digital mailroom solution with its existing
document management system, achieving efficiency
improvements and improving compliance |
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| Highly tuned for the demands of the construction/engineering markets, yourDCC offers a powerful document
management solution for SharePoint environments of all sizes. |
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| DM Editor David Tyler spoke to Paul Timmerman, MD at
Netdocs, about their Invoice Dynamics solution and the
Netdocs experience of document management in the
Cloud |
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Document Manager Magazine November/December - Vol 19 No 06 |
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| ABBYY FineReader 11 brings improvements exactly where users might expect - in speed and accuracy of processing
- and also adds some useful new functionality… |
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| Pete Dinham of BancTec examines the potential benefits of
new approaches to distributed capture |
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| Dr. Vijay Magon of CCube Solutions takes a closer look at the strategic implications of electronic forms |
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| At the recent DM Awards Genus won "Website of
the Year 2011" with www.paperscanners.co.uk, and
one of its key hardware products… |
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| Klaus Schulz, Product Marketing Manager EMEA, PFU
Imaging Solutions explains the benefits of
implementing 'Scan-to-Process' (integrating paperbased
information into digital workflows) in business |
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| Achieving customer service excellence in high risk industry
sectors such as insurance is becoming less of a challenge,
argues Martyn Christian, CMO, Kofax, thanks to the wider use
of automated data capture technologies |
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| Census specialists CACI are seeing the benefits of
the latest capture technologies from ibml |
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| Very cleverly designed to minimise footprint and offer a highly intuitive interface for users at all levers, the DRC125
is ideal for customer-facing environments and other business areas where space is at a premium. |
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| Newly unveiled EMR solution builds on success of Kainos's
award-winning EDM software suite, Evolve®, with enhanced
workflow and reporting, patient status management and
mobile data access |
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| For a 'personal' scanner the i920 packs quite a business punch - the in-built image enhancement and Kodak build
quality make for a machine that combines compact design with real-world useability. |
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| DM editor Dave Tyler caught up with Perceptive
Software's Executive Vice-President, Cary DeCamp at
the company's EMEA User Forum in London last month |
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| An electronic document management system, seamlessly integrated with SAP, has
already transformed bill payments and expenses management at Worcestershire
County Council; the solution is now being expanded to manage a new purchasing
card system |
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| As social business applications enter the mainstream, the ad hoc benefits of
knowledge sharing, team-building and collaboration are being formalised into
business processes and workflows… |
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Document Manager Magazine September/October - Vol 19 No 05 |
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| Business process outsourcers (BPOs) and scanning bureaus
are making decisions about the type of commercial
scanning services they provide. Ashley Keil, Business
Development Manager at ibml, discusses the options |
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| Scan-to-process is becoming the 'de rigeur' approach
within the DM/ECM marketplace, says Pete Dinham,
Global Solutions Director, BancTec; but for
Transactional Content Management to really take off |
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| Richard Thompson, Vice President, Pitney Bowes Management Services
International, discusses the commercial and compliance benefits of automated
invoice processing |
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| TechTrek, a global document management services company, has installed Kodak
Capture Pro Network Edition software to standardise image capture throughout the
business and put in place a common platform to underpin operations… |
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| Electronic capture of documents is a critical part of
the document management process. But all too
often, argues Thomas Senger, senior vice president
at Kofax EMEA, it is seen just as a means of
archiving at the end of a document's life… |
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| With the rise in on-line business and e-commerce, organisations need a simple, cost
effective way to capture and track transactions through the various processes, to
successful conclusion. Electronic forms can offer the ideal solution… |
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| A recent office move created the impetus for Ordnance
Survey to outsource the management of its document
storage and retrieval functions |
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| Document Manager finds out about an innovative offering from Optical Record
Systems that aims to alleviate the burden of post room operations |
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| Doncaster & Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is improving patient care
after implementing a new digital pen and paper solution |
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| DM Editor Dave Tyler catches up with Hitec Laboratories'
CEO Jeremy Crame to discuss the launch of the latest
version of the company's flagship ECM product,
DataStoreDSX |
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| A recent AIIM White Paper set out to explore the key factors in selecting and
implementing a capture solution for incoming mail. Doug Miles of AIIM Europe
discusses the variability of input documents… |
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| Northampton Borough Council is using Fujitsu scanning technologies to process FOI
requests faster and more efficiently |
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Document Manager Magazine July/August - Vol 19 No 04 |
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| The i2000 range is Kodak's latest foray into the departmental and workgroup market, with devices ranging in rated speed (simplex A4) from 30ppm (i2400) through 50ppm (i2600) to the device we looked for our review, the 70ppm i2800. |
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| DM Editor Dave Tyler caught up with Doug Miles, Managing Director of AIIM Europe, at their recent London Roadshow to talk training, collaboration, and the Cloud |
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| Dr Vijay Magon, Managing Director of CCube Solutions, explains how regulatory compliance can be readily achieved using existing technologies and practices - with less emphasis on standardisation |
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| It has been suggested that more than two-thirds of the cost of any scanning operation is in document preparation and post-scan processing - i.e. the menial repetitive tasks around sorting paper into batches |
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| Electronic records management is helping the social care function of Surrey County Council to transform the way it delivers services |
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| ABBYY is a firm best known in these pages and throughout the industry for its outstanding OCR technologies, whether sold as standalone products or in partnership with leading DM and archiving partners as diverse as Kofax and EASY Software |
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| Cambridge-based Enterprise Consulting (ECL) has long been the sole European vendor of the Synergy ECM suite developed by Jack Henry & Associates |
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| MarkView 7 is probably the most significant release since the product was brought into the Kofax fold, and the improvements - especially the 'single view' approach - make for a much faster, more user-friendly invoice
processing solution. |
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| International Health Club operator, Virgin Active is keeping its invoice management trim and in good shape thanks to a simple, effective scanning and document management solution from EASY Software |
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| Maintaining 10 or more different document archives is expensive and inefficient, yet traditional approaches to consolidation are far from straightforward. |
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| National charity Motability has improved a number of business critical and paper-intensive processes since introducing a scanning and DM system based on SharePoint, KnowledgeLake and Fujitsu hardware |
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| This year the DM Awards celebrates its fifth birthday in style, with an unprecedented number of nominations and a raft of new categories |
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| Moving to a single provider for managed print services has seen enormous efficiency benefits for insurer RSA, while simultaneously addressing environmental sustainability concerns |
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| PleaseReview is a powerful and unique piece of technology that completely alters the way a business can manage co-authoring and collaborative review of documents, combining intuitive ease of use with absolute control and accountability. |
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| NHS Wales' Prescribing Services has enjoyed the benefits of high-volume scanning for several years and a recent system refresh has improved efficiency and cost-effectiveness to new levels |
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Document Manager Magazine May/June - Vol 19 No 03 |
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| British Waterways is on course to save millions of pounds thanks to a combined Kofax and SharePoint capture and records management solution |
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| As companies seek to reduce the use of paper, document capture is only part of the answer, suggests Stephen Wynne-Jones, Technical Director at Esker |
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| A year on from the company's acquisition by Business Intelligence specialist Actuate, Jeff Mills of Xenos catches up with DM Editor Dave Tyler |
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| Paul Negus of Genus IT speaks to DM Editor Dave Tyler about the company's new online marketplace for unique best-of-breed scanning solutions |
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| Dave Evans, Regional Sales Director at ABBYY UK Ltd., analyses how the rapid growth in smartphone use - and in the sophistication of the devices - might impact how we capture data |
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| The construction industry has taken a hammering recently, but thanks to document management and workflow, Urban Splash still has a roof over its head and tight control over its financial future |
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| Dr. Vijay Magon of OITUK Ltd examines the issues involved in integrating legacy files and data into modern information management systems |
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| The Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust's 'Paper Lite' project in Manchester is changing the working day of clinicians and support staff as traditional ways of managing patients' pathways are superseded by IM&T led solutions |
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| The 2011 AIIM Roadshow is nearly upon us: find out all you need to know below and on the following pages |
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| Greenwich's Queen Elizabeth Hospital has successfully automated the processing of patient test request cards |
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| Gary Hodkinson, MD of LuraTech, explains the importance of selecting non-proprietary and open file formats when planning for archival that is truly long term |
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| Scanning in itself should not be seen as a universal panacea for business process issues, explains Colin Gray, MD of DDC Outsourcing Solutions, to DM Editor Dave Tyler |
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| AIIM's Doug Miles takes a closer look at the findings of their recent white paper on the ROI and business benefits of content management technologies |
