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Social Media: Businesses Adopt SM as Popularity Increases

By Dick Weisinger

Social Media use is growing fast. A Nielsen survey showed an 82 percent jump in usage of Social Media sites like Twitter and Facebook in December 2009 from the previous year. The average Internet user spent about 5.5 hours per…

Data Capture: The Ins and Outs of Large Scale Document Scanning

By Dick Weisinger

With hardware scanner prices dropping, scanners for the capture of business documents of legal and letter size are becoming commodity items, encouraging trends like distributed scanners for capturing data from remote offices.But capture of larger drawings, especially engineering drawings and…

Data Explosion: Unrelenting Overload

By Dick Weisinger

Here’s some interesting trivia around the huge volumes of data that we’re currently generating: –  Walmart processes 1 million customer transactions an hour –  Facebook hosts 40 billion photos – 667 exabytes will flow through the internet in 2013 These…

BPM: Guidelines to For Improving Processes

By Dick Weisinger

Since the fall of 2008, as the economy started tanking, analysts advised companies to increase cost efficiencies by improving their business processes.  The potential benefits of BPM include ‘lowering risk’, and ‘getting more out of what you already have’. Gartner…

Records Management: How do RM and DM differ?

By Dick Weisinger

There is a lot of confusion about what the differences are between Records Management and Document Management. CMSWire recently summarized some of the differernces between the two types of systems: Document Management Records Management Stored Objects A Document is stored…