excite for web servers found documents about: December 16th, 1996 - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 65% Building for the Future Summary: Adopt and implement document technology standards throughout your organization. Standards such as ODMA, DMA, and SGML ensure system and information interoperability, and they protect investment. Avoid the temptation to build a system around a product that's hot today--it may not be tomorrow. Focus on information, not on documents. Documents are snapshots of the information as it exists at a... 65% Web-based groupware Summary: Web-based groupware. EnterpriseWare D2 is a groupware system that enables the sharing of documents, knowledge, and ideas among work teams. Feith Systems (Ft. Washington, PA) first demonstrated its EnterpriseWare D2 and Marble Web products for Internet/intranet at ImagingExpo '96. Both Feith EnterpriseWare D2 and Marble are built on Oracle, Informix or Sybase SQL databases and Feith's TREE text... 64% Cyber-sales mean cyber-sales tax Internet shop... Summary: Cyber-sales mean cyber-sales tax. Internet shopping software developed to help. An Internet sales tax system that allows merchants to figure the appropriate sales tax for Internet transactions, regardless of jurisdiction, is available from Taxware (Salem, MA). "Merchants have discovered that calculating sales taxes on Internet purchases can be confusing," he explained. "Our Internet tax system... 62% Microsoft complies with ODMA task force API sp... Summary: Imaging World, December 16th, 1996. Microsoft complies with ODMA task force API specification. Microsoft's support of the ODMA specification marks an important step in the work of AIIM's ODMA Task Force, because it encourages software vendors to adopt open document management standards. "Microsoft supports the efforts of AIIM and its ODMA task force," said Dennis Tevlin, a Microsoft product... 62% SIGCAT gets CD gift from NSM, Smart Storage NS... Summary: SIGCAT gets CD gift from NSM, Smart Storage. NSM Jukebox (Bensenville, IL), and Smart Storage (Andover, MA) have presented a networked read/write CD solution to the SIGCAT Foundation (Special Interest Group on CD Applications & Technology, Chantilly, VA). "We're pleased to have these leading technologies from both NSM and Smart Storage on display at CIRC," said Jerry McFaul, president and... 62% 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... 62% 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... 60% New storage for digital flicks Summary: TRIADA has contracted with NTEC Media (Brandenburg, Germany) for a project expected to lead to the licensing of Ngram technology for movie and video archival. The new process would allow both extremely high compression ratios for archiving digitized movies, and high retrieval speeds. He characterized Ngram technology as unique worldwide. "The capabilities of Ngram to achieve high lossless... 60% Voice of the future Interactive voice respons... Summary: Interactive voice response. Many of the callers need basic information about their accounts, such as "when is my next payment due?" Most of those requests can be handled by the customers themselves, without an operator, using an innovative approach to information management. Information Management Consultants (IMC, McLean, VA) and Voicetek (Chelmsford, MA) worked together on an interactive voice... 58% Faster CD-R, enhanced MO drives highlight imag... Summary: Faster CD-R, enhanced MO drives highlight imaging at Comdex. Yamaha announced at Comdex (Las Vegas) that it will bring the world's fastest read/write CD-R to market. The Yamaha CDR400 writes at 4X and reads at 6X. Among its CD-RW drives, Ricoh's popular 2X/4X RO-1420C will feature a 2 MB buffer. Enhanced PD drive models with CD-ROM spin speeds of 6X and 8X are scheduled to ship in 1997. 57% Bottom Line 12-16-96 Summary: The quarterly figures compare to revenue of $264.2 million, and a net loss of $20.7 million in the same quarter a year ago. "We are particularly pleased to have completed the I-Net acquisition during the quarter," said Joe Tucci, Wang CEO. Further, the workflow and object management developer reports a net loss of $3.7 million for the quarter. These figures compare with revenue of $16 million and... 57% Apotex improves its regulatory submission pro... Summary: Apotex improves its regulatory submission processes. It now takes five-to-six hours, thanks to the use of Interleaf's electronic publishing and document management system. The company must submit all new products to various regulatory agencies for approvals, which requires lengthy and complex documentation. James Roser, senior systems analyst at Apotex, said the company chose Interleaf to... 57% Deal Makers 12-16-96 Summary: "We continue to work on a joint program with the customer to enhance the capabilities of these systems," said Dr. "We are pleased to be playing such a key role in the healthcare industry. "The alliance is a key part of our document strategy." The Postalsoft software creates personalized direct mail documents and processes printed forms. (MTI, Chanhassen, MN) to market CD-Recordable products. 57% OPINION By Craig LeClair COLD, Internet, and El Summary: COLD, Internet, and Electronic Commerce. To have a chance, electronic commerce had better present bills much like they are presented in the mail. Bills should be redesigned to accommodate both electronic and paper presentation. The future of COLD and electronic commerce. In my view, settlement will not require the original bill presentation. 57% The Buzz 12-16-96 Summary: AIIM partners with. What a great example for other AIIM chapters and universities to follow.aiim.org (AIIM Web site). Imaging, welcome back. 56% Excalibur goes after info glut Summary: * A graphical view of all information resources. RetrievalWare 6.0 incorporates a Hierarchy Knowledge Server, providing a unified, graphical view of any and all information assets. * Extended support for data sources throughout the enterprise. * Multiple language support. * Java-based development environment. 56% 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... 54% Thinning down Network computers may set the p... Summary: Network computers. the next computing model. There are objections to the NC paradigm. Oracle is preparing three applications. If they can change the corporate computing paradigm, Microsoft's hold on the software market is threatened. 53% 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... 53% Web software pricing...back to the future Summary: Web software pricing. In the client-server era, the price of a perpetual license to production software has been largely based on the number of users concurrently logged on to the server, an easily tracked and enforceable number that is generally accepted as a fair measure of user value. But the sudden demand for Web-based application access is now upsetting both the technological basis of that...
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