Protected: Preserving Policy Settings in SharePoint
October 25, 2011
Protected: Watch Your SharePoint Practices
October 24, 2011
Brainware Holds Dominion over Paper to Bits
October 22, 2011
Old Dominion Freight Lines, a leading motor freight carrier saw a large increase in shipments and in tonnage in the last quarter of 2010. This put a significant amount of stress on the accounts receivable (AR) process at the company. Even if employees were doing good work, they were starting to get backed up, risking cutting off customers who had paid on time but whose accounts just hadn’t been attended to yet. Business Finance’s article, “Touchless AR Processing Boosts Productivity,” tells us more about the company’s solution:
Old Dominion’s answer was to automate receivables processing by implementing software called ‘Brainware Distiller for Remittances.’ Brainware specializes in intelligent data capture and enterprise search solutions to help large organizations rapidly process large volumes of documents and retrieve data from across the enterprise. Brainware Distiller validates information against known data sources in an organization’s information systems.
Since the implementation of the automated AR, Old Dominion has boosted productivity by 500 percent. They can now avoid more irritated customers, but the processing staff was cut from eight to two and processes more work than ever possible with their old system. The process has been a valuable change to the company’s productivity, but at the cost of more job cuts. Is this the best solution in today’s economic crisis? May continue to be a win-lose situation for most businesses and individuals. If Brainware continues with its back office wins, maybe Oracle will buy another search vendor. Never too many search systems is the old saying at Oracle and OpenText.
Andrea Hayden, October 22, 2011
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Protected: Avoid SharePoint Burnout With Efficient Planning
October 21, 2011
More Apple i Pain
October 20, 2011
Users Report Syncing Issues When Using Apple’s iCloudAfter much anticipation, Apple’s iCloud http://www.apple.com/icloud/, a wireless storage unit for your music, photos, and other documents, is now available to users of the company’s products and services.
Don Reislinger from Channel Insider http://www.channelinsider.com/ has come out with an informative slide show, revealing the “Ten Things You Need to Know About iCloud”.
In addition to having many other nifty qualities, Reislinger said of the iCloud:
Syncing reigns supreme. Whether it’s music, applications, iBooks, or documents, users will find that iCloud automatically syncs their content across their devices. It might seem like a simple addition, but considering how difficult (and annoying) it has been to add content to multiple devices, the service’s syncing feature is a welcome addition.
Unfortunately, according to Apple Insider, the documents and data syncing feature has proven problematic for some users, who said that their files were unexpectedly deleted.
Documents created on one device, be it in Pages or Keynote, are there for awhile, and then when you go back, you can literally see iCloud delete them in front of you.
For those who are frustrated with the iCloud’s teething issues, take a look at Polyspot’s or Blossom Software’s approach. Both firms “do” the cloud in interesting ways and avoid what appear to be Apple pits on the forest floor.
There are stable cloud platforms. We find it interesting that coincident with Apple’s earning downturn, other problems are cropping up. Will Apple’s woes drive customers to Amazon, despite the company’s flawed search system? Worth watching.
Jasmine Ashton, October 20, 2011
Freebie…Yes, believe it.
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Protected: Give Your SharePoint Documents an ID Card
October 20, 2011
D&B Rolls Out D&B Direct
October 19, 2011
After promising last August to help Salesforce build Data.com, a relational database management system, into a service that fills the gaps created by crowdsourcing, Dun & Bradstreet announced, on October 4, that they are building in a new direction, launching a Web Services API called D&B Direct.
D&B Direct is a new application programming interface which makes it possible to access D&B’s business information from any application or platform. The goal is to allow clients to use their own applications to utilize live, professionally researched data on the world’s businesses.
According to the ReadWrite Hack article, Dun & Bradstreet on the Value of Researched vs. Crowdsourced Data Mike Sabin, vice president of sales and marketing solutions for D&B said:
D&B has built out this infrastructure that allows us to identify companies, track them over time, link pieces of data to those companies, and put them in the broader context of their corporate hierarchies, so that you can see the entire picture. I think being able to use those things as ‘coat hangers,’ if you will, on which you can hang additional pieces of information, becomes very important with the coming explosion of data that everybody’s seeing down the pike.
Having applications that can make high value content available for decision makers is a pied piper offering. We still think this technology needs expert human analysts and information professionals to use those promising platforms.
Jasmine Ashton, October 19, 2011
Cloud Computing: With More Options Come More Risks and More Innovation to Combat Potential Issues
October 19, 2011
We all know two of the main concerns involving anything enterprise are security and reliability. These important issues fueled the article What to Do If Your Social Cloud Provider Pulls the Plug, posted by the IBM-sponsored site Internet Evolution.
The article discusses the importance of diversifying in order to minimize risks. Maria Korolov, the author and President of Trombly International, states:
One solution I proposed…was for corporations to set up hybrid clouds – using a private company-owned, behind-the-firewall cloud as an add-on for when you suddenly need more capacity, or as a backup for your own facilities.
Unfortunately many social networking companies don’t allow the exportation of contacts or other secure information, so backing it up via private storage is not possible. She offers some sound advice for alternative ideas.
While I was reading this article, I thought of PolySpot, a company specializing in decision-powered infrastructure and apps, which provides a solution on par with the level of circumspect the author of this article proposes is necessary.
PolySpot can interact with the cloud, create a mirror, and process your content for decisions. Basically, you get the benefit of free and public with the security of an enterprise innovator.
Megan Feil, October 18, 2011
Protected: Make Excel Excel in SharePoint
October 19, 2011
Protected: Survey: SharePoint at Work with Some Surprises
October 18, 2011
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