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Say Goodbye to the PC and Hello to the “Personal Cloud”

By on May 14, 2012 in Cloud, Outsourcing News

Now that we can access email, Facebook, Twitter and many other of our favorite apps through our phones and tablets, that PC at home is collecting a lot of dust. It’s a trend examined in a new Gartner report, which predicts the “Personal Cloud” will surpass the PC as the “hub of consumers’ digital lives” [...]

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Business Process Management (BPM) Market to Grow to $5.3 Billion

By on May 1, 2012 in Cloud, Outsourcing News

Mobile computing and the cloud will be major drivers behind Business Process Management (BPM), a field that is expected to command a $5.3 billion market by 2017, according to a new report by Global Industry Analysts. Business Process Management is a broad, umbrella term that encompasses a variety of strategies and approaches for re-designing and [...]

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Google’s Cloud-Based Vault Aims to Ease Pain of E-Discovery

By on April 16, 2012 in Cloud

With a new service designed to make legal preservation and discovery of emails and other data easier and cheaper, Google is hoping more large enterprises will embrace its cloud-based Google Apps for Business suite. Google recently introduced Google Vault, an add-on that archives e-mail and on-the-record instant message chats to meet legal retention rules. The [...]

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Will the iPad and other tablets overtake the PC?

By on March 5, 2012 in "How-to" Insights, BFSI, Government, Healthcare, Industries, Topics, Transportation, Uncategorized

Tablet computing is on everyone’s mind this week, with the anticipated unveiling of Apple’s iPad 3 at a media event Wednesday, March 7 in San Francisco. As usual, the secretive company has been coy about the announcement, teasing the press with an e-mail saying “We have something you really have to see. And touch.” Apple [...]

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A Freight Bill Scanner in Your Pocket

A Freight Bill Scanner in Your Pocket

By on March 1, 2012 in "How-to" Insights, Scanning & Imaging, Transportation

As a leading provider of outsourced transportation document processing, DATAMARK is very interested in freight-bill scanning solutions using smart phones, tablets and other mobile devices. It’s one of those “disruptive” technological innovations that could ultimately mean the demise of truck-stop scanners, in-cab scanners, public fax machines and other options that slow down the all-important “time-to-cash.” [...]

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Test Driving the “Drive Axle” App

By on December 30, 2011 in Scanning & Imaging, Transportation

Truckers can scan, send and store freight documents with a smartphone. Because we  process millions of freight documents every year, we’re always keeping an eye on new products and technologies that can ease the paperwork burden for truckers and air couriers. We’re interested in in-cab scanning, because the sooner a driver can send a document [...]

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Survey: IT Reluctant to Embrace Cloud Services for Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery

By on December 13, 2011 in Cloud

Thirty-three percent of respondents have no BC/DR plan in place Information technology managers are hesitant to make cloud services a part of their company’s business continuity strategy because of concerns about data security and the ability to run mission-critical applications, according to a new report from InformationWeek. As part of the 2011 Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery [...]

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Document Management Tracking System

Cracking the QR Code

By on December 5, 2011 in Scanning & Imaging

Linear, one-dimensional barcodes have been in use for many years by document management providers to track letters and hard-copy documents through the workflow. But it’s the new kid on the block–the two-dimensional Quick Response (QR) Code–that’s attracting a lot of attention for its potential in document management. In the business-to-consumer (B2C) universe, QR Codes are [...]

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AIIM Report Proves Value of Capture Driven Process Automation

AIIM Report Proves Value of Capture Driven Process Automation

By on October 17, 2011 in Scanning & Imaging

The results of a new survey by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) offers some insights on how companies large and small are using—or not using—document and data capture systems. AIIM finds that companies are well aware of the benefits of scanning documents for archive and retrieval. Most of the respondents report definite [...]

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