excite for web servers found documents about: April 21st, 1997 - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 56% Seybold crossovers Summary: Imaging World, April 21st, 1997. Seybold crossovers. This year's Seybold Seminars follows right on the heels of AIIM during April 21st to 25th in New York. While Seybold shares technology topics and exhibitors that are important to the information management industry, major vendors told us they are showcasing their significant announcements at AIIM rather than Seybold. * Dataware (Cambridge, MA)... 54% Double-speed DVD Summary: Double-speed DVD. Hitachi's Storage Products Group (Brisbane, CA, 800-448-2244) has announced a double-speed DVD-ROM drive. "Systems designers and users who want maximum flexibility in optical storage can move to DVD drives immediately," said Werner Glinka, director of marketing for Hitachi's Storage Group. "They have a system compatible with the standards of today and tomorrow." The drive has... 54% Tucci says no to Novell Summary: Tucci says no to Novell. Wang (Billerica, MA) CEO Joseph Tucci was handed an $8 million thank you note from his board of directors following the $260 million sale of Wang's software unit to Eastman Kodak (Rochester, NY). Under the premise of a "retention bonus" because Tucci declined an offer to head Novell (Orem, UT), Wang acknowledges Tucci's role in the recent divestiture. Analysts speculate... 53% CD-ROM and DVD comparison Summary: Imaging World, April 21st, 1997 CD-ROM and DVD comparison Specifications CD-ROM DVD Disc diameter 120mm 120mm Disc thickness 1.2mm 1.2mm Disc structure single substrate two bonded .6mm substrates Laser wavelength 780 nms--infrared 650 nms and 635 nms (red) Numerical aperture .45 .60 Track pitch 1.6 microns .74 micron Shortest pit length .83 micron .4 micron Reference speed 1.2 msec constant linear... 52% The latest news in ... DVD technology Summary: The latest news in ... DVD technology. DVD has first appeared--as expected--in the entertainment industry. As manufacturers bring out DVD recorders to play full-length feature films, expect to see production studios such as WOWdvd of WOW Digital Color (New York) begin to offer services. WOWdvd will be fully operational by May, but its services will not be exclusively devoted to entertainment... 52% What makes DVD compelling for users? Summary: What makes DVD compelling for users? Out of 1,199 respondents, 73% said that they would be compelled to buy a DVD-ROM drive if software other than movies or games was available on DVD-ROM discs. When faced with a list of 25 companies, the largest percentage of users (22%) said they would choose Sony (Park Ridge, NJ) if they were to buy a DVD-ROM drive today. The first in the DVD family of drives... 51% The Web at work Summary: Delphi Consulting (Boston) recently released its intranet survey findings resulting from interviews with more than 600 evaluators, implementers and developers of Web-supporting technologies. Delphi found that roughly 94% of the organizations surveyed were evaluating intranet technology or actively developing and deploying intranet applications (above). Delphi is offering a companion seminar to... 50% Jumping off a bridge to the 21st century Summary: Jumping off a bridge to the 21st century. Let's start with the paradigm shift. The operative word at Giga was economy, as in new economy, digital economy, or knowledge economy. We don't get too many of those new economies. The point is that the old rules don't apply in the new economy. 49% The Latest News in ... Grayscale Image Processi Summary: The Latest News in ... Grayscale Image Processing. Ralip Imaging (Minneapolis) has brought its grayscale image processing scanning solution to the United States. The company says it has designed the solution to be as easy to use as a copier. The solution will be ISIS-compatible in May. Start looking this summer for advanced grayscale image processing in check processing. 49% 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... 48% Solutions earn Giga gold Summary: Solutions earn Giga gold. Two of FileNet's customers, Bank of America's Credit Operations and Westinghouse's Energy Systems, were honored in the imaging category of the 1997 Giga Excellence Awards. The Credit Operations unit of Bank of America took home the Gold Award for its use of FileNet WorkFlo Business System software as the basis of a high-speed credit application document imaging system... 47% Watermark office to close Summary: Watermark office to close. By consolidating the operations, Libit says, "The company will save over time ... a considerable amount." It will eliminate some duplication between its development teams as a result of the consolidation. IDC's Scott McCready sheds no tears for Watermark. By moving to Costa Mesa and putting it under the tutelage of a Bruce Waddington." 47% CD storage option for CAD users Summary: CD storage option for CAD users. Specifically, the software offers content-based access to data within a CAD drawing. As demonstrated to IW, file contents are indexed while they are written to a CD. Drawings and their related files can be retrieved based on their content. When files are retrieved from a CD burned via CAD2CD, the images can be viewed without requiring AutoCAD. 47% MFPs of tomorrow The XionicsImagination Sto... Summary: It combines a chip from Xionics (Burlington, MA) and software from Imagination Software (Silver Spring, MD). Their devices are multidimensional, multifunctional products. How can the user make sense of a multidimensional device? How can the user upgrade or customize the imbedded applications? The answer may be a multidimensional chip to drive the device and multidimensional software to provide... 46% Larger screen in a smaller package Summary: Larger screen in a smaller package. Cornerstone super-focused on displays. display. "People want a large screen in a small package--this hits that head on," says Westrick. "It's a new class of display." 45% The Ohio Department of Transportation has sign... Summary: It's added more than 70 licenses to its installation. Drawings, schematics and documentation will be available instantly online to employees on the factory floor. Marathon Oil Company (Houston) has purchased Cimage's (Irvine, CA) document management software and supporting services. The county encompasses 1,300 square miles serving 1.6 million residents. Page, drawing, roll film and color... 45% Deal Makers 4-21-97 Summary: Distribution agreement. A Unisys (Blue Bell, PA) sales program focusing on integrated document management solutions includes an agreement with Insci (Westborough, MA). New data storage technology. CACI a Keyfile reseller. Per a reseller agreement, CACI International (Arlington, VA) becomes a VAR and systems integrator for Keyfile (Nashua, NH). 44% Adobe and 20 vendors team for paper-to-Web so... Summary: Adobe and 20 vendors team. for paper-to-Web solutions. By Tony McKinley On March 31, Adobe Systems (San Jose) announced teaming arrangements with more than 20 vendors to capitalize on Acrobat Capture to bring paper documents to the Web. DOCUMENT CAPTURE. What's completely new and different about the announcement is that huge numbers of Adobe Acrobat users are already in place. 44% Communications company searches for technology... Summary: Imaging World, April 21st, 1997 Communications company searches for technology solution. COLD AND DOCUMENT IMAGING SUCCEED. The principal companies within TDS are: TDS Telecommunications Corp. "The project team was looking for a shelf-ware solution.. The solution. 44% AIIM's arrived--who will survive Summary: Imaging World, April 21st, 1997. AIIM's arrived--who will survive? The applications can be integrated with new and existing FileNet installations. "ImageBASIC for FileNet provides a comprehensive ability to customize and extend existing imaging systems and integrate image management services easily with other applications." The new VFD 16000 is a 12-in.
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