IDMi Article Reference: 090623
 

Medicating the Order-to-Cash Cycle
How manufacturers can accelerate cashflow by cutting out the paper trail, by Jason Howard, sales director of ITESOFT

Ayn Rand stated that ‘money is made possible only by the men who produce’; yet if manufacturers fail to fulfil orders quickly and accurately, customers will soon take that money elsewhere. Conversely, if an order reaches its purchaser quickly and correctly, that customer is ripe for repeat business.

With this in mind, the vast majority of manufacturing organisations have streamlined their dispatch offices and factories to a point where they are more efficient than a low-energy lightbulb. Yet the technology behind the processing of order forms has lagged behind.  READ ►

IDMi Article Reference: 0811-002
 

Lipstick On A Pig: by Calum Macleod, Western European Director at Cyber-Ark

As someone that has become totally engrossed in the upcoming US elections, Barack Obama’s comment about Lipstick on a Pig resonated because in my opinion it just about sums up the approach to IT security in most enterprises today. You have SOX, PCI, Basel, ISO or whatever other policy you can think of and as long as you carry on doing things in the same old way you might as well put “lipstick on a pig”.  READ ►

IDMi Article Reference: 0811-001

Top Class Classification: by Dr Matt Lees, VP Data Capture Division, Basware UK

Companies are often under the illusion that deploying a mailroom scanning solution will improve their business efficiency. But that’s not the case. Simply digitising documents is only pushing the paper images around, and doesn’t actually remove the real obstruction. If the right technology and controls are not in place the chances of losing documents are actually increased!  READ ►

IDMi Article Reference: 0808-005

UK Citizen Attitudes Towards Vertical Sector Data Protection Competency: A Pitney Bowes Management Services Report

- GP’s (General Practitioner doctors) are the most trusted by UK citizens to keep personal data safe
- UK citizens trust their bank more than they trust Central or Local Government
- Government (Central and Local) is distrusted more than any other sector apart from Social Networking sites
- Just over half (57%) of UK citizens place their trust in e-commerce businesses to keep personal data safe READ ►

IDMi Article Reference: 0808-004

Bare-bones Digitisation versus Digitisation with Classification: By Martin Dickson, Technical Consultant, Oakdene International

Digitisation is the process by which a hard or soft copy image is converted into its constituent text and sub-images (adverts, photographs etc.) and processed into a digital format, predominantly using an OCR engine with human intervention used to correct resultant errors. READ ►

IDMi Article Reference: 0808-003

Virtualisation is here to stay: By Kevin Bailey, Director Product Marketing, EMEA, Symantec

Virtualisation has now been around for a number of years, yet many businesses are still not implementing engines in a strategic way. READ ►

IDMi Article Reference: 0808-002

Setting The Standard: By Richard Thomson, Managing Director, Pitney Bowes Management Services

A recent government survey found that the majority (79%) of those responsible for security in UK businesses are not aware of the contents of information security standards BS 7799 and ISO 27000. READ ►

IDMi Article Reference: 0808-001

EVault Gets Arriva London Out Of Storage Jam: By Phil Evans, Vice President of EVault Sales, Northern Europe

Streamlined disaster recovery process and improved resource management the top results of online backup implementation  READ ►