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Manuel J. Montesino's Articles Display Category|Title|Newest|Oldest Enterprise Resource Planning And Enterprise Content Management The word Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP conveys a sense of planning the use of enterprise-wide resources to achieve enterprise objectives in the best possible manner. However, ERP has come to mean something much less ambitious. It simply means integrating two or more separate applications. Enterprise Content Management Systems Cross Departmental And Functional Boundaries What is content? What does content management involve? And what is special about enterprise content management? This introductory article will seek to answer these questions. Enterprise Content Management And Service Oriented Architecture Visualize the following scenario: All enterprise content (wherever generated by whatever entity) goes into a single repository and users can receive different services (that they were receiving from different applications earlier, or are completely new services) from an integrated system with a standard front end. Service Oriented Architecture, Enterprise Application Integration, and Data Warehousing work to make this scenario a reality. Managing With Enterprise Content Management Enterprise Content Management involves capturing structured and unstructured content that’s generated all over the enterprise, storing that content, processing it into information, delivering that information to those who need it for decision-support, and finally transferring it to long-term storage for preservation until it can be removed safely from the system. Enterprise Content Management And Information Presentation Content is useless unless it’s used for managing the business. Managers must get relevant information presented in ways that bring out its significance. Only then can they make informed business decisions, instead of decisions based on a "hunch". How Do Enterprise Content Management Systems Capture Content? Along with Content Storage, Preservation, and Delivery, Capture is one of the key components of Enterprise Content Management. This article will explore the ways content is captured in ECM systems. Enterprise Content Management Reaches Out to Employees, Suppliers, Customers, and Government Enterprise Content Management uses Internet technologies to make information accessible from all over the world. In an age of global business, this enables employees spread across the globe to maintain effective contacts with their headquarters and also other offices located anywhere in the world. Enterprise Content Management and Enterprise Reporting Practices In a large business, many things will be going on in many different areas. It will be impossible to understand what is really going on based on personal observations alone. Analytical reports based on specific data bring out the nuances of ground realities. What Do Enterprise Content Management Systems Do for the Enterprise? The ECM Association ,AIIM, defines ECM as: "...the technologies used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents related to organizational processes. ECM tools and strategies allow the management of an organization's unstructured information, wherever that information exists." Why Has Document Imaging Become So Important? Document imaging involves converting paper documents into electronic images. These images need further processing to make them into true electronic documents. This is because any text in the image, while readable by humans, is not readable as text characters by computer systems. Document Imaging Services are an Alternative to Buying Expensive Equipment To explore document imaging services, you should first understand what document imaging can achieve.Document imaging radically changes document-management practices by speeding up work and reducing costs. Document Imaging and Scanning Have Almost Become Synonymous Document imaging can involve photocopying and microfilm or microfiche output, in addition to scanning into digital images. However document imaging and scanning have become so closely associated as to become synonymous. Document Scanners for Document Imaging A document scanner is the primary component used for most document imaging projects. Scanners come with widely varying capabilities. For example, desktop scanners come with capacities of 10 to 30 pages per minute, departmental scanners with 30 to 60 pages per minute and production level scanners with over 60 pages per minute. Document Imaging and Processing Typically Go Together Document Image Processing can be for different purposes. For example, the processing might be nothing more than cleaning up the document. Typical documents often contain punch holes, black borders, undesired lines, and so on. Document Imaging Management - The Issues Document imaging management has become an important issue because imaging is increasingly used to capture content. This capture can be for current use or for archiving purposes. With so many vendors, systems, and services in the document imaging market, you have to carefully plan how to meet your document-imaging requirements. Document Imaging and Management Software Document imaging and management software are proliferating in the market. Many solutions come with advanced technologies and innovative features. Digital Document Imaging Moves Paper-Based Information to Business Applications Digital document imaging integrates paper documents into the electronic workflow of organizations. This process can be facilitated with a combination of peripherals and application-integration solutions. Office Document Imaging Makes Your Paper Documents Ready to Fly Ready to fly the Internet, we mean, not as paper planes popular in some offices. Consider it. Office Document Imaging converts your paper documents into digital images, which can be sent to the other end of the world in seconds. Any text in the image would be readable by humans at the other end. The information on a paper document you received in your US office thus becomes available for your executive who is, say, in China looking for business opportunities. Medical Document Imaging Transforms Medical Practice Medical document imaging can transform medical practice by capturing patient charts in an electronic form. Unlike paper charts, practitioners can access electronic charts with utmost ease, by clicking a mouse (or touching their PDA). Whereas they had to wait for the paper chart earlier, now the chart is available to them instantly. Document Imaging Tools - the Range Document imaging is an important component of Enterprise Content Management systems, helping to capture paper-based documents. We look at the major document imaging tools used today. Document Imaging Systems Can Improve Information Capture Dramatically Document imaging systems capture enterprise content that come in the form of paper documents and paper forms that might even be handwritten. The paper-based content is converted into machine-readable and searchable electronic content. This is a process that requires additional processing of the captured image with technologies like OCR to make them machine-readable text, and indexing and Meta tagging to make the document searchable. Document Imaging Reduces Storage Requirements Dramatically To see how document imaging and storage volumes are related, a historical perspective on the office is required. Document Imaging Solutions Become Relevant in Many Typical Business Situations Contracts and agreements are typical paper-based documents created in large volumes by large enterprises. Once executed, these documents are retrieved only infrequently thereafter. However, when a need arises, as for litigation, the documents should be quickly retrievable. What Capabilities Can Users Expect From Document Imaging Software? Many people are accustomed to buying a scanner and start using it. 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