excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 99% The Buzz 4-7-97 Summary: Joe says "They took a whole bunch of products, kluged them together and called it a suite. That doesn't work with a bunch of people who work with each other infrequently." * On extranets--"The momentum is picking up now that people know what they are." Comment one: "Duh." Comment two: The problem for FileNet is providing an integrated suite that really works. 84% News Shorts 3-3-97 Summary: Plasmon VARs check out Double-Checked. TASC allies with Sybase. Document management provider TASC (Reading, MA) has teamed up with Sybase (Emeryville, CA) to join TASC's COLD technology with the Sybase System 11 relational database. As a Sybase application partner, TASC will market and distribute Sybase products in conjunction with TASC-COLD. First Data takes Kodak's COM. 81% The Buzz 1-1-97 Summary: Nice Guy. By Bruce Hoard This month--The All-Good News Department. Looking for a comprehensive report on what's going on in the imaging, workflow document management and text retrieval markets? Nice idea, Mark Ruport. Another good, but belated idea. 81% The Buzz 3-17-97 Summary: Don't shrink-wrap workflow management. "Workflow management can't be shrink-wrapped," he says. Document Manager, the Web-based document management groupware package that was scheduled for release Feb. The aforementioned Ian Campbell agrees, saying, "Document management and groupware are coming together. Campbell also has some interesting thoughts on the "dark side" of document management. 80% The Buzz Summary: The Buzz. For better or for worse. Well, this joint FileNet-Novell software is currently available-IF you buy it with a FileNet server. "They're not even on our radar screen," the vendor claims. Or should someone get a better radar screen? 80% It's too hard. It's not hard enough. Stuck i... Summary: The Buzz. In the last issue, we posed the question, what's wrong with the CDIA (Certified Document Image Architect) program? According to Lynne Leahy, the exam is too vigorous. She believes there should be several levels of CDIA certification leading up to the full credential. Both Wasner and Leahy think the program will gain momentum in the near future. 79% 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. 78% The Buzz 4-21-97 Summary: Imaging World, April 21st, 1997. Talking alliance turkey. "It would make sense for FileNet and NCR to talk," Ray observes with the tone of a man who knows more than he says. Two cases in point: FileNet and Documentum. "Are Wang and FileNet worth the same?" 78% The Buzz Summary: Imaging World, September 1st, 1996 The Buzz. Caere, it was said, was heading south, and ViewStar wanted to go north, financially speaking. Well, for a company on its way down, Caere would seem to be surprisingly healthy. Hard to believe John wouldn't call The Buzz right up if he knew something. Wondering how much it costs to set up a Web site? 76% 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. 76% Big Blue picks Bluebird Summary: A software vendor marketing program (SVMP) signed with IBM (Armonk, NY) is a significant endorsement for Bluebird Systems (San Diego). IBM has obtained the rights to market Bluebird's imageABLE to IBM's customers. IBM will market imageABLE across a broader segment of industries-healthcare, finance, insurance and government. "ImageABLE is a topnotch product," he says. The agreement gives access... 75% Doculab's Certification Test Summary: Easy-to-use document management functionality. Docs Open 3.5 from PC Docs (Burlington, MA, 617-273-3800), provides document management, imaging and basic routing functionality, wrapped in a package that is easy to use and easy to deploy. Docs Open includes imaging functionality as part of the Docs Enterprise Suite. For basic workflow, Docs Open includes its own built-in routing functionality. 1.... 75% The Buzz 5-5-97 Summary: If you only judge the company by its Wall Street performance, you would probably think it is headed for the dumpster. He deserves all the credit in the world for his accomplishments, but sometimes a company just cries out for new leadership. Just a passing thought: Maybe FileNet should buy Diamond Head Software. Connections vary, sometimes dramatically. So what's driving the EDM/PDM vendors these... 74% The Buzz 11/18/96 Summary: Imaging World, November 18th, 1996 The Buzz. What's Wang saying? Is it just me, or is Wang effectively saying, "We think the imaging market sucks," by dickering with Kodakover the sale of its imaging business? I mean, how often does a market leader like Wang just decide to get out of that market in favor of other pursuits? Maybe Wang is on to something ... Back from the throes of bankruptcy dept. 74% The Buzz 2-3-97 AIIM board games Summary: AIIM board games. It's been awhile since FileNet has been thus represented. Maybe FileNet didn't feel a need to be there. AIIM board members serve three-year terms and pay all of their own expenses, so why shouldn't they say what's on their minds? "I see that as a good sign," he notes. 74% 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... 72% Imaging vendors join SAP to grab worldwide mark Summary: Imaging vendors join SAP to grab worldwide marketshare. FileNet (Costa Mesa), whose Document Warehouse product has been SAP certified for nearly two years, has just announced a special version--FileNet Document Warehouse for SAP for NT. With it, users can capture, process and store document images from R/3 business applications. The NT support brings the abilities of a powerful platform for... 72% Component Imaging Summary: Standalone applications and toolkits emerge. Those that sell a more standalone application approach are represented by Kofax and Cornerstone (San Jose). Cornerstone's Pixel Translations products fit more into the toolkit category. COMPONENT IMAGING MARKET. The market moves toward components. 69% For $260 million, Kodak enters imaging softwar... Summary: For $260 million, Kodak enters imaging software with a bang. By Bruce Hoard, IW executive editor Industry watchers largely agree that Kodak's $260 million purchase of Wang's software business is money well spent. In addition, Yockelson believes Kodak is better positioned to make the software business a success than was Wang. "Kodak is emotionally committed to the technology, where Wang was... 69% ImagingExpo'96: A world-class conference schedu Summary: Monday, September 30. Monday, September 30. Monday, September 30. Monday, September 30. 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