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| Leading jewellers Beaverbrooks needed better and faster access to business critical information, and KnowledgeWorker ECM and workflows provided the solution |
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| DM Editor David Tyler speaks to CDS Global's Business Development Manager for Scanning/BPO, Dave Appleby and Intelligent Capture Specialist Phil Bull about the company's plans for growth by exploiting a pedigree of professional excellence |
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| Corporate accounting services provider Virtual Finance Office has dramatically enhanced internal and external communications and increased business efficiency through eliminating paper-based AP processes |
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| The recent PFU Fujitsu Imaging Channel Conference focused on a theme of 'capturing the Cloud'. DM Editor David Tyler caught up with Doug Rudolph, General Manager, Marketing to find out what this meant for the company and its partners |
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| Document process outsourcing specialist Pitney Bowes Asterion has quadrupled throughput capacity and opened up new markets thanks to innovative scanning technologies from ibml |
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Document Manager Magazine March/April - Vol 19 No 02 |
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| As well as some market-challenging document scanners, Genus continues to introduce unusual specialist technologies for book scanning and other niche requirements |
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| June 2011 sees the return of the AIIM Roadshow, the only event dedicated to the DM/ECM industry. Find out what to expect below, and hear from some companies who will be exhibiting at the four venues, over the following pages |
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| Every year, AIIM runs a survey within its worldwide community of 65,000 ECM users and suppliers to measure key drivers and strategic issues for information management. |
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| The ScanSnap N1800 represents PFU Fujitsu's first move into networked scanners for its ScanSnap range |
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| DocuWare's Jürgen Biffar spoke to DM Editor David Tyler after a very successful CeBit show, where the company had unveiled its latest integration module, Smart Connect |
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| Introducing a pan-European paper setting out the main legal aspects of document management |
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| With the growth in web services and cloud computing, the DM/ECM sector is naturally seeing lots of investment |
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| The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) has successfully digitised 3 million records including printed and hand-written labels dating back to the 17th century |
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| It is only a relatively short time since we looked at Kodak Capture Pro v2.5, a product which took the Editor's Choice award at the 2010 DM Awards. |
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| Thomas Senger, senior vice president, EMEA Software and Solutions, Kofax, explores how patient care, customer service and profitability benefit from advanced integration between paper and electronic records |
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| Hampshire-based Merlin Document Management Solutions originally developed its Docustor.biz |
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| This newest version of PSIGEN's capture offering boasts advanced forms processing and classification capabilities |
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| Panasonic System Networks Europe (PSNE) is a relatively recent entrant into the DM marketplace, but is making waves with some innovative products |
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| Deirdre O'Neill of Kainos Evolve explains how using EDM and workflow can help the NHS turn its
'un-stemmed data flow' into information that can be used to improve health |
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| Dr. Vijay Magon, Managing Director, OITUK Ltd., explains how NHS Trusts, working closely with suppliers, can realise tangible benefits by careful use of existing technologies to successfully deliver the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) |
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Document Manager Magazine January/February - Vol 19 No 01 |
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| Kofax recently held its largest ever Transform EMEA event in Barcelona, Spain. DM Editor Dave Tyler pinned down both Chief Marketing Officer Martyn Christian and Chief Technical Officer Anthony Macciola….. |
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| EASY Software's Howard Frear tells DM Editor Dave Tyler about the increasing importance of a 'people-oriented' approach to DM implementations |
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| Barnsley Hospital's Emergency Department has deployed Kodak scanning technology, alongside an EDMS solution from File Stream, to underpin a move to electronic emergency records |
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| The 'secure scan and email' functionality that made eCopy's name originally is still winning the company business today: not surprising, as it is still probably the best solution in its market. |
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| B2B publishing giant Centaur Media has deployed eForms technologies in order to manage company-wide employee expense claims online |
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| A centralised document repository has paid for itself inside two years at bike manufacturer Prophete |
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| Simon Ellis of Box-it believes that the cloud offers unique opportunities for records managers who are willing to embrace change |
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| DM Editor Dave Tyler caught up with AIIM President John Mancini at the recent Kofax Transform event in Barcelona |
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| Jonathan Burd of life sciences compliance specialists GxPi suggests that a change of emphasis away from technology, towards the process and the people, leads to improved user adoption of EDMS solutions |
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| Archiving and compliance is a massive challenge for businesses of all sizes.
Failure to put in place the right policies and procedures can be extremely costly -
both financially and to a company's reputation |
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| Fujitsu's ScanSnap devices have spent the last couple of years subtly insinuating themselves into all sorts of user environments, establishing the brand as an ideal low-cost, easy-to-use scanner for 'first-timers' and occasional users. |
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Document Manager Magazine November/December - Vol 18 No 06 |
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| The great and the good of the document and content management sector
descended on London's Tower Bridge from all over the world in October for the
announcement of the 2010 DM Awards winners. |
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| A new white paper from PFU Imaging Solutions suggests that digitisation
technologies could ease many of the problems of the Freedom of Information Act |
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| Dr. Vijay Magon of OITUK explores whether the
public sector procurement process threatens the
ability of SMEs to foster crucial customer-supplier
partnerships |
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| Why should an organisation's data archive
roadmap stop at email? Get ready for Enterprise
Information Archiving, recommends EASY
Software's Howard Frear |
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| Capture technology has
helped UK not-forprofit
organisation
School Fundraising
Company to
significantly reduce
staff workloads |
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| Mike Davies, UK Sales Director of Aia Software
discusses how companies can develop greater
business agility and flexibility by more effectively
managing their business documents |
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| Optimising and automating the invoicing process is
a key challenge for finance departments, argues
Allen Carney, Vice President of Product Marketing at
Kofax, which can improve overall speed, efficiency,
control and visibility of operations |
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| In a project which won the 'Private Sector Project
of the Year' trophy at the DM Awards 2010,
Nissan has been able to significantly streamline
its Accounts Payable processing by bringing invoice
scanning and capture back in-house |
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| One well accepted means of improving patient care
is by freeing up the flow of vital information
between the different points of care. Some recent,
high profile, EDM implementations in Trusts across
the UK are now starting to deliver on that goal |
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| Simon Ellis of Box-it Data Management makes the
case for integration of scanning, cloud-based
document repositories and a SaaS model to achieve
rapid ROI from DM implementations |
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| Merseyside-based St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS
Trust has completed a pioneering project to deliver health records
electronically using its C Cube electronic document management
software (EDMS), integrating with Kodak document scanners |
|
|
| In the battle between management teams and
employees, asks Andy Wang, Director of ECM Strategy
at Laserfiche, how do you balance the seeming
contradictions between freedom and control? |
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Document Manager Magazine August/September - Vol 18 No 05 |
|
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| A recent AIIM survey shows that digital signature solutions can provide a very rapid ROI - generally within 12 months. |
|
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| Patent translation services company RWS is handling its high volume document conversion requirements using technology from ABBYY |
|
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| CapsureDC is a unique large scale data capture offering from Capgen, which promises more complete end-to-end management of document scanning than any competitive product. |
|
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| Global packaging company Graham Packaging makes the switch to EASY and enjoys flexible, future-proof system while fully recouping its investment |
|
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| Anyone who works in a Windows-based office environment will know how easy it is to feel that staff are getting lost in the clutter on their desktop. |
|
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| Doug Rudolph was appointed General Manager, Marketing for PFU EMEA in July this year, following the recent re-branding of Fujitsu's scanner business under the PFU name. DM Editor Dave Tyler finds out more |
|
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| Equally suitable for Kodak and non-Kodak scanning environments, Capture Pro has come from nowhere since its launch to become a very popular software choice among VARs and Sis |
|
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| For financial services organisations, the right approach to information governance can help to turn information from a liability into an asset, argues Jeffrey Green, Director of Compliance, Laserfiche |
|
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| OITUK's Dr. Vijay Magon describes how forms recognition technologies can assist healthcare bodies in managing legacy medical records |
|
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| Barclays enjoys a low risk and high value means of improving and speeding up the processes around the capture, storing, retrieval and management of documents |
|
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| Virgin Atlantic has been able to achieve significant customer service benefits by automating and outsourcing its invoice processing |
|
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| Although computers help increase productivity, most professional offices are still surrounded by paper. Document imaging increases productivity, argues Shooping Lin of Plustek, and in many instances reduces costs |
|
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| Distributor ImagingXtra is describing the KV-S5055C as offering 'production scanning at a departmental price', and the
contention is hard to fault. This is a robust high-speed device featuring a host of compelling feed/handling innovations |
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Document Manager Magazine July/August 2010 - Vol 18 No 04 |
|
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| Dr Vijay Magon, Managing Director of OITUK Ltd.,
explains how local authorities, working closer with IT
suppliers |
|
|
| The latest AIIM survey shows that Microsoft SharePoint implementations are surging
ahead, but they generally proceed without a formal business plan, and with confusion
about which features are to be used and where |
|
|
| Alan Pelz-Sharpe, Principal Analyst & Director at the Real
Story Group, summarises the significant challenges
ahead for public sector information managers in the
current economic and political climate |
|
|
| Fujitsu scanning technologies helped to automate the
ballot process for the London mayoral election |
|
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| The world's leading swimwear brand, Speedo, is getting a makeover of its global website
