excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 99% Confusion in the heartland Summary: I'm supposed to meet a certain Pretty Big End User at AIIM. The Pretty Big End User wants to "pick my brain." Well, one of the possible vendors to Pretty Big End User somehow got wind of this meeting and called me. Possible Vendor asked. It's doing so with the best of intentions. 89% Editorial 10-21-96 Her left foot Summary: Her left foot. She gave me her left foot. "No honey, that's your left foot." "No, it's my RIGHT foot." "No, sorry, it's your left foot." 86% Notes from the road Summary: Publishing a magazine like this is kind of mysterious to most of you, since you've probably never done it before. I have about 45 minutes to write this editorial before I catch a plane. Microsoft has always been sort of in the periphery of my vision--always in the papers, always in conversation. Microsoft couldn't care less if we sold enterprise-wide Solitaire. This is good news. 84% Industry in the mirror Summary: "Despite some success stories, there are a lot of reasons to say that imaging is on more of a decline than an upswing. Clearly, these technologies have had an impact on imaging, but we have seen it more in the document management space. You could also say that even as imaging becomes more mass market, there have been other impacts from neighboring technologies. COLD is a technology that has a leg... 83% But who exactly is TED SMITH? Summary: But Ted Smith's history is anything but "low-key." Something else is working here. If you have something, they want to take it away from you. Does that tell you something about Ted Smith?" Actually, he probably doesn't expect everybody to be happy, although that would be nice. 82% 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% Power vs. philosophy: the conflicting strategies of FileNet and Cornerstone Summary: Power vs. philosophy: the conflicting strategies of FileNet and Cornerstone. The differences between Cornerstone and FileNet can be described as a clash of power vs. philosophy--FileNet has the power and Cornerstone has the philosophy. Power vs. 81% Maturing market clarifies document capture choi Summary: "We saw that there were a lot of places to get equipment, and lots of companies that wanted the technology, but most system integrators and VARs were doing enterprise systems," he says. "But there weren't that many people in between, doing departmental systems." Where Cornerstone comes in, she says, is when the user wants to do unique things with its systems. The veteran of the three, the company... 81% Forms Processing: Grab Value From Automated Data Entry Summary: FORMS PROCESSING. "Forms processing" is pig latin for "data entry"--automated data entry, actually. In that case, context wouldn't help much. But context can be enormously helpful if the data is alphanumeric. It can be argued that the ability to automate data entry from HCFA forms is a reliable yardstick for a product. 81% The blame game Summary: It's not that the industry's products can't do the job. They can--and do. What can FileNet--and the industry--do to combat those problems? "Was buying Watermark the right strategic thing for the company to do?" We have some excellent products and customers like them," Libit said. 81% InterTech plays with the big boys Eli Gruber, ... Summary: The goal: enterprisewide document management. It goes beyond document management and document imaging. EG: Document imaging and document management basically deal with files. EG: DocuPACT 3.0 is the first software that was developed from the ground up for NT and integrated document management and document imaging. We would like to have a VAR that has some knowledge of document imaging and... 80% 1996 the year in review Summary: This turned out to be a nightmare­on the good days. Wang ascends ... to somewhere. Long-term impact: Not to worry. Long-term impact: CDIA is just too good an idea to flop, and it won't. Long-term impact: The virtual potential here is so great that it's hard to figure out where to start. 80% A radical suggestion Summary: To trust a teacher. 80% Users rank their document management Summary: their document. management. on document management. Albright's vision of the document management future: "It will be even more important than it is now." Bisaccia has strong feelings about the future of document management: "Document management systems are the future of computing. 79% Web searching: It's a text thing Summary: com.com.com.com.com. 79% The Buzz 4-21-97 Summary: Imaging World, April 21st, 1997. Talking alliance turkey. "It would make sense for FileNet and NCR to talk," Ray observes with the tone of a man who knows more than he says. Two cases in point: FileNet and Documentum. "Are Wang and FileNet worth the same?" 79% 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. 79% Lest we forget: Where have all the users gone? Summary: The information and image management industry has about a zillion. * What should we be doing about industry consolidation? Consolidation is all the rage. While the vendor side of OUR industry may be consolidating (i. In short, WE, the industry, need to reinvent a role for information managers. 79% Thoughts for the new year Summary: Thoughts for the new year. It does serve to humble us (well some of us, anyway) and to remind us what we're in this information-providing business to do. Customers: own your solutions technology. My own group's installation of new technology is a humbling reminder about how sloppy we can become in the information and service transaction side of our businesses. This isn't just about technology,... 78% Document Management Summary: The hurricane is the "intranet phenomenon." * Intranets have created "document middleware." Document middleware. The intrusion of middleware is certainly the most esoteric but perhaps also the most profound effect of intranets on document systems. New buyers.
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