excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 99% Integration, vendor support key ingredients on Summary: Integration, vendor support key ingredients on users' plates. In the process, users gain better control over the entire population. Question 3: In general real-world applications, where does workflow work best? Question 6: How could vendors do a better job of selling imaging, workflow and document management? Brady wants vendors to make it easier for users, saying, "Vendors could do a better job... 88% AIIM NEWS Summary: AIIM NEWS. Over the past few years, AIIM has emerged as a unique show for the document systems industry--each year it is the one place where all of the diverse approaches to managing document information come together. Convergence.Document Manager at Documation in February. We won't see the full manifestation of the answer this year, but the question is finally in the air, and the vendors all... 86% Establishing a foundation for technology conv... Summary: technology convergence. The convergence of document and work process technologies is a hot topic. The ultimate goal of that convergence is to provide any user with access to any document from any desktop at any time. First, software components need to be interoperable. After closely examining the advantages, it is easy to see why convergence of document and work process technologies is such a... 86% OPINION The year nothing happened Summary: The year nothing happened. None of this happened, of course. Reason number two was the Web. More infrastructure investment. Next year we'll surely revel in The Year A Whole Lot Happened. 86% The Buzz 3-17-97 Summary: Don't shrink-wrap workflow management. "Workflow management can't be shrink-wrapped," he says. Document Manager, the Web-based document management groupware package that was scheduled for release Feb. The aforementioned Ian Campbell agrees, saying, "Document management and groupware are coming together. Campbell also has some interesting thoughts on the "dark side" of document management. 85% How good is your workflow Coalition thinks yo... Summary: The specification defines what information should be recorded by an engine during a workflow enactment. Further, the coalition defines a consistent format in which to display this information. WfMC believes that workflow users requesting audit information from an engine that conforms with the specification should receive the data in a consistent format. This data can serve as the foundation for a... 85% Why users are confused Summary: Why users are confused. "We've always been a 'what' industry in a 'how' market," observed one pundit gravely, with just the right blend of pithiness and inscrutability. Sure, users are confused. Users have every right to be. Or should I just wait? 85% Look ahead the universal server Summary: Look ahead: the universal server. "The most important thing is that the document platform be consistent with DBMS standards driven largely by existing business applications," says Silver. Dale, however, doesn't necessarily see the universal server (as touted by vendors) as the answer to filling in gaps in the document management and database market. "I'm not sure that I understand the question... 84% Making sense of a document- and data-based world Summary: Users typically need access to disparate documents and data. Some processes are document-intensive and only have secondary requirements for data. Some processes are data-intensive and only have an occasional need for documents. How does one make sense of the disparate world of data and documents? There are many other process rules that EDMS technology can potentially disrupt. 84% Application integration: An essential ingredient Summary: Additionally, there is a host of clinical data management applications that also merits tight integration. To be truly effective, workflow must be fully integrated with the system and its applications. In addition to having workflow integrated with the application, the workflow product should also be fully integrated with the database as well. Integrated workflow does not mean that the workflow... 83% Information as corporate asset Infologics' ER... Summary: information management processes. As most critical business documents were created in electronic form, they resided for a time in the document management system. However, it did not assign specific business values to the various documents being managed. A unified approach: How it works The value of a unified approach to managing all critical corporate information--both paper and electronic--is... 82% Getting the best bang for the buck With numer... Summary: With all of these conference choices, it's tough to know where to get the best bang for the buck. The BAI Conference is the combination of the BAI Image Conference, traditionally held in the fall, and the BAI Transaction Processing Conference, traditionally held in the spring. When BAI saw that there was too much duplication between its Image Conference and Transaction Processing Conference, it... 82% OPINION:Getting there from here Summary: Traditional imaging applications will be document-centric, not image-centric any more. In fact, there won't even be an "imaging market." And these are mostly still image-only systems; the "document-centric" users must work in other departments. Why isn't this enough to image-enable lending, claims and A/P applications? Why do the expensive, monolithic imaging systems still rule the market? 82% Jumping off a bridge to the 21st century Summary: Jumping off a bridge to the 21st century. Let's start with the paradigm shift. The operative word at Giga was economy, as in new economy, digital economy, or knowledge economy. We don't get too many of those new economies. The point is that the old rules don't apply in the new economy. 82% Unlocking the assets of legacy data Summary: OLAP is a concept more than a specific technology. Why are data warehouses a relatively recent development? It was possible, but problematic. * A company can completely separate business systems (OLTP operations) from data warehousing. Data warehousing supports the second strategy. 81% Why workflow users need BPR tools Summary: Why workflow users need BPR tools. Workflow vendors have for so long wrapped their software in the lingo of business process re-engineering that BPR and workflow software seem to be one and the same. Workflow users need these bridges if they want to translate task automation into business process improvement. Workflow software is an implementation technology, concerned with process automation... 81% A perspective on industry leadership Summary: A perspective on industry leadership. Two associations, AIIM and IMC, have clearly played a leadership role in our industry's growth and change over many decades. Today AIIM is the largest association representing our industry. The growth of the IMC exhibition and conference in Europe closely parallels industry growth. That market was estimated to grow to approximately $9.6 billion by 1998. 81% JBIG: A New FAX Standard? Summary: Group IV, however, proved very popular for the storage of scanned document images. They have Group IV for binary and JPEG for multibit grayscale or color." "Thus the JBIG Alliance promotes three-bit scanning as the grayscale standard for document images. There are no image-processing libraries that you can buy today that work on grayscale images. There are no OCR engines that you can buy today... 81% A look ahead document management interoperabi... Summary: Imaging World, January 1st, 1997 A look ahead: document management interoperability. The DMA succeeds at last. Especially when a market comprises relatively small vendors, none of whom has a predominant market share. DMA 1.0 in the context of other standards In the interest of swift time to market, the 1.0 spec leverages other standards like the Open Document Management API for interfacing with... 80% The Buzz 5-5-97 Summary: If you only judge the company by its Wall Street performance, you would probably think it is headed for the dumpster. He deserves all the credit in the world for his accomplishments, but sometimes a company just cries out for new leadership. Just a passing thought: Maybe FileNet should buy Diamond Head Software. Connections vary, sometimes dramatically. So what's driving the EDM/PDM vendors these...
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