excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 99% OPINION By Suneeth Nayak The forest and the tre Summary: When beginning a re-engineering project, tool selection is often the first and most important step. For the first-time re-engineering analyst, what the tool does, gets done, but what it doesn't do gets done late, at a higher cost. So, do you chuck the tool selection process? Dive right into the analysis, accepting the inevitable missteps and mistakes as part of the cost of re-engineering? The... 84% BUSINESS PROCESS RE- Summary: When planning for imaging and workflow--and the subsequent organizational makeover --management should carefully map the strategic benefit of the change and how it will be accomplished. Your application assessment will include an honest evaluation of your organization and your competition. The cost/benefit assessment. Abrams and Smith: When planning an imaging and workflow initiative and the... 81% Navigating the AIIM highway Conference roadmap... Summary: Navigating the AIIM highway. CONFERENCE ROADMAPS AND TRACKS. With 119 sessions, the AIIM '97 conference schedule is more than a Sunday drive in the country. First Imaging Project--A basic course in the technologies, terminology, managerial, technical and operational issues involved. User stories outline the specifics of various imaging implementation projects. 81% Reading the hard stuff....forms Summary: Column 4 always says "TO". recognition. Why isn't voting multiple recognition engines enough? Forms processing packages try to remove lines, since they confuse most OCR engines. Only Line Avoidance gets it right. 81% Forms processing A market takes shape As the... Summary: In fact, the paper forms industry now refers to itself as the forms and systems industry. The forms automation marketplace. Pricing: the new differentiator. There is also an annual maintenance fee of 15% of system cost. Prices vary. 80% Allies market standards-based PDM software Summary: Allies market standards-based PDM software. Enterprise document management provider PC Docs (Burlington, MA) and Agile Software (San Jose) have agreed to work together to provide information management solutions for manufacturing and engineering organizations. Using ODMA standards, the partners-based approach will provide manufacturing customers with an integrated solution to control, manage... 80% EDM/PDM Summary: Cost/benefit analysis. The costs associated with revising drawings are dependent on the method and solution used. * Increased value of paper drawings through integration with CAD and EDM/PDM tools. The overall benefit to organizations of scanning paper drawings is to increase the value of the company's most valued asset--information. The value of the drawings increases along with existing... 79% How to modernize your paper engineering drawings Summary: paper engineering drawings. CAD is the most productive environment in which to manage and modify engineering documents. Integrating these older designs into CAD has created two potential environments: hybrid raster CAD and vector CAD, which is the result of a raster-to-vector conversion. Substantial savings can also be realized in a managed revision process. CAD has already proven itself as a... 79% The Sales Link: Why Have A Method? Summary: Both can achieve results, but for either to work, a methodology must be followed. The spine embodies the three most important considerations with respect to each segment of the methodology.) The readiness review After this analysis, we conduct a readiness review, where we examine and document the current computing environment and the current application areas. Either way, the exercise is... 78% EDMPDM: An IW Summary: EDM--engineering document management--refers to managing all the documents and data used by engineers, while PDM--product data management, a newer manifestation--encompasses product-related data that originates with the engineer and makes links to other industrial systems. In mechanical engineering, for instance, where product data management is an essential part of the engineering database,... 77% When forms processing pays Summary: Forms processing pays for itself when there is a good "fit-to-function." Forms processing pays for itself when there is a good "fit-to-function." Forms processing pays when it is easy to fix errors. Full-context editing displays images of forms side by side with questionable data highlighted on the screen. This allows operators to view and edit questionable characters in the full context of... 77% Selecting an enterprise solution provider Summary: Now it's time to check the references the solution providers provided earlier. The following are examples of questions we ask a solution provider's references: * What process did you use to select the solution provider? * What other solution providers did you evaluate? Ask them open-ended questions about their experience with the system. Ask what the systems don't do, not just their capabilities. 76% Opinion & Editorial Summary: Imaging World, June 1st, 1996. More on SCS in July 1st's IW. Imaging is dead. But the world is changing. I do agree with you that some imagers won't thrive in the new world. 75% Project planning Part two (contingencies and ... Summary: Be prepared for objections and statements such as "It can't possibly take that long!" But the data must be presented in a manner that will be meaningful to your client. How do your estimates compare with similar, completed projects? Don't be surprised if your client objects to your estimates even after you have presented your case effectively. If you want to reduce the total estimate, you must... 75% Capturing your healthcare data Summary: Error type 1: A correct character that is flagged. Error type 2: A wrong character that is flagged. If the OCR/ICR gets a character wrong, you want it to tell you, so you can clean it up. Error type 3: A wrong character that is unflagged (substitution error). Error type 4: The original data is wrong. 75% CostJust_VARSuccess Summary: Cost justification. With trust established, cost justification can be the complete story and the closing tool for the sale. Supplies can be examined for cost savings. I do the cost analysis for them and become the instigator for the entire process. You can do the entire process on every sale. 74% RAID: A necessary requirement for today's networking Summary: But what is RAID? What is the difference between RAID levels and RAID vendors? The confusion would be overwhelming. But what is RAID? The confusion would be overwhelming. 74% The ROI formula: a great closing tool Summary: Imaging systems are sold to departmental managers and executives who own the business process. What happens when I do all that work and the prospect buys from someone else? executive summary-an overview of the main points of your proposal emphasizing the strong features of the technology (what it can do for the prospect) and how it will benefit the prospect;. benefits of proposed system-a... 74% Kalthoff finds PDM buyers reaching for their w... Summary: Kalthoff's research also shows an increasing number of companies in the later stages of system evaluation, a key indicator of the market's potential for growth. The buying index research data was compiled to identify active purchasing initiatives and buying cycle phases for PDM and EDMS software. Results showed that 423 sites reported having a PDM or EDMS purchasing initiative underway. Of the... 73% Don't sweat the small stuff Summary: ): "Don't give me more information; tell me what to do with the information I already have. It's not that important. What is important?) how important an imaging system is to them now that Flight 800 has met its horrible fate. Information seems to fall into three categories: stuff that's important and good; stuff that's important and bad; and stuff that's not important at all.
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