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Business Process, Workflow & Content Management: Find the Secret Sauce

Posted 01-30-2012

by Stephanie Ayers
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When organizations see an opportunity to improve their business processes to save time or money and keep customers happy, they often turn to IT for a solution. If document management is the issue, IT might search for an enterprise content management ...
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Take a Leap to ECM in This Leap Year

Posted 01-06-2012

by Lisa Beck
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It’s the New Year! 2012! Leap Year! Time to take a deep breath and say “this year is going to be the best ever!” Forget last year…..well don’t forget it, but learn from it. Now is the time to step out and make the decisions...
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The Future Holds Unimagined Opportunities for Higher Ed

Posted 12-27-2011

by Lisa Beck
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Eight Thoughts on Higher Education in 2012 by Daniel de Vise reminds us that higher education struggles every year with funding, technology and the growing per-student cost. In this article he gives us “..four things that, in our heart of hearts...
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What is Adaptive Case Management?

Posted 12-23-2011

by Ben Keefe
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14.00 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE As ECM, BPM, and ACM become more intertwined I found the following articles rather helpful in drawing some distinctions. Deb Miller wrote a good piece about it a few years ago. You can read it here...
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Getting the Most from Maturity Models

Posted 12-15-2011

by Dan Dillon
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Pop quiz. Who says: “I expect more from you.” “You can do better.” “Work harder.” a.) Parents b.) CIOs c.) Bosses d.) Colleagues e.) All of the above It’s e, of course. Since this blog doesn’t cover parenting...
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Technology-Based Learning: Not Just For Kids

Posted 12-12-2011

by Catherine Pedersen
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When I enrolled in an American history class at my local community college, I was confident I could manage both the academic and technological challenges associated with online learning. After all, I already had my bachelors’ degree and had been...
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How to fix scandal involving standardized testing and admissions.

Posted 11-28-2011

by Ben Keefe
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Here is the article that caught my attention, "SAT scandal shows the tyranny of standardized testing". You can read the article in full here: http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/28/opinion/mills-cheating/index.html I am not going to attempt to wade into...
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Where Does Document Output Management (DOM) Come In?

Posted 11-28-2011

by Shawn Hickey
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With the recent acquisition of Pallas-Athena , Perceptive Software is excited to announce that we now have additional products in our arsenal to continue to solve your business problems, no matter your industry or organization. ModusOne is a complete...
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Live at Educause 2011

Posted 10-27-2011

by Ben Keefe
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Educause 2011 recently took place in Philadelphia and numerous ECM companies were there taking part. I have put a video regarding Perceptive Software's vision of freedom for any Higher Education organization to processes and paper that is holding...
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Improve Your Golf Game with ECM Workflow

Posted 10-11-2011

by Craig Dudley
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Blue skies, warm temperatures and sun shine filled the Kansas City metro this previous Sunday afternoon. I decided to spend my day off from work enjoying the beautiful weather by playing golf. As I was teeing off on the third hole, a long dog-leg par...
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ECM in the Cloud is Not about Value

Posted 09-23-2011

by Dan Dillon
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Think for a second about the utility bills you pay every month. Electric, water, gas, phone, perhaps a few others. How many of these services could you do without? If you included cable or satellite TV, perhaps that one. (Perhaps not!) In truth, the better...
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Calculating an ROI – it’s necessary in today’s struggling economy

Posted 09-22-2011

by Barri Forkos
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According to the Washington Post, austerity and belt-tightening are the watchwords at a time of economic hardship. Unlimited and unquestioned spending simply isn’t an option in today’s struggling economy. Many corporations are doing more with...
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Dream of a world where contracts and contract renewals are made simple?

Posted 09-20-2011

by Makaela Meadows
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Contracts for the soda machines across campus, contracts and contract renewals for the tenants in the student union, contract revisions for the multi-function printers (MFPs) in each office across campus – the theme is apparent – contracts...
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Sign up – Live Webinar with an ROI expert on September 15th

Posted 09-08-2011

by Barri Forkos
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Have you ever asked yourself “How can I show my boss the company is gaining an ROI from the software I recommended?” As a marketing professional, I often ask myself “What ROI is my company seeing from our campaigns?” It's difficult...
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10 tips for disaster planning, or how ECM can help you survive a natural disaster like Hurricane Irene

Posted 09-07-2011

by Eric Palmer
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Has Tropical Storm Irene got you thinking about what a natural disaster might mean to the survival of your organization? Maybe you were spurred to think about it a week earlier when the 5.8 magnitude earthquake hit Maryland and Virginia. Or maybe that...
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College Students - They're Baaaaaack!

Posted 09-07-2011

by Lisa Beck
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I live in Lawrence, Kansas, the home of the University of Kansas. Every year at this time the town swells with new and returning students. On move-in weekend, you don’t dare go to Wal-Mart or Target. It seems like all the students are there getting...
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Be An Office Hero with ECM!

Posted 08-31-2011

by Ben Keefe
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“Piled High” Content Management

Posted 08-30-2011

by Tom Seibold
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Billions of dollars in spending, titanic political (and geopolitical) battles, and an entire generation of children scared that their families' SUVs are drowning cuddly polar bears . . . Could it all have been a giant misunderstanding based on faulty...
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Content Management as a Strategic Weapon: The Content Silo Trap

Posted 08-29-2011

by Craig Dudley
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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Content is defined as what authors create. It can include words, phrases, sentences, charts or graphs. Content is created in every area of an organization and often the author works in a “content silo...
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Who Brings the Dowry?

Posted 08-19-2011

by Ben Keefe
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I gave myself a little over a week to think about the recent marriage of SunGard HE and Datatel and what it means in the ECM space for Higher Education. I have been reading some of Nicole Engelbert, who is a thought leader in education for Ovum, and spent...
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Glitch in the System

Posted 08-10-2011

by Andrea Elmer
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It wasn't long ago that I was leaving the nest and going from the familiar to the unknown, along with the boxes of stuff that my family members generously helped me haul up 9 flights of stairs. Going to college was as much about nervous fear as it...
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Hot Topics from the Campus Tech 2011 Conference

Posted 08-09-2011

by Lisa Beck
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What was buzzing at this year’s conference? Everything starting with a lower case “e”: eReaders, eTextbooks, ePortfolios, eAssessment, eText…just to name a few. The emphasis in the industry has turned to getting everything you...
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E-forms: E is for ‘Everyone’

Posted 08-03-2011

by Dan Dillon
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Every once in a while, there’s a really cool product that hits the market, but for some mysterious reason it doesn’t get the attention it deserves. Speech recognition software. WebTV. The spork. These innovations didn’t take off despite...
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Two UVa employees…the Barry Manilow and Lance Amstrong of ECM.

Posted 07-28-2011

by Makaela Meadows
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We all have idols that we look up to in many facets of our life. Barry Manilow for the up and coming singers and performers of the world, Lance Armstrong for the aspiring bicycle enthusiasts, Thomas Edison for the curious inventor, and a list that keeps...
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The best present I ever got

Posted 07-26-2011

by Dan Dillon
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When I was a kid in my early double digits, all I wanted for my birthday was a Swiss Army knife. This was the coolest thing a boy could have. It was utility, versatility and a little bit of danger all wrapped up in a shiny red package. When I turned 13...