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04.10.08 -- Enterprise Content Management Fundamentals

April 10, 2008

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Featured Articles
Capture, Index, Access: The Paperless Office Provides Centralized Intelligence For Small Businesses
By Laurel Sanders, Optical Image Technology, Inc.

Every business, regardless of its size, needs to have a solid understanding of its customers and business-related documents in order to make good decisions. Unfortunately, business owners don't have a central intelligence agency to provide insightful advice or enable management to make proactive, informed decisions.



Explore ECM Software Opportunities
"ECM [enterprise content management] continues to be the hottest sector of the software industry," says HK Bain, CEO of Digitech. The challenge (and the opportunity) lies in determining how to best manage all that content and what outside factors influence how that content is handled.

ECM: Understanding ECM, What It Can Do For You, And Justifying The Cost
Enterprise content management (ECM) has been among the fastest-growing sectors in technology for more than five years. The drivers continue to be on the rise in this compliance and regulatory environment, and return on investment (ROI) can easily be demonstrated. Why then is it still so difficult to gain buy-in and board approvals for ECM initiatives? According to the AIIM ECM Industry Watch in 2007, 29% of respondents indicated justifying the investment and gaining board approval was the biggest challenge; 28% said planning/managing the implementation and change management were the biggest challenge. Let's explore why that is and the best way to address these issues.

A 15-Minute Guide To Service-Oriented Architecture And ECM
Today's IT executive struggles with enterprise environments that are complex, inflexible, and expensive to maintain. In this post-dot-com world, there's also increased pressure for IT departments to deliver quantifiable business results. But with tight IT budgets, increased regulation, global competition, and rapid technology change, those results can be hard to come by. To meet the competitive demands of ever-changing environments, organizations need to leverage IT resources more effectively without increasing their IT-related spending.

Top News Stories
KODAK Scan Station 120EX With Digitech Systems, Inc. Software Advances Enterprise Content Management Capabilities For Customers
DocuLex Provides Instant Document Access With Archive Studio 4 Document Management Software Update
Thunderhead Strengthens Lead In Interactive, Real-Time Communications
InMage Systems Announces Support For Microsoft Windows SharePoint Service
Canon U.S.A. And Sepialine Introduce Advanced Accounting For Canon Large Format Printers
Featured Products
Clearview 4 — ECM Suite
Clearview brings an exciting, new Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution built specifically for Microsoft® technology and application environments.
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BancTec IntelliScan SDS
The IntelliScan SDS is the latest addition to BancTec's line of high-volume production scanners. The IntelliScan SDS delivers price performance for multi-purpose page scanning applications in either centralized or distributed environments.
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Daybreak eCapture Suite: Data Capture
eCapture for EMC Documentum is a distributed document capture application that enables users in disparate environments to scan documents directly to selected EMC Documentum content repositories in one step, from a single interface.
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Fujitsu fi-6000NS Color Duplex Network Scanner
The Fujitsu fi-6000NS Network Scanner is the first scanner that combines the intuitive, easy installation of a desktop scanner with the productivity of a network scanner.
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Featured Download
A 15-Minute Guide To Enterprise Content Management
Enterprise content management is the category of software that helps you manage all of the unstructured information in your enterprise. ECM helps you create content with common desktop applications and easy-to-use content authoring templates. Download this white paper to learn more about enterprise content management and how this concept can help you gain control over your paper.
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