Alfresco Announces Beta Program of ECM in the Cloud for Small Businesses on Amazon EC2
Alfresco SMB Edition will deliver ready-to-use cloud-based appliance designed for Amazon EC2, previewing at CeBIT Hall 2, Stand B26
LONDON, UK - March 3, 2010 - Alfresco Software, the leader in open source enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, today announced an early-access Beta program for Alfresco SMB Edition, a turn-key, self-managed, ready-to-use cloud-based appliance designed for Amazon EC2. This new version of Alfresco Software’s popular ECM and social collaboration product is designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMB.
QUICK AND SECURE LOAN GRANTING PROCESS
The granting of loans by banks plays a key role in a country’s economic evolution. This activity is not only common for companies, which rely on this type of external financing to develop their business, but also for society in general, as many people have a debt with a financial institution to purchase a home, a car or to pay for that special trip.
Due to the current economic situation, which is present at global level, the granting of loans has become a determining factor in maintaining customers, as they require services and rapid solutions that adapt to their needs. For this reason, we must achieve maximum return and speed in the loan granting process.
A Smooth Passage for Marine Claims Management at WK Webster
Claim and recovery agents WK Webster have been able to avoid taking on additional staff to deal with their increased work and paper overload by investing in an Avanquest document management system.
The switch from a traditional paper based claim handling system to an electronic document management system, which handles all correspondence from receipt to settlement, has improved claim processing times, resulting in better customer service, enhanced productivity and higher staff morale.
Konica Minolta Partners with Avanquest Solutions
Konica Minolta has formalised its relationship with Avanquest Solutions with a partnership agreement, which adds desktop network fax capability to Konica Minolta's Multi Function Printers (MFPs).
Gartner - Predicts 2009: Print Technologies Enable Cost Savings and Revenue Growth, stated that by 2012, 80% of organisations will have an enterprise fax solution.
The partnership offers new business opportunities for both organisations to leverage the power and flexibility of network fax - to automate the flow of faxes, paper, electronic documents and data - with Konica Minolta's MFP technologies.
COMMERCIAL DISPUTE PREVENTION, SGAIM PUTS AND END TO DISPUTES WITH SUPPLIERS February 2010.- SGAIM, the company devoted to the introduction of electronic management solutions for business processes, launches the new Commercial Dispute Prevention service to prevent commercial disputes with suppliers caused by the incorrect invoicing of products and services. With this solution the supplier can rectify the commercial operation in time before suffering a claim or non-payment. Correct invoice management to prevent commercial disputes is one of the priority objectives for companies because one of its main benefits is the indefinite deferral of payment until the problem is resolved.
JANET(UK) TO IMPROVE ONLINE USER EXPERIENCE FOR UK RESEARCH AND EDUCATION COMMUNITY WITH CONSULTANCY FROM THE CONTENT GROUP
- The Content Group has been selected to consult on, recommend solutions for and oversee the implementation of a web content management solution that will unite disparate websites, improve user access and reduce hardware reliance -
JANET, the education and research network for UK Further and Higher education, has selected Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions provider, The Content Group, to consult on and programme manage the implementation of a web content management solution. The Content Group will provide ECM Expert – a best practice methodology designed by The Content Group – to ensure a successful web content management project. more...
OPEX THE STAR OF SCANNERS
At a recent prestigious evening the great and the good of the document management world descended on the Hotel Novotel in London's St Pancras for the annual DM Awards 2009. In just three years these unique Awards have become the diary date for DM professionals, and an opportunity to highlight the success stories from the past year in the industry, from products and solutions through to major projects and the coveted Company of the Year award. The number of votes cast online increased by over 30% on last year, which reflects the increasing interest in the document and content technologies that are central to the focus of this sector. There were more winners than ever before at the dinner - including representatives from companies from all over Europe and the USA – and the flagship High Volume Scanner Product of the Year award went to Opex for the AS3690i. more...
SGAIM helps companies streamline the customer billing
The new service Automated Accounts Receivable (AAR), can control the delivery notes and documents that orchestrate the management of accounts receivable.
February 2010. The delivery note is proof of goods delivery and without it customers can refuse to pay the bill. Is expected a delay in the payment of invoices because the time lag between the delivery of the goods and the receipt of the delivery note signed.
DOCUMENTS CLASSIFIED INSTANTLY WITH SGAIM’S “ADVANCED DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION” SGAIM launches its Advanced Document Classification (ADC) service for the automatic categorisation of incoming documents on a massive scale, in order to speed up business processes.
