Quantum dots (Photo credit: Argonne National Laboratory)
Quantum extends storage scale with multi-petabyte size stores
By ECM Plus staff
ECM Plus +++ Storage behemoth Quantum is to expand its big data content offerings by integrating optimised object storage tech into new tiered-storage and management offerings, the corporation has stated. Continue reading
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YouGov survey finds a need for B2C businesses to be more responsive to their customers
By ECM Plus
ECM Plus +++ More than a tird of customers are abandning supplier due to poor customer service, according to a new poll by YouGov.
The Kofax-backed online research found that 35 percent of British adults stopped using a business within the last year due to poor levels of customer service. Continue reading
Filed under Business process automation (BPA), Business Process Management, Document archiving & retrieval, Document asset management, Document Automation, Document Management, Document scanning & imaging, Electronic Document Management & Delivery, Forms management, processing, eForms, OCR - Optical Character Recognition, Vendor News
Kofax conflab in London this week
EMEA Launch Event – Speedshop topics & questions for the Q&A Panel
There are just a few days to go before the Kofax Customer Connect event in London, and over the last week people have been voting on the topics they want to discuss during the afternoon speedshop sessions.
The three topics under discussion on the 19th Aprilwill be:
- Is the paperless office really a better place to be?
- BPM technology: interesting, but I need a solution to my problem. Stop selling and start helping?
- How can improving business processes increase customer longevity and profitability?
As well as the speedshops there will also be a live Q&A panel in the morning of the 19th. The panel includes Anthony Macciola, the Kofax CTO; Derek Miers, Forrester Analyst, John Newton, CIO of Alfresco and Anthony Murphy, former CIO of CICA.
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Kofax point of origination strategy expands reach of capture-enabled business process management
By PAUL QUIGLEY
ECM Plus +++ Kofax has just taken the wraps off what it calls the ‘Kofax Point of Origination’ strategy, aimed at accelerating the migration of capture from centralized, back office environments to the “point of origination” where customer interactions actually take place. Continue reading
Kofax goes Dutch
Arcadis opts for Kofax for accounts payable to Process to process 300,000 document invoices a year
By ECM Plus staff
ECM Plus +++ Dutch design and management firm has selected Kofax for its accounts payable automation system to implement Kofax Capture, Kofax Transformation Modules and Kofax VRS Elite to automate the processing of approximately 300,000 invoices it receives annually. Continue reading
The Church of England calls upon Perceptive
The Church of England replaces paper processes with Perceptive Software
By ECM Plus staff
ECM Plus +++ ECM and BPM bellwether Perceptive Software has just begun a project with the Church of England to streamline the selection process for candidates applying to join the Ordained Ministry.
According to the Church, the Ministry Division will replace its paper-based processes with an electronic system, integrated with its new HR and payroll systems.
Perceptive said the project is being completed in partnership with NorthgateArinso (NGA) using ImageNow from Perceptive. The initial application form, now web based with ImageNow eForm, and all supplementary information relating to the candidate, will be scanned, collated and securely stored in electronic applicant folders.
The Church said it hoped that a paper-based system will improve the sharing, management and security of all necessary documentation, throughout the rigorous selection process.
The Reverend Stephen Ferns who oversees the ordination selection process at the Church of England commented: “Every year the Ministry Division runs around 50 Bishops’ Advisory Panels and we assess 16 candidates at each Panel. Inevitably, this process generates a considerable amount of paperwork. We look forward to working with the new system and to the benefits and improvements it will bring.”
Perceptive said the system is now fully-integrated with ResourceLink Aurora, the integrated HR and payroll solution being implemented by NGA. Applicants that reach the interview stage are automatically passed to ResourceLink Aurora for an interview to be scheduled. Successful applicants can then be easily added to the payroll solution to form a complete process from beginning to end.
This project is a collaboration between Perceptive and NGA, which recently announced a seven-year contract to provide the Church of England with HR and Payroll for the 16,000 clergy and administrative staff across Britain.
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Newly-formed EUDCA to exhibit at conference for content relating to the data centre industry
By ECM Plus staff
ECM Plus +++ Data Centres 2012 (www.datacentres2012.com) to be held in Nice on the 23rd and 24th of May is to be the venue for the formal launch of a new European Data Centre Association
According to the Association, it will be exhibiting at the event, and is welcoming new members to meet there. Continue reading
MediaChase acquired
Acquisition accelerates delivery of e-Commerce and digital marketing solutions to improve customer experience
By ECM Plus staff
ECM Plus +++ EPiServer has acquired Mediachase, an e-commerce and collaboration software provider. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
According to the company, the deal will bring together its existing digital marketing capabilities with Mediachase’s e-commerce framework to meet next generation cross-channel needs for delivery to EPiServer’s partner and customer network. Continue reading
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CoreMedia launches new Web Content Management Solution for Media and Entertainment
By ECM Plus staff
ECM Plus +++ CoreMedia has launched a new software solution for the media and entertainment industries.
According to the company, CoreMedia Solution for Media and Entertainment boasts web content management for broadcasters, publishers and media portal providers to create and deliver highly optimised and contextual experiences for their online audiences. Continue reading
Filed under Content Management, WCM, Web Content Management
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Document behemoth grinds out progress against tough economic backdrop, sticks to acquisition plans
By ECM Plus Staff
ECM Plus +++ Document bellwether Kofax plc has just released it latest financial results for the quarter and six months ended December 31, 2011.
According to the company, total revenues grew by 3.7% to US$70 million, up from US$67.5 million for the previous year and for the six months up 5.2% to US$128.5 million from US$122.2 million in the previous year period. Continue reading
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ECM Plus Tech Labs
USB 2.0 Amplifier 5 meters – Model: 133-28
There is nothing more frustrating than trying to use a USB device somewhere in the office or home environment only to find that when the lead is longer than fifteen feet or so, about five metres, the signal degrades to such an extent that the receiving device and the host can no longer synchronise and communicate their datastream with each other. Continue reading
Filed under Enterprise Content Management
French connection
FRANCE 24 brings daily news to nation’s FreeviewHD on the Vision TV network
By ECM Plus Staff
ECM Plus +++ The French government-controlled news channel FRANCE 24 is now available in all British homes with compatible FreeviewHD-enabled televisions, broadcasting on the Vision TV Network.
It can be found on Channel 110. FRANCE 24 covers international current events providing the French perspective on world news. Continue reading
Colossus
New gallery for the rebuild of Colossus, the world’s first modern computer, gets underway
By ECM Plus Staff
ECM Plus +++ The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) located on Bletchley Park is creating a completely new gallery for its most famous exhibit: the rebuild of Colossus, the world’s first electronic, programmable computer. Anyone can play a part in helping to build the new gallery by sponsoring a valve on a virtual Colossus at www.colossusonline.org.
The new TNMOC gallery in historic Block H is on the spot where Colossus No 9 stood during the war and where the rebuild took place. Continue reading
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Digital sound just got that little bit clearer via ‘Lux Line’
Model: Sandberg SP/DIF digital cable – 504-24: Digital audio, music, primarily is a very subjective thing. Some people have ears like bats, others have cloth ears. From those who can hear a pin drop to those who are atonal as a lump of mud, the world is full of variance .
And so to review and, ostensibly, identical piece of wire is not a task for the faint-hearted. Continue reading
EngIish shopping centre in Stratford
Licence-free background music service MusicStream claims millions in saving for retailers
By ECM Plus Staff
ECM Plus +++ MusicStream, a royalty-free music operator has just launches a new service which boasts to be an exclusively rights-free digital background music service.
According to the company, the music and management control features have been designed specifically for retail, leisure and hospitality business use. Continue reading
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Model 133-66 – Portable storage and media creation takes to the road
By ECM Plus Tech Labs
Sandberg’s DVD Writer is a small, portable USB 2.0 device that is powered via the 5v supply from the Universal Serial Bus data channel, and only requires a standard USB data cable to operate.
The drive is slim and attractive, about the same dimension as a laotop’ in-built CD/DVD drive, and comes plug-and-play ready to roll. Continue reading
Filed under Enterprise Content Management
Apple: Working practices rotten to the core?
Apple factory abuses spark viral online campaign
By ECM Plus
ECM Plus +++ 140,000 people have joined up against Apple Corporation’s abuse of its outsourced workers in China, with user Mark Shields’ campaign on Change.org asking Apple to stop ongoing abuse of workers at iPod and iPad sweat-shop factory conditions in China.
The 140,000 people across the world have joined an explosive campaign on Change.org calling on Apple to protect workers who assemble Apple products from abuse, injury, and death. Continue reading
FSF gets smart in educational drive
GNU Project renews focus on free software in education
By ECM Plus Staff
ECM Plus +++ The GNU Project has just relaunched its worldwide volunteer-led effort to bring free software to educational institutions of all levels. The new effort is based at GNU.org
According to GNU, the newly-formed GNU Education Team is being led by Dora Scilipoti, an Italian free software activist and teacher. Continue reading
Filed under Industry News, Open Source
Supreme Court finds against Feds
Unanimous Supreme Court ensures Americans have protections from GPS surveillance – EFF amicus brief argued that government installation and use of GPS is a search
In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has confirmed that Americans have constitutional protections against GPS surveillance by law enforcement, holding in U.S. v. Jones that GPS tracking is a “search” under the Fourth Amendment. Continue reading
Zuckerberg's Facebook in hot water again
New Facebook ploy will ‘criminalize’ add-on service ‘hurts users and innovation’
By ECM Plus staff
ECM Plus +++ NEWS/San Francisco, CA – - The Electronic Frontier Foundation is urging a district court judge to block Facebook’s attempts to criminalize an add-on service that helped users aggregate all of their social networking data in one place.
According to the Foundation, an Internet entrepreneurial company called Power Ventures created a web-based tool to enable users to view information from different social networking accounts in the same browser window, enabling them to get a complete picture of what’s happening across various platforms. Continue reading
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DocAve platform extends management and governance for SharePoint 2010
By ECM Plus staff
ECM Plus +++ AvePoint has just released DocAve 6 enterprise-management platform for SharePoint governance.
According to the company, new in Version are increases in business productivity, reduces total cost of ownership, and IT assurance to enable security and compliance for enterprise content. Continue reading
Britannia on Plymouth Hoe
Hong Kong and England exchange would be good for future British prosperity as euro collapses
By PAUL QUIGLEY
ECM Plus +++ As Europe collapses under the strain of its top-heavy, over-debtedness and uber-bureaucratised idealism, the prospects for Britain are looking infinitely brighter in the light of recent exchange trade talks with the world’s second-largest economy, China.
Reports that the current British chancellor Osbourne is glad-handing the Chinese in the former British colony of Hong Kong comes as a welcome refrain for Britain’s social and economic prosperity, following the disintegration of the euro now taking place across the continent. Continue reading
Filed under Accounting, AIM - Alternative Investment Management, Analysis, Analytics & Metrics, Asset management, Capital Management, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Equity Capital Markets, Finance, GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance), Private Finance, Private Wealth, Reporting, Wealth Management
Eye on more M&A in data centre sector. Image: kevindean
Data centre M&A valued at over US$12.3 billion worldwide in 2011
By ECM Plus staff
ECM Plus +++ Mergers and acquisition activity in the datacentre sector for both businesses and property, generated more than US$12.3 billion in deal values globally in 2011.
The most active market is the USA followed by Britain and Australia, according to a review of finance and investment in the data centre sector, from research by consulting firm BroadGroup which assessed all publicly-available data across M&A and fund raising activity. Continue reading
Filed under Analysis, Data centres, Data storage, Enterprise Storage, Storage
CES show portends cost conundrums
No more gimmickry please, just give us the skinny
BY PAUL QUIGLEY
ECM Plus +++ Bullshitometers are very much in evidence at this year’s annual CES bash for boffins of all things tech gadget enslavement. Continue reading
Nashville, Tennessee, home of Gibson Guitars
Gibson acquires stake in Onkyo Japan and majority interest in Onkyo USA
By ECM Plus staff
ECM Plus +++ American musical instrument manufacturer Gibson Guitar has just inked a strategic partnership with Onkyo Corporation, the Japanese audio specialist.
According to the Nashville firm, Onkyo will give Gibson’s newly-formed pro audio division substantial technology resources. Continue reading
