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Tuesday
30th June 09:20 BST (GMT -1)
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Netdocs Plc
has been appointed as the first
southern-based UK re-seller for the
Opex range of post opening
and scanner equipment.
The Opex ‘Model 51 Mixed Mail
Extraction Desk’ has been installed
in the dedicated Netdocs showroom in
Leicester and the Opex ‘AS3690i High
Speed Scanner with Integrated Mail
Extraction’ is on it’s way from the
factory in the US.
Netdocs Managing Director Paul
Timmerman explains; “We target
customers with high volumes of
documents to be processed on the day
of arrival and at the lowest cost
possible. Our Satellite Hosted
Workflow solutions enable documents
to be processed in the UK, India or
China and we need to offer flexible
solutions to get the documents into
the Workflow. We already offer PO
Box solutions were we receive and
scan the post on our clients’
behalf, while Scan to FTP solutions
work well for low volumes of
documents from multiple locations
like hotel chains.
We come across more and more
opportunities where our customers
are looking for a complete Digital
Mailroom solution and the AS3690i
High Speed Scanner with Integrated
Mail Extraction equipment fits the
bill. The customers can either staff
this equipment themselves or we can
manage the facility on the
customer’s site or at our own
dedicated facility in Leicester.
By combining the Opex mailroom and
Netdocs workflow technologies we can
offer an end to end solution to take
the cost out of business processes
like Accounts Payable & Receivable,
HR and CRM.”
Shaun Lee, Director of Operations,
EMEA, OPEX Corporation added, “I am
extremely impressed with the way
Netdocs have realised the potential
of our AS/51 digital mailroom
solution, it really is the fastest
way to get scanned images from
documents which have to be taken out
of envelopes. I am sure that with
this unique technology heading up
netdocs’ digital mailroom and
scanning operations that they will
be ideally placed to capitalise on
the advantages of combining mail
opening/extraction and scanning in
one simple operation with only 1
operator. I look forward to being an
integral part of ‘netdocs’ success
going forward’.
More:
www.netdocs.co.uk
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Monday
29th June 16:00 BST (GMT -1)
Canon
U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital
document imaging and supplier of check
capture and document scanning devices, will
showcase the versatility and benefits of its
broad line of imageFORMULA check transports
and digital document scanners at the
Government Finance Officers Association’s
(GFOA) 103rd Annual Conference, at the
Washington State Convention & Trade Center
in Seattle.
Entitled “Financial Strategies for
Challenging Times,” this conference will
bring public finance professionals and
vendors together to offer practical advice
and strategic vision to many state and local
government representatives.
More:
www.usa.canon.com
Thursday
25th June 18:04 BST (GMT -1)
 Canon
UK, world leader in digital imaging
technology, has announced the launch of the
Canon imageFORMULA DR-6010C departmental
scanner. The new device offers the fastest
colour scanning speed in its class, flexible
document handling capabilities and accurate
high quality image production.
Canon’s latest addition to its departmental
scanner portfolio not only offers fast and
reliable document handling and advanced
image quality but is also one of the most
energy efficient in its class. Building upon
Canon’s success as market leader in the
departmental scanner segment* the Canon
imageFORMULA DR-6010C is introduced
alongside the imageFORMULA DR-4010C to
provide office departments with simple and
efficient solutions to manage paper
documents and data within their business.
More:
www.canon.co.uk
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Wednesday
24th June 10:12 BST (GMT -1)
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 IT
Security professionals admit that
they are suffering from password
fatigue when it comes to using their
mobile devices, which leaves their
data exposed to personal and
corporate identity theft if these
devices were to fall into the wrong
hands. That's according to a survey
released today by endpoint data
protection specialists CREDANT
Technologies, who conducted the
'mobile usage survey' amongst 227 IT
professionals with the majority
drawn from companies that employ
more than 1000 people.
Thirty five percent revealed they
just don't get around to using a
password on their business phones
and smartphones, even though they
know they should as they contain
sensitive and confidential
information! Surprisingly, IT
professionals are only marginally
better at using passwords than the
general population, as a survey
conducted earlier in the year by
CREDANT found that 40% of all users
don't bother with passwords on their
mobile phones.