SGAIM, as a company that provides solutions for the electronic management of business content, offers its clients the most advanced document classification technologies.
Alfresco Brings Lotus Users Scalable Open Source Content Management Platform
Alfresco to unveil Lotus software integration at Lotusphere 2010
LONDON, UK – January 13, 2009 – Alfresco Software, Inc. today announced the avail-ability of Alfresco Content Services for Lotus social collaboration products, an integration between the Alfresco open source enterprise content management (ECM) system and IBM Lotus Quickr, Lotus Notes, Lotus Connections and WebSphere Portal. This integra-tion brings together an industry-leading combination of the Lotus social collaboration ca-pabilities and Alfresco’s lightweight, scalable, full-featured ECM, which is simple and low cost to use, deploy, maintain and support. Alfresco Content Services for Lotus will be unveiled at Lotusphere, held January 17-21, 2010, in Orlando, Florida.
New Features Include Certified Records Management, Scalable Content Creation Tools and Multi-Tenancy for Ease of Use in the Cloud
LONDON, UK – January 12, 2010 – Alfresco Software today announced the availability of Alfresco Enterprise Edition 3.2, the latest version of its industry-leading enterprise content management (ECM) product. With this release, Alfresco enables cloud-based deployments, streamlines email management and archiving and enhances team-based content collaboration. In addition, the Alfresco Enterprise 3.2 Records Management module is the only supported open source solution to have been certified to the 5015.02 standard.
Fax over IP (FoIP) integration with Mitel Voice over IP (VoIP) now available
A software-only Fax over IP solution brings enterprise-class network fax into the Mitel IP telephony environment.
Voice over IP is now commonplace, so the logical next step is to incorporate fax over IP to further reduce costs, improve security and consolidate resources. Fax is still a popular business communication tool. Gartner predicts that "By 2012, the use of fax servers in the enterprise space will increase by as much as 80%".
Version One Moves to Prestigious New Offices and Celebrates 20 Years in Business
1 December 2009 – Document management and imaging software author, Version One (www.versionone.co.uk), has moved to prestigious new offices in Wilmslow, Cheshire, in the same year that the company celebrates its 20th year in business. Version One’s move to its new Pentland House premises (owned by Orbit Developments) follows a year of continued growth for the company.
Version One was incorporated on 15 November 1989. Co-owners Derek McGain and Tony Bray quickly established Version One as the leading document management provider and one of Europe’s top 500 fastest-growing, job-creating companies.
Field Studies Council Anticipates Savings of £100,000 per Annum by Automating Purchase-to-Pay
Field Studies Council (FSC), a leading UK environmental education charity with 17 sites situated across the UK, is anticipating cost savings in excess of £100,000 per year by automating its purchase-to-pay cycle using Version One’s document management and imaging solutions (www.versionone.co.uk). FSC is also significantly improving invoice processing efficiency, reducing manual data entry by up to 90% and is supporting its environmental agenda using Version One’s technology tightly integrated into its Sage Line 500 accounting system. Version One’s solutions went live in May 2009.
Richard Walker, Director of Finance at Field Studies Council, says, “Our reliance on paper made paying an invoice time consuming. We also experienced duplication of effort and were vulnerable to errors.”
AHDB to Save Over £50,000 Per Annum with Version One’s Data Capture Integrated with Agresso
The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB), a recently established non-departmental public body serving the agriculture and horticulture sectors, is expecting cost savings in excess of £50,000 per annum as a result of implementing intelligent data capture software, DbCapture, from Version One (www.versionone.co.uk). AHDB will also speed-up the processing of 60,000 purchase invoices and levy return forms each year and reduce manual data entry by up to 80% using Version One’s technology. DbCapture is expected to go live late summer 2009.
AHDB benefits from access to a comprehensive ERP suite, comprising financials, procurement, HR, payroll and project management functionality, from global business and financial software provider Agresso. Version One’s software integrates seamlessly with Agresso and the implementation of DbCapture, which coincides with AHDB’s upgrade to Agresso 5.5, will enable AHDB to automatically capture and verify data from scanned purchase invoices using advanced optical character recognition (OCR) technology. Any data discrepancies will be automatically highlighted for the attention of the user. The captured data will then be uploaded to Agresso 5.5, significantly reducing manual data entry, cutting data entry errors and improving purchase invoice processing efficiency.
