excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 100% Kalthoff finds PDM buyers reaching for their wallets Summary: (Posted: Thursday, April 3, 1997, 8:20 AM) According to the Kalthoff International (Cincinnati), purchasing initiatives for product data management (PDM) and engineering document management systems (EDMS) are underway in 47% of the industries that the company contacted. 100% 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... 93% Kalthoff Spring '97 conference highlights Summary: (Posted: Thursday, April 17, 1997, 8:07 AM) Attendees at the Kalthoff International Spring '97 User Forum learned that the Web is alive, growing and going--into business. 89% 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,... 88% As islands of document automation collide, engi Summary: Those systems focus on managing the company's bill of materials, product configuration and engineering change orders. There is a close integration between the PDM system and the company's ERP/MRP system that manages the production and inventory control process. The systems have a tight integration with the ERP/MRP system. It's the need to manage the many drawings and procedure and specification... 87% Allies market standards-based PDM software Summary: (Posted: Monday, April 7, 1997, 9:55 AM) 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. 86% 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... 86% Aircraft industry embraces EDM The integration... Summary: Imaging World, March 3rd, 1997 Aircraft industry embraces EDM. The integration of document management and engineering drawings is attaining a firm foothold in the manufacturing market. A critical sector within the manufacturing sphere is the aircraft industry. The following case studies explore the use of document management applications by Raytheon Corporate Jet and Learjet. Raytheon officials... 86% 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... 81% AIIM market report is good news Summary: (Posted: Thursday, April 10, 1997, 8:28 AM) AIIM's (Silver Spring, MD) pre-show release of its annual electronic imaging market report, prepared by Giga Information Group (Norwell, MA), is good news for the industry. 81% Networked document management Think globally,... Summary: For years we have had "enterprise document management systems" and "enterprisewide deployment." Documents for the whole company. Web technologies are also bringing document systems to new customers. The new markets. New buyers are coming into the market, and existing buyers are thinking about document systems in terms of their overall business. 78% Drawing a document technology roadmap Summary: document management and electronic delivery. Document management for authoring or delivery? Tools for communicating and coordinating are perhaps more important, too, since authoring is more collaborative than viewing or delivering documents. Standards impact document delivery and management at the document, application, and communications levels. They are also the systems of choice for Web-only... 78% Wang healthcare initiative eases physicians' pain Summary: Wang healthcare initiative eases physicians' pain.wang.com) has announced several new healthcare initiatives. The move is geared to improve healthcare providers' access to crucial medical and administrative documents. The initiatives include Web-enabled enhancement to Wang's Physicians' Workstation, the Wang Sole Source Healthcare Solution, and a strategic alliance with the computer technology... 77% Bentley finds a $95 million EDM Summary: Bentley finds a $95 million EDM. Its latest offering, TeamMate, integrates engineering and document workflow management with MicroStation software. Positioning its products against Intergraph's DM2 line, MicroStation is targeting the smaller installations. According to Dave Widdoes, product manager, MicroStation line scales from teams of five to 10 seats, up to tens of thousands of users.... 75% Market needs standards and education, AIIM stu... Summary: The report surveyed 756 vendors and users to gain insight into the trends affecting the selection, purchase and deployment of COLD and RDS systems. Lack of education was cited as the reason 38% of potential COLD users and 51% of potential RDS users gave for not installing the systems. While the vendors see the consumers' lack of information, potential users of both technologies cite the lack of... 75% 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. 74% Clark County bets on Image-X imaging and workflow Summary: (Posted: Tuesday, April 01, 1997, 12:07 AM) With a population of over one million, Nevada's Clark County, home to Las Vegas, is the fastest-growing county in the nation. As it migrates from a paper-based document system to an imaging system, Clark County has opted for a single vendor to provide the imaging and indexing software. The information systems department has selected a county-wide document imaging and workflow system from Image-X 74% Informative Graphics Summary: Myriad, the number-one viewer for EDMS, views, redlines, and plots more than 100 CAD (vector), raster, word processing, database and spreadsheet formats. Features include; multipage document viewing, side-by-side compare, consolidation, enhanced redlining tools, intelligent document API, ISO 9000 stamping, internet support and on-the-fly unzip. 74% IW Special Report From The Channel Summary: The users just don't know what they need." "I don't know of any vendor that does that well," he comments. Just as vendors are obliged to educate their resellers, so too are those resellers responsible for educating their users, the experts declare. * "Distributors are not set up to support software, and they end up in the middle between you and the vendor," says Johnson. Johnson believes good... 72% AIIM's pre-show release Summary: Imaging World, April 21st, 1997. Only 9% of the previous year's respondents had NT-based clients. This is expected to climb to 31% this year. Windows NT server installations are also expected to jump from 18% currently to 33% in 1997. Twelve percent of currently installed systems and 8% of planned systems were considered transaction processing systems, although 19% of current systems and 22% of...
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