The sorts of information that IT
professionals are storing on their
smartphones and mobiles, many of
which are totally unprotected with a
password, include:
- 80% Business names and addresses
- 66% Personal names and addresses
- 23% Business emails
- 16% Personal emails
- 12% Bank account details
- 12% Business diary with details of
all their appointments and meetings
- 7% Personal diary
- 5% Credit card information
- 4% photos
- 1% Passwords and Pin numbers
Andrew Kahl, Sr. VP of Operations &
Co-Founder from CREDANT Technologies
explains "It is alarming to note
that the very people who are
responsible for IT security are not
much better at protecting the
information on their business phones
than most of their co-workers, who
don't necessarily know any better.
If a mobile or smartphone goes
missing and isn't protected with a
password, and contains business
names and addresses and other
corporate data such as business
emails, then the company is
immediately in breach of the data
protection act by failing to meet
some of its principals on electronic
data."
"Of even greater concern is the
damage that can be done to a
company, and the individual who is
responsible for the phone, if it
falls into the wrong hands, which
could expose them to personal or
corporate identity theft. It is
therefore imperative that all mobile
phone users who hold sensitive data,
either personal or corporate, should
always password protect it at a
minimum - and encrypt it if the data
is really sensitive." added Kahl.
According to the IT professionals
surveyed, the worst culprits at
addressing mobile security within
their companies are typically the
sales teams, followed by the board
of directors and senior management.
HR comes out as the best at keeping
their mobiles aligned to the
corporate mobile security policy.
The survey also found that a third
of IT professionals use their own
personal mobile phone for work
purposes even though the company
specifically bans them for business
use with almost a fifth spending
more than an hour or more per day on
their own personal phone for
business purposes.
More:
www.credant.com
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Tuesday
23rd June 13:36 BST (GMT -1)
Isilon® Systems
(NASDAQ: ISLN), the proven leader in
scale-out NAS, and Storwize, the
leading provider of real-time capacity
optimization solutions, today announced they
have partnered to deliver an integrated
primary storage solution based upon Isilon’s
scale-out NAS products and the Storwize
STN-6000 appliance. The new solution
delivers industry-leading scalability,
performance, and usable capacity, enabling
customers to reduce storage acquisition and
management costs, while significantly
improving data center efficiency.
“File-based data continues to grow rapidly
in both capacity and importance throughout
the enterprise, regardless of budgeting
pressure, requiring efficient, primary
storage solutions that accelerate
productivity and reduce costs,” said Ram
Appalaraju, vice president of marketing,
Isilon Systems. “By integrating Isilon IQ
with Storwize’s real-time data compression,
enterprises can maximize system efficiency
to speed data access for mission-critical
applications.”
More:
www.isilon.com
&
www.storwize.com
Monday
22nd June 10:25 BST (GMT -1)
Canon
UK, world leader in digital imaging
technology, has today announced the launch
of the Canon imageFORMULA DR-6010C
departmental scanner. The new device offers
the fastest colour scanning speed in its
class, flexible document handling
capabilities and accurate high quality image
production.
Canon’s latest addition to its departmental
scanner portfolio not only offers fast and
reliable document handling and advanced
image quality but is also one of the most
energy efficient in its class. Building upon
Canon’s success as market leader in the
departmental scanner segment* the Canon
imageFORMULA DR-6010C is introduced
alongside the imageFORMULA DR-4010C to
provide office departments with simple and
efficient solutions to manage paper
documents and data within their business.
More:
www.canon.co.uk
Thursday
18th June 14:07 BST (GMT -1)
Software from Kodak and Atalasoft,
Inc. advances how users of MICROSOFT
SHAREPOINT Server can integrate scanned
documents into the web-based collaboration
tool and transform the server into a
feature-rich content management application.
KODAK Capture Pro Software, v 1.1 is now
compatible with Atalasoft’s VIZIT SP,
Document Imaging for MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT
Server. The combination of these two
software programs offers the more than 100
million users of MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT Server
an easy-to-use, cost-effective document
management solution. Capture Pro Software
accurately and quickly captures data from
scanned documents, enhancing the
functionality of the VIZIT SP Document
Viewer. VIZIT SP views the captured data and
scanned documents together in an intuitive
web-based interface directly within
MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT Server.
More:
www.kodak.com &
www.atalasoft.com
Thursday
18th June 12:47 BST (GMT -1)
The AIIM Roadshow
has strengthened its position as the UK's
leading Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
event following an overwhelming response to
its 2009 conference that was held in five
major UK cities from the 1st to the 5th of
June. Over 800 key business and IT decision
makers united in five major UK cities,
seeking expert advice on the latest products
and taking part in heated debate on
burgeoning issues including the new ECM
model from Microsoft SharePoint.
The AIIM Roadshow 2009 kicked off each venue
with well-attended keynotes from the
Managing Director of AIIM Europe, Doug Miles
and Product Manager MOSS, Microsoft UK,
Steve Marsh. In his talk on a recent AIIM
user report on the current state of ECM,
Miles acknowledged two big themes emerging
from ECM today; document-centric business
processes and document-sharing project
collaboration, which he stated were
essentially displacing the original theme of
‘scan and retrieve’. Miles also acknowledged
that improving efficiency was still the
number one driver for implementing ECM and
Microsoft SharePoint was facing a 65% market
penetration within the next two years.
More:
www.aiim.org
Wednesday
17th June 08:58 BST (GMT -1)
Reading Borough Council’s partnership
with Northgate Public Services is
delivering economic and environmental gains
to the council, at a time when local
authorities are under increasing pressure to
deliver efficient and effective services.
Using Northgate’s electronic document
management system (Northgate EDMS), Reading
has slashed the time taken to source
documents by two thirds, and the time taken
to locate an invoice from fifteen minutes to
just one minute.
Northgate EDMS enables local authorities to
capture, manage, store, deliver and share
documents electronically. In a project to
free up space, the incremental roll-out of
the system targeted paper-heavy departments,
including Revenues & Benefits, Housing and
the payroll and creditor teams. The space
saved as a result of the reduction in
storage space is the equivalent to desk
space for twelve employees.
More:
www.northgate-is.com
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Tuesday
16th June 15:59 BST (GMT -1)
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According to research by Lexmark
International [Read],
one in three workers are already
regularly working from home and one
in four expect their home working
time to increase as a result of the
recession. Tie that in with the
weather forecast for a heat wave
this summer and UK home workers are
bound to be taking their work
outside.
To help with this, here is
IOGEAR’s top four peripherals to
keep users working effectively.
What’s more, with every product
purchased, IOGEAR will plant a tree
as part of its Road to a Million
trees campaign.
£9.95 -
GearPower Rescue Charger (GMP3001):
 Usually,
working outside means no power
supply from the mains; the Rescue
Charger is a perfect solution to
this problem. By placing an AA
battery in the Rescue Charger’s
sleek case, users can plug the
charger into any female Mini-USB
device such as most PDAs, mobile
phones and other devices on the
market. Its compact design makes it
easy to slip into a pocket, laptop
bag or backpack, where it is readily
accessible for when the devices need
rescuing.
More:
www.tenzy.co.uk
£24.95 –
GearPower Portable Battery
(GMP1001B):
  During
the day, workers use many electronic
devices. The Portable Battery is an
ultra-slim, lightweight battery pack
that can charge almost any standard
portable device. It has enough power
to charge your mobile phone up to
two times before it needs to be
recharged. Included with changeable
connectors, the Portable Battery is
a one-stop-shop for charging mobile
phones, PDAs and much more.
More:
www.tenzy.co.uk
£59.99 –
Laptop KVM Switch (GCS661U):
 Using
two computers is a regular
occurrence for most these days. A
central computer is the place to
keep all documents backed up, but
for those who often travel or want
to work outside this summer, a
laptop or netbook is key.
 The
Laptop KVM Switch allows users to
easily connect a primary desktop,
laptop or netbook PC to a secondary
desktop, laptop or netbook, allowing
the primary machine full access to
the secondary computer’s KVM and
desktop. The Laptop KVM provides a
transportable and convenient way of
transferring documents such as
presentations and business
information by using the built-in
file transfer function.
