excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 100% 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 89% 40 companies to watch in 1997 Summary: They are: R.E. Ray Edwards, Apex D.E. Dan Elam, IMERGE B. T.S. Robert Smallwood, Image Associates S. 85% 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... 84% IDC study says Web dreams coming true A report... Summary: IDC study says Web dreams coming true. Based on the IDC report, the market for electronic document management solutions grew to 208,025 users by the end of 1996. Current Web products' abilities range from full access through a browser to view-only access. The report weighs these products' functionality two ways: Web-enabled--those with full browser functionality; and Web-accessible--those... 83% The Buzz 3-3-97 Summary: 1 Buzz in which we questioned her scanner industry forecast numbers. A proper analyst would just throw the dart and stand behind it." There is a new generation of document management vendors coming out with Web-based products. One of them is IntraNet Solutions (Eden Prairie, MN). Just wondering. 83% 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.... 81% 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... 80% Medical Records Institute hosts Opryland confer Summary: Imaging World, April 7th, 1997. Medical Records Institute hosts Opryland conference. The Medical Records Institute (Newton, MA) hosts an annual conference spotlighting electronic patient records that promote electronic health records as part of a patient information system. The "Thirteenth International Symposium on the Creation of Electronic Health Record Systems and Global Conference on... 80% ExtraNets Summary: Counsel Connect may be the largest and oldest existing extranet. Workflow on extranets. Pricing document management software for extranets is a big concern for vendors. "You can't do that with extranets." For its part, PC-DOCS has gone with per-user pricing. 79% MostImportantProds96 Summary: The most important products of 1996 (so far). Lava Systems' Lava 4.3 release has all three functions available in one software product. Its indexing module creates pointers to any kind of document the same way it creates pointers to scanned images. It's 4.6 GB, 5.25 inches and is rewritable! It was available before, but this year it has really turned into a full-function product. 79% 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... 79% Recent research reports: encouraging, surprisin Summary: With companies that are experiencing a CAGR of more than 50%, the numbers these two research firms are reporting are old news in a dynamic industry.) 2. They measure company revenue, not DM revenue. This is comparing apples to oranges. 4. They measure different companies. Again, apples to oranges. 79% 1997 predictions for the future Summary: management." The downside was that custom client software had to be distributed to all users. We want to take advantage of this dynamic new computing environment!" The new document The new document is a rich, multimedia vehicle. The new technology really works. 77% The biggest mistake for VARs (and VAR salespe... Summary: The existing sales staff can sell imaging and just call in the specialist for doing the deal. It is true that your existing sales staff has many good clients that might be good imaging prospects. They do not have the ability to qualify good imaging prospects, so they end up calling out the new imaging specialist on every deal. Many of those deals are not imaging prospects at all. Build a strong,... 77% 50 who make a difference Summary: Delphi Consulting Group. Imerge Consulting. Wang. Arthur Gingrande, IMERGE Consulting 13. William Stratigos, Wang 40. 77% large-format capture Color brightens the sca... Summary: CalComp 800-932-1212 www.calcomp.SGI-scanners. Feeder scanners offer a maximum resolution up to 400 dpi. It is suitable for use in high volume production environments. 77% Internet imaging--an incipient art Summary: Internet imaging--an incipient art. ActiveX is Microsoft's new development tool for writing applications in Visual Basic. They have to be ActiveX-compliant, but many applications are or will be. At ImagingExpo there was more talk about Internet imaging than actual products being demonstrated. It uses Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) to store and retrieve documents through the Internet. 77% Optical makes mass-market play...at last Summary: Optical makes mass-market play. The SYS.230 Universal ($390) and SYS.230 SCSI ($360) are lightweight optical products designed to store hundreds of images. "We have driven down the price of optical storage," says Olympus Marketing VP Bill Boles. According to optical storage expert Hal Glatzer, it's about time. Kempster says the market for portable storage ultimately will be "a matter of price,... 76% The Old Mouse Summary: Imaging World, June 1st, 1996 INDUSTRY SNAPSHOT. After 30 years, Engelbart's mouse has 100 million relatives. In 1963, Doug Engelbart, working at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) invented the mouse. Now, over 30 years later, Logitech (Fremont, CA) has selected a mouse from its SuzHou, China, plant to be its 100 millionth. Engelbart still holds the original patent on the device. 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....
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