June 7 2010
Each e-discovery step overlaps with compliance objectives and involves many disparate groups of people, sets of data and parallel processes. This process is marked by collaborative problems, expanding... View More
June 2 2010
In my first column, we established that the design of customer communication documents (including paper, web, SMS, etc.) is always about people — managers, project teams, internal stakeholders, end... View More
May 25 2010
The divide between "enterprise content management suite" platform vendors and more specialized document management product suppliers is becoming more pronounced in 2010, giving buyers more choices to address... View More
May 20 2010
Two years ago, in the hopes of being able to watch a "College Girls Gone Wild" video, Matthew White of Sacramento, CA, downloaded a file from Limewire.com that turned out to be child-porn. White immediately... View More
May 19 2010
Avoid Making a Rash Purchase: Portal server technology isn't right for every project. Internal IT and external web teams should work together to evaluate the investment benefits. Align with Existing... View More
May 18 2010
According to news reports, in March 2010, Facebook was the most visited website in the US, having more visits than Google for the first time. This announcement heralds the arrival of social networks. Celent... View More
May 13 2010
Whether you are a fan or foe, believer or naysayer, the mantra of the paperless office is still here and, to a degree, getting louder. This fact brings a couple of questions to mind: First, what is driving... View More
May 6 2010
At the recent 13th Annual Toner Printing Conference, sponsored by the Information Management Institute, a number of speakers presented analysis of the markets served by toner-based printing. The trend... View More
May 5 2010
I read that the chief economist of Moody's Economy.com has proclaimed that the recession is over. And in January, Forrester Research said that the tech recession was "unofficially over," predicting that... View More
April 29 2010
"If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near." - Jack Welch Change and innovation in our industry used to come from within. For instance, engine manufacturers... View More
April 22 2010
InfoTrends' 2008-2013 forecast for the US document outsourcing market continues to bring perspective to the ever-evolving market space. The full report included actual and forecasted revenues across the... View More
April 21 2010
Create a Formal Needs Assessment: Understand how reliant on paper you are — internally as well as for customer communications. Establish Specific Goals to be Addressed: Understand what your organization... View More
April 15 2010
Warmth is finally returning to the country and to the enterprise content and records management (ECRM) market. For vendors and end users, this means turning their attention to industry trends, new technologies... View More
April 14 2010
I've always loved the last scene in Revenge of the Nerds when the Nerd fraternity wins the Greek Olympics by playing an outrageous techno number — complete with a laser lightshow, amazing choreography... View More
April 8 2010
Holistically, business process management (BPM) is a means to study, identify, change and monitor business processes. It includes techniques, methods and technology to improve and align business processes... View More
April 6 2010
I'm sure you're like me and have been receiving a ton of credit notifications through the mail in the recent month, so I decided to review the new regulations governing the credit card industry. I stepped... View More
March 31 2010
Producing bills, statements and other transactional documents was one of the earliest applications of high-volume digital printing and today remains an important market for digital providers. INTERQUEST... View More
March 30 2010
Recently, we've been receiving an increased number of inquiries regarding ways to improve the customer experience, whether through hard copy, electronic or personal touch points. While most questions have... View More
March 24 2010
Ralph Brown, a famous trademark lawyer, emphasized that trademark law should stress the use of trademark as an "informative" and "signaling" function that efficiently communicates useful information to... View More
March 22 2010
The term "capture" covers the combined processes of document scanning, image correction, recognition of text, barcodes and form fields and, finally, output to an appropriate format for subsequent processing... View More