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Document Scanning Services to Green Your Business - Imaging Services Blog

 

Check out the Feb 3 post on the Imaging Services Blog by clicking on 4 Ways Document Scanning Services Can Help You Green Your Business.

It provides a good look at the basic ways that document imaging can help your business become a better corporate citizen.

Quick Tips Blog Names eCopy One of the 5 Best

Guest post by Rifat Rahn. Do you know which are the best Document Imaging Software? Document imaging is not something new. Copiers, fax machines and microfilming all involved imaging paper documents, with different objectives. What is comparatively new is converting paper documents into full-fledged electronic documents to integrate them into the electronic workflow.

via www.quickonlinetips.com

Above is the beginning of a post from the Quick Online Tips blog. Guest blogger Rifat Rahn selected eCopy as one of the top 5 document imaging software systems. See the post, which also names Nuance partner Laserfiche as a top 5 pick, at Quick Online Tips.

Automating Document Processes Presentation at Lyra Symposium

Ed Schmid, Nuance vice president and founder of eCopy, will be presenting the keynote at the 2010 Lyra Imaging Symposium on January 26. Ed will be discussing the topic of bringing advanced document imaging technologies typically found in production capture systems to the average office worker through MFPs.

I thought I'd give Document Imaging Blog readers an advanced look at his presentation. It is embedded below. If you would like a copy of this presentation in PowerPoint format with the notes section so that you can read what Ed will say, e-mail me at bill dot brikiatis at nuance dot com. Just put "send preso" in the subject line and I'll bounce it right back to you.

Lyra Symposium Ed Schmid Keynote

 

Nuance Acquisition of eCopy

It has been an exciting week here, as Nuance Communications, a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, announced that they have acquired us. The combination results in a product set and organization that are complementary, expanding Nuance's imaging portfolio with the eCopy ShareScan, ScanStation and PaperWorks product lines, strengthening our mutual MFP vendor and channel partnerships, and enhancing our channel sales, training and support resources in North America, Europe and Asia.

 

The eCopy and Nuance management teams have already begun to work together on integration plans, and we will be reaching out to our partners and customers throughout the process. There are a few items that we can share with you immediately:

 

1. Nuance is committed to the full line of products from both companies

The eCopy and Nuance products are complementary, and Nuance is committed to the full line of eCopy products, including ShareScan, ScanStation and PaperWorks.

 

2. Nuance is committed to eCopy customers, MFP partners and channel partners

All of your eCopy and Nuance contacts remain unchanged, and can be reached through their existing email and phone numbers. The eCopy web site and support resources are also unchanged. 

 

3. Nuance is committed to a strong, combined organization

eCopy has developed an excellent team, with great products and great sales, sales support and online resources, all of which are highly valued by Nuance.  Throughout the integration process we will insure that we can maintain the high levels of product quality and service that eCopy customers and partners need to be successful.

 

Below are a couple of links to some of the initial industry commentary in the blogosphere about the acquisition. And please drop a comment to us here if you would like to weigh in.

InfoTrends InfoBlog

Xerox – Future of Documents

What Works for Distributed Capture

Check out the short article online in Infonomics Magazine providing four tips for using multifunction peripherals and scan to pdf software for distributed capture. The article was written by yours truly.

What Works for Distributed Capture

http://www.aiim.org/capture/infonomics/what-works-distributed-capture.aspx

eWeek Article on Document Imaging and Microsoft Apps

Many organizations struggle with how to best integrate document imaging technologies with their Microsoft applications. A recently published article in eWeek by eCopy's Ed White covers the critical considerations when marrying document imaging with Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, Access and SQL Server. The three-part article is a must read for IT managers implementing document scanning in conjunction with Microsoft technologies. You can read the article by clicking here.

Centralized Versus Distributed Capture at EMC World

As distributed capture gains in popularity, more and more organizations are asking: Should we implement centralized or distributed document imaging or both.

EMC's Captiva product marketing manager Bill Galushia was seeking to help organizations answer this question with a customer panel at EMC World today.

Panelists from Conseco and Eaton Vance, two firms that provide financial services, provided their guidance on why they decided to use both types of capture.

Panelist Patti Bishop, assistant vice president of mutual fund operations for Eaton Vance, revealed that her company decided to invest in decentralized capture because the content being captured is completely unstructured. Often she needed the document owners to characterize the document to get the right process started. After all, who knows more about the documents than the document owners.

Bishop is certainly doing it right at Eaton Vance. She is saving 30 - 35% by bringing document imaging in house and she has increased the number of pages being captured by 200%. She has accomplished this, in part, by using EMC Captiva InputAccel with eCopy software at her MFPs.

LinkedIn Document Imaging Group Reaches 2,000 Members

The Document Imaging Group on LinkedIn recently reached a major milestone, surpassing the 2,000 member mark. The Group is the companion social networking group to this Blog.

eCopy created the Group to help people involved in the document imaging market to expand professional relationships for business and employment opportunities. You can join the Group by clicking here.

Whitepaper: Distributed Capture Platforms

EMC has sponsored a whitepaper that looks at how to improve business processes in decentralized work environments through the use of distributed document capture. Jarad Carleton from the industry analyst firm Frost & Sullivan wrote the whitepaper, which outlines the steps organizations should take to capture documents from remote sites using MFPs.

The whitepaper covers automated document classification, extraction and validation of data, as well as delivering documents and data to central content repositories and business applications. It also reviews how EMC Captiva and eCopy work together to address distributed capture requirements at remote offices. You can read the whitepaper here.

Improving paper-intensive business processes

We’ve just completed a new paper on improving paper-intensive business processes. Among the topics covered is how integrating document imaging with the systems underlying BPM, and performing document scanning at the front-end of business processes, organizations can develop a bridge between the paper work and the electronic work that improved productivity and enables continuous improvement of business processes.

 

Enterprise software applications that drive document-centric workflows — such as enterprise content management (ECM) applications, enterprise resource planning (ERP), manufacturing, and human resources applications — are all strong candidates for most organizations seeking to automate BPM and reduce enterprise dependency on paper- based processes. While BPM tools model, monitor, analyze,
and drive business processes, it is the business applications that both execute the steps within the processes, and that contain and manage the content and data. Cross-platform document imaging solutions provide the necessary integration points to include paper-based information into the electronic workflows managed by BPM suites.

 

   

 

 

Additionally, the paper includes an overview of some of the typical business problems caused by paper-based processes and discovery questions that can be used to identify these problems. Clearly, identifying and dealing with paper is only one step in process improvement. But without addressing paper-based processes, any BPM initiative will leave a large process improvement opportunity on the table.