Today, smartphones, laptops and removable media provide opportunities for businesses to increase productivity by transforming a workplace formerly constricted by office location and core hours to one where...
In our world of content technologies, we are at a point where current technology offerings considerably lag behind the needs and expectations of the buyer. A particularly obvious example is in the area...
This past year has taught all of us a lot about ourselves, the way we run our businesses and the true relationship we have with our customers. In a golden age of excess, businesses have let go of efficiency...
With advancements in digital print technologies and an increasing number of success cases for color in transactional and TransPromo documents, one could argue that the case has been made for digital color....
The opportunity is right under our noses. Today's content, document and process management technologies already allow us to communicate with millions of our customers in more engaging and reader-friendly...
Whether you believe Web 2.0 is a significant departure from the original web or merely a logical evolution of the tools that built Web 1.0, as Tim Berners-Lee (the guy behind the WWW) believes, these emerging...
Outsourcing has been one of the most talked-about business topics in 2009. With the current recession, companies are continuing to reduce costs, eliminate overhead and streamline operations with an eye...
The high-tech approaches of fighting spam vary widely. The most sophisticated anti-virus, antispyware and anti-spam software programs employ algorithms that attack spam from a broad, structural perspective,...
Only a few years ago, the idea of mobile content management was a novelty; today, it is mainstream. The basics of the technology, such as smartphones, have been available for a number of years, but the...
The magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) market is proving to be tremendously resilient in the face of daunting challenges. Despite declining check volumes around the world, millions of MICR documents...
Continuing its tradition in high-quality imaging devices and recognizing a growing need for portable and mobile image capture solutions, Canon U.S.A. Inc., a leader in digital imaging and office solutions,...
Summer has come and gone, and economic conditions seem marginally better than they were when I wrote my February column (I think the terminology is "less worse"). To survive the recession, most companies...
The Importance of Integrity and Flexibility Imagine the scenario where the CIO reviews the long-term goals of the IT organization and outlines an initiative to develop business intelligence (BI) architecture...
Stop Retrenching. Strike instead. Historically, economic downturns show winners don't retrench out of fear, but strike early. Think Strategy, Not Tactics. Make sure you know how to outmaneuver the competition...
In the words of Tom Friedman, "The world is flat." Globalization of business, the movement toward distributed teams and the increasing number of people working from home is a fact of life. This profoundly...
Part 1 of Mr. Krishna's column dealt with the 'acquire' and 'serve' sections of the customer life cycle with in-depth analysis of microsites and social media (read part 1). Part 2 cinches up the cycle...
Keeping track of our financial affairs is a challenge at the best of times. Bills, statements, notices and letters from the bank seem to fly through the letter slot with dizzying frequency and in no particular...
A true transactional Automated Document Factory (ADF) integrates all elements of an ADF (Input; Transformation and Integrated Output; Delivery Preparation; Control and Reporting; Document Design and Content...
Kofax plc (LSE: KFX), the leading provider of document driven business process automation solutions, announced a new release of its Document Exchange Server software which, with this release, is being...
The document creation process has improved, as both hardware and software products have become more sophisticated and feature-rich. The advances in new software and more cost-effective color printers have...
Generative AI (GenAI) is set to revolutionize the Customer Communications Management (CCM) industry, driving profound changes in how businesses interact with their customers