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Case Studies / White Papers

  • The State of Missouri’s Division of professional registration provides administrative support to professional licensing boards responsible for regulating the activities of nearly 400,000 customers representing 240 different professions. Its main challenges are: missing applications and supporting documents; lack of central storage and access to documents; no public access; processing delays; and suffering customer service. Missouri needed to speed processing and make electronic documents instantly available. A success story.
  • Organizations are constantly looking for ways to cut costs, but don’t realize that those cost cutting measures may also have positive environmental effects that can increase goodwill and shareholder value. Oracle Fusion Middleware solutions provide tremendous return on investment, but also make your organization more environmentally conscious or “green” by cutting the consumption of electricity, paper, fossil fuels, and the emission of greenhouse gases. To quantify these efforts, Oracle has created the Document Management Green Calculator. This online tool will enable you to see how your organization can effect environmental change by moving printed information online. This document will help explain the tool and provide background information on how these figures were determined.
  • The Oracle Document Management Green Calculator will enable you to see how your organization can effect environmental change by moving printed information online.
  • Organizations are constantly looking for ways to cut costs, but don’t realize that those cost cutting measures may also have positive environmental effects that can increase goodwill and shareholder value. This white paper details various examples of how companies can report to their shareholders, employees, and customers the impact they have had on the environment.


News & Information

  • As leading economic indicators continue to signal a global economic slowdown, companies are looking for effective steps to take – such as lowering costs and streamlining operations – in order to weather the storm and achieve a competitive edge in the eventual recovery. At the same time, recent industry research shows that businesses also want to be more environmentally responsible. There are several document management practices that can help companies reach both their environmental and cost-reduction goals.
  • In celebration of Earth Day, AIIM has released the top 6 reasons for organizations to immediately go green with ECM (Enterprise Content Management) technologies.
  • In this presentation by Craig Le Clair of Forrester, Mr Le Clair discusses how organizations can go green just by moving to Web-based transactions.
  • If your organization is thinking about finally embarking on that long-postponed document management resolution and are worried about the response of your boss, let me save you the time. Why struggle with information systems you know are nothing more than a glorified digital landfill? Help your management find the proper excuses to avoid cleaning up that landfill!

Industry Research

  • This survey of 456 end-users was conducted in July 2007. Half of the survey population was comprised of large organizations (>1000 employees). The remaining 50% was virtually evenly split between medium (101 – 1,000) and small organizations (1 – 100.)
  • High volume document archival: is ECM up to the job?

    The challenge many organizations face is how to digitally archive very high document volumes and make them quickly available to hundreds and thousands of end users, often located at geographically dispersed sites. This short report discusses the options and applications, and presents an unusual solution from Arquo Technologies.

  • Despite the importance of management (as part of enterprise content management), the front-end functionality—content capture—is fundamentally critical to any ECM system. Content capture is any tool, technique or technology that enables the digitization of content so that it can be managed in an ECM.



Preferred Solution Providers


  • Open Text
  • Oracle



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