HCL Impero is a highly parameterized, user-friendly web based total office automation solution that enables an efficient, transparent, accountable and collaborative working of office for all the office employees, partners, vendors and other industry associations.
Justifying Capacity Management Efforts with Provable and Positive ROIPrecisely
You are already spending time and money to handle the critical need to manage systems capacity, performance and planning. But, are you spending wisely? Are you getting the level of results from your investment that you really need? Can you prove it?
Having underutilized or idle resources can be just as harmful to your business as not having enough processing capacity or network bandwidth. Failure to do effective Capacity Planning becomes clearly visible to your customers, especially your internal customers.
The good news is that the return on investment of implementing capacity management and capacity planning is most definitely positive and provable, both in terms of tangible monetary value and in some less tangible but no-less-valuable benefits.
View this webinar on-demand and learn:
• The core requirements that need to be part of your capacity management tools
• Tangible Return on Investment opportunities you can expect to realize
• What some of the non-tangible benefits from Capacity Management are
• Ways to demonstrate these benefits to your company
HCL Impero is a highly parameterized, user-friendly web based total office automation solution that enables an efficient, transparent, accountable and collaborative working of office for all the office employees, partners, vendors and other industry associations.
The mailroom is the epcienter of paper for most businesses, and can create massive inefficiency and a drain on productivity. See how the issue can be soved with technology.
This document discusses achieving lean maintenance through integrating human-machine interface (HMI) and computerized maintenance management system (CMMS). It outlines the challenges maintenance managers face in minimizing costs and optimizing asset performance. Several approaches to HMI interoperability with CMMS are presented and factors to consider like objectives, existing systems, and return on investment. Integrating the two systems can provide benefits like higher efficiency, improved responsiveness, and minimized downtime. An example is given of how real-time machine data in SCADA could trigger a work order in CMMS to quickly address issues.
A discussion about Electronic Document Management. Learn how to achieve advantage, leverage your website, integrate with your software and access your documents anywhere, even your mobile device!
This document discusses business process management (BPM) and different approaches to improving efficiency. It describes the typical activities involved in BPM as modeling current processes, automating future processes, managing future processes, and optimizing current processes. Two main approaches to BPM are discussed: EAI-centric BPM, which focuses on integrating systems and requiring little human intervention; and human-centric BPM, which involves more ad hoc processes and significant human intervention. Several case studies are presented showing how organizations achieved reductions in task time, lag time, and administration time through BPM and automation.
The solution eliminates the time-consuming paperbound activities in trade finance by adopting an automation software and integrating it across other platforms to transfer other traditional trade finance processes on a single platform. The solution aids in AML and visualization as well.
HCL Impero is a highly parameterized, user-friendly web based total office automation solution that enables an efficient, transparent, accountable and collaborative working of office for all the office employees, partners, vendors and other industry associations.
Justifying Capacity Management Efforts with Provable and Positive ROIPrecisely
You are already spending time and money to handle the critical need to manage systems capacity, performance and planning. But, are you spending wisely? Are you getting the level of results from your investment that you really need? Can you prove it?
Having underutilized or idle resources can be just as harmful to your business as not having enough processing capacity or network bandwidth. Failure to do effective Capacity Planning becomes clearly visible to your customers, especially your internal customers.
The good news is that the return on investment of implementing capacity management and capacity planning is most definitely positive and provable, both in terms of tangible monetary value and in some less tangible but no-less-valuable benefits.
View this webinar on-demand and learn:
• The core requirements that need to be part of your capacity management tools
• Tangible Return on Investment opportunities you can expect to realize
• What some of the non-tangible benefits from Capacity Management are
• Ways to demonstrate these benefits to your company
HCL Impero is a highly parameterized, user-friendly web based total office automation solution that enables an efficient, transparent, accountable and collaborative working of office for all the office employees, partners, vendors and other industry associations.
The mailroom is the epcienter of paper for most businesses, and can create massive inefficiency and a drain on productivity. See how the issue can be soved with technology.
This document discusses achieving lean maintenance through integrating human-machine interface (HMI) and computerized maintenance management system (CMMS). It outlines the challenges maintenance managers face in minimizing costs and optimizing asset performance. Several approaches to HMI interoperability with CMMS are presented and factors to consider like objectives, existing systems, and return on investment. Integrating the two systems can provide benefits like higher efficiency, improved responsiveness, and minimized downtime. An example is given of how real-time machine data in SCADA could trigger a work order in CMMS to quickly address issues.
A discussion about Electronic Document Management. Learn how to achieve advantage, leverage your website, integrate with your software and access your documents anywhere, even your mobile device!
This document discusses business process management (BPM) and different approaches to improving efficiency. It describes the typical activities involved in BPM as modeling current processes, automating future processes, managing future processes, and optimizing current processes. Two main approaches to BPM are discussed: EAI-centric BPM, which focuses on integrating systems and requiring little human intervention; and human-centric BPM, which involves more ad hoc processes and significant human intervention. Several case studies are presented showing how organizations achieved reductions in task time, lag time, and administration time through BPM and automation.
The solution eliminates the time-consuming paperbound activities in trade finance by adopting an automation software and integrating it across other platforms to transfer other traditional trade finance processes on a single platform. The solution aids in AML and visualization as well.
Bring Down Costs by Controlling Cloud Capacity Precisely
This document discusses managing cloud capacity to control costs. It defines capacity management and planning, noting the goal is to right-size resources to meet business needs cost-effectively. Key differences in the cloud include elasticity and user self-service. Questions to address include workload trends, future plans, management systems, and optimizing costs. Effective reporting is critical to understand usage and justify investments. The presentation promotes a capacity management tool that provides a unified view of usage across platforms to proactively manage performance and costs.
Paper invoices make up 75-80% of invoices in the US, costing companies significant time and money to process, store, search, and manage. Going digital with accounts payable automation reduces processing costs by up to $1.17 per invoice through faster processing times, improved visibility and workflow, and easier long-term storage and compliance. Key benefits include lower costs, increased efficiency, and productivity gains through faster payment cycles and easier auditing.
It’s time to Renovate your ECM system and:
Save Money
With document automation solutions that remove the cost and complexity of your existing business processes, leveraging technologies from Capture to Case Management to Enterprise Integration. And provide the added benefits of increasing your time to revenue and delivering actionable analytics.
Disrupting Technology Lagging Industries with Dynamics CRMGlenn Kinstler
Glenn Kinstler from 2B Solutions discusses how the company is disrupting lagging industries like education, warehouses, and legal services through mobile inventory management and CRM solutions. 2B Solutions started by creating a mobile inventory system for an Alabama education program and has since expanded to over 800 customers across various industries. Kinstler highlights specific education, warehouse, and legal clients and how 2B Solutions' systems have improved their operations by moving processes online and enabling remote access and collaboration. The presentation concludes with a Q&A.
DMS is an electronic solution that helps the organization to streamline their document management process.
Software system to store, manage and track electronic documents
To avoid delays In decision making and data inconsistencies
To save paper documents in electronic formats
Helps maintain different documents from different departments-
Legal documents
Minutes of meetings/ Annual reports
Contracts/ Agreement
Renewal/Alert
Employee records/ Policy management
Benefits for Businesses
Easily accessible documents at any point of time, hence saves time and ensures higher productivity
Easy flow of documents which ensures higher efficiency
Improved security
Improved confidentiality
Competitive edge
Improved customer services
Improved ROI
Document Management Software: Making a Difference Across DepartmentsMES Hybrid
Document management software provides organizations with solutions to manage documents efficiently and automate daily processes. It can enhance work processes across departments like accounts receivable, accounts payable, customer service, and human resources. Document management software reduces costs, improves productivity and collaboration, and helps ensure compliance.
This document provides an overview of a proof-of-concept for a credit limit increase request management process using Oracle BPM 11g. The goals are to increase visibility, reduce processing time, and improve fraud detection for a financial company's credit card services. Key deliverables and milestones include developing a web application for requests, implementing the basic approval workflow, adding management reports, and customizing the process to allow for suspensions, cancellations, and notifications.
Fingertips Intelligence helps companies manage data more effectively by automating reporting processes and replacing disparate Excel spreadsheets with single database solutions. They helped an investment firm migrate their asset valuations, cash movements, trades, and other financial data from multiple Excel spreadsheets into a Filemaker database solution. This automated calculations and generation of client reports, saving extensive time and improving data quality over the firm's previous manual processes.
The document discusses how several accounting firms and a legal insurance company use digital signatures to streamline processes such as client onboarding, document routing, and signature collection. It provides examples of the types of documents signed digitally and highlights top features of digital signature platforms like DocuSign, Adobe EchoSign, and RightSignature that allow for complicated routing, cloning of documents, reminders, and audit trails of signed documents. The document also shares upcoming product releases from an e-signature company targeted towards accountants to further integrate signature collection into accounting workflows and document management systems.
Five paper cuts for finance and five other ways to tidy up the paper trail ac...Canon for Business UK
Capture and automated-workflow technologies are improving the payment process cycle by 50%, according to the Institute of Financial Operations. Here's how to go paper-free across the business, save money and boost productivity.
Communication Strategies for Pushing the Boundaries of CollaborationJohn McDonald
This document outlines strategies for strengthening the brand and reputation of the Claremont University Consortium (CUC) through improved collaboration and communication. It discusses the history and vision of CUC as a collaborative group of small colleges. Key areas of focus are identified, including building a unified brand, defining the value proposition, developing brand resources, promoting collaborative initiatives, and embodying the CUC brand through strategic planning efforts. Specific strategies proposed include trademark registration, establishing design standards, template development, and opportunistic partnering with member institutions. The goal is to optimize external positioning while also building internal clarity around the consortium's brand.
Ebook Availability Revisited: A Quantitative Analysis of the 2012 Ebook Aggre...John McDonald
Presentation at Charleston Conference 2012 that revisited our 2008 study on the availability of print and electronic books in e-book aggregators like EBL, Ebrary, MyILibrary, and Ebsco/NetLibrary.
What OCLC Data Analysis Reveals About SCELC LibrariesJohn McDonald
Presentation at SCELC Colloquium 2013 on an analysis of print book holdings at 56 SCELC institutions from a data file provided by OCLC in 2012. Implications for shared print, resource sharing, and collaborative collection development are explored.
The document discusses the transformation of the Claremont Colleges Library. It notes the decline in print subscriptions from 2004-2009 and rise in online access during the same period. It proposes that if starting a library today, the focus would be on supporting student and faculty work through collaboration and improving discovery, management, and promotion of resources. Cylinders of excellence could include special collections, assessment, and demonstrating the library's value through outcomes.
The document discusses the vision of James A. Blaisdell for the Claremont Colleges library system in 1923, wanting small colleges united around shared library resources. It notes changes in collections, technology, the roles of librarians, and students. The chief information officer suggests ways for librarians to respond to challenges, such as increasing discovery of resources, leveraging fewer staff through partnerships, collaborating more with faculty and students, focusing collections on what makes them unique, and emphasizing assessment.
Discovery or Displacement?: A Large Scale Longitudinal Study of the Effect of...John McDonald
The document describes a large-scale study analyzing the effect of discovery systems on online journal usage across multiple libraries and publishers. Statistical analyses were conducted to determine if observed differences in journal usage before and after implementing discovery services were significant. The analyses found that while the impact varied, discovery service, publisher, and library were all significant predictors of usage change. Specifically, the interaction between discovery service and publisher significantly impacted usage. The study suggests analyzing journal usage is complex with many factors requiring control.
Making the Data Work: Telling your story with Usage StatisticsJohn McDonald
The document discusses choosing effective data visualizations and statistics to tell a story or make a point to an audience. It provides several examples of charts, graphs and images that were chosen to effectively convey a message compared to alternatives. The document emphasizes selecting the right measures, considering the audience, and choosing images wisely to make an impact and get the intended message across clearly.
Optimize your info-driven business processes. How to move from paper to digitalChristiana Kozakou
Presentation to Cyprus Computer Society Records Management event by Alexis Evangelou, Head of Technology at Fileminders.http://www.fileminders.com.cy/
Agenda:
The hybrid information environment
• How to manage information silos through digital transformation
• The Digital Transformation Challenges
Have a single point of access to business information
• ECM for a holistic organization view
• Turn information chaos to information opportunities
• Optimize your info-driven processes
• Empower Content Analytics
Design your Digital Transformation strategy
• Critical Success Factors
The document provides an agenda and overview for a Project Fusion engagement kick-off event. It discusses the strategic alignment of the project, business and technology drivers, and the project strategy and key decisions. The future state functionality for finance, payroll, human resources, and other areas is also summarized. The project aims to implement a unified HR, payroll, and finance solution to modernize processes, improve data integrity, and enhance security.
The document provides an agenda and overview for a Project Fusion engagement kick-off event. It discusses the strategic alignment of the project, business and technology drivers, and the project strategy and key decisions. The future state functionality for finance, payroll, human resources, and other areas is also summarized. The project aims to implement a unified HR, payroll, and finance solution to modernize processes, improve data integrity, and enhance security.
Bring Down Costs by Controlling Cloud Capacity Precisely
This document discusses managing cloud capacity to control costs. It defines capacity management and planning, noting the goal is to right-size resources to meet business needs cost-effectively. Key differences in the cloud include elasticity and user self-service. Questions to address include workload trends, future plans, management systems, and optimizing costs. Effective reporting is critical to understand usage and justify investments. The presentation promotes a capacity management tool that provides a unified view of usage across platforms to proactively manage performance and costs.
Paper invoices make up 75-80% of invoices in the US, costing companies significant time and money to process, store, search, and manage. Going digital with accounts payable automation reduces processing costs by up to $1.17 per invoice through faster processing times, improved visibility and workflow, and easier long-term storage and compliance. Key benefits include lower costs, increased efficiency, and productivity gains through faster payment cycles and easier auditing.
It’s time to Renovate your ECM system and:
Save Money
With document automation solutions that remove the cost and complexity of your existing business processes, leveraging technologies from Capture to Case Management to Enterprise Integration. And provide the added benefits of increasing your time to revenue and delivering actionable analytics.
Disrupting Technology Lagging Industries with Dynamics CRMGlenn Kinstler
Glenn Kinstler from 2B Solutions discusses how the company is disrupting lagging industries like education, warehouses, and legal services through mobile inventory management and CRM solutions. 2B Solutions started by creating a mobile inventory system for an Alabama education program and has since expanded to over 800 customers across various industries. Kinstler highlights specific education, warehouse, and legal clients and how 2B Solutions' systems have improved their operations by moving processes online and enabling remote access and collaboration. The presentation concludes with a Q&A.
DMS is an electronic solution that helps the organization to streamline their document management process.
Software system to store, manage and track electronic documents
To avoid delays In decision making and data inconsistencies
To save paper documents in electronic formats
Helps maintain different documents from different departments-
Legal documents
Minutes of meetings/ Annual reports
Contracts/ Agreement
Renewal/Alert
Employee records/ Policy management
Benefits for Businesses
Easily accessible documents at any point of time, hence saves time and ensures higher productivity
Easy flow of documents which ensures higher efficiency
Improved security
Improved confidentiality
Competitive edge
Improved customer services
Improved ROI
Document Management Software: Making a Difference Across DepartmentsMES Hybrid
Document management software provides organizations with solutions to manage documents efficiently and automate daily processes. It can enhance work processes across departments like accounts receivable, accounts payable, customer service, and human resources. Document management software reduces costs, improves productivity and collaboration, and helps ensure compliance.
This document provides an overview of a proof-of-concept for a credit limit increase request management process using Oracle BPM 11g. The goals are to increase visibility, reduce processing time, and improve fraud detection for a financial company's credit card services. Key deliverables and milestones include developing a web application for requests, implementing the basic approval workflow, adding management reports, and customizing the process to allow for suspensions, cancellations, and notifications.
Fingertips Intelligence helps companies manage data more effectively by automating reporting processes and replacing disparate Excel spreadsheets with single database solutions. They helped an investment firm migrate their asset valuations, cash movements, trades, and other financial data from multiple Excel spreadsheets into a Filemaker database solution. This automated calculations and generation of client reports, saving extensive time and improving data quality over the firm's previous manual processes.
The document discusses how several accounting firms and a legal insurance company use digital signatures to streamline processes such as client onboarding, document routing, and signature collection. It provides examples of the types of documents signed digitally and highlights top features of digital signature platforms like DocuSign, Adobe EchoSign, and RightSignature that allow for complicated routing, cloning of documents, reminders, and audit trails of signed documents. The document also shares upcoming product releases from an e-signature company targeted towards accountants to further integrate signature collection into accounting workflows and document management systems.
Five paper cuts for finance and five other ways to tidy up the paper trail ac...Canon for Business UK
Capture and automated-workflow technologies are improving the payment process cycle by 50%, according to the Institute of Financial Operations. Here's how to go paper-free across the business, save money and boost productivity.
Communication Strategies for Pushing the Boundaries of CollaborationJohn McDonald
This document outlines strategies for strengthening the brand and reputation of the Claremont University Consortium (CUC) through improved collaboration and communication. It discusses the history and vision of CUC as a collaborative group of small colleges. Key areas of focus are identified, including building a unified brand, defining the value proposition, developing brand resources, promoting collaborative initiatives, and embodying the CUC brand through strategic planning efforts. Specific strategies proposed include trademark registration, establishing design standards, template development, and opportunistic partnering with member institutions. The goal is to optimize external positioning while also building internal clarity around the consortium's brand.
Ebook Availability Revisited: A Quantitative Analysis of the 2012 Ebook Aggre...John McDonald
Presentation at Charleston Conference 2012 that revisited our 2008 study on the availability of print and electronic books in e-book aggregators like EBL, Ebrary, MyILibrary, and Ebsco/NetLibrary.
What OCLC Data Analysis Reveals About SCELC LibrariesJohn McDonald
Presentation at SCELC Colloquium 2013 on an analysis of print book holdings at 56 SCELC institutions from a data file provided by OCLC in 2012. Implications for shared print, resource sharing, and collaborative collection development are explored.
The document discusses the transformation of the Claremont Colleges Library. It notes the decline in print subscriptions from 2004-2009 and rise in online access during the same period. It proposes that if starting a library today, the focus would be on supporting student and faculty work through collaboration and improving discovery, management, and promotion of resources. Cylinders of excellence could include special collections, assessment, and demonstrating the library's value through outcomes.
The document discusses the vision of James A. Blaisdell for the Claremont Colleges library system in 1923, wanting small colleges united around shared library resources. It notes changes in collections, technology, the roles of librarians, and students. The chief information officer suggests ways for librarians to respond to challenges, such as increasing discovery of resources, leveraging fewer staff through partnerships, collaborating more with faculty and students, focusing collections on what makes them unique, and emphasizing assessment.
Discovery or Displacement?: A Large Scale Longitudinal Study of the Effect of...John McDonald
The document describes a large-scale study analyzing the effect of discovery systems on online journal usage across multiple libraries and publishers. Statistical analyses were conducted to determine if observed differences in journal usage before and after implementing discovery services were significant. The analyses found that while the impact varied, discovery service, publisher, and library were all significant predictors of usage change. Specifically, the interaction between discovery service and publisher significantly impacted usage. The study suggests analyzing journal usage is complex with many factors requiring control.
Making the Data Work: Telling your story with Usage StatisticsJohn McDonald
The document discusses choosing effective data visualizations and statistics to tell a story or make a point to an audience. It provides several examples of charts, graphs and images that were chosen to effectively convey a message compared to alternatives. The document emphasizes selecting the right measures, considering the audience, and choosing images wisely to make an impact and get the intended message across clearly.
Optimize your info-driven business processes. How to move from paper to digitalChristiana Kozakou
Presentation to Cyprus Computer Society Records Management event by Alexis Evangelou, Head of Technology at Fileminders.http://www.fileminders.com.cy/
Agenda:
The hybrid information environment
• How to manage information silos through digital transformation
• The Digital Transformation Challenges
Have a single point of access to business information
• ECM for a holistic organization view
• Turn information chaos to information opportunities
• Optimize your info-driven processes
• Empower Content Analytics
Design your Digital Transformation strategy
• Critical Success Factors
The document provides an agenda and overview for a Project Fusion engagement kick-off event. It discusses the strategic alignment of the project, business and technology drivers, and the project strategy and key decisions. The future state functionality for finance, payroll, human resources, and other areas is also summarized. The project aims to implement a unified HR, payroll, and finance solution to modernize processes, improve data integrity, and enhance security.
The document provides an agenda and overview for a Project Fusion engagement kick-off event. It discusses the strategic alignment of the project, business and technology drivers, and the project strategy and key decisions. The future state functionality for finance, payroll, human resources, and other areas is also summarized. The project aims to implement a unified HR, payroll, and finance solution to modernize processes, improve data integrity, and enhance security.
Enterprise Systems - Real World PerspectiveShauna_Cox
Shauna Cox presented to DePaul University's Enterprise Systems class on May 31, 2012. She discussed her 20+ years of experience in IT and her current role as Director of Information Technology Services at the Chicago Housing Authority. She provided an overview of CHA's major applications, including an ERP system, and discussed past and future enterprise system implementations like a CRM system and an electronic collaboration platform. Cox also outlined lessons learned from prior projects around requirements, roles, change management, and senior support.
Rapid ROI, Rapid Adoption: ECM Renovation for GovernmentZia Consulting
Across all levels of the Public Sector, from Federal to State and Local, widespread opportunities exist to renovate outdated ECM systems. Renovating your ECM system allows you to save money with document automation solutions that remove the cost and complexity of your existing business processes, leveraging technologies from Capture to Workflow/BPM to Enterprise Integration. They also provide the added benefits of increasing your productivity by delivering actionable analytics. Additionally, renovation solutions allow you to increase control and compliance by providing EasyECM solutions that actually get used. These solutions are as simple as email or your own shared drives, but still provide enterprise-class document and records management capabilities that include secure internal and external collaboration.
Just Say No to Spreadsheets: A Practical Approach to Automating Capacity Mana...Precisely
Many companies, even medium-sized and larger firms, still rely on a spreadsheet-based foundation for managing capacity, even if they’ve added other application- and platform-specific tools to the mix. Meanwhile, staffing and processes have, naturally, conformed to fit that collection of tools.
While everything might be working well enough for now, it’s only a matter of time before the looming risk of a serious failure becomes a reality. Capacity management functions that rely on spreadsheets are inherently risky, prone to failure and might not comply with today’s regulations. Even if they try to be structured like a database, or have been dressed up like an app using VBS, spreadsheets are flat files and have limitations.
Yet the prospect of throwing out years’ worth of processes and investing in an automated capacity management solution can seem overwhelming. Join this webinar to learn a practical approach to transitioning away from manual processes and spreadsheets while adopting automation that is right fit for your organization’s needs.
View this webinar with CMG on-demand, where we cover:
• Risks and limitations of a spreadsheet-based approach to capacity management
• Capacity Management Automation: Options and Advantages
• Best practices and real-world examples
Role of Information technology in supply chain management Deepak Gupta
This document provides an overview of the role of information technology in supply chain management. It discusses key concepts like SCM, benefits of IT in SCM like competitive advantage and information visibility. It describes areas where IT is used for optimizing SCM like warehousing, logistics, and sales. Specific technologies like barcode, RFID, GPS, ERP, e-SCM, and CPFR are explained. The future of further IT adoption in SCM over the next 6 years is also highlighted.
What are the symptoms of a poorly managed data center facility? How close are you to an operating failure or catastrophic downtime event? Learn how to spot the warning signs and start improving your facility management program immediately to minimize the risk of downtime, reduce costs, and upgrade your operations.
Reduce Cost, Time, and Risk – eDiscovery and Records Management in SharePointConcept Searching, Inc
No organization wants to deal with litigation. eDiscovery is expensive, time consuming and risky. What are the costs? Add them up. Litigation support vendors $75K - $180K; document reviewers $80K to $180K; document review - one gigabyte takes 12.5 days; junk cull $75K to $180K; and the costs continue to mount. This webinar, sponsored by C/D/H and Concept Searching, addresses the common challenges, technology approaches, and a solution guaranteed to deliver results.
SharePoint has records management and the improved eDiscovery Center, but without a framework and specialized tools you are still facing an uphill battle. Join us for this informative webinar about effective records management and eDiscovery technologies that save you money and time, and reduce organizational risk.
What you will learn during this session:
• How to develop a strategy to incorporate eDiscovery and records management into an enterprise content lifecycle management approach.
• Common strategic errors made in eDiscovery and records management.
• How to rapidly find the relevant responsive documents.
• Why vocabulary normalization is key to finding all relevant documents, regardless of keywords.
• Best practices for management of records for disposition, preservation and legal hold.
• Issues and pitfalls of records management in SharePoint, common strategic errors, and how they apply to eDiscovery.
• Types of architecture and tools for powerful and flexible management of unstructured and semi-structured content.
• How auto-classification/text mining, workflow and integration with dynamic LOB data can help.
Speakers:
David Tappan, SharePoint Consultant at C/D/H
Don Miller, Vice President of Sales at Concept Searching
The document discusses transaction processing systems (TPS), describing their characteristics, processing cycles, and functions. A TPS performs and records routine business transactions like orders and payments. There are two types - batch processing accumulates transactions and processes them in batches, while online transaction processing (OLTP) immediately processes each transaction. The TPS processing cycle involves data entry, processing transactions against databases, generating documents and reports, and allowing inquiries. A TPS ensures data integrity and accuracy while supporting operational needs of a business.
Transaction processing systems (TPS) are computerized systems that perform and record routine daily business transactions. There are two types of TPS: batch processing, which accumulates transactions and processes them in batches, and online transaction processing (OLTP), which processes each transaction immediately. TPS ensure data integrity, produce documents like invoices and reports, and allow inquiries into transaction information through a processing cycle that includes data entry, database maintenance, document/report generation, and inquiry processing. A key goal of TPS is supporting operational needs through rapid, reliable processing of basic business activities.
Transaction processing systems (TPS) are computerized systems that perform and record routine daily business transactions. There are two types of TPS: batch processing, which accumulates transactions and processes them in batches, and online transaction processing (OLTP), which processes each transaction immediately. TPS aim to ensure data integrity, produce timely documents, and increase efficiency. The processing cycle of a TPS involves data entry, database maintenance, document/report generation, and inquiry processing to keep business databases up-to-date and provide operational reports.
Automation of document management paul fenton webinarMontrium
In the life sciences, most of the documents we create end up as records. Now, as we move towards a paperless era in today’s GxP environment and leverage digital content management technology, we are also starting to change the way that we author, collaborate, manage, exchange, and archive our documents.
The very nature of document management is transforming as more and more data becomes part of the document management landscape. In this webinar, we explore how technology is transforming our GxP records management environments and what the future may hold for automating processes
This document provides an overview of capacity management according to ITIL best practices. It begins with definitions of key frameworks like ITIL, ITSM, COBIT and SOX. It then discusses the ten ITIL processes and focuses on capacity management. The objectives of capacity management are to ensure sufficient and cost-justified capacity is available and matched to business needs. Key aspects covered include the three sub-processes, relevant metrics, process interdependencies, and elements of the capacity plan. Critical success factors and automation solutions are also summarized.
The document describes case studies for four companies that implemented SAP projects with JK Tech. It outlines the key business processes covered such as manufacturing, planning, procurement, sales, and financials. It also summarizes JK Tech's involvement in the implementation projects through various phases from analysis of current processes to system configuration, testing, end user training, and go-live support. The case studies highlight expected customer benefits like reduced inventory levels, lower operational costs, and reduced cycle times through an integrated SAP system.
Reducing Costs Through Document Automation for a More Efficient Workplacedclsocialmedia
The document discusses how CVISION Technologies provides document automation solutions to help organizations reduce costs through more efficient document processing. It outlines challenges organizations face with document storage and processing. CVISION offers technologies like OCR, compression, and automated data extraction from forms to help address these challenges. Case studies show how CVISION solutions helped clients achieve accurate automated processing of invoices and tax forms, reducing labor costs and realizing a return on investment within months.
This document discusses workforce management (WFM) and the benefits of automating manual timekeeping processes. It defines WFM as encompassing all activities needed to manage a workforce, including planning, forecasting, scheduling, and tracking workers. The document provides examples of manual timekeeping processes and their limitations. It argues that automating can provide cost savings through reduced errors, increased productivity, and improved decision making. The document also discusses current and future trends in WFM, who should consider automating, and how to select a vendor and define a business case. It provides a hypothetical example of a business case that estimates over $600,000 in annual hard cost savings from automating.
This document discusses the benefits of document management software for businesses. It notes that traditional paper-based practices are inefficient, with staff spending 6 weeks per year searching for documents and companies losing 20% of records annually to misfiling. The document then outlines how document management software can help by providing a centralized electronic filing system, enhanced security, efficient searching, electronic workflows and signatures, and integration with other software. It argues that these benefits can save time and costs while improving compliance, and that the software offers a fast return on investment for businesses.
Scaling on Atlassian: Avoiding The Top 5 Pitfalls When Migrating From a Legac...Cprime
New emerging platforms and technologies like “Atlassian” have caused us to revisit the many different software vendors that provide short term band-aid solutions to scalability challenges.
As organizations continue to heavily invest in software tooling, the need to standardize on an integrated platform is becoming ever more necessary. This provides an opportunity to reduce complexity, get to a reliable system that reduces duplication of efforts, enables better decision-making and provides more flexible ways of being more competitive. While there are 100’s of software vendors providing point solutions to problems in this ecosystem, Atlassian has come along and caused many to rethink software, services, processes, workflows, work items and more.
With the ultimate pursuit of moving faster in an integrated way, we will highlight our journey and uncover what we encountered as we migrated to Atlassian and left our legacy systems behind.
This document provides an overview of enterprise resource planning (ERP). It discusses the objectives of ERP training, the need for information systems in organizations and their components. It describes the key business functions that ERP supports like HR, finance, sales etc. It explains what ERP is, its integrated database approach and how it allows automation and data sharing across the enterprise. The document outlines the various ERP modules provided by vendors and their benefits. It discusses how ERP enables organizational transformation through business process reengineering. Finally, it covers ERP implementation challenges, the importance of change management and reasons why ERP projects fail.
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1) James Blaisdell envisioned the Claremont University Consortium in 1923 as a group of small colleges sharing library and other resources, preserving the benefits of small colleges while gaining the facilities of a large university.
2) Libraries are transforming from simply housing collections to actively supporting new forms of scholarship through initiatives like faculty archives, text mining, and collaborative projects across disciplines.
3) Librarians can help assess the impact of scholarly communications efforts through metrics like click-through rates and institutional profiles in tools like Google Scholar.
Fear Factor, Amazing Race, or Survivor: Threats & Opportunities for Libraries...John McDonald
The document discusses threats and opportunities for libraries and publishers in a post-subscription age. It notes that libraries need to ensure their continued relevance by focusing on services like expertise, space, and helping users manage information rather than just collections. New pricing and business models are needed like usage-based pricing that treats access more like a utility. Libraries also need to focus on making collections discoverable and driving users to related content in new formats.
This document discusses using quantitative usage data to understand user behavior with information resources. It provides examples of how to pose questions about how services may affect users, develop theories to explain the effects, and test the theories by analyzing usage data. Specifically, it examines how improving starting and accessing resources increased their usage. It also looks at how grouping resources increased searching and how stable archives allowed more re-use of content for teaching. The document advocates studying additional user behaviors like monitoring, networking, extracting and analyzing to further understand impact of services.
Size Matters: Engaging Your Users Where They Are @John McDonald
John McDonald presented at the 2010 American Society for Information Science and Technology spring workshop on engaging library users through digital displays of varying sizes. He discussed the conceptual design, hardware, content, and results of pilot programs at Claremont Colleges Library that installed low-power digital signs and a large multi-touch screen. The signs aimed to provide wayfinding, announcements, and promotional content to patrons, while the touch screen allowed interactive exploration of resources. Feedback showed the displays successfully engaged users and increased awareness of library services.
This document discusses analyzing 6 years of statistics from the Oberlin Group of liberal arts colleges. It describes transforming the data, checking for outliers, testing correlations between variables, and building a regression model. It finds that high group attendance impacts reference transactions but not circulation. High gate count results in high circulation. Circulation depends on volume count. The document also explores predicting US News rankings based on library-specific data like expenditures, staff salaries, collections, and transactions.
This document discusses recommendation engines and their use at Claremont Colleges Library. It explains that recommendation engines can provide recommendations based on the item itself, the individual's past behavior, or similar users' past behavior. It then lists reasons why recommendation engines could be useful for Claremont Colleges Library, such as being agile and flexible to try new initiatives. The document provides statistics on bX recommendation results at Claremont Colleges Library over 252 days.
Statistics for Librarians: How to Use and Evaluate Statistical EvidenceJohn McDonald
This document discusses how to use and evaluate statistics in library research. It covers types of library statistics that can be collected, such as gate counts, computer use sessions, and circulation numbers. It also discusses important concepts for research design when working with statistics, including validity, reliability, and generalizability. Key steps in research design are outlined, such as developing a research question and hypotheses, defining data, collecting data, and analyzing results.
Sherlock: The Summon Experience at ClaremontJohn McDonald
The document summarizes the Claremont University Consortium's experience implementing and using Summon, a discovery tool. It discusses how Summon provides a one-stop shop for searching the library's collections, integrating licensed and local content. It also notes that Summon was launched in beta for students in the fall semester, with plans to further enhance the interface in the spring. Both user pros, like extensive coverage and easy faceting, and librarian cons, such as data problems and less intuitive faceting, of Summon are presented.
Copyright 2.0: Issues for Digital NativesJohn McDonald
Digital natives are today's students who are fluent in digital technologies like computers, the internet, and video games. They create and share their own content online through activities like blogging, creating webpages and videos. Issues around copyright and content usage have changed with digital content and the ability to easily search, modify and share content. New licensing models like Creative Commons aim to address these changes but copyright laws and rules are still adapting to content usage in the digital age.
NISO Webinar on Usage Data: An Overview of Recent Usage Data ResearchJohn McDonald
This document summarizes a webinar on recent usage data research. It discusses new ways to collect usage data, theoretical analysis of usage data, citation and usage data measures, illustrating citation networks, analyzing open access citations, evidence based analysis of usage data using local analytics tools and studies of ebook usage. Future directions discussed capturing non-text media usage, developing standards for robust database analysis and statistical measures.
Usage Factor: Final Report & Next StepsJohn McDonald
1. The document discusses developing a Usage Factor (UF) metric to measure the usage and value of journals, similar to the Impact Factor.
2. An initial study found that both authors and librarians felt a UF would be helpful. However, there are challenges to address like data standards and accounting for print usage.
3. A second stage of testing real usage data from publishers against potential UF calculations is proposed, with a report on the findings. Developing a standardized UF metric could help demonstrate journal value.
Changing the Structure of Scholarly Publishing: Open Access, Open Archives, a...John McDonald
Traditional scholarly publishing involves commercial and society journals with editorial boards and peer review. New publishing models like open access, open archives, and author self-archiving have emerged due to electronic publishing advantages and rising journal costs. Open access involves free access to content while retaining traditional structures. Open archives allow free depositing of articles in repositories. Author self-archiving allows authors to publish their own research freely online. These new models shift costs from consumers to producers and provide quick publication but quality assurance and discoverability are concerns that need to be addressed for viability. A mix of models is predicted to continue with disadvantages regarding organization, discoverability, quality, and access.
Tiered Pricing Models: The Effect on Library BudgetsJohn McDonald
1. The document discusses different tiered pricing models for electronic journals that publishers have adopted, including models based on print subscription rates, Carnegie classifications, institutional enrollment, and usage.
2. It analyzes the potential impact of these different pricing models on one institution's library budget based on its journal usage, citations, enrollment size, and other factors.
3. The conclusion is that libraries now face many complex pricing models from publishers, and in the aggregate these models will always favor the publisher's financial interests over the library's budget constraints.
OpenURL Resolver: The Perfect LibrarianJohn McDonald
The document discusses how OpenURL resolvers help academic researchers with their information seeking behaviors such as browsing, chaining, differentiating, extracting, managing, and accessing information. OpenURL resolvers act as an unmediated recommender system that is transparent to users and helps users find relevant resources. It also helps library staff with tasks like verifying, recommending, organizing, and informing users. An example is provided of how an OpenURL resolver can help a user find a record and then provide options to access, manage, and end their information seeking process through chaining, differentiating, and accessing other relevant sources.
COUNTER provides standards and guidelines for online usage statistics to help libraries assess collections and publishers evaluate journals. Release 3 of the COUNTER Code of Practice introduces new reports and specifications to provide more comprehensive and consistent usage data. It also strengthens compliance procedures, requiring annual independent audits to certify adherence to the COUNTER Code of Practice. Looking ahead, COUNTER aims to further develop standards for new media types and communities while focusing on user-centered metrics.
This document discusses evaluating collections at the consortia level using quantitative data. It provides examples of collection evaluations done for Elsevier ScienceDirect and Wiley InterScience. These evaluations analyzed usage, value, and price to evaluate the value of collections and individual titles. Current projects also aim to compare society and commercial publishers. Quantitative evaluation can help negotiate contracts and identify sustainable pricing models going forward.
