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New KODAK i4000 Series Scanners champion process-driven document capture for businesses to improve efficiency and cut costs

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By Real_Wire - Posted on 01 March 2010

March 1, 2010 - Kodak today announced the launch of KODAK i4000 Series Scanners which are designed to help end-users, especially those in small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs), cost-effectively automate document capture and management. The new capture platform combines walk-up ease of use, one touch scanning, comprehensive software capabilities and simplified integration within new or existing document management processes to offer a complete information management solution.

The KODAK i4200 Scanner and KODAK i4600 Scanner will be available for demonstration along with the new KODAK Capture Pro Software version 2.5 (see separate press release) at CeBIT, stand E30 Hall 3 from March 2-6, 2010 in Hannover, Germany.

The i4000 Series Scanners compact, ergonomic design makes it easier for end-users to effectively integrate document capture into new and existing information-driven business processes. Kodak’s Smart Touch functionality allows digital documents to be sent to common destinations including e-mail, desktop applications, shared file locations and Microsoft SharePoint Server. The i4000 Series Scanners also provide flexible, dual-support for Kodak’s Perfect Page Image Processing Technology or Kofax VRS Software.

Nuxeo and metaLogic to showcase Lotus Notes migration tool at Lotusphere 2010

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By Bryan - Posted on 18 January 2010

BOSTON, January 18, 2010 -- Nuxeo, the Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) company, announced today that Galaxy partner metaLogic Consulting Inc. will showcase for the first time a Lotus Notes integration and migration software to the Nuxeo open source ECM platform. The metaLogic product will be available this spring. metaLogic brings deep content management expertise to its customer base and has more than 12 years experience as an IBM partner.

"Many companies are currently using Lotus Domino Document Manager, which has reached end of life. These companies have exciting opportunities to move to modern, interoperable ECM platforms," said Bruce Grant, president of metaLogic. "We've been building out solutions to address this transition problem for the past year. We believe that Nuxeo's offering is a great migration path for companies who want to migrate their information to a flexible, open, stable enterprise document management system."

People interested in reading more about IBM's plans around the Lotus Domino Document Manager can go to:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/dominodocumentmgr.

"Our partnership with metaLogic continues the Nuxeo strategy to stay close to market needs and be responsive to changing conditions in the ECM world," said Eric Barroca, CEO of Nuxeo. "We believe, as do our partners and customers, that Nuxeo's open source ECM platform is uniquely capable of providing the best alternative to companies looking for a flexible, production-class content management application platform."

Speed up customer service with Document management

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By in111 - Posted on 18 December 2009

The fast paced world of business requires you to move with it and keep up with the demands of customers who want everything immediately. This means that everything in your office must (if possible) be automated in order for your staff to act swiftly and efficiently.

One of the aspects of your business that you need to invest in to improve processes is document management. Manual ranking and filing of paper documents is time consuming and many business these days invest in electronic document management to help them efficiently manage their files and in turn act on customer demands speedily.

Electronic document management systems, such as those provided by Invu, is not only about instantly retrieving information but it also allows you to text search the actual body of a document together with the title. And what’s even better about it is that it actually highlights the search terms you need so you can go directly to the information you want-therefore saving time spent searching for documents especially when your in a hurry.

KnowledgeTree, SugarCRM and iNet Process Announce Integration

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By crossroadspr - Posted on 09 December 2009

Solution makes KnowledgeTree documents accessible from within SugarCRM

RALEIGH, NC — December 9, 2009 — KnowledgeTree®, an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) provider focusing on affordable document management software, SugarCRM, the world's leading provider of open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, and iNet Process, a European provider of ECM and CRM services, today announced the commercial release of iNetDocs, an application that enables seamless integration between KnowledgeTree and SugarCRM.

With iNetDocs, documents and folders in the KnowledgeTree repository can be searched, browsed and retrieved from within SugarCRM and attached to all of the main modules within the CRM application, including leads, opportunities, contacts and accounts. A tab in the SugarCRM interface acts as a window directly into the repository.

According to Lionel Fernandes, manager at iNet Process, “iNetDocs turns SugarCRM into a complete workspace for the busy CRM professional. It is now possible to conduct most of the day’s work without ever leaving the SugarCRM application. This integration ensures greater collaboration and compliance by incorporating document access and control right into CRM business processes.”

CMIS and SharePoint 2010 details are hard to find

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By Bryan - Posted on 27 July 2009

One would think it should not be so difficult to find information about the upcoming SharePoint 2010 and the features it will include. I have been especially interested in SharePoint and its inclusion of CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services). CMIS is an interoperability specification that will allow for compliant clients (such as Joomla! and Drupal) and repositories (such as SharePoint and Alfresco) to interoperate and share content across information silos. For the past few months, I've been keeping my eyes and ears open for any details on the status of Microsoft Sharepoint incorporating CMIS. Sadly, there is little information to be found.

Although Microsoft announced their support for CMIS in September 2008, there has been little word from Microsoft on when we'll see CMIS available for SharePoint users and whether CMIS will be incorporated into SharePoint 2010. Arbindo Chattopadhyay on his MSDN blog recently discussed the benefits of CMIS, but he was very tight lipped whether we'll be seeing CMIS in SharePoint 2010. In fact he doesn't think we'll be hearing much about CMIS in SharePoint until CMIS is out of draft form.

The ECM landscape improves with Alfresco Community Edition 3.2

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By Bryan - Posted on 07 July 2009

There is a real fear out there. A fear involving companies commercially supporting open source software and neglecting the "free" community version of their software. Fortunately for us, when looking for proof of this fear Alfresco is in the wrong direction to look. Alfresco Community Edition 3.2 brings so many new capabilities and improvements to the table that you can almost see the enterprise content management landscape brighten up.

Alfresco Community Edition logo“Lean times call for a lean, robust and inexpensive ECM system. Alfresco Community Edition 3.2 has been designed to reduce the cost of information handling while supporting corporate Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Management,” said John Newton, CTO, Alfresco Software. “Our aim has been to deliver a content services environment in which users can work the way they want, with the tools they want, enhancing productivity through workforce mobility and future proofing organizations’ content applications with CMIS.”

CMIS is an interoperability standard that will allow for compliant clients (such as Joomla! and Drupal) and repositories (such as SharePoint and Alfresco) to interoperate and share content across information silos. There are a lot of companies claiming to support interoperability, but it has been my observation that Alfresco is well ahead of the game when it comes to CMIS. Do a Google search for CMIS and you'll find Alfresco comes on top more often than not.

Drupal, meet Alfresco

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By Bryan - Posted on 24 February 2009

Dries Buytaert announced on his blog that a set of Drupal modules are available for integrating Drupal with Alfresco.

Alfresco and Optaros, in conjunction with Acquia, have made available a set of Drupal modules that integrate Drupal with Alfresco using the CMIS APIs. See the CMIS module and the CMIS Alfresco module on drupal.org.

As mentioned by Dries and Jeff Potts, this is a big deal for enterprise users who need access to a document/asset management system outside of Drupal.  The CMIS API is "vendor neutral" allowing for a path to integrate not only Drupal with Alfresco but other CMIS-compliant repositories.  As a Drupal fan who has been making efforts to introducing Drupal in the workplace, I find this news very exciting!

A lot of organizations like what they see in Drupal and do consider it as an option for use on their Intranet.  But these same organizations also have operational and administrative requirements for utilizing document management systems outside a Web CMS.  Even at my own workplace I have ran into roadblocks implementing Drupal on bigger projects due to our document and file management needs.