More:
www.svp.co.uk
£69.99 –
Mobile Digital Scribe (GPEN200N):
 Ideal
for the outside worker, the Mobile
Digital Scribe allows you to take
notes on paper
and convert them
into digital text at a more
convenient time. The Mobile Digital
Scribe captures natural handwriting
written on any sheet of paper up to
A4 and stores it in the receiver for
upload to a digital file. Easy to
use for a left or right hander, the
Mobile Digital Scribe will store up
to 50 pages worth of notes which
should keep anyone busy out in the
sun.
More:
www.play.com
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Tuesday
16th June 15:27 BST (GMT -1)
I.R.I.S. Group, a
market leader in Intelligent Document
Recognition (IDR), Electronic Document
Management (EDM), Document, Content and
Process Management (DCPM), introduces its
new family of professional scanning
solutions that will help improve office
productivity. The IRISPowerscan 9,
IRISCapture Pro 9 and IRISDocument 9
software packages cover all scanning needs,
helping users organise their business and
increase efficiency.
The flagship solution in the new product
range is the IRISPowerscan 9, a complete
professional solution that scans,
structures, sorts, indexes and converts all
documents into fully searchable text files,
which can later be exported to document
management systems such as Microsoft
SharePoint. IRISPowerscan 9 supports a wide
range of scanners from all brands at the
highest speeds possible, up to 200ppm. It
can also be used in conjunction with the
rest of the product range to allow invoice
and form reading, automatic classification
and digital mailroom.
More:
www.irislink.com
Monday
15th June 17:56 BST (GMT -1)
ProStor Systems
of Boulder Colorado has named ServRight,
a leading technical service provider, as an
authorized service provider for its
enterprise-class data preservation storage
system, ProStor InfiniVault®.
ProStor InfiniVault® is the most cost
effective storage system for the long term
retention of data and images. ProStor
InfiniVault integrates online disk storage,
removable disk and retention management
software and is designed to automate
disaster protection and compliance for the
most rigorous business rules whether driven
by corporate policies, government
regulations or legal requirements.
More:
www.prostorsystems.com
More:
www.servright.com
Thursday
11th June 00:51 BST (GMT -1)
Issue no. 20 (January
- April 2009) of the DPC "What's New
in Digital Preservation?" bulletin is now
available from the Digital Preservation
Coalition web site and the National
Library of Australia's PADI web site.
"What's New" is a summary of selected recent
activity in the field of digital
preservation. The latest issue has been
compiled by Najla Semple and reviewed by
PADI, The National Library of Australia for
the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC).
Items are compiled from the Preserving
Access to Digital Information
(PADI) Gateway and the digital-preservation
and padiforum-l mailing lists, although
additional or related items of interest may
also be included.
More:
Digital Preservation
Coalition:
http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/whatsnew/issue20.html
More:
National Library of
Australia:
http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/qdigest/dpc-padi-digest-issue20-2009.html
Wednesday
10th June 11:05 BST (GMT -1)
Core
Security Technologies, provider of CORE
IMPACT, the most comprehensive product for
proactive enterprise security testing, today
issued an advisory disclosing a
vulnerability that could affect millions of
individuals and businesses using
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web
browsing software.
A vulnerability researcher working in
CoreLabs, the research arm of Core Security
Technologies, discovered that in some cases
when affected versions of Internet Explorer
are used to access an external website, the
browser does not apply the appropriate
security permissions, thus allowing unknown
sites or applications to be treated as
trusted URLs. This could potentially lead to
malicious or infected URLs remotely
executing scripts on systems running the
affected versions of IE, via either drive-by
or downloaded attacks, without the end
user’s knowledge or permission to do so.
More:
http://www.coresecurity.com
Tuesday
9th June 01:00 BST (GMT -1)
Clay
Tablet Technologies, a provider of
unique integration software that connects
any content management system with any
translation system, has announced the
immediate availability of Version 2.5 of its
core application. Clay Tablet announced the
new upgrade at the Localization World
Conference, here through June 11th.
Clay Tablet 2.5 includes two important,
game-changing features in this major
upgrade. The new features, InSync Master
Asset Management Technology and MultiPoint
Flexible Routing Technology, are both
available in the SaaS and On Site license
versions. Pricing for all versions remains
unchanged.
More:
www.clay-tablet.com
Friday
5th June 09:02 BST (GMT -1)
 DRS
e-Counting solutions have once again
delivered results efficiently and
effectively in Scotland, this time in the
Drumchapel/Anniesland Ward by-election. This
is the third occasion that Glasgow City
Council has chosen the DRS e-Counting
solution to complete their by-election
count. Building on the strong partnership,
created during the delivery of the highly
complex 2007 STV Scottish Local Government
elections, the Glasgow City Council and DRS
Teams worked hand-in-hand to deliver timely,
accurate results. Returning officer, George
Black hailed the Drumchapel/Anniesland
election a huge success, with results being
available within one and a half hours.
More:
www.drs.co.uk
Thursday
4th June 18:40 BST (GMT -1)
J&B
Software, Inc., a premier provider of
enterprise-wide transaction and payment
system solutions, announced that they have
signed an agreement with KPL Productivity
Ltd. to resell KPL’s Computer-Based
Training Program (CBT) for J&B’s Transaction
Management System (TMS™) software. The
purpose of the CBT is to reduce staff
training time, increase operator
productivity and quality, improve the
efficiency of selecting temporary operators,
and to cross-train internal staff.
The CBT is a precise recreation of the live
TMS environment with exercises that emulate
the appearance and functionality of the
system’s screens and process data that
appear in live work. Trainees run exercises
that provide extended practice on the
system. The system assesses operator input
and gives immediate feedback and results for
speed and accuracy at the end of the
exercise. Detailed results can be stored,
reviewed and printed by the trainee or
trainer.
More:
www.jbsoftware.com
Wednesday
3rd June 14:54 BST (GMT -1)
Accessible Archives, Inc.©, a publisher
of electronic full-text searchable
historical databases, has announced the
addition of four titles to its Charleston
South Carolina Gazette database. The
collection has been renamed South Carolina
Newspapers in order to better reflect these
new titles.
South Carolina Newspapers 1732-1780 contains
a wealth of information on Colonial and
Early American History and Genealogy, and
provides wide-ranging and often divergent
views of life in South Carolina and America,
with additional coverage of events in
Europe, during the early days of this
country.
Tom Nagy, Accessible Archives© COO,
explained the decision to expand the
collection: “While digitizing The South
Carolina Gazette we discovered a group of
papers published in and around Charleston
offering a variety of views and coverage. By
adding them to the collection we are able to
provide a broader coverage of colonial
America and events leading up to and
affecting the American Revolution.”
More:
www.accessible.com
Tuesday
2nd June 11:03 BST (GMT -1)
Eastman Kodak Company has announced that
The Cobra Group plc, a global direct
sales and marketing company, has installed
Kofax document capture technology and
90 Kodak i160 departmental scanners
throughout the UK & Ireland to automate the
whole process of contract collation and
processing by staff at its head office from
contracted marketing companies in the field.
The system has been installed by Kodak
reseller, Capital Capture.
Founded in 1988, The Cobra Group provides
its clients direct sales support operating
through a network of 120 independent
companies nationwide. Specialising in the
financial, energy, pay TV, chaity and
telecom sectors with clients such as Talk
Talk, The Cobra Group’s network has
representatives on the ground who sell on
behalf of clients by attending exhibitions
or events, selling door-to-door or at high
traffic locations like train stations,
shopping centres and so on.
More:
www.kodak.com
Monday
1st June 17:52 BST (GMT -1)
 EMCOR
Group (UK) is delighted to announce a
three-year extension of its facilities
management contract with one of London’s
most iconic institutions, the Natural
History Museum. EMCOR Group (UK) has
provided mechanical and electrical
engineering services across all of the
Museum’s sites since 2001, ensuring the
Museum has a solid infrastructure in which
to preserve and display many of the 70
million specimens under its care.
Under the new agreement, EMCOR’s scope of
work was extended to include grounds
maintenance, managing a helpdesk facility
for hard and soft services, management of
the cleaning contracts and the provision of
a full Computer Aided Design service. The
contract includes the main Waterhouse
building in South Kensington, which is Grade
I listed inside and out, as well as the new
Darwin Centre, which opens to visitors in
September. The Darwin Centre is the latest
addition to the Museum’s portfolio and will
provide world-class storage facilities,
state of the art laboratories that will be
used by the world’s leading scientists and
innovative public galleries and programmes
for visitors.
More:
www.emcorgroup.com
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