excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 99% ISVs compete for desktop with Microsoft and L... Summary: ISVs compete for desktop with Microsoft and Lotus. Inevitably, as Lotus seeks to differentiate Notes from Exchange, Lotus has no alternative but to move up the application curve and offer capabilities such as forms, imaging, document management and, perhaps in the future, real workflow! After all, the alternative is for Lotus to compete on a price basis with Microsoft--that is clearly something... 96% Two giants battle over infrastructure Summary: Two giants battle over infrastructure. By moving up the application curve, Lotus and Microsoft (Redmond, WA) will create a market that is more document management-, forms software-, imaging- and workflow-aware. In our opinion the battle between Microsoft and Lotus is over infrastructure, and they are picking application features simply as a way to differentiate themselves from one another.... 90% OPINION: What Notes is not Summary: What Notes is not. Notes is a fantastic product--and getting better all the time--but its native power as a workflow tool won't KO its competition. A good example is the Document Library template, one of the sample apps that comes with Notes.g., composing or revising the document. In that sense, Notes is a workflow tool only in the same way that Visual Basic for Applications is. 89% Lotus introduces new Web-enabled EDM product ... Summary: Web-enabled EDM product. Lotus Development (Cambridge, MA) will unveil Domino. Based on the Lotus Domino interactive Web server, Domino. According to Linda Myers-Tierney of Myers-Tierney and Associates (Carlisle, MA), Domino is expected to help Lotus reposition Notes for the Web. Lotus, she says, is leveraging Domino's Web capabilities to provide an out-of-the-box, Web-enabled EDM product on... 88% Upping the ante in the groupware war Lotus arm... Summary: Lotus arms itself with Domino. Lotus positions Notes as infrastructure, combining a development environment with applications and electronic messaging. A majority of Notes users say they use Notes to manage documents, yet it has not technically been considered a document manager. Notes has a repository to hold documents, yet it lacks some key features required of document managers. New Lotus EDM... 87% Doculabs looks at ONEstone's ProZessware, a wor Summary: . Why groupware-based workflow? ProZessware's architecture uses four separate Lotus Notes databases: the Application database (client interface), the Organization Directory database for administration, the Process Definition database for all workflow definitions and the Design Repository database for storing information used by the ProZess Designer. Workflow designer. ProZessware's graphical... 83% The role of Microsoft, by Microsoft Summary: The role of Microsoft, by Microsoft. * Rich Noffsinger is the industry marketing manager for document management, imaging and workflow at Microsoft. E-mail richnoff@microsoft.com.microsoft. 83% Workflow software for groupware Summary: Keyflow is designed specifically for Microsoft Exchange. Keyflow actually provides two different client interfaces. By opening the work item from Exchange, the Response Task window is displayed, allowing the user to execute specific actions on that work item. Keyflow administration is equally simple. Keyflow only works on Microsoft Exchange. 82% Groupware titans, still powerful, no longer intimidating Summary: Groupware titans, still powerful, no longer intimidating. "We specifically decided not to come (into the U.S.) because of Microsoft and Lotus," said Grant Stivers, marketing director with TeamWare's distributor, Lexia (Reston, VA). As a former Lotus Notes business partner, Stivers is well-qualified to differentiate the TeamWare groupware products from its formidable competitors. Much of the... 82% No company is an island Summary: Wang also has a seat on Microsoft's ISV advisory council that no other imaging vendors have. jukeboxes. ViewStar was the first of the enterprise image and workflow vendors to forge a relationship with Microsoft and port its software to NT. Capture and component imaging. The hot area in storage is CD jukeboxes. 79% First stop One of the first stops has to be Fi... Summary: First stop. One of the first stops has to be FileNet. Another interesting stop has to be IBM--how many of them will be meeting for the first time at AIIM this year? Linda Kempster, Storage media specialist, IIT Research Institute, Lanham, MD. Linda Kempster, Storage media specialist, IIT Research Institute, Lanham, MD 78% Autodesk acquiring Softdeskagreement... Summary: Autodesk acquiring Softdesk. A merger agreement has been signed between Autodesk (San Rafael, CA) and one of its largest software developers--Softdesk (Henniker, NH). Pending approval of shareholders, Softdesk will be integrated into Autodesk's AEC market group for a one-time charge of approximately $11 million. The merger is consistent with Autodesk's strategy to bring AEC vertical market... 78% Imaging Expo'96 Turnout Summary: Imaging World, October 21st, 1996. IMAGING EXPO'96. "I expect to see strong sales for a TELEform/Watermark solution." Other responses to Cornerstone's dominance came from the display side. At this price, Matrox is ushering in a new era of non-premium prices for display solutions. 77% FTP package offers security for intranets,E-ma... Summary: FTP package offers security for intranets,E-mail, Web. The software is reportedly the first file-viewing utility to include Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 integration, PGP encryption for secure viewing, the ability to view Mime attachments, a server install and OLE target capabilities. With KEYview's integration into the Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator and many E-mail applications, users... 75% Kodak set to buy Wang's software Summary: Imaging World, October 21st, 1996 Kodak set to buy Wang's software. For Kodak, it's a missing piece, for Wang it's $$$ and focus. On the other hand, he continued, "Kodak may be offering a reasonable sum, which Wang can then turnaround and subsequently complete an acquisition of its own." David Yockelson, director of the Meta Group is skeptical, and hopes Kodak holds its offer below $200 million.... 74% Corporate intranets: revolution in progress Summary: Sixteen percent of all American companies have begun to use the technology. An intranet, then, is simply your own company's private Internet. Once an application has been installed on a Web server, everyone connected to it can call it up and use it. It uses the public Internet to link its private intranets into a wide area network. I would call that applications-centered computing," he said. 74% Scanner/Web/VAR Beats Summary: Intrafed continues on the scene. BancTec announced a distribution agreement with TextWare. The Web beat. "We believe that publishing on- and off-line go hand in hand on the Web and CD, and we believe that automating the process is critical to the success of the project." Now they are asking how to solve problems." 73% point,ctrpointAug96 Summary: I talk regularly with people in many companies who are trying to make multiple, interrelated decisions such as installing groupware, E-mail, workflow, document imaging, document management or e-forms at the same time that their IT infrastructure is shifting from Unix and OS/2 to NT and intranets. Many IS organizations are trying to implement the "best" IT infrastructure and select the "best"... 73% It's a done deal Eastman Software is born Summary: Eastman Software is born. MA) software business. The new unit will serve as a separate subsidiary under Kodak's Business Imaging Systems organization, bearing the name Eastman Software. "Eastman Software is a dumb name, especially when you consider that one of the world's most highly recognized brand names was available," said IDC's (Framingham, MA) Gerry Murray. Kodak has acquired Wang... 72% 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?
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