using FirstSpirit CMS from e-Spirit |
|
|
| Distributed scanning has optimised efficiency while
delivering quantifiable savings for Daventry District
Council's Revenue Services Department |
|
|
| One of the UK's leading service providers for healthcare
records scanning, Datatron relies on ultra-high-volume
scanning technologies to enhance efficiency and
profitability |
|
|
| Specialist, brick-shaped handsets and 'rugged'
laptops have never won much favour with mobile
workers required to capture electronic data in the
field, while end-of-day admin is the bane of busy
executives' lives. |
|
|
| One of the biggest drivers toward
wider acceptance of document
and content management
technologies across businesses |
|
|
| Kodak's i4000 series scanners are
designed to be an entry level
production device aimed at SMEs |
|
Document Manager Magazine June 2010 - Vol 18 No 03 |
|
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| UK not-for-profit organisation Connexions Berkshire has leveraged ABBYY's FlexiCapture offering in order to automate the collection of survey results |
|
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| Peter Silcock, Market Development Manager for Epson UK comments on document management for small businesses. |
|
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| Simon Hill, Sales Director at Nuance's Document Imaging Group speaks to DM Editor David Tyler about developments since the acquisition of eCopy |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| The Isle of Man Post Office has implemented Kodak's flagship i1860 production scanners to add to its document imaging capacity |
|
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| 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 |
|
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| 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. |
|
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| Margot Weigl of Kofax offers a compelling business case for automating document-driven business processes |
|
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| Europe's most successful independent estate agency group make the difficult move to a paperless business |
|
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| Apart from the smallest companies, the question of centralised versus distributed scanning has exercised the minds of most IT departments for a long time. |
|
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| 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 |
|
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| 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: |
|
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| Genus IT is attending all four days of the AIIM Roadshow with "High Volume Digitisation" being the theme of their show. |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| DM looks at why the Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust has opted for an in-house scanning service as opposed to an off-site alternative |
|
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| 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! |
|
Document Manager Magazine April 2010 - Vol 18 No 02 |
|
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| Dr. Vijay Magon of OITUK attempts to dispel some of the myths surrounding
electronic forms: is this a technology whose time has finally come? |
|
|
| Microsoft SharePoint is very good
at a number of things, but many
readers would agree that it is
sometimes lacking in 'document
functionality'. |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| Leading Nigerian integrated energy company, Oando, has deployed Kodak's Scan
Station network scanners to improve information access, enhance efficiency and
reduce costs |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| A recent AIIM survey highlights a renewed interest in
centralised scanning, driven by increased investment in
capture and recognition software. |
|
|
| Leading UK charity Asthma UK has been able to reduce its paper records and
improve Gift-Aid audit trails, thanks to document management technologies |
|
|
| Last year Genus bought out its largest microfilm business
competitor, Germany's MikrofilmHaus, creating one of Europe's
largest independent micrographics specialist suppliers. |
|
|
| 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 |
|
Document Manager Magazine January/February 2010 - Vol 18 No 01 |
|
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| 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 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| Version One has been integrated into Sage’s most recently launched enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for organisations worldwide |
|
|
| A major issue for organisations migrating to a new ERP or financial system is the potential cost of ongoing parallel running of both systems. |
|
|
| Datafinity is fast making a name for itself as an 'ahead of the game' distributor for DM and ECM technologies. |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| Very few readers of DM will need to be convinced of the benefits of software such as FineReader or its competitors: |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| In challenging economic times, local councils are faced with the prospect of delivering better for less. Information can help and hinder this process. |
|
Document Manager Magazine November/December 2009 - Vol 17 No 06 |
|
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| 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. |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| PFU Imaging Solutions Europe Limited is launching a competition in Germany, |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| DM Editor Dave Tyler talks streaming video, smartphones, and house fires with Open Text President and CEO, John Shackleton |
|
Document Manager Magazine September/October 2009 - Vol 17 No 05 |
|
|
| Whether you poke on Facebook or you follow on Twitter, there is no escaping the global communication boom. |
|
|
| For many years, the scanning function within most end user organisations has lain at local, departmental or workgroup level. |
|
|
| Leading property developer Crest Nicholson is using ITESOFT's processing solution, ITESOFT.FreeMind for Invoices, to help streamline data capture from invoices |
|
|
| Which processes can be restructured quickly to reduce costs and boost efficiency? ITESOFT's Bill Webb looks at how cutting out paper delivers benefits |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| Mark Hatton of RR Donnelley Global Document Solutions (GDS) looks at three document management related issues facing businesses both large and small |
|
|
| 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. |
|
|
| Daventry District Council found a cost-effective solution when faced with a potentially expensive upgrade of their existing centralised scanning system |
|
|
| Railway industry specialist Volker Rail has seen significant improvements in its invoice processing since implementing a SharePoint based automation solution |
|
|
| Several real time advantages have proven themselves over and over again since we implemented this solution. |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| Leading property developer uses ITESOFT’s processing solution, ITESOFT.FreeMind for Invoices, to help streamline data capture from invoices |
|
Document Manager Magazine July/August 2009 - Vol 17 No 04 |
|
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| “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. |
|
|
| Forrester Research calls it 'Document Output for Customer Communications Management', or DOCCM. |
|
|
| Daventry District Council found a cost-effective solution when faced with a potentially expensive upgrade of their existing centralised scanning system |
|
|
| For many years, the scanning function within most end user organisations has lain at local, departmental or workgroup level. |
|
|
| Which processes can be restructured quickly to reduce costs and boost efficiency? |
|
|
| DM Editor David Tyler speaks to Paul Symes, Programme Manager, Arun District Council, |
|
|
| Mark Hatton of RR Donnelley Global Document Solutions (GDS) looks at three document management related issues facing businesses both large and small - |
|
|
| Whether you poke on Facebook or you follow on Twitter, there is no escaping the global communication boom. |
|
|
| Daventry District Council found a cost-effective solution when faced with a potentially expensive upgrade of their existing centralised scanning system. |
|
Document Manager Magazine May/June 2009 - Vol 17 No 03 |
|
|
| 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? |
|
|
| The The AnyDoc vision is to offer
complete 'all-in-one' solutions to
specific business requirements using
the right combination of their standard
products. |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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? |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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. |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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 - |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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), |
|
|
| 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'. |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| Hyland Software continues to buck the global trend
towards consolidation and cutbacks, with average
annual growth figures of 30% over the last 9 years. |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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. |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| Dave Tyler, Editor of DM Magazine speaks to Doug
Miles, UK MD, AIIM Europe, about the upcoming AIIM
Roadshows |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| ECM consolidation offers a viable path to profitability and productivity, suggests Jeff
Mills, Managing Director, Xenos Europe |
|
|
| Hamburg-based foxray has recently
made its 'xbound' platform
available in the UK via Surrey
consultants Datafinity UK, |
|
|
| As highlighted by its unexpected win
at the 2008 DM Awards, Omnidox
from Stortext is finding favour
among all kinds of clients, |
|
|
| Working with unique and irreplaceable documents presented some very unusual
challenges to genealogical research services website Findmypast.com |
|
|
| Much like their 'big brothers' in
production and workgroup
capture applications, portable
scanners like the IRIScan just keep getting
better: |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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. |
|
|
| As OCR software has become more and more efficient at its core task, |
|
|
| Dr Matt Lees, VP Data Capture Division at Basware UK, looks at what separates truly efficient automated mailrooms from the post rooms of yesterday |
|
|
| 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, |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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. |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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? |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| There are currently around 4.5 million SMEs operating in the UK. Does this represent an opportunity for vendors of Enterprise Content Management systems? |
|
|
| Meridio's Bob Ward discusses the wider business benefits of Records Management |
|
|
| An Avanquest solution at Travelscope delivers sustainability and improves operational efficiency |
|
|
| 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. |
|
|
| 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 |
|
Document Manager Magazine September/October 2007 - Vol 15 No 05 |
|
|
| Cory Brothers Shipping Agency chooses Alchemy to stem a tide of paper |
|
|
| 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. |
|
|
| Steven Godfrey, Commercial Director at SunRise Imaging (EMEA) Ltd., examines the benefits - and possible pitfalls - of modern film scanning technologies |
|
|
| Technical documentation innovations can assist with fault diagnostics |
|
|
| In the real world, the issues relating to the digital mailroom extend far beyond just image capture and classification: |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| Steven Godfrey, Commercial Director at SunRise Imaging (EMEA) Ltd., examines the benefits - and possible pitfalls - of modern film scanning technologies |
|
|
| The Cincom Eloquence product targets the growing market for increasingly personalised customer communications, using an approach that Cincom calls "Dynamic Document Composition". |
|
|
| A lack of standardisation is fundamentally compromising the value of ECM investments, |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
Document Manager Magazine July/August 2007 - Vol 15 No 04 |
|
|
| 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 ING Renault F1 team can boast world-beating document and content management since implementing a secure ECM system from Oracle |
|
|
| BMW Motorcycles engaged the STAR Group to assist in
implementing a new technical editing system, as Karl Darr explains |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| While DRS has been a market leader in OMR data capture for over 35 years, |
|
|
| 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. |
|
|
| Darren Howe, business development manager at Anite, warns that ignoring the perils of mass uncontrolled storage will be a step backwards |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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. |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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. |
|
|
| British Biotech Pharmaceuticals Ltd. has implemented document management
systems to manage quality assurance and regulatory documents across its Intranet |
|
|
| Aconstant bottleneck for process documentation is the flowcharting function: so many organisations still rely on basic charting/drawing tools for this crucial step. |
|
|
| At Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, high speed access to healthcare
documents is leading to major improvements in efficiency and patient care |
|
|
| When a product attempts to form one allencompassing platform by combining the functionality of many applications the reaction is generally predictable. |
|
|
| The marketing group at Merrill Lynch is better able to realise its vision thanks to
improved customer relationship statement systems |
|
Document Manager Magazine March/April 2007 - Vol 15 No 02 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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). |
|
|
| 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. |
|
|
| 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 |
