http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/ Gain knowledge on document management software, document imaging software, and enterprise content management software. en-us Copyright 2009, Ademero, Inc. Mon, 1 Mar 2010 16:45:00 GMT Mon, 1 Mar 2010 16:45:00 GMT http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.ademero.com/images/ademero-rss.gif 144 50 http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/ http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/twelve-things-you-should-know/retention.php Businesses retain documents not only for business-intelligence purposes but also for compliance requirements. Additionally, documents help prove any claims in a court of law if an issue goes to court. Mon, 1 Mar 2010 16:45:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/twelve-things-you-should-know/security.php Documents face threats of many kinds. Customer lists, sales-strategy reports, and detailed revenue statistics might fall into the hands of competitors. Confidential personal data given by customers and employees could be compromised leading to lawsuits. Because of these possibilities in today's world, the issue of document security should be a top concern. Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:40:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/twelve-things-you-should-know/imaging.php Document imaging is an essential requirement for streamlined business processes in both large enterprises and small businesses. Wed, 3 Feb 2010 12:20:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/twelve-things-you-should-know/indexing.php The speed of search engines that select documents matching your search query, from among billions of documents, might amaze you. The engines don't do this by going through every one of these billions of documents. Instead, they search the words you entered in an index already created, and display the documents that contain these words. Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:20:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/twelve-things-you-should-know/backup.php Backing up documents is a key disaster-recovery procedure. For a business that uses information technology in a major way, the data in its computers is of critical value. Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:20:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/twelve-things-you-should-know/storage.php Documents have to be stored for several purposes such as generating decision-support information, enforcing legal rights, complying with statutory requirements, and recording history. Tue, 8 Dec 2009 18:30:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/twelve-things-you-should-know/distribution.php Documents need to be distributed under very different contexts. The varying requirements can pose special problems and can also prove expensive if you're not a document-distribution company. Readability, security, unintended disclosure of protected information, and deliverability are some of the issues. Tue, 1 Dec 2009 15:05:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/twelve-things-you-should-know/archiving.php Archiving documents is a critical function of document management. It can save on costs, improve system performance, and prevent the business from landing in serious legal problems. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:25:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/twelve-things-you-should-know/data-capture.php Documents are created by capturing data, such as transactional data entry and scanning of paper documents. In today's business environment, documents are mostly electronic as these can improve workflow and processing objectives dramatically. There are many data-capture methods, and many can be automated. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:30:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/document-management/document-management-system.php A Document Management System (DMS) can be seen as a set of standardized practices that: Control the creation and authentication of documents, exercise version control where multiple versions of a document are maintained, manage storage of documents in a way that facilitates convenient retrieval of a particular document when needed... Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:05:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/document-management/paperless-office.php If you've wondered where the paperless office comes into the picture of green living or going green, here are some statistics. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/document-management/what-and-why.php A document management software system helps you manage the constantly accumulating volume of documents. Documents have a habit of proliferating in any business. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/document-management/solutions.php As in every other area, computers and software have also impacted document management practices. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/document-management/storage-retention.php Storage and retention of documents is a major document management issue. Documents need to be stored to meet different needs. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/document-management/organization.php As your business creates more and more documents, you face the document management issue of organizing these in a meaningful manner. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/document-management/retrieval.php Documents are available to be retrieved when needed. If they're never going to be retrieved, it would be a meaningless exercise to keep them, wasting space, man hours, and money. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/document-management/workflow.php In the context of documents, workflow means moving the documents. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/document-management/creation-and-collaboration.php Document creation involves creating an original document and subsequent changes to that document. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/document-management/security.php A security threat is the possibility that unauthorized persons could access your documents. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/document-management/policies.php You may have heard of the word 'policy' so often that you might have forgotten what it really signifies. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/document-management/data-recovery.php Most document management systems typically include continuing data protection features and some might even provide data recovery facilities. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/document-imaging/what-and-why.php Document imaging solutions are becoming increasingly popular as a content-capture method. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/document-imaging/business-significance.php A clear idea of what document imaging means needs to be developed. It's not just scanning a paper document to create its digital image. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/document-imaging/more-than-scanning.php Scanning paper documents into digital images is what we think of when we hear digital document imaging. However, digital document imaging involves additional processing before the image becomes useful content. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/document-imaging/software.php While hardware devices like the CCD (Charge-Coupled Device) in the scanner sense the light information from the scanned document, it's document-imaging software like scanner software that does most of the work. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/document-imaging/capturing-paper-and-other-content.php The basic function of a document imaging systems is to capture content. It can even replace data entry under certain conditions. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/document-imaging/scanners.php What the basic document imaging scanner does is capture the red-green-blue light information from a scanned document. This information is then saved by the scanner software in a standard graphic format file, such as a JPEG file. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/document-imaging/scanning-paper.php Document imaging via scanning transforms the status of paper documents in a business. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/document-imaging/processing-content.php Document imaging and processing go together. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/document-imaging/storage-requirements.php Document imaging and storage requirements are indeed related. Once the documents are imaged and archived, you can shred most of the paper documents. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/document-imaging/barcoding.php Using barcodes that identify a document and the category under which it should be classified can speed up indexing. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/document-imaging/document-imaging-management.php Document imaging is, well, just document imaging with a scanner. Does it need any kind of management? Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/document-imaging/document-imaging-management-software.php Document-imaging management software does most of the work relating document imaging and its management component. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/document-imaging/services.php Document imaging has become an overwhelmingly superior option compared to paper-based management, and few larger organizations would opt for the latter. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/document-imaging/office-document-imaging.php Office document imaging is an essential component of modern office management. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/document-imaging/medical-document-imaging.php Medical document imaging systems can transform medical practice by making patient record retrieval extremely fast, by preventing loss of patient information, by improving security and confidentiality of the information, and by making it easy to transmit the information even to a distant city. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/enterprise-content-management/what-and-why.php ECM is concerned with using information for managing the businesses of the enterprise better. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/enterprise-content-management/ecm-and-the-enterprise.php Enterprise Content Management practitioners often get immersed in the technologies and routines of ECM and forget that ECM is there to support the enterprise's business processes. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/enterprise-content-management/business-intelligence.php A higher-than-average IQ doesn't lead to success in business. Rather, it's knowledge that helps business managers to take better-informed business decisions. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/enterprise-content-management/business-continuity.php Everybody these days is saying that business continuity is more than just disaster recovery. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/enterprise-content-management/capturing-content.php Content capture is not a simple task when content is generated on an enterprise-wide scale. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/enterprise-content-management/content-storage.php Content storage in an ECM environment is not only concerned with storage devices like Hard Disks, Compact Discs (CDs), DVDs, and so on but also with issues like findability, security, disaster recovery and ensuring the authenticity of stored content. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/enterprise-content-management/content-delivery.php The preoccupation with tools and technologies of Enterprise Content Management is quite likely to make organizations forget about the ultimate objective of content management - delivering information to users in a manner that helps or triggers action. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/enterprise-content-management/data-warehousing.php A data warehouse holds a history of the enterprise. It contains all the experiences and reference materials accumulated by the enterprise. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/enterprise-content-management/management.php It's the manage function that ensures that all the functions are carried out satisfactorily, and in a manner that supports and improves business processes. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/enterprise-content-management/workflow.php Workflow management systems can be used when a business process can be clearly specified in detail. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/enterprise-content-management/collaboration.php Collaboration is incidental to business processes and not yet a structured process by itself. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/enterprise-content-management/legal-aspects.php Compliance with regulations is an increasingly costly part of business operations these days. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/enterprise-content-management/erp-and-ecm.php Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP deals with structured data created by functional applications. Enterprise Content Management seeks to bring even unstructured data into the ambit of the enterprise's knowledgebase. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.ademero.com/resources/learning-center/enterprise-content-management/integration.php Enterprise Content Management seeks to provide a common source for all content, whether generated by applications or by other entities. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT