Barcode technology was created in the 1940s and has really taken off in adoption rates ever since the 1970s. Today, it’s widely used in industries like retail, transportation, healthcare, logistics,... View More
Watch this short video with our Editor Allison Lloyd for this quick review of Gartner's 2015 Magic Quadrant for the CRM Customer Engagement Center and the trends for customer engagement... View More
When a vendor acquires another product and puts (vendors will say "integrate") that tool within an existing “suite,” it usually comes with a key side effect: overlapping features across multiple... View More
A lot has been written about how mail and electronic delivery can work together. A good example of this is mailing a customer an abbreviated catalog to entice the reader to go online to view the full product... View More
Recently, I took a breather in the United Kingdom (UK) for a few weeks, midway through the spring conference season that we often complain about but secretly really enjoy. Each conference season—both... View More
One of my favorite magazines is Architectural Digest. I like it because it portrays design as more than just creating something amazing. The designers featured in the magazine realize design is all about... View More
Rightsizing your printer fleet is a critical and a fundamental part of your outsourced managed print engagement. Ensuring that a company’s professionals have access to the devices they need to support... View More
Radical transformations in customer communication are underway in almost every industry segment. We heard it firsthand from insurers, banks, service providers, governments and utilities during the 2015... View More
One of the most important barriers to building and executing an enterprise-wide document strategy is how you define the word “document.” Last summer, we published a piece by John Knotts in... View More
The term customer communication management (CCM) has always been something of a misnomer in my mind—a cumbersome, 11-syllable phrase to describe composing and distributing bills, statements, policies... View More
Recently, a top headline in my local newspaper (yes, I said newspaper) announced that every student in the entire school district will have an iPad by next year. This might not be the "newest" topic, but... View More
With all the hype about Big Data and predictive analytics, we are seeing a plethora of technology providers tout how great their analytics capabilities are. Analytics is the new black! Predictive analytics... View More
If you are one of the more than 100 million customers who have purchased or licensed Microsoft SharePoint, you’ve probably adopted the platform to improve a spectrum of operations, ranging from optimizing... View More
Ferrari is a car manufacturer that, in recent years, has introduced its brand name to a lot of other products that have nothing to do with cars. Electronic document management (EDM) is not one of them,... View More
| #7 TOP READ — Not so many years ago, when you asked about enterprise content management (ECM), it was common to hear the words, “ECM is nice, but I do not consider it to be mission critical... View More
In a recent article for CMSWire titled "Office 365 is a Disaster Waiting to Happen," Joe Shepley states that Microsoft is helping new Office 365 clients to migrate their shared drive content to the Office... View More
When it comes to e-delivery, sometimes, I think the Postal Service is its own worst enemy. I recently met with a friend who is a large-volume mail processor. He is experiencing delivery delays and uncooperative... View More
EventEvolution Management Inc., producers of DOCUMENT Strategy Forum, is excited to announce that its 2015 Opening Keynote on Tuesday, May 12th at the Hyatt Regency, Greenwich, CT, will feature David Mario... View More
Customers are the lifeblood of any business. If a business fails to serve its customers well, the business itself will ultimately fail. It is this old wisdom that is driving businesses forward to invest... View More
I think it would be safe to say that most everyone in financial services, insurance, healthcare, utilities or any other industry vertical that needs to consistently communicate with its customers knows... View More
Generative AI (GenAI) is set to revolutionize the Customer Communications Management (CCM) industry, driving profound changes in how businesses interact with their customers