We classify documents as we classify our memories. For documents, we use categories like "Type of Document" (e.g., invoice, bank statement, contract, video presentation, etc.), "Date of Document," "Number... View More
The DOCUMENT Strategy Forum (DSF) is pleased to announce the addition of IBM as the official Enterprise Content Management Sponsor of DSF ’17, to be held on May 1-3, 2017 at the Downtown Marriott... View More
Business communications and commerce have been dependent, and still are, on the United States Postal Service (USPS), despite the rise of email, e-billing, and portals. In the face of declining mail volumes... View More
I am not sure if it was General Patton, Lee Iacocca, or Thomas Paine, but someone said, “Lead, follow, or get out of the way.” In any case, it’s time for customer experience (CX) thinking.... View More
In the collaboration space, and specifically in the unified communications and collaboration (UCC) market, we get so caught up on our own jargon, technical terms, naming conventions, and identifying categories... View More
SDL (LSE:SDL) announced two solutions for managing the complete global content lifecycle from creation through translation and delivery. The two revolutionary offerings, SDL Global Digital Experience Solution... View More
Xerox expanded its portfolio of Communication and Marketing Solutions, and enhanced its Document Transaction Processing Services. Both services help large enterprises better manage front- and back-end... View More
Eclipse Corporation and BCC Software announce a business partnership, providing additional value to customers of both products. Eclipse Corporation is a leading provider of enterprise document design,... View More
One of the big challenges for information governance professionals is getting buy-in from business stakeholders and sponsors for funding projects. Often, there is a perceived poor return on investment... View More
Importing a hard copy scan of purchase orders, invoices and receipts into applications like QuickBooks or Microsoft Office 365 can take multiple steps, several programs and a lot of time. This is especially... View More
"Friction loses sales, hurts customer service, causes frustration, results in complaints on social media, wastes time and money, and creates problems that shouldn’t have happened in the first place."
For enterprises looking to move to the cloud, or identifying if there is a need to remediate existing deployments, the difference between a successful assessment and an anemic one is the capability of... View More
During a workshop at a large corporation discussing the benefits of electronic document management (EDM), it was interesting to find that there were almost as many concepts of EDM as were people in the... View More
The chances are that if you’re reading this, you’re an experienced professional in your industry, and if you’re not, I’d wager strongly that you are probably are but in denial as... View More
Determining whether to shut down your internal print and mail operation and outsource to a print service provider can be a tough conversation—as opposed to keeping it in-house and potentially making... View More
Last month, I wrote about the need to dedicate resources for enterprise content management (ECM) in order to have a successful program attain rapid time‑to‑value. I wrote about the need for a center of... View More
Last time, I introduced the idea of employing a software as a service (SaaS) customer communications management (CCM) approach to meet the critical customer experience challenges that lie ahead in... View More
There are an ever-expanding number of ways to pay your bills. On a personal level, most of us attempt to use our credit cards (either to get cash back or earn points) or pay via online banking (to speedily... View More
The DOCUMENT Strategy Forum (DSF) is pleased to announce it will kick off its 2017 Conference with a Breakfast Keynote, featuring Forrester Vice President and Principal Analyst Craig Le Clair, titled,... View More
Are you in the cloud? Are you going to the cloud? Moving electronic content and its management to the cloud drives great benefits in terms of reducing information technology (IT) storage costs and support... View More
Test data strategy belongs in boardroom discussions, not buried in technical specifications. But here's what actually happens: executives assume IT has it handled, middle managers inherit whatever st
Despite their pivotal role in customer journeys, forms are still viewed by many organizations as operational overhead. In a digital-first era, that outdated view is a hidden drain on revenue and a gro
2026 isn’t a year of incremental improvements in customer communications. It’s the year AI stops assisting and starts acting, and for CCM practitioners
The current state of AI document processing follows a recognizable pattern. An organization crafts a prompt — often quite sophisticated with detailed instructions and examples — passes it to a lar
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