Opinion

Microsoft at the cloud tipping point

The SharePoint world is at a significant tipping point, argues John Mancini of AIIM: customers are moving into a hybrid world, with some organisations moving to the cloud, some sticking with on-premise and most opting for a hybrid solution

Getting the BPO ball rolling

What is the best starting point for outsourcing Document Management? Peter Ortmanns, Teamleader Partner Care Centre & Marketing at I.R.I.S. AG, suggests that 'content-to-process technologies' should be top of the list.

Where next for the Health service?

Much like the NHS' founding principle, the modern information management system provides a 'cradle to grave' auditable trail of legacy documents such as patient records and correspondence, says Dr. Vijay Magon of CCube Solutions

Case studies

Top flight

Globe-trotting Fujitsu scanners are helping to keep planes in the air

White Papers

Intelligent Document Understanding

Kodak's guide to transforming a whirlwind of data, from very different sources and formats, into valuable business knowledge

Capture at Point of Entry or Point of Origination?

There's a lot of talk these days about a new approach to distributed scanning dubbed "Point of Origination™," but has the rhetoric gone too far? Ibml's Dan Lucarini considers the key issues

This edition of the Document Manager newsletter comes hot on the heels of the DM Awards 2013, which saw nearly 200 of the industry's leading lights come together under one roof to celebrate all that is innovative and interesting from the sector. Big winners included ibml who managed to take away product trophies for both high volume and desktop scanners, as well as Microsoft, Kodak, Canon, and CCube Solutions. For a full list of all the winners and runners-up, please visit the Awards website at www.dmawards.com - and if your DM/ECM product of choice wasn't there, make sure you get in early with your nominations next year!

This newsletter includes a fascinating viewpoint from AIIM's John Mancini, who suggests that SharePoint customers are at a 'tipping point': a hybrid world where a decision needs to be made on whether to go with a hosted, on-premise or 'bit-of-both' approach. As John says: “For small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), Office 365 can act as a one-stop shop from a provider they know and for the most part trust. For any business currently relying on file-sharing, email and spreadsheets to run their business - in other words for most SMEs - cloud based solutions and getting out of the e-mail hosting business can be a significant step forward. For larger enterprises the issues of governance in particular become more complex as they enter a hybrid world that will likely include on-premise, private and public cloud solutions and a host of variations and combinations.”

Clearly this dilemma doesn't apply solely to SharePoint implementations - we're likely to see similar discussions taking place across a raft of different applications and platforms over the next few years - I'd be fascinated to hear what you our readers think. Feel free to drop me a line at the email address below.

David Tyler
Editor

david.tyler@btc.co.uk

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