Wednesday
30th September 16:05 BST (GMT -1)
Storage Expo is
coming in mid-October and research conducted
by the organisers reveals that virtualised
technology is going to be high on the agenda
of many attendees. A pre-exposition study of
more than 400 IT professionals revealed that
95% of organisations have migrated (28%) -
or are planning to migrate in the next 12
months (67%) - to a virtualised IT
environment as a means of improving their
disaster recovery options. And the same
percentile again (95%) said that storage
area networks already form (30%) - or will
form in the next 12 months (65%) - part of
their virtualised infrastructure.
One of the storage exposition and conference
planned keynote speakers, John Abbot,
founder and chief analyst with The 451
Group, said that the most significant change
that virtualisation brings to the mix is the
isolation of workloads from the underlying
hardware. This translates, he says, to
enhanced flexibility and the removal of the
need to implement and maintain a single,
uniform platform, resulting in significantly
reduced costs, due to lower redundancy and
higher utilisation.
According to Mr Abbott, whilst the added
complexity at the planning stage of
virtualisation can act as a barrier to new
business, "once users gain more confidence
in the emerging set of new tools, then sales
will accelerate. When properly implemented,
virtual infrastructures can form the basis
of automated backup, retention,
business-continuance and disaster-recovery
processes." Careful planning, however, he
said, is required to achieve the best value
for money. "For instance, many secondary
applications could get by with the 'good
enough' capabilities of VMware High
Availability," he explained.
More:
www.storage-expo.com
Tuesday
29th September 19:32 BST (GMT -1)
This is an 'Enhanced Listing' item.
For details please email
enhancednews@idmionline.com
 Accessible
Archives, Inc. ©, a publisher of
electronic full-text searchable
historical databases, has announced
the continuing expansion of its
existing database, The Civil War: A
Newspaper Perspective, with the
addition of a fourth part. The
enhanced database is being renamed
simply The Civil War. The new part
consists of several newspapers
supplied by Vincennes University,
Vincennes, Indiana, a comprehensive
two-year college located in
Southwestern Indiana offering a
diverse set of majors.
The Civil War: A Midwestern
Perspective. This collection
consists of seven newspapers
published in Indiana between 1855
and 1869. Thus, it provides pre-and
post-Civil War information in
addition to coverage of the war
itself. Ownership varied between
Democrats, Republicans and the
Know-Nothings.
Vincennes Gazette (1855-1869)
The Vincennes Times (1865-1866)
Vincennes Western Sun (1856-1869)
Stars & Stripes (1862: 2 issues)
Vincennes Courant (1855-1856)
The Old Post Union (1862: 5 months
worth) (became the Vincennes Times)
News of the Day (1855-1857)
 This
cooperative venture between
Vincennes University and Accessible
Archives ©, was coordinated by
Unlimited Priorities Corporation,
a company specializing in support
for organizations within the
information industry, acting in a
consultative capacity. Vincennes
University initially approached
Unlimited Priorities with questions
about a potential digitization
project. A review of the archival
materials convinced Unlimited
Priorities that a potential existed
for a commercial product They, in
turn, contacted Accessible Archives,
a current client, who agreed to
perform the conversion in return for
commercial rights. The University
packed and shipped the volumes to
Accessible Archives© who then
arranged for their addition to the
collection.
Richard L. King, Reference
Librarian, Shake and Lewis
Libraries, Vincennes University,
discussed the project: “We are very
happy to make these 19th Century
resources available to a larger
audience, not only to students and
faculty at Vincennes University and
area high school history classes,
but to all Accessible Archives
users. Several of these newspapers
have never been microfilmed,
therefore making online access to
them as a result of this
digitization project even more
significant.”
Tom Nagy, Accessible Archives© COO,
responded, “We’re excited to add
this fourth component to our Civil
War collection since it provides
information about Civil War
activities in the Midwest that have
not received a lot of attention
previously. There is some pretty
amazing content here.”
Iris Hanney, President of Unlimited
Priorities, added, ”We like to think
that we perform an important
function for the scholarly community
when we can bring together two
parties that can be served while
helping the greater good. We expect
to see more of this type of
cooperative effort in other areas
during the coming year.”
More:
www.accessiblearchives.com +
www.unlimitedpriorities.com
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Monday
28th September
No news received.
Friday
25th September
No news received.
|
Thursday
24th September
OBITUARY: Pamela Baker
Those of our readers who were
involved with the industry during
the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s will be sad
to hear of the death of Pamela Baker
in Mallorca on September 24th.
Pamela was a partner in G G Baker &
Associates from its inception in
1968. Much of her work was in a
supporting capacity, preparing page
layouts for publication, handling
sales and invoicing and conducting
research. She will be better known
for her more public activity as
Honorary Secretary of the Microfilm
Association of Great Britain for
which she handled subscriptions,
organised seminars, distributed
their quarterly magazine
Microdoc
and maintained records of meetings
on a voluntary basis for many
years.
Pamela also assisted the
International Micrographic Congress
and distributed its journal in the
UK. She was made a Fellow of the IMC
in September 1976 in recognition of
her services to micrographics.
Pamela was working on projects for
the industry to within a month of
her death, assisting her husband,
Gerald Baker, with the update of the
IDMi Directory and the preparation
of a new website for G G Baker &
Associates.
She moved to Mallorca in 1986 and
soon became involved in work for
charity, over the ensuing years she
served on the Chaplaincy Council of
the Anglican Church in Palma and was
also the sole representative for
Save the Children Fund in Mallorca.
She applied the skills she had
acquired in organising low cost
seminars for MAGB to her charity
work and held many successful
dinners for which she would
negotiate a discounted price with a
leading restaurant and then obtain a
dozen or more donations of valuable
raffle prizes – such as a weekend at
the best hotel on the island.
Needless to say these events were
very popular and she raised many
thousands of pounds for Save the
Children. She also organised the
distribution of the SCF Christmas
Catalogue throughout the island and
the subsequent importation and
distribution of items ordered from
it. Needless to say, she talked a
removal company into transporting
these goods to the island without
charge!
Pam
wrote two books under her maiden
name of Pamela Legge. She had
considerable success with
“Enjoying Mallorca”
which outsold the other revenues of
G G Baker & Associates for two
years. She leaves two daughters, one
of whom, Claire Baker, will take
over her partnership at G G Baker &
Associates. ■
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Wednesday
23rd September 19:32 BST (GMT -1)
Canon UK, world
leader in digital imaging technology
announces the launch of Canon imageRUNNER
ADVANCE, its new advanced multifunctional
print (MFP) platform. The new print platform
will see the introduction of a completely
new range of MFPs for the office and light
production markets.
The new range of office devices – the
imageRUNNER ADVANCE C5000 series
(30/35/45/51ppm) and C7000 series (55/65ppm)
– have been designed to address the
increasing demands of today’s business
environment. Suitable for organisations of
all sizes, from SMEs to large corporates,
the devices help companies become more
efficient through easier integration into
their document workflows as well as
achieving lower operating costs, improved
document security and a lower environmental
impact.
Trevor Dodsworth, Head of Product Marketing,
Canon Business Solutions, Canon UK and
Ireland comments, “Documents are the
lifeblood of any organisation. Companies of
all sizes use documents to communicate
ideas, share creativity, back-up work, or
formalise contracts. The imageRUNNER ADVANCE
range are true multi-role devices that
recognise the importance of documents in
business. Through advanced print,
processing, publishing and communication,
imageRUNNER ADVANCE enhances our customers’
business processes and integrates seamlessly
with existing systems to create a truly
digital office.”
More:
www.canon.com
Tuesday
22nd September 15:09 BST (GMT -1)
A Year Ago... The
Crowley Company unveiled the Mekel
Technology MACH V full-roll microfilm
scanner. The device was shown recently at
the ARMA show in Las Vegas, Nevada, to great
fanfare from the press and industry experts.
Powered by custom software and capable of
scanning an entire roll of 16mm or 35mm film
- up to 1,000 standard - in minutes, the
microfilm scanner was designed for any user
in need of high-quality microfilm scanning
regardless of volume or prior scanning
expertise. More than that, it offered 100%
image capture guaranteed.
Today... there are more than 75 owners
and operators of the MACH V microfilm
scanner worldwide and the numbers are
quickly growing. This is because Quantum
scanning and processing software technology
has been tested in multiple real-world
applications from government to private
preservation and records management and is
proving its unbeatable combination of
industry-high image quality output and
industry-low cost of ownership. Coupled with
an ease of use that has operators up and
running in minutes. Mekel Technology has
once again broken digitization barriers.
More:
www.thecrowleycompany.com
Monday
21st September 11:47 BST (GMT -1)
Helping organisations
reach new levels of printing, scanning and
document security in office environments,
Canon Inc., and Adobe Systems
Incorporated have entered into a global
agreement to embed Adobe technology into
Canon’s newest family of office document
solutions. This agreement is an extension of
an alliance between the two companies
established in 2005.
Leveraging this partnership, Canon, world
leader in imaging solutions, will promote a
number of Adobe technologies within the new
Canon imageRUNNER ADVANCE Series, benefiting
knowledge workers in the areas of document
output, workflow and security. The
technologies include:
Adobe® PostScript® 3™ Printing – With
Canon’s new imageRUNNER ADVANCE systems,
embedded printing capabilities including
support for Adobe Postscript 3 will be
available to help organisations achieve
higher document control and quality at an
affordable price.
Adobe PDF Technology – Supporting Adobe PDF
technologies, including PDF Reader®
Extensions, PDF/A-1b archiving support,
Optimise PDF for Web, Adobe PDF file formats
and Digital Signatures, Canon’s new
imageRUNNER ADVANCE systems are capable of
enhancing end-user information workflows
within PDF centric business processes.
Adobe LiveCycle® Rights Management ES* –
With integration to Adobe LiveCycle Rights
Management ES directly from the imageRUNNER
ADVANCE control panel, users can easily
apply LiveCycle document security policies
to scanned documents assuring valuable
corporate information is protected
regardless of where and to whom it is sent.
More:
www.canon.com +
www.adobe.com
|
Friday
18th September
OBITUARY: Tim
Nixon (1944 - 2009) [Excerpt from
Issue 58]
Former Green Sheet Editor, Tim
Nixon, passed away in the company of
his family on Friday morning the
18th of September, and our heartfelt
sympathy goes out to all of his
family, his former colleagues, and
everyone around the world who knew
him.
Tim was diagnosed as having cancer
in April 2009, just over a year
after taking early retirement from
the editorship of the magazine, and
after it changed to IDMi. Despite a
valiant fight, it was simply too
much for him.
The last time I spoke face to face
with Tim was on the day he
officially handed over full control
of the magazine to me, in February
last year. The opportunity to take
early retirement was an enticing one
for Tim, and he enthused to me about
the work he intended doing for local
community magazines and companies.
He also spoke of his proposed quest
to take up photography as a serious
hobby, and also as Tim put it, '
.... deal with a long list of chores
Carole has for me.' * I hope Tim
achieved some, if not all of those
commendable tasks, before being
taken from us.*
Tim's association with the magazine
began in 1986, when John Negus of
the UK's Microfilm Shop, was looking
to provide a magazine for microfilm
users, which would also act as a
catalyst for news, views and
comment. The Micrographics
Marketplace was therefore born, and
Tim set about the task of editing,
and along the way made many co ntacts
and friends, first through the
microfilm, and later the document
management industry.
Through the 90's the landscape of
the industry changed, and in 2002
the title merged with Mitch Badler's
own US based publication,
Micrographics Newsletter. Originally
printed on green paper, the nickname
Green Sheet stuck, and Tim was
pleased to be continue as editor
when the titles merged as the Green
Sheet magazine.*
Extending his remit to cover
industry contacts around the world,
the coverage and depth of the
magazine continued to grow.* Tim and
I worked together from late 2006
until last February, and although
our views often crossed when it came
to the magazine content and layout,
we always remained friends and gave
way to one another to get the job
done. * Socially, Tim was great fun
and liked his 'pint'. He often
regaled us with funny industry
stories and jokes of a more
'general' humour.
Tim: You will be missed by many.
■
Former editor Tim
with wife Carole
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Thursday
17th September 13:00 BST (GMT -1)
NextDocs
Corporation have announced enhancements
to their partnership with Thomson Reuters,
a leading source of intelligent information
for businesses and professionals. Together,
the companies have developed and
demonstrated effective integration between
the NextDocs Document and Quality Management
System and the Thomson Reuters Liquent
Regulatory software platform, providing a
comprehensive solution for managing
regulatory content from authoring to
publishing and submission. In addition, the
two companies also announced that NextDocs
will support the Liquent SmartScribe® set of
document templates from Thomson Reuters.
The integration between the NextDocs
Document and Quality Management System and
the Liquent InSight Platform allows the two
systems to work from a common set of
SharePoint-based documents. With SharePoint
as a common repository, NextDocs system and
theLiquent Regulatory Software are able to
seamlessly interact with one another; for
example, organizations can access NextDocs
documents housed in SharePoint and build an
eCTD structure utilizing Thomson Reuters
Liquent InSight Platform.
More:
www.nextdocs.com +
www.thomsonreuters.com
Wednesday
16th September 10:54 BST (GMT -1)
 ibml
has announced the appointment of Chris
McIntyre, who joins the company’s UK
Headquarters in Guildford as office manager
and marketing executive.
ibml has experienced significant growth over
recent years, and Chris will play a vital
role in supporting ibml’s entire sales and
marketing function. He will provide a
consistent, office-based point of contact
for customers, suppliers and partners. Chris
has a university degree in Business &
Management.
Contact Chris on: tel 0044 (0)1483 549818
Email:
cmcintyre@ibml.com
More:
www.ibml.com
Tuesday
15th September 09:22 BST (GMT -1)
Fujitsu Europe
Limited, a market leader in document
imaging scanners, has announced the
availability of Rack2-Filer, a uniquely new
approach to personal file management
solutions. Rack2-Filer enables users to
compose virtual binders filled with digital
paper and organize these in graphically
animated storage racks or cabinets just like
with real paper. The new Easy Flip™
technology almost lets you feel the paper,
while virtually flipping through the binder.
Especially designed to work with Fujitsu™'s
ScanSnap family of scanners, like the new
S1500, Rack2-Filer organizes digitally born
documents along with paper documents in one
unified virtual space. Any personal
organising structure preferred and
appreciated from physical paper can now be
provided digitally through Rack2-Filer.
Rack2-Filer 5.0 is an easy-to-use scanning
and file management solution specially
designed for home and small offices. It
allows users to quickly sort, organise and
file paper documents digitally and manage
all the documents in an intuitive, virtual
library with the click of a button. It
enables users to convert scanned documents
and digital data into portable document
format (PDF) files and organise them into
graphical electronic binders and virtual
cabinets.
The package supports seven European
languages, and offers a range of new
functionalities to users including an
updated icon design, the ability to display
search results in a binder, the possibility
to rearrange the order of contents, to send
as email function, and an Optical Character
Recognition (OCR) function.
More:
www.fujitsu.com
|
Monday
14th September 21:53 BST (GMT -1)
This is an 'Enhanced Listing' item.
For details please email
enhancednews@idmionline.com
 e-Image
Data debuted the beta version of
its new WORD-Search technology at
the American Library Association
convention in Chicago in July. A new
function for the popular ScanPro
2000, WORD-Search allows users to
find selected words on any type of
microform.
WORD-Search is the first software of
its type to be developed for
searching topics within microfilm
documents. The ScanPro 2000 first
scans the microfilm image viewed on
the screen then analyzes the scan
for word matches.
“The user enters the key words for
the microfilm image of interest and
clicks the WORD-Search button,” says
James Westoby, president, e-Image
Data. “The software then highlights
any matches for the specified words,
similar to the way Microsoft Word’s
“find” function does for Word
documents.” The final result is the
complete microfilm image on the
viewing screen displaying the word
matches.
 “The
ScanPro 2000 is widely used by
libraries and researchers across the
world and WORD-Search was developed
as a response to customer feedback,”
says Westoby. “Our customers can now
easily search and locate birth,
obituary, and marriage records as
well as newspaper articles stored on
microfilm.”
Millions of valuable documents,
including rare source materials and
government documents stored on
microfilm, exist in libraries
throughout the world. Librarians who
tried the beta version of
WORD-Search at the ALA show were
excited about the possibilities.
“The university librarians that we
talked with at ALA were very
enthusiastic about WORD-Search,”
says Westoby. “Students could use
the WORD-Search function for their
research and would no longer have to
read the entire page to find
relevant entries. It will reduce
enormously the amount of time they
need to spend going through
microfilm documents and also free up
the machines for other users.”
WORD-Search also has the potential
to be used by educators and
libraries to locate and select
content on microfilm to be made
available online. “This software
could revolutionize the way
microfilm is used for research”,
says Westoby. “It will open the door
for a whole new level of
accessibility and information
sharing.”
E-Image Data received excellent
feedback on the beta version of the
software from the ALA attendees and
we are refining its features in
anticipation of a product launch
before the end of the year.
WORD-Search works with any ScanPro
2000 and pre-launch orders will be
accepted beginning November 23.
More:
www.e-imagedata.com
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Friday
11th September 10:53 BST (GMT -1)
DRS, the global
data capture specialist, has been
shortlisted in nine categories of the
prestigious DM 2009 Awards including Product
of the Year and Company of the Year. The
annual DM Awards aim to reward outstanding
products, suppliers and projects in the
Document and Content Management industry.
After scooping the Hardware Product of the
Year Award at last year’s ceremony, DRS’
flagship PhotoScribe® PS960 scanner, which
is widely used for high speed high volume
data capture such as a census and can
electronically capture up to 10,500
completed forms every hour, has been
shortlisted for five awards including High
Volume Scanner Product of the Year, Product
of the Year and Hardware Product of the Year
for the second time.
For the third time, DRS’ intelligent
document and data capture solution, DocXP,
has been shortlisted for Recognition/Data
Capture Product of the Year, as well as two
other awards. Sophisticated classification
technology sets DocXP apart from all other
competing products. Its ability to
automatically identify the document type
with no pre-configuration makes it one of
the leading intelligent document and data
capture solutions on the market today.
More:
www.drs-data.co.uk
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Thursday
10th September 23:07 BST (GMT -1)
This is an 'Enhanced Listing' item.
For details please email
enhancednews@idmionline.com
ibml, provider of production
scanning solutions, has announced
the purchase of an ImageTrac® 3ex
Scanning Platform by
Documentscanning.net, an
operating division of Allan Webb
Ltd. Documentscanning.net was
created following the success of
Allan Webb’s bureau scanning service
which started by serving the
Ministry of Defence.
 The
ImageTrac 3ex (3exp shown left) will
assist Documentscanning.net in
capturing millions of colour images
for a current project with the
Ministry of Defence. The ibml
scanning platforms will ensure that
documents are scanned at a very high
speed whilst using built-in
intelligence to reduce major
physical workloads and maintaining
excellent image quality.
According to Rory Lipington, Sales
and Marketing Director at Allan Webb
Limited, “A number of high-speed
scanning solutions were tested,
however ibml emerged as the clear
winner demonstrating high levels of
throughput, accuracy and image
quality.”
Ashley Keil, Business Development
Manager Northern/Western Europe and
Africa at ibml comments, “We are
honoured to be working with Allan
Webb to support this important
project. We are confident that our
ImageTrac platforms will exceed
expectations.”
ALSO ....
ibml
has announced the industry’s first
and only solution to recognise
global languages in-line as part of
document scanning, providing new
efficiencies to document imaging
users worldwide. The capability
enables data in a range of global
languages to be captured and managed
as part of normal document scanning
processes, without manual
intervention.
This offering will be available
internationally through NCR
Corporation and other ibml
business partners.
“With this announcement, we’re
further enabling customers worldwide
to leverage all types of data with
simplified, in-line recognition of a
wide range of languages,” said
Robert Appelbaum, vice president,
worldwide business and solution
development, ibml. “ibml is enabling
the power of data capture to be
seamlessly applied across the globe
to enrich document automation.”
ibml’s in-line global language
recognition allows customers to
capture data in multiple languages
more accurately and quickly. This
enables users to take full advantage
of the process improvement features
of ibml scanners, including document
preparation savings and automated
sorting at transport speed.
 The
in-line global language recognition
is integrated into ibml’s DocNetics
image analysis and interpretation
solution, and is powered by the
VERUS optical character recognition
(OCR) solution from NovoDynamics®,
Inc. VERUS™ provides the most
innovative Middle Eastern and Asian
language OCR in the world. It
recognises Arabic, Persian (Farsi,
Dari), Pashto, Urdu, Hebrew,
Simplified and Traditional Chinese,
Korean and Russian languages,
including support for embedded
English and French. The in-line
global language recognition is
available to users of the ibml
SoftTrac Capture Suite running ibml
scanners.
ibml’s in-line language recognition
solution allows customers to extract
data in French, English and one
other language co-mingled in the
same batch. This enables customers
to avoid the time and cost required
to prepare and process documents
with multiple languages. The
solution is ideal for functions such
as applications processing, where
applicants fill in documents using
their native language.
“With ibml’s in-line global language
solution as part of their document
scanning infrastructure, global
customers will rapidly transition
from manual data capture practices
to unprecedented document automation
that will enable them to reduce cost
and better leverage business
information,” said NovoDynamics
President David Rock. “This
represents an evolution in document
imaging.”
More:
www.ibml.com
|
Thursday
10th September 22:11 BST (GMT -1)
Accusoft Pegasus,
the leading provider of imaging software
development kits (SDKs), today announces the
release of ImageGear Version 17 for .NET and
Silverlight. The new ImageGear SDKs deliver
powerful tools that accelerate development
of custom imaging applications using ASP.NET,
WPF, and Silverlight. This enables software
developers to quickly build image display,
annotation, compression and processing into
software applications using the latest, most
flexible platforms available.
Within ImageGear for .NET, a new ASP.NET
client-server solution provides a "zero
footprint" web-based viewer that requires no
client installation. ImageGear for .NET and
Silverlight allow rich viewing experiences
with advanced user interface features while
promoting document collaboration between
users through powerful annotation
capabilities. With this release, the
ImageGear .NET and Silverlight SDKs now
allow developers to deploy using smaller
assemblies that only include those major
features that are required by their
applications.
More:
www.accusoft.com/imagegear17netslrelease.htm
Wednesday
9th September 20:21 BST (GMT -1)
KMWorld Magazine
recently named Vital Path’s software,
PathBuilder, as a Trend-Setting Product of
2009. Vital Path, a market leader in content
integration and content migration solutions,
offers PathBuilder as an out-of-the-box
records management solution. PathBuilder
integrates over 40 of the most installed
content, collaboration and records
management systems and reduces the cost and
time of typical content repository
consolidation projects.
“We are thrilled that PathBuilder was chosen
as a trend setting product,” said Vital Path
president Jay Rothe. “Vital Path strives to
always meet the demands of our clients and
deliver content migration solutions to the
marketplace. Today, mergers and acquisitions
are causing a plethora of content migration
problems and we are there to help solve
them.”
More:
www.vital-path.com
Tuesday
8th September 10:54 BST (GMT -1)
Kodak and ShareSquared, Inc.
announce plans to enhance ShareSquared’s
invoice processing automation system powered
by MICROSOFT OFFICE SHAREPOINT SERVER
(MOSS). Development plans include the use of
KODAK Capture Pro Software, v 2.0 to
automate the process of extracting specific
data from scanned paper invoices and
releasing that content into SHAREPOINT
document libraries.
ShareSquared’s MOSS-based application,
coupled with Kodak’s document capture
technology, helps businesses automate the
invoice approval process and includes
support for complex business rules
associated with the routing and approval of
invoices. Automated invoice processing tools
are in high demand among businesses seeking
to improve efficiency and cut administrative
costs. A study conducted by the Aberdeen
Group in 2006 suggests that most companies
process more than 80 percent of their
invoices on paper. However, among those
organizations, only 17 percent utilize some
form of electronic data capture.
More:
www.kodak.com +
www.sharesquared.com
Monday
7th September 10:54 BST (GMT -1)
Exalead, a global leader of search
solutions and information access software in
the enterprise and on the web, today
announced that Exalead
CloudView™ has been
named a KMWorld
Trend-Setting
Product for 2009 for the fourth year in a
row.
The Trend-Setting Products awards began in
2003. This year more than 800 products were
assessed by KMWorld’s judging panel,
which consists of editorial colleagues,
analysts, system integrators, the vendors
themselves, line-of-business managers, and
users.
“For
the fourth year in a row, Exalead's solution
has impressed us with its speed, scalability
and the ability to unify different
information sources,” said Hugh McKellar,
KMWorld editor in chief.
“The
company's innovative approach to search is
both what brings value to its customers and
what keeps it on our judges' radar year
after year."
More: www.exalead.com
Friday
4th September 10:11 BST (GMT -1)
Formscan, the
document solutions provider led by Chris
Haden, one of the document management
industry's best-known entrepreneurs, has
reached an agreement with Metastorm,
a leading provider of software for
enterprise architecture (EA), business
process analysis, and business process
management (BPM), to become a reseller and
integrator of the Metastorm BPM® software
suite. This agreement follows Formscan’s
acquisition Anacomp in April of this year,
and represents a strategic building block in
the company’s rapid development and growth.
Formscan now provides its clients with true
“end-to-end” solutions, embracing BPM,
document scanning, conversion, migration,
hosting, management, processing and
archiving solutions, addressing today’s
critical challenges of business efficiency,
security, disaster recovery, customer
service standards and regulatory compliance.
Formscan solutions also bridge the gap
between microfiche storage and digital
retrieval, helping organisations to archive
documents in a form that will last for
decades or even centuries, but remains
rapidly accessible when required.
More:
www.formscan.com +
www.metastorm.com
Thursday
3rd September 18:06 BST (GMT -1)
Image Access
from Wuppertal, Germany presents the first
wide format duplex scanner at the DMS
Expo in Cologne. The WideTEK 36 DS is
the world’s first wide format scanner for
duplex digitalization of newspapers and
other double-sided printed documents. The
very compact WideTEK 36 DS needs only four
seconds to scan the front and back sides of
a newspaper page (at 200 dpi). This scanner
offers considerable advantages to press
clipping services, libraries and archives
who, until now, had no choice but to use
complicated multiple step solutions to
digitalize newspapers.
WT36-USBThe large format duplex scanner
WideTEK 36 DS scans documents up to 36
inches (915 mm) in width. The idea of
double-sided scanning in one production step
primarily means less production effort: The
document no longer needs to be flipped over
and scanned again on the other side. The
scanners feature two camera boxes, both
consisting of three CCD systems, integrated
into upper and lower part of the device –
only few centimetres from each other. The
WideTEK 36 DS captures both sides of the
newspaper at the same time. As a final step,
the software separates the scanned document
into four single images, capturing the left
and right sides on the front and back of the
newspaper – everything in one step.
The entire scan process – from scanning,
image processing up to image display – can
therefore be considerably reduced. This is
especially important for press clipping, in
order to deliver the actual press analysis
even earlier/faster.
More:
www.imageaccess.de
Wednesday
2nd September 14:55 BST (GMT -1)
A compelling line up of innovative
pavilions, forums and a record number of new
exhibiting companies has been unveiled by
Online Information and IMS 2009
organisers as registration for visitors to
attend to the Information Industry’s largest
event officially opens for 2009. Consisting
of an exhibition attracting over 9,000
visitors from 70 countries, a conference and
a show floor seminar programme, the event
provides an annual meeting place for the
global information industry.
The Online Information Exhibition – the
driving force behind this year’s event is
the goal to equip information professionals
with the skills and knowledge required for
their organisations to succeed in the
changing and challenging information world.
Covering the full spectrum of online content
and information management solutions, Online
Information is the definitive showcase for
the information industry. Visitors to the
event will experience the latest
developments, launches and innovations first
hand from more than 230 international
exhibitors. The event covers 6 main sectors:
Online content resources, ePublishing,
Library Management Systems, Content
Management, Web 2.0 Technologies and Search
Solutions.
Venue
Olympia Grand Hall, London UK
Admission
Registering in advance entitles visitors
to FREE fast track entry saving time on the
day or visitors arriving without
pre-registering will be charged £15 as they
arrive. Visitor badges allow free crossover
between Online Information and the
co-located Information Management Solutions
2009 exhibitions.
To register in advance visit
www.online-exhibition.co.uk/online08/register
Websites
For comprehensive event and industry
information and free downloads of conference
podcasts, guru interviews, case-studies and
white papers visit:
www.online-exhibition.co.uk or twitter
tag: #online09
Organisers
Incisive Media Events
More:
www.online-exhibition.co.uk
Tuesday
1st September 21:35 BST (GMT -1)
Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE:EK)
today announced that it has completed the
previously announced transaction to acquire
the scanner division of BÖWE BELL +
HOWELL. The scanner division, a leading
supplier of document scanners to value-added
resellers, systems integrators, and end
users, is based in the greater Chicago area
and conducts business worldwide with
locations in North America, Europe and Asia.
The scanner division will be a part of
Kodak’s Document Imaging Business, within
the Business Solutions and Services Group.
Approximately 50 BÖWE BELL + HOWELL
employees have joined Kodak as a result of
the acquisition, including Russell Hunt, who
is now General Manager, BÖWE BELL + HOWELL
Products, Document Imaging, Business
Solutions and Services Group, Eastman Kodak
Company. Hunt now reports to Dolores
Kruchten, General Manager, Business
Solutions and Services Group, and Vice
President, Eastman Kodak Company. Financial
terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
“This acquisition will provide end users
worldwide with exciting and broad choices in
document capture products, along with
industry-leading service and support to help
them increase business efficiencies and
realize timely returns on their investment,”
said Kruchten. “Kodak is a world leader in
document imaging. Completing this
acquisition further demonstrates Kodak’s
commitment to end-user customers, channel
and software partners, the document
management industry, and is consistent with
our corporate strategy to grow digital
revenue and earnings.”
More:
www.kodak.com/go/docimaging
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