Joao Penha-Lopes

There are several challenges in the vendor invoice approval flow process to consider — from the data to be captured, from the invoices received to be sent to the ERP, to the flow conditions accordin

Paper, paper, paper… endless, nauseating and drowning waves of paper all over the place, on top of desks, in cardboard boxes inside closets, under desks, on top of the chairs of the meeting

A couple of months ago, we discussed the benefits of fusion teams in order to speed up the necessary digital transformation that COVID brought to the center stage

The so-called Full Stack Developer is a trending profession fuelled by a huge number of schools and academies dedicated to teach software development by writing lines of code with the keyboard, whose

Although “fusion” is becoming a catchy word and used across the board from sushi to sportswear, it should not be discarded just as a new thing to attract our attention

Most business looked smooth and dandy when Covid struck. As usual, the first reaction was hope that it would go away soon enough, and our thinking and business would not be affected. Well, Covid prove

Already back in 2002 one senior vice-president of Citibank stated that “we are a software business masquerading as a bank” . The power of software in terms of competitive advantage and even...

The lack of information technology (IT) professionals within the enterprise, the huge costs associated with professional services, and the lengthy amount of time invested in large implementations are all...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) makes its debut in May, and it will be big. For large companies, fines could reach up to four percent of annual global turnover for non-compliance. Many efforts...

A couple of years ago, I wrote about how people consider enterprise resource planning (ERP) to be the sexiest app on the block. Indeed, these are invaluable business tools, but that does not mean they're...

Today, business users want to reach a state of Nirvana where they can find the documents they need effortlessly. Well, I can assure you that you don't have to take meditation classes to achieve such a...

Elegance is something that can be used as a rule of thumb to evaluate the quality of a product or service. Usually, an effective product or service is elegant, though not all elegant products or services...

Let’s go back to the basics, since there is a high level of confusion around the concepts of information management, namely, the eternal relationship between data, information, and knowledge. Before...

There have been several very interesting articles published in this magazine concerning digital transformation (DX). I must confess that the more time I devote to the basic concept of digital transformation,...

A wise man once said, "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge." I routinely lead seminars, give keynote speeches, and even oversee project management within the...

Today, many structured and unstructured documents are being searched for business-critical information, or at the very least, people say that they should be searchable. This is important, but what makes...

A lot has been written about the benefits of enterprise content management (ECM). Although most of what I read is correct, it usually only shows a part of the whole subject. So, I wanted to clarify the...

Who doesn't face problems and issues when executing on any activity? From vacation travel to our kids' schools activities, to professional projects, to simply choosing a car, jumping from an idea to its...

We classify documents as we classify our memories. For documents, we use categories like "Type of Document" (e.g., invoice, bank statement, contract, video presentation, etc.), "Date of Document," "Number...

During a workshop at a large corporation discussing the benefits of electronic document management (EDM), it was interesting to find that there were almost as many concepts of EDM as were people in the...