DOCUMENT Articles

Why C-Level Executives Should Be Concerned about the New Cost Basis Reporting Rules

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST

The rules have changed: Title IV, Section 403 of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008* requires the reporting of adjusted cost basis information for covered securities to the Internal...

It’s in the Message: Branding Beyond the Logo

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST

We've all felt it: the stinging disconnect between what we hope for and expect, and what we actually get. In the world of business documents, our expectations around doing business with an...

Transactional Information Security in a Mobile World

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST

Today, smartphones, laptops and removable media provide opportunities for businesses to increase productivity by transforming a workplace formerly constricted by office location and core hours to one...

The Move to Mobile ECM

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST

In our world of content technologies, we are at a point where current technology offerings considerably lag behind the needs and expectations of the buyer. A particularly obvious example is in the...

The Recovery Mission

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST

This past year has taught all of us a lot about ourselves, the way we run our businesses and the true relationship we have with our customers. In a golden age of excess, businesses have let go of...

Color with Caution

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST

With advancements in digital print technologies and an increasing number of success cases for color in transactional and TransPromo documents, one could argue that the case has been made for digital...

Transforming Transactions for Customer Retention and Growth

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST

The opportunity is right under our noses. Today's content, document and process management technologies already allow us to communicate with millions of our customers in more engaging and...

Out with the Old, in with the New

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST

Whether you believe Web 2.0 is a significant departure from the original web or merely a logical evolution of the tools that built Web 1.0, as Tim Berners-Lee (the guy behind the WWW) believes, these...

In or Out

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST

Outsourcing has been one of the most talked-about business topics in 2009. With the current recession, companies are continuing to reduce costs, eliminate overhead and streamline operations with an...

Mobile: the Next Step for Content Management

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST

Only a few years ago, the idea of mobile content management was a novelty; today, it is mainstream. The basics of the technology, such as smartphones, have been available for a number of years, but...

Shine a Light on Untamed Apps

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST

A business process - at its highest level - is any activity that helps an enterprise achieves its goals. Packaged and industry-specific applications form the transactional backbone for most...

The Future of Digital MICR Printing

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST

The magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) market is proving to be tremendously resilient in the face of daunting challenges. Despite declining check volumes around the world, millions of MICR...

The Evolution of Anti-spam

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST

The high-tech approaches of fighting spam vary widely. The most sophisticated anti-virus, antispyware and anti-spam software programs employ algorithms that attack spam from a broad, structural...

Green Lessons of Paper Suppression

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST

Summer has come and gone, and economic conditions seem marginally better than they were when I wrote my February column (I think the terminology is "less worse"). To survive the recession, most...

Faster Profits in Slowing Economies

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST

Stop Retrenching. Strike instead. Historically, economic downturns show winners don't retrench out of fear, but strike early. Think Strategy, Not Tactics. Make sure you know how to outmaneuver the...

The BI Architecture Choice

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST

The Importance of Integrity and Flexibility Imagine the scenario where the CIO reviews the long-term goals of the IT organization and outlines an initiative to develop business intelligence...

A World of Conscious Communication

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST

In the words of Tom Friedman, "The world is flat." Globalization of business, the movement toward distributed teams and the increasing number of people working from home is a fact of life. This...

The IT Perspective: The Evolution of Acquire-Serve-Grow, Part 2

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST

Part 1 of Mr. Krishna's column dealt with the 'acquire' and 'serve' sections of the customer life cycle with in-depth analysis of microsites and social media ( read part 1 ). Part 2 cinches up the...

It’s in the Message: The Ins and Outs of Consolidated Statements and Householding

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST

Keeping track of our financial affairs is a challenge at the best of times. Bills, statements, notices and letters from the bank seem to fly through the letter slot with dizzying frequency and in no...

The Ugly Truth Behind Document Storage

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST