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2024 eNewsletters
February - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the February eNewsletter from Document Manager magazine.The first couple of months of a new year always have us looking ahead and trying to make sense of the market, hence the proliferation of 'prediction'-themed pieces in our magazine and elsewhere
The shape of things to come
Emilie Martin, Sector Sales Manager at Document Logistix, examines some of the trends that the company...
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January - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the first Document Manager magazine eNewsletter of 2024
Paper plain
Nigel Dews, Managing Director of Restore Records Management, shares eleven very sound reasons why...
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2023 eNewsletters
December - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the final edition for this year of the Document Manager magazine eNewsletter
The value of experience
DM magazine editor David Tyler caught up with Hyland's VP for EMEA and APAC, Tim Hood, at...
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November - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the November edition of the Document Manager eNewsletter, coming to you in the last few days running up to this year's DM Awards
Let's get physical
Nigel Dews, Managing Director at Restore Records Management, highlights six myths about physical...
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October - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the October edition of the Document Manager eNewsletter,and as I mentioned in the last eNews, the upcoming DM Awards is very much front of mind for us right...
It's time to rethink your scanning operation
Scott Maurer, President of OPEX International, explains how the newest technologies can help to reduce...
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September - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the September edition of the Document Manager eNewsletter,and as usually happens around this time of year the DM Awards looms large in our thinking here at the office...
Optimising content processes with Digital Asset Management
Wes Keller, Product Marketing Manager at Hyland, explains how the right digital asset management solutions can support an organisation's growth
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August - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the August edition of the Document Manager eNewsletter, which includes a terrific opinion piece from our old friend Alan Pelz-Sharpe, arguing that it is time for IDP vendors to start looking outside...
No compromise
DM magazine editor David Tyler speaks to ibml's Chief Marketing Officer, Susheel John, about the company's recent FUSiON HD announcement
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July - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the July edition of the Document Manager eNewsletter, where the big news is that nominations have opened for this year's DM Awards - head to www.dmawards.com now to make your voice heard.
The best way to ease skilled worker shortages? Digital transformation
Technology can ease skill shortages, empower workers and improve productivity, explains Mark Baterip, Senior Consultant, Document Logistix
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June - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the June edition of the Document Manager eNewsletter, which includes an interesting piece from Nigel Dews of Restore Records Management on the pros and cons of outsourcing document archives.
The right combination
DM editor David Tyler speaks to Karen Edwards and Victoria Hughes, directors at specialist...
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May - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the May edition of the Document Manager eNewsletter, which includes some fascinating research findings from Quocirca on business users' attitudes towards scanning and digital transformation.
Crisis? What crisis?
Rod Tonna-Barthet, President & CEO at KYOCERA Document Solutions (UK), explains why some...
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April - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the April edition of the Document Manager eNewsletter, which includes news of an interesting new initiative from DocuWare...
Review: Kodak E1040
The increased emphasis on digital transformation - driven to a large extent by Covid-19's impact...
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March - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the March edition of the Document Manager eNewsletter, which includes among other thought-provoking articles a piece from M-Files on the eternal challenge of human error...
We all make mistakes
Can automation help to eradicate human error in the workplace? Colin Dean, Major Accounts Director at M-Files, believes it might
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February - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the February edition of the Document Manager eNewsletter, which as always includes a variety of content from improving your scan operations to cloud print management...
Toasting the end of knowledge bottlenecks
Jason Field, Integration Manager at Document Logistix, explains how to reap the benefits of intelligent...
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January - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to our first eNewsletter of 2023, which includes a thought-provoking article from our old friend and regular DM Awards judge Harvey Spencer, on emerging trends...
The right combination
From digitising paper records and secure centralised data to automated workflows powered...
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2022 eNewsletters
December - Featuring
Editor's Comment: As I type this, there's a rare calm in the Document Manager office after the mania of this year's DM Awards, which took place in Central London on November 17th.
Bridging the gap between desktop and high-end production scanning
Change brings new challenges but also new opportunities, says Johannes Weirich, Market Development Director at ibml
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November - Featuring
Editor's Comment: As I type this, there's a rare calm in the Document Manager office after the mania of this year's DM Awards, which took place in Central London on November 17th.
Data management: one size does not fit all
Nick Parkin of Proceed Group explains how to close the gap between business and I.T., and reap the rewards of data archiving
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October - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the October edition of the Document Manager eNewsletter, which includes a thought-provoking piece from Hyland on the topic of hyperautomation. If some managers felt a bit nervous about automation, surely hyperautomation must have them trembling in their boots?
Compliance: is IDP the answer?
Stephen Boals, SVP Strategy and Evangelism at Ephesoft, examines the potential uses of intelligent document processing (IDP) for data compliance
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September - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the September edition of the Document Manager eNewsletter, which as ever contains a veritable feast of content from expert opinions to case studies from the front line of DM deployments.
A shot in the arm for healthcare providers
Vijay Magon of CCube Solutions describes how digitised patient records are boosting NHS efficiency while generating savings
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September - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the September edition of the Document Manager eNewsletter, which as ever contains a veritable feast of content from expert opinions to case studies from the front line of DM deployments.
A shot in the arm for healthcare providers
Vijay Magon of CCube Solutions describes how digitised patient records are boosting NHS efficiency while generating savings
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August - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the August edition of the Document Manager eNewsletter, which includes a thought-provoking bylined piece from Kofax's Gabriela Garner on how to exploit MFDs to achieve smarter document...
Smart MFDs for a digital future
Gabriela Garner, Product Marketing Director at Kofax, explains how applying intelligent automation capabilities to MFDs can 'accelerate...
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July - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the July edition of the Document Manager eNewsletter, where we include an interesting piece on the current ongoing recruitment crisis across industries and sectors as a result of the combined effects of Covid-19...
Work smarter, work anywhere
Antti Nivala, founder and CEO at M-Files Corporation, argues that digitisation can not only help businesses to prosper, but also alleviate the ongoing...
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June - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the June edition of the Document Manager eNewsletter, and despite it being the height of summer, our thoughts here are already of November...
Looking at the future of Intelligent Document Processing
How did document processing become intelligent, asks Bill Galusha, Vice President, Product Marketing for AI Document Processing at ABBYY - and...
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May - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the May edition of the Document Manager eNewsletter, which includes a thought-provoking article from Jim Close of Kofax...
Choosing the right path
Many organisations find themselves at a crossroads in their digital transformation journey, says Jim Close of Kofax; but the next step is simple
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April - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the April edition of the Document Manager eNewsletter, which includes a thought-provoking article from Kyocera's Martin
Invoice automation: the time is right
Martin Fairman, Group Sales & Marketing Director at Kyocera Document Solutions UK, argues that now is the time to automate Accounts Payable...
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March - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the March edition of the Document Manager eNewsletter. After two years of commenting on the effect of Covid-19 on the industry and the wider world
Covid-19 means we can no longer postpone digitisation
The pandemic has made digital business processes an urgent requirement, argues Dan Wajzner of Document Logistix, which poses challenges for culture change, speed of implementation and data migration
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February - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the February edition of the Document Manager eNewsletter. It includes a reminder about the upcoming AIIM Forum Europe event in June in London.
Stalled automation continues to push up compliance costs
Jim Close, VP UK & EMEA at Kofax, outlines his 'Risk-Averse Executive's Guide to Better Compliance Using Intelligent Document Processing'
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January - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to our first eNewsletter of 2022! If you're anything like me, you're doubtless hoping that this year will feel like a progression from the last, in the sense that we need to be moving on
The future of work
According to Statista, in 2021, 73 percent of employees globally want flexible remote work options to continue post-pandemic. But how, asks Storetec's Grace Schneider, can managers balance employee needs with productivity?
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2021 eNewsletters
December - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to our last eNewsletter of the year, and as we come to the end of another year, it may surprise some readers to be reminded that it is now over 3 years since the EU GDPR regulations came into force in the UK.
HR: the new way to work
David Winkler, Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer of Docufree, explains why the return-to-office plan for HR functions should include automation
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November - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to our November eNewsletter, and at long last we can say 'we did it'! The DM Awards returned with a bang on the 18th, and all the feedback we've had so far has been telling us that the night was an exhilarating success.
Digital mailroom: How does it actually work?
Grace Schneider of Storetec shares a detailed breakdown of exactly what happens when mailroom processing goes digital
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October - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to our October eNewsletter, which finds us another month closer to the return of the DM Awards. Nominations are now closed and voting is open for the finalists, who are all listed on the awards website
Collaborative tools to support the post-pandemic workforce
Eugene Young, Country Director, UK/Ireland, DocuWare, examines the need to embrace a new hybrid workforce, and what organisations need to succeed
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September - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to our September eNewsletter, which includes a thought-provoking byline from M-Files' Herbert Lörch, who likens the post-Covid IT landscape to a 'morning after party clean-up' operation.
The new role of post-pandemic IT
Covid-19 has driven many organisations to integrate cloud platforms in order to cope with the pressures of remote working.
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August - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to our August eNewsletter, where we follow last month's announcement about the 2021 DM Awards with the news that the AIIM Forum is also returning to our calendars later this year
Back to normal?
Grace Schneider of Storetec suggests a number of ways that businesses can avoid any nasty shocks on returning to the office after pandemic restrictions are lifted
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July - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to our July eNewsletter, where the big news from Document Manager - touched on last month - is that at long last we are 'all systems go' for the 2021 DM Awards, with nominations open right now for the companies, products, people and projects that have impressed you over this last turbulent year.
Home is where the risk is
Mike Cluskey, Managing Director at Go Shred, shares five ways that workers should be keeping confidential information safe when working from home...
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June - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to our June eNewsletter, which includes an interesting take on digital transformation from OASIS Group's Steve Townley...
Right time, right place
George Harpur, founder of Aluma, has been working with intelligent document processing since long before most of us had even heard the phrase. He spoke to DM editor David Tyler about combining...
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May - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to our May eNewsletter, which includes an opinion piece on the growing use of AI in document and content processes.
Digital mailroom: restoring postal order
Amy Wright of Storetec argues that the potential benefits of a digital mailroom can vastly outweigh the factors that may have prevented organisations from looking at automation in the past
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April - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the March eNewsletter from Document Manager magazine. This month our featured articles include a piece from Storetec's Amy Wright about how Covid-19 appears to be pushing customers in one particular sector...
What's in the stars for 2021?
Our annual get-together of industry leaders yielded a number of topics likely to be on everyone's minds in the coming year, with the recurring theme of Covid-19 running through almost every aspect of the discussion
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March - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the March eNewsletter from Document Manager magazine. This month our featured articles include a piece from Storetec's Amy Wright about how Covid-19 appears to be pushing customers in one particular sector...
Could the pandemic deliver a paperless reality for law firms?
Law firms have been talking about going paperless and transitioning to a more efficient way of working for years, says Storetec's Amy Wright - but it would seem the pandemic might deliver the final push in making this digital goal a reality.
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February - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the first DM eNewsletter of 2021! it includes a timely piece by Andy Johnson of Brother UK...
I.T. decision makers investing in tech for productivity
New research from Brother shows that more than eight in ten businesses are increasing their focus on productivity, with digital infrastructure investment driving the productivity push. As such, firms are boosting their IT budgets by an average of 13%
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January - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the first DM eNewsletter of 2021! it includes a timely piece by Andy Johnson of Brother UK...
'Paper-lite' makes sense as home-working continues
Remote working as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic could turn out to be the catalyst that revives aspirations for a fully paperless office, argues Andy Johnson, head of product and solutions management at Brother UK
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2020 eNewsletters
December - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the final DM Magazine eNewsletter of the year, and what a strange year it's been - I expect most of us will be glad to see the back of 2020! After recent...
THE CHANGING FACE OF THE OFFICE
Amy Wright of Storetec describes how the company has been helping businesses transition to a digital way of working as the traditional view of office employment undergoes radical changes
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November - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the November DM Magazine eNewsletter, and we are literally just days away from announcing the winners and runners-up in this year's DM Awards...
“This is a platform update…”
Steve Braden, Head of Product Marketing at Alfresco, examines the evolution of Platform-as-a-Service and why it could be right for all your content management needs
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October - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the October DM Magazine eNewsletter, where we find ourselves - at long last!...
Claim to fame
Illustrated through the example of a tailored project recently completed for a claims handling company, David Wilkinson discusses how Storetec's digital mailroom solution can revolutionise internal processing operations and enhance efficiency
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September - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the September edition of the DM Magazine eNewsletter, and as Covid-19 continues to impact...
Thinking differently
Content intelligence could be the key to digital transformation success, explains Markus Pichler, VP Europe, ABBYY...
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July - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the July edition of the DM Magazine eNewsletter. I’m delighted to be able to announce at long last that the DM Awards is back for 2020. We’re a bit late getting started, and obviously external influences...
Building a new digital agility
The new normal will include workflow systems to accommodate remote working and flexi-hours, suggests Jason Field...
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June - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the June edition of the DM Magazine eNewsletter. Our sharp-eyed readers will doubtless notice something new and different in this issue, which is a link to an online video conversation with Tara Combs of Alfresco...
Intelligent capture: key to digital transformation success
A new report details four ways to deliver intelligent information capture
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May - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the May edition of the Document Manager eNewsletter, and as I write this we seem to be no nearer to any meaningful conclusion to the global lockdown that has seen the economies of pretty much every country in the world grind to a halt.
RPA - the reinvention of workforce productivity
RPA is already established as a critical component of the modern workplace, and for good reason, explains Anna Muskett, Channel Director EMEA, Alaris, a Kodak Alaris business
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April - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the April issue of the Document Manager eNewsletter; our first since the Coronavirus lockdown really started to take effect on the UK...
Making a better bureau
Amy Wright of Storetec introduces the company's recently introduced Bureau Management System...
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March - Featuring
Editor's Comment:As I write this article I am also following a live news conference from Downing Street where the Prime Minister and others are talking about the potential impact of the coronavirus on the UK...
DX marks the spot
Inefficient document workflows are inhibiting business success, argues Owen Balloch, Northern European Marketing Manager at Alaris, a Kodak Alaris business...
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February - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the first Document Manager eNewsletter of 2020, which includes a timely research article from Kyocera Document Solutions which argues, as the UK continues down the Brexit road...
Putting digital on the map at the NHS
Storetec's Amy Wright offers insights into recent progress - and otherwise - with the NHS 'Paperless 2020' targets...
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January - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the first Document Manager eNewsletter of 2020, which includes a timely research article from Kyocera Document Solutions which argues, as the UK continues down the Brexit road...
Hard to handle?
In a perfect world, every scan job would involve neatly stacked batches of the same size and weight paper, but in reality organisations handle a wide variety of document types every day. Petra Beck, Market and Business Intelligence Manager at Alaris, explains how to take advantage of advanced paper handling technologies...
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2019 eNewsletters
December - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the last edition of the Document Manager eNewsletter for this year. The DM Awards night has now come and gone, as we celebrated the very best of the industry...
GDPR one year on: cause for celebration?
The EU GDPR has been in force for a whole year now, but what has been its real impact on the document and content management sectors as well as the wider world? DM Magazine shares,...
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November - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the November edition of the Document Manager eNewsletter - as I write this we are entering the final straight for this year's DM Awards. Voting closes on November 18th...
The expanding data universe
Chris Adams, President and CEO of Park Place Technologies, discusses the vast and constantly evolving range of storage solutions and approaches that we can look forward to as the data universe continues to expand
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October- Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the October edition of our eNewsletter - is it just us, or is this year really flying by? Unbelievably, we’re now barely a month away from the DM Awards night....
Alaris E1035
The newest scanners from Alaris, the E1000 series, represent a step forward in setup and ease of use from a long-standing market leader
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September- Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the September edition of our eNewsletter, which includes a piece on how workers view the rise of RPA and AI in the workplace, and whether such technologies really represent a threat (as so often suggested in the wider media) ...
Microforms explained
Jim Westoby, President of e-ImageData, offers a useful briefing on the various technologies and media used in microforms systems, and describes how best to integrate such data with the information delivery demands of today's digital world
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August- Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the August edition of the DM eNewsletter, and I hope you won’t mind if I use this forum to once again promote the fact that nominations are open right now for this year’s DM Awards...
Moving up a level
DM Magazine caught up with David O'Sheridan, Senior Business Development Manager - UK, Ireland and Northern Europe at IRIS (a Canon Company) after their successes in the 2018 DM Awards
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July- Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the July edition of the DM eNewsletter, wherein I’m delighted to be able to announce officially that nominations have opened for this year’s DM Awards...
The power of data capture
Amy Wright of Storetec offers a timely and informative summary of the various data capture technologies that are empowering greater data accessibility for users
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June- Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the June edition of the Document Manager eNewsletter, which includes in its news section a summary of award winners from the recent IRMS Annual Conference in South Wales...
Taxing times?
Under HMRC's Making Tax Digital scheme, every business and individual has access to their own digital tax account, and by April 2019 businesses operating above the VAT threshold will have to use this system to digitally...
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May- Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the May edition of the Document Manager eNewsletter, which includes a very timely article on the environmental impact of paper processes. ...
A global warning
Amy Wright of Storetec examines the environmental impact of processing paper documents
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April - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the April edition of the Document Manager eNewsletter, which includes a case study and a news item relating to Robotic Process Automation (RPA) ...
Rise of the easy integrators
With ibml adding ISIS and TWAIN drivers to its high volume desktop production range, DM Magazine editor David Tyler sought out Ashley Keil, the company's sales director for Northern & Western Europe, Africa & India...
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March - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the March edition of the Document Manager eNewsletter. For some of you it may seem like the dust has hardly settled on the 2018 DM Awards, but for us here at the coal-face...
Radio makes waves
New developments in RFID can significantly cut the cost of records management, but organisations need to take case in choosing and implementing a system, says Terry Allen, Chairman of CoreRFID
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February - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to our February eNewsletter which includes a thought-provoking opinion piece from ITESOFT's John Stovold on the subject of paper. You may think that over 27 years of publication...
The hidden menace of data silos
Data sharing is crucial, but it has become a problem in many organisations that are duplicating tasks at an ever-expanding rate because no one takes ownership of a document....
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January - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the last Document Manager eNewsletter of the year, and as has become traditional, our focus is on the DM Awards that took place at the end of November. After months of build-up the ceremony itself was a roaring success...
Prints of thieves
SMEs continue to overlook printer security at their own risk, argues Carlo Longhi, director and general manager, indirect channels UK & Ireland, Xerox...
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2018 eNewsletters
December - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the last Document Manager eNewsletter of the year, and as has become traditional, our focus is on the DM Awards that took place at the end of November. After months of build-up the ceremony itself was a roaring success...
Is that PDF attachment really safe to open?
Receiving a PDF in an email via MFP is so commonplace that many users assume the document is completely safe - but clever cybercriminals may be 'spoofing' scanners by the millions...
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November - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the Document Manager eNewsletter for November, as we approach the end of the year in which the EU GDPR legislation has impacted practically every organisation in the country...
Supporting evidence
Fergus Wilson, CTO at Repstor, considers the case for using existing Microsoft office and email systems - particularly cloud-based Office 365 - as the basis for complete matter lifecycle management
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October - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the Document Manager eNewsletter for October. We are now just a few weeks away from the 2018 DM Awards, and things are really ramping up here as we enter the final straight...
Print to flourish in the digital age
Digital transformation doesn't mean the end of print, explains Oscar Sanchez, Executive Vice President, KYOCERA Document Solutions Europe
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September - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the Document Manager eNewsletter for September. We have at last announced the full list of finalists in this year’s DM Awards, so make your way to the website (www.dmawards.com) ...
Dedicated scanner vs. MFP
Multifunction printers can be great for scanning but there are many situations where a dedicated scanner makes more sense, explains Martin Pain, Imaging Product Specialist at Northamber
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August - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the Document Manager eNewsletter for August, which includes an interesting analysis of the capture software market from Harvey Spencer Associates, originally featured in our print edition several months ago. ...
Strong market growth for capture software
Revenues from capture software have grown by double digits - contrary to expectations - according to HSA's annual report on the market. Mike Spang, Vice President of Research at HSA explains what has helped to reinvigorate the market
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July - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the Document Manager eNewsletter for July, and as people start to head off for sunnier climes for the Summer holidays, our thoughts are still firmly on November and the DM Awards...
Pixel shifting: the saviour of microfilm?
Document Manager takes a closer look at micrographics specialist e-ImageData, and finds out how 'pixel shifting' is breathing new life into old microfilm
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June - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the June Document Manager eNewsletter; following on from my ‘teaser’ last month, I’m delighted to announce that we have now opened nominations for this year’s DM Awards...
Ransomware: time for ECM to step up
Print management software can be a crucial component of a sound financial strategy, says office solutions provider Y Soft
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May - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to April’s Document Manager eNewsletter, which includes a timely reminder of the importance of adequate governance strategies in planning for GDPR...
Ransomware: time for ECM to step up
In the light of the 'WannaCry' NHS security hack, EASY SOFTWARE UK's Howard Frear believes that the Enterprise Content Management community needs to step forward
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April - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to April’s Document Manager eNewsletter, which includes a timely reminder of the importance of adequate governance strategies in planning for GDPR...
The pillars of GDPR compliance
Most of the provisions and stipulations of the EU GDPR boil down to one simple thing: data governance. By putting solid data governance practices in place you'll be well on your way to compliance, explains Florian Douetteau, CEO of Dataiku
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February - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to February’s Document Manager eNewsletter, where we can at last share the full list of winners and runners-up in the DM Awards...
System building
Steve Mulroy, Portfolio Marketing Manager, EMEA Region, Kodak Alaris Information Management, explains why an ecosystem is key to successful digital transformation...
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January - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to a new year and our first Document Manager eNewsletter of 2018, as the Christmas decorations go back in the loft and we all start to conveniently forget those all-too-rash resolutions...
Ready to go?
Is your business ready for GDPR? Frank Krieger, Director of Compliance at iland, discusses the three areas he believes should demand the most attention in the months ahead...
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2017 eNewsletters
December - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Our December eNewsletter comes just a couple of weeks after the DM Awards ceremony, a night to remember for all those attending, from exalted prize winners to lowly magazine editors...
Slow progress
Storetec's Daniel Johnson analyses some of the reasons why the NHS' race to go paperless has slowed to a crawl...
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November - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Our November eNewsletter includes a thought-provoking piece from Xerox’s Andrew Morrison, who argues that business...
Lifting the weight
Andrew Morrison, President of Large Enterprise Operations, Europe at Xerox describes how different market sectors ...
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October - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to our October eNewsletter, which includes news announcements and feature content relating to the NHS and its use of document and content management technologies...
NHS: Paperless by 2018?
SynApps Solutions' Gary Britnell says the best response by the UK health IT community to Jeremy Hunt's recent dismissal of NHS paperless targets is to look at the progress made so far...
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September - Featuring
Editor's Comment: our news items this issue include a new research report from capture specialists HSA which suggests that the capture market is enjoying a rather unexpected...
What’s in a name?
David Jones, ECM Marketing Manager at Konica Minolta, discusses the hype around the recently-announced industry term 'Content Services', and what it really means for the ECM sector...
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August - Featuring
Editor's Comment: if you're currently on Summer holidays, a dose of Document Manager is surely a better read than the latest Dan Brown!...
Getting to the point of paperless
Boris Roy, CEO of DMS software specialist Office Gemini, talks about the company's flagship Dokmee products...
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July - Featuring
Editor's Comment:A gentle reminder, if you haven’t had more than enough of voting recently (elections, Eurovision, Love Island!)...
Talking heads
The Fujitsu Information Capture Conference saw an expert roundtable discussion on Digital Transformation and how it will impact on the information...
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June - Featuring
Editor's Comment:It’s hard to believe it, but nominations for the 2017 DM Awards are now open...
A revolution in bank scanning
PDFs, office documents, e-mails and texts are everywhere. Most organisations recognise the need to classify and organise these asset types...
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May - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to our April eNewsletter, which includes an interview with Peter Ortmanns of IRIS on the importance of partnerships to business success...
A revolution in bank scanning
Emmedi's 4Cheque software has become the most time-saving and cost-effective way to scan and manage all bank documents - including cheques - from a single device...
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April - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to our April eNewsletter, which includes an interview with Peter Ortmanns of IRIS on the importance of partnerships to business success...
The home straight
Despite the widespread use of high-speed scanners in mortgage document processing, throughput has been tended to be limited by the significant volume of variable-sized and multiple-formatted items that require...
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March - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to our March eNewsletter, which includes a news item from M-Files focused on a worrying but perhaps not uncommon prediction: that enterprises are in danger of drowning in the ever-growing mass of information...
Faster access to film and fiche
Converting microfilm or microfiche slides and aperture cards into digital files is becoming one of the most time-saving and cost-effective ways of ensuring valuable records...
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February - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to our February eNewsletter, which includes an interesting update on the state of play in making the UK health service ‘paperless at the point of delivery’, as was envisaged in 2013 by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt....
Paperless NHS: the slow revolution
Most NHS trusts claim to be making good progress in the drive to deliver digital systems, says Ryan Jordan of data centre company 4D
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January - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to our first eNewsletter of 2017, which includes a thought provoking piece from Solarwinds’ Kong Yang looking at the growth in Cloud storage...
Storage wars
How does Cloud storage really compare to more traditional physical storage? Kong Yang of SolarWinds explores the advantages and disadvantages of both...
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2016 eNewsletters
December - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Our last eNewsletter of the year comes just a couple of weeks after the 2016 DM Awards, so the memory of our tenth annual ceremony is still fresh in our minds...
The Challenge of Digital Obsolescence
EASY Software's Howard Frear has been thinking about how changes in recording media can affect the big problem of business archiving
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November - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Our November eNewsletter includes an interview with a Document Manager regular, AIIM’s chief evangelist John Mancini. One of the reasons John gets so much coverage in our pages is that he is always guaranteed to stir up....
The right tool for the job
The digitisation of patient records has become increasingly popular recently. As David Wilkinson of Storetec explains, with important information being captured and immediately availability to staff, this is an essential facility for any practice
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October - Featuring
Editor's Comment:This edition of our eNewsletter includes a very unusual contributed article - not from a vendor, but an end user, talking in alarmingly honest terms about the process that his business went through in selecting a DM supplier for the first time....
The right tool for the job
Rokas Radziunas is Process Improvement Manager at Canadian oil industry manufacturer Triple D Bending. Here he shares his personal experiences of the ups and downs of selecting a document management system for the first time...
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September - Featuring
Editor's Comment:This issue of our Document Manager eNewsletter includes a thought-provoking piece from Iron Mountain’s Gavin Siggers looking at the potential impact on IT strategy of the upcoming European Commission’s...
Human resourceful
David Wilkinson of Storetec examines the issues - and potential benefits - involved in moving towards a 'paper-lite' HR function...
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August - Featuring
Editor's Comment:This issue of our Document Manager eNewsletter includes a thought-provoking piece from Iron Mountain’s Gavin Siggers looking at the potential impact on IT strategy of the upcoming European Commission’s...
People and paper: the well-intentioned threat of data protection and privacy
Gavin Siggers, Director of Professional Services at Iron Mountain, examines some of the data and information management issues surrounding the European Commission's...
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July - Featuring
Editor's Comment:After what feels like an interminable build-up - and more than a few false starts - I am delighted to be able to finally announce that the DM Awards 2016 is ...
E-forms: are you missing a trick?
Advances in electronic forms could offer significant benefits to organisations trying to remove...
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June - Featuring
Editor's Comment:According to a fascinating Analysis piece in this issue of our e-Newsletter (‘Smart MFPS on the rise), barely a third of European companies are planning for a ‘digital world’ - despite more and more...
Taking capture step by step
Ashley Keil, Sales Director at ibml, argues in favour of a multi-step approach to transactional scanning processes
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May - Featuring
Editor's Comment:We find ourselves, as this e-newsletter is being prepared for distribution, on the verge of announcing the DM Awards 2016 - this will be the tenth year of our awards ceremony, and we have some big plans to mark this anniversary...
Signed, sealed, delivered
Contracts are a critical success factor in today's business environment, contributing...
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April - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Is your business wasting two months of every year because of inefficient document processes? It sounds absurd, but that is the finding of a recent IDC research study highlighted in our news pages in this issue...
Serving the next generation of ECM users
Delivering 'content in context' will be key for ECM businesses as a variety of factors...
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March - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Can it be true at last? Is the wider world really becoming aware of the benefits of going paper-free, after so many years of the phrase seeming like a ‘holy grail’ to the DM/ECM industry?...
Agents of change
The insurance industry is undergoing a 'digital transformation', says Sabine Holocher...
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February - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Operating on a fragmented scanning and document capture infrastructure is a stark reality for many enterprises today. Often companies have legacy scanning and capture solutions due to the purchase of point solutions by...
Time to change platform
Standardising on one platform for scanning and capture can reduce operational costs...
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January - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Our last e-newsletter of 2015 includes an interview with AIIM’s John Mancini, who always manages to articulate the direction of the industry in a way that makes for fascinating reading...
Evolve or die?
Records and Information Managers are struggling to survive in consumer focused businesses,...
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2015 eNewsletters
December - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Our first e-newsletter of 2016 includes news from Epson that suggests that we are still a long way from achieving the much-vaunted 'paperless workplace'. And despite the fact...
Outsourced DM is (nearly) always a good idea
EASY Software UK's Howard Frear believes that the move to outsource Document Management...
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November - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Another year, another hugely successful DM Awards at London's Hotel Russell: I have to thank everyone who attended as well as our own team behind the scenes for making it such a terrific event...
The big issue
Nik Stanbridge, VP Marketing, Arkivum argues that many enterprises simply do not fully...
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October - Featuring
Editor's Comment:It is not often that an article in Document Manager is split into two parts, but that is what we've had to do in order to accommodate 'The smarter way to work', which begins...
Five ways to transform financial services applications
Dan Lucarini of ibml suggests five 'transformative benefits' of intelligent document...
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September - Featuring
Editor's Comment:This issue of the DM magazine e-newsletter includes a heartfelt plea from EASY Software's Howard Frear to take a long hard look at how we all use email...
EDRM in health care: the next step
Use of established technologies to solve patient information problems in NHS Trusts is viable...
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August - Featuring
Editor's Comment:By the time you read this edition of our e-newsletter, voting will be open for this year's DM Award winners - it really doesn't seem like nearly a year since the last event! The finalists have been announced...
The patient approach
The UK government continues to press for a paperless NHS, but Dr Vijay Magon of CCube Solutions...
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July - Featuring
Editor's Comment:This issue of our e-Newsletter includes a fascinating and timely reminder from EASY Software's Howard Frear that, while we within our industry tend to assume that everybody...
No time to relax
Document management is still not on everyone's 'Must-Have' list, argues Howard Frear, Director of Sales and Marketing, EASY Software UK.
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June - Featuring
Editor's Comment:It doesn't seem like any time at all since I was last donning my cummerbund and cuff-links for the 2014 DM Awards, yet here I am announcing the dates for this year's voting....
Meta is better
Understanding the importance of metadata is crucial for 'next generation' Information Management...
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May - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Multi-channel capture is a phrase that has been bandied around for a number of years now, ever since business leaders realised that there is as much useful....
Anytime, anyplace, anywhere
Markus Pichler, Director of Solutions at ABBYY, discusses the growth of compliance-led multi-channel capture processes
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April - Featuring
Editor's Comment:The biggest news in the industry as this edition of our newsletter is being finalised is the proposed acquisition of Kofax by Lexmark....
Preservation order
Compliance, by its very nature, can only go one way, but some companies still falsely believe that they can demonstrate after...
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March - Featuring
Editor's Comment:This issue of the DM e-newsletter contains some fascinating reading for anyone interested in the future of the sector: EASY Software's Howard Frear takes a look at the trends affecting the industry,...
Continental drift
As we look to 2015, asks Sabine Holocher of PFU, is it worth revisiting the question, 'Will Europe go completely paperless'?
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February - Featuring
Editor's Comment:One of the key items in this edition our our e-Newsletter is the 'Who's winning in the paper wars?' feature from our good friends at AIIM (www.aiim.org).The annual Paper Wars research...
Who's winning in the paper wars?
Hot on the heels of their recent 'Paper Wars 2014' research study, Doug Miles,...
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January - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the first Document Manager eNewsletter of 2015 - and many thanks to the many readers who took the time to contact us after our last edition with their thoughts...
Compliance - raising standards
Dr Vijay Magon, Managing Director of CCube Solutions, explains how regulatory...
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2014 eNewsletters
December - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the December issue of the Document Manager e-Newsletter, which as ever features a broad selection of editorial content covering the entire gamut of document/content...
Think big, start small
Bill Jones of ibml discusses the best approach to standardising on a single scan/capture platform...
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November - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to our November e-Newsletter, coming hot on the heels of last month's DM Awards 2014, which was our biggest and best night yet...
Growing pains
Tom Williams, Consultant Paediatrician at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (ABUHB)...
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October - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to our October e-Newsletter, which this month boasts an embarrassment of one-to-one interviews...
The vital asset for today's government, part 2
In the first of a two-part in-depth analysis, Sean Tang, Vice President of International Business at Laserfiche, summarises a recent white paper looking at ECM deployments in government functions
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September - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to our September e-Newsletter, which as ever covers a wide selection of DM/ECM-related topics...
More than just a scanner company
The PFU Fujitsu International Channel Conference (ICC) was originally intended to run over three years: 2014...
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August - Featuring
Editor's Comment:I want to begin with another reminder about this year's DM Awards: nominations are open now – go to www.dmawards.com to see the full list of categories and to let us know which products or companies you feel have gone the extra mile for your business this year.
Gathering intelligence
Ashley Keil of ibml describes how Big Data challenges can be addressed via Intelligent Document Recognition (IDR) technologies
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June - Featuring
Editor's Comment:The biggest news as this issue of the Document Manager newsletter was....
The Virtual Reality of Big Data
Scanning medical records can ensure the NHS makes best use of historic information - DM Magazine speaks to a selection of users....
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May - Featuring
Editor's Comment:This issue of the DM e-newsletter includes an in-depth report from the recent Kofax Transform event in San Diego....
The Virtual Reality of Big Data
Getting the best out of a SaaS approach should not mean putting all your eggs in one basket, argues Tony Cheung, CTO at EASY Software
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April - Featuring
Editor's Comment:More acquisitions in our news pages this month, as mailroom giants Neopost take over Data Capture Solutions (DCS)....
The Virtual Reality of Big Data
The true value of Big Data comes when it is transformed into Big Intelligence, argues Michiel von der Crone, Field Advisory Services Team Director, EMEA, CommVault
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March - Featuring
Editor's Comment:In recent weeks DM Magazine has been a guest at the annual conferences of both IRIS (in Brussels) and Kofax (in San Diego)...
Seven good reasons to automate Accounts Payable
The Accounts Payable process can be difficult to tame, but it is well worth the effort, explains Thomas S. Senger, Senior Vice President, EMEA Software & Solutions at Kofax
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February - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Perhaps the biggest news story at the moment (discounting flooding and the Winter Olympics!) is the newly announced merger between Dicom and Spigraph...
In praise of baby steps
Tony Cheung, Chief Technology Officer at EASY Software (UK) plc, explains why perfection shouldn't always be your target...
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January - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the first Document Manager e-newsletter of 2014 - our New Year's resolution is to continue to grow our readership after a phenomenally successful first year!...
Is SharePoint too IT-focused?
Doug Miles, Director of Market Intelligence for AIIM, the global community of information management professionals, looks at enterprise use of Microsoft SharePoint and asks 'Why is SharePoint still a DM solution driven mainly by the CIO?'...
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2013 eNewsletters
December - Featuring
Editor's Comment: So we approach the end of 2013, and the inevitable ‘looking back over the year’ begins. In the DM/ECM industry we’ve seen a surprisingly positive period, I’d say, in which businesses have increasingly recognised the ROI...
Going, going gone: How close are we to the paperless workplace?
IT vendors have been claiming since the 1990s that automation was about to make paper redundant for routine tasks. Doug Miles of AIIM's Market Intelligence division explores what business needs to do to make the paperless workplace a reality...
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November - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Another year, another DM Awards ceremony: it was great to see so many new and emerging technology companies in attendance at this year's event alongside the established 'big players' in the market...
Business as usual
Eastman Kodak in the USA announced in September that it was exiting 'Chapter 11' bankruptcy, and as part of that strategy the Document Imaging (and Personal Imaging) businesses were to be spun off to the UK Kodak Pension Plan as a new business entity, Kodak Alaris. DM Editor David Tyler finds out more...
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October - Featuring
Editor's Comment: This edition of the Document Manager newsletter comes hot on the heels of the DM Awards 2013, which saw nearly 200 of the industry's leading lights come together under one roof to celebrate all that is innovative and interesting...
Microsoft at the cloud tipping point
The SharePoint world is at a significant tipping point, argues John Mancini of AIIM: customers are moving into a hybrid world, with some organisations moving to the cloud, some sticking with on-premise and most opting for a hybrid solution...
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August - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the August edition of the Document Manager e-newsletter, where we are thinking big - Big Data, that is! Jeff Mills of Xenos Actuate offers an indispensable 'cut out and keep' Top Ten things to think about...
Expert ease
Dean Woolliscroft of Spigraph UK examines how organisations can maximise the value they get from the channel by exploiting their pool of solutions experts...
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July - Featuring
Editor's Comment: As we swelter in the intense heat (only occasionally relieved by torrential rain, as is usual for British Summertime!), it is hard to look ahead to October - but that is what we are doing right now at DM Magazine, as we are already...
Scan more, print less
Small businesses can save money by replacing their 'print and copy culture' with intelligent document scanning, according to a recent white paper produced on behalf of PFU Fujitsu. DM Magazine takes a closer look at the figures...
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June - Featuring
Editor's Comment: We have had an overwhelmingly positive response to our first edition; thank you to all those who took the time to let us know how much you liked it! If you have a colleague who would also find it relevant, do of course feel free...
Does EDM do what it says on the tin?
Do the benefits achieved as a result of implementing document management technologies actually match the intended aims set out beforehand? Howard Frear of EASY Software UK looks at the results of a recent survey of their worldwide customer base...
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May - Featuring
Editor's Comment: The document and content management industry is an ever-changing sector, and this is illustrated by two items in this, our first e-newsletter...
Hidden treasures
Using technology to discover and extract usable information from unstructured data is helping to realise tangible benefits for businesses across all sectors, explains Dr. Vijay Magon of CCube Solutions...
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April - Featuring
Editor's Comment: The document and content management industry is an ever-changing sector, and this is illustrated by two items in this, our first e-newsletter...
Finding a solution for lost documents
New office scanners from Xerox Documate range aim to reduce document losses...
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