|
Document Manager Magazine January/February 2007 - Vol 15 No 01 |
|
|
| Next generation ECM should make ILM ubiquitous - even if we no longer notice it's there, argues Darren Strange, senior product manager, Microsoft UK |
|
|
| Plastics moulding firm Georg Fischer DEKA GmbH has freed up significant |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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! |
|
|
| Ashley Keil of Imaging Business Machines Ltd (IBML) explains how intelligent scanning technologies can reduce costs and improve efficiency |
|
|
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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Document Manager Magazine January/Febuary 2006 - Vol 14 No 1 |
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| June Dean, managing director of ITESOFT UK looks at how the digital mailroom is moving from theory into practice |
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| Kofax distributed capture solutions bring efficiency gains to UK dairy giant |
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| 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, |
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| 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. |
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| Private healthcare specialist Exeter Friendly Society has selected Open Connections to provide a document management system based on a FileNet content management solution |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| DM outsourcer Preview Services has reduced its scanning overhead, increased efficiency and scalability, with the implementation of an IBML intelligent document scanning platform |
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Document Manager Magazine November/December 2006 - Vol 14 No 06 |
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| Only half of organisations have an information strategy designed to cope with
a disaster scenario, |
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| 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 |
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| E-discovery is being joined by e-disclosure in the next generation of enterprise search tools, explains Dr Johannes Scholtes, CEO, ZyLAB Technologies |
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| Conveyancing services firm Hammondsdirect is able to process up to 30,000 documents a day since implementing Content Management technologies |
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| Finnish capital Helsinki has improved citizens' access to information while also reducing storage costs, thanks to a combination of ECM and BPM technologies |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| The BCS Information Management Awards are the premier European recognition of excellence and innovation in the management of business information. |
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Document Manager Magazine September/October 2006 - Vol 14 No 05 |
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| Housing association Mosscare has seen measurable benefits in both financial and customer service terms since implementing a DM system |
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| Desktop document management - in the UK at least |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| What to look out for as the DMS EXPO takes place in Cologne for the first time |
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| Visit Documation UK to solve your information management challenges |
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| Sophisticated document technologies
allow Merrill Lynch to realise its marketing vision |
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| How SJ Berwin's digital approach to matter management has closed filing cabinets across the firm - and is potentially saving millions in the process |
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| A paperless environment is key to the success of property lawyers breezeplus+ |
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Document Manager Magazine June 2006 - Vol 14 No 03 |
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| Designed to complement the flatbed 3200 Truper…. |
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Document Manager Magazine April/May 2006 - Vol 14 No 02 |
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| Verdict: In an increasingly commoditised scanner marketplace, Kodak continues to make advances in the way it differentiates it products from the crowd. |
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| There are good business arguments for combining emerging EDM technologies with analogue archiving, suggests Chris Haden, UK Managing Director, Anacomp |
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| 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 |
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| 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! |
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| 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. |
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| Adrian Palmer, Managing Director, Ontrack UK, takes a look at the tricky
task of email excavation |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Cheshire Constabulary's email archiving solution has been implemented with an eye on the bigger picture: a strategic DM/CM vision for the future |
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| DICOM's Kofax business continues to grow apace, as Sales & Marketing Director John Stinchcombe tells DM Editor David Tyler |
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| 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. |
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Document Manager Magazine September/October 2005 - Vol 13 No 05 |
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| 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. |
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| Bilborough Sixth Form College is using Tokairo's document management and student attendance monitoring systems to dramatically improve its academic and business management processes |
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| FileNet's integration of ECM and BPM makes for a uniquely powerful combination, as Regional Vice President, Brenda Morris, tells DM editor David Tyler |
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| Increasingly, network fax servers are reducing the burden on the network and IT teams of managing in- and outbound faxes. |
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| 'Treating Customers Fairly' (TCF) regulation is receiving more attention than ever from the retail financial services industry. |
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| Hummingbird's Tony Heywood, Senior VP, EMEA, spoke to DM editor David Tyler at the company's recent Summit Conference |
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| Acquisitions activity signals further consolidation on DM/CM sector |
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| 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. |
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| Vignette Chief Technology Officer Conleth O'Connell offers his perspective on the impact of enterprise content management |
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Document Manager Magazine July/August 2005 - Vol 13 No 04 |
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| 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’ |
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| 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’. |
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| “We see regulatory compliance and legislation as one of several key market drivers. |
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| 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, |
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Document Manager Magazine March/April 2005 - Vol 13 No 02 |
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| 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 |
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| With every version release, Adobe has been slowly and quietly establishing Acrobat as the de facto standard tool for PDF users within the enterprise |
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| Ricoh’s Aficio product range is intended to offer optimum flexibility to the office and workgroup user of scanning/imaging systems. |
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| 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 |
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Document Manager Magazine Jan/Feb 2005 - Vol 13 No 01 |
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| Liz Maloney, UK managing director at Hummingbird, discusses the dilemma facing every organisation…to keep or not to keep? |
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| Risk management is not just about ensuring business continuity in the event of a major catastrophe, but the creation of strategies that underpin and |
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| Construction & engineering industry specialist Lorien has seen huge efficiency gains and cost savings from implementing a DM system for timesheet and project management |
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| In an age of almost daily legislative changes, GFI MailArchiver has a clear role to play and looks to be a very effective tool |
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Document Manager Magazine November/December 2004 - Vol 12 No 06 |
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| The Belgian Ministry of Finance plans to scan 4 million VAT forms a year using I.R.I.S. and Kodak solutions |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| How the world's leading provider of bar code and other technologies to support the apparel retail supply chain chose and implemented document management |
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| Fujitsu has released the 4120C2 model as a development of their 4120C, to offer low cost workgroup scanning. |
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| Private parking firm Airparks has increased operational efficiency and customer service thanks to innovative use of integrated accounting and document management systems |
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| 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. |
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| Tom Fox of ITESOFT UK takes a look at achieving sound Corporate Governance through IT |
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| 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. |
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Document Manager Magazine Jul/Aug 2004 - Vol 12 No 04 |
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| The medium volume scanner market has become a difficult place to trade over the last few years. |
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| DM Editor David Tyler speaks to Darren Holland of Imagistics |
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Document Manager Magazine June 2004 - Vol 12 No 03 |
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| Mark Maby, director of Information Lifecycle Management at StorageTek discusses how organisations might – and indeed must – take better strategic control of archiving and compliance |
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| PDF Converter Professional 2 enables users to easily convert PDF documents into Microsoft Word PC documents, and also… |
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Document Manager Magazine April 2004 - Vol 12 No 02 |
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| Kodak’s new i600 range of mid-volume scanners has been launched to replace the company’s 3500, 5500 and 7500 devices |
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| 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 |
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| To win the DM Product category at the IM Awards three years running demonstrates considerable commitment to quality and innovation, but Meridio…. |
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Document Manager Magazine Jan/Feb 2004 - Vol 12 No 01 |
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| LiquidOffice is a Web-based forms automation solution for creating, deploying and automatically managing the routing, tracking and approval processes for electronic forms |
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Document Manager Magazine Nov/Dec 2003 - Vol 11 No 06 |
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| How automationg the capture of data from its annual employee survey is helping the UK's leading foord retailer grow its business |
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| ScanSoft's PDF Converter is aimed at doing one simple thing, and does it very well indeed: dedicated PDF conversion. |
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| 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. |
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Document Manager Magazine Sep/Oct 2003 - Vol 11 No 05 |
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| 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 |
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| Output management systems can help organisations manage a move away from paper, argues Iain Gallacher, MD of |
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| 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. |
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Document Manager Magazine Jul/Aug 2003 - Vol 11 No 04 |
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| 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. |
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| Mike Mitchard, Vice President of Global Operations & European Systems, ACE International, argues that culture change is the first prerequisite of implementing any IT project |
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| Unimer drives down invoice processing costs with INDICIUS for Invoices from Neurascript |
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Document Manager Magazine May/June 03 - Vol 11 No 03 |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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Document Manager Magazine Jan/Feb 2003 - Vol 11 No 01 |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| A capable and well-bundled low volume offering, the Fujitsu Scanpartner fi-4010 Office costs £399 and is available from Fujitsu's scanner channel. |
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