The world’s largest scanning device event ever – Dreamforce 2012

If you had to select from the list below what the world’s largest gathering of scanning technology would be, what would be your guess?  The AIIM conference The ARMA conference T... read more

Governance Gone! Wild!

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While to some the acronym, ‘GGW’ might conjure up beautiful visions of fancy tour buses traveling the country capturing everything in sight on video for the whole world to see (as long as you pay t... read more

Capture … with Confidence

Prelude:  I’ve included many screen prints in this post and there is a lot of detail that may be interesting to you.  Click the thumbnail images for a larger view. I wrote a story the other day... read more

Crossing the ECM/Capture Chasm – ‘This is the Renaissance’

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Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com CEO, has been famously quoted on his opinion of cloud computing in terms of saturation-point, as well as technology innovation, for a viable business model. “This i... read more

The beautification of the OSI Model with Document Imaging

I was recently taking some online courses on software development best-practices courtesy of Coursera.  In these courses they would use the phrase ‘beautiful code’ to describe well-written software... read more

Your killer SaaS app

Is your SaaS value proposition convincing enough without automatic data entry?   Imagine you’ve just created the next ‘killer’ Software as a Service (SaaS) app and you are absolutely convin... read more

Frankie-the-frustrated worker dealing with lack of direct Line of Business integration and Manual Data Entry

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For this particular blog post I would like to use a light-hearted approach to a major problem.  The problem is lost productivity and user frustration around populating data into Line of Business ap... read more

Big Data = Big Challenges = Big Opportunity

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Oh, my dear friend “Big Data”.  Oh, “Big Data” you are spawning a whole new industry.  “Big Data” you are reengineering the required skills of the stereotypical Information Technology (IT) speciali... read more

Building an effective capture solution – Part 3 of 3 (Storage/Business Policy/Workflow)

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Building an effective capture solution – Part 3 of 3 (Storage/Business Policy/Workflow)   The real value of capture is realized when the information extracted from images is used within a b... read more

Building an effective capture solution – Part 2 of 3 (Capture/Processing/Transformation)

Building an effective capture solution – Part 2 of 3 (Capture/Processing/Transformation)   Implementing capture software technology these days offers many new opportunities that simply were... read more

Building an effective capture solution – Part 1 of 3 (User Experience/Device/Interface)

Building an effective capture solution – Part 1 of 3 (User Experience/Device/Interface)   In this three part series of blog posts I would like to walk you through building a highly-effectiv... read more

Capture begins with process

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Capture begins with process As a prelude to an upcoming series of blog posts I will be posting on the topic of “Building an effective capture solution” I wanted to preface these posts and focus... read more

Getting the most out of your document capture solution (Multistream, color dropout for forms processing)

Leveraging an investment in scanning hardware and software should always be a priority.  Afterall, these are typically not cheap investments although the ROI can be outstanding if implemented prope... read more

Economies of scale: Cloud processing

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Economies of scale:  Cloud processing Document Capture technology has been available for many years and is a proven method to decrease operational costs and improve business efficiency.  Howeve... read more

Capture: The ideal application for Cloud

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Capture:  The ideal application for Cloud   As I was brainstorming on a topic to write for this blog, I was inspired by Bob Larrivee's latest AIIM community blog entitled "It Came From The ... read more

Demystifying Forms Processing and Data Capture

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Forms Processing is a proven technology that allows organizations of all sizes to benefit by improving efficiency and decreasing operational costs.  There are many case studies available online to ... read more

Contributing content via mobile – Ubiquitous Information Capture

Accessing content from mobile is certainly an undeniable trend as the proliferation of these devices continues within business organizations, as well as for personal use. One of the inherit issues ... read more

Trend towards Network Scanning

After a few false starts, and probably an industry getting ahead of itself, document scanner hardware vendors and document capture software vendors finally seem to grasp the opportunity of network ... read more

The SharePoint effect

'SharePoint is ubiquitous'. Ubiquitous (adj.) is defined as 'Being or seeming to be everywhere at the same time; omnipresent'. Microsoft has certainly invested heavily on marketing SharePoint, ... read more

Three significant trends we witnessed in the year 2010 that is changing the Document Capture landscape forever

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The ‘No Folder Zone’   Despite tremendous improvements in document capture technology and ease of use becoming more prevalent, the fact of the matter is that document capture is not totally... read more

Trends Towards Higher Resolution Scanning

Napster, MP3, YouTube, iPhone and MySpace. You may be asking yourself “what does this have to do with document scanning?” In reality, not much, other than large file sizes, however when we draw an ... read more

A "cloudy" future for document capture

Hearing a phrase such as "cloudy future" immediately conjures up bad thoughts and gloom-and-doom scenarios.  However, in the case of document capture "cloud computing" is bringing extremely positiv... read more

Document Capture from the user’s perspective

Sometimes it is not the technology itself that dictates either the success or failure of a particular technology.  I believe that the “user experience” helps drive adoption of a particular technolo... read more

The logic of document capture

Indexing, Metadata, Keyword, SharePoint, Capture, Scanner, Documents, ECM, Content Management What is wrong with the collection of words above?  Well, it’s a collection of terms that are closel... read more

Capturing Opportunity, Technology = Positivity

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I am very fortunate and blessed to be where I am now with my career in the document capture and enterprise content management (ECM) industry.  I would not probably have planned it this way but it h... read more