OpenURL Linking: the Academic Library ExperienceJohn McDonald
The document discusses resource integration through open URL linking. It provides summaries from several speakers at the Charleston Conference on this topic. John McDonald from Caltech discusses SFX implementation at Caltech. Deborah Loeding from H.W. Wilson discusses the WilsonLink solution. Jenny Walker from Ex Libris discusses link servers and knowledgebases. Harry Samuels from Endeavor discusses what to look for in link resolvers.
Beguiled by Bananas: A retrospective study of usage & breadth of patron vs. l...John McDonald
This study analyzed ebook usage data from 5 university libraries that used both patron-driven and librarian-selected acquisition models over several years. The findings show that patron-selected ebooks had similar or higher usage than librarian-selected titles, with patron-selected collections reaching a broader audience of unique users. While early examples raised concerns that patron selections would be niche or unbalanced, the analysis found patron-selected collections had comparable subject and genre profiles to librarian selections. The results suggest fears about patron-driven acquisition are unfounded and the model provides benefits to library collections and patrons.
COUNTER updated its Code of Practice (CoP3) with new usage reports and specifications to provide more comprehensive and consistent online usage statistics for librarians and publishers. Key changes include new journal, consortium and database reports, guidelines for data processing and comparability, and an annual independent audit requirement for vendors to maintain compliance certification. Future work will focus on refining auditing, addressing new media types, and developing more user-centered usage statistics and evaluation measures.
2. 8 The Claremont Colleges
Independent
Institutions
Working
Together in
Collaboration
3. Complex IT Environment
o 65 Information Systems
Only 5 are shared by all 8
• Emergency Notification
• GIS
• LMS
• Door Access
• Digital Signage
4. ITC Oversight for Programs
Joint Intercollegiate Services:
• CINE (Internet)
• Administrative Student Information Systems
• Sakai (LMS)
Lead College Services:
• Blackboard
• Financial
• Calendar
Partnership Services:
• Enterprise Content Management
• Identity Management
5. Enhancing shared services
through technology
• Just in Time vs. At the Right Time
• Integrated vs. Best of Breed
• Hosted vs. On Premises
• DR & Business Continuity
• Technology changing to Vendor
Management
9. Non-quantitative measures
• (Or at least not yet quantified)
• (Or prior quantification was lacking)
• Improvement in internal controls
• Increased ability to monitor
performance
• Increased participation
• Imitation
10. Identity Management
• Identity As A Service
• Participation at the time of need
• Hosted, so “take it or leave it” with
little or no customization/control
• Best of Breed, so progress must be
deliberate (one system at a time)
• Shared Licensing
11. System Migration
• Payroll & Time/Attendance
• Hosted, so “take it or leave it” with little
or no customization/control
• Reduced ability to diverge, by customer
• Less hardware & software to manage
• Legacy system support still needed
• Vendor management increases
Editor's Notes
Good afternoon everyone, and thanks to Hyland for inviting me to speak to you today about the Claremont Colleges, the Claremont University Consortium and IT Collaboration. My focus will be on explaining the challenges and opportunities in aligning IT planning and resources with big picture Consortium plans, goals and needs. But in order to understand that, it’s important to introduce you to the Claremont Colleges and what makes us unique.
Today the Colleges enroll over 6500 students collectively, have 5 liberal arts undergraduate colleges that rank in the top 50 in US News rankings nationally, and have over 700 faculty and 1600 staff. One of the main benefits of this close collaboration includes the ability to cross-register at any of the other institutions. Right now, almost 20% of all classes taken at the Colleges are at another institutions other than the student’s home campus. In essence, a student take a majority of their courses at another college – something that one of my former staff members noted that he had done, giving him a Harvey Mudd College education with a Pomona College diploma by the time he was done.
Records Management was not something that one of our members came to us and said, “Hey, we need to go paperless and we have a number of online workflows that we want developed in order to accomplish that.”Instead, we at the Consortium recognized that we wanted to accomplish three objectives and a central Records Management program we be beneficial to us alone, but also, if done well, our members would begin to see as a valued service for them as well.This program began with three parts: Storage of print records in a central location, electronic content management and the establishment of online workflows for the paperless part of the program, and the digitization of print records.The Physical records storage is going well, with the ingestion of thousands of boxes of records from 3 of the 8 consortium members and others interested as soon as they have a building project. And digitization has kicked off, with 2 of 8 members having us scan their print documents and put them in our Odyssey system. But the most successful has been the online workflows project that we began.
Our first two projects have been in an online workflow to accomplish invoice processing and payment. And since CUC handles financial services for 7 of our 8 members, this has a great impact across the consortium. What we did was convert a paper-based workflow with few internal controls to an online workflow that streamlined the process and would ensure that proper approvals were taking place and result in improved internal controls. So far, we have two members entirely in the system and two others poised to join in the coming months. In addition, although we have no students at the consortium, we have facilitated the implementation of the Admissions online workflow at Harvey Mudd College and Pitzer College, who are both doing their admissions reading entirely through the system for the coming academic year.
How do we think we’ve done so far?Well, we have definitely reduced our paper consumption since we no longer approve invoices on paper and have multiple steps of the process involved in additional production of paper records through photocopying and filing. We have reduced storage, as we at CUC were able to move into a new building and eliminate the hundreds of filing cabinets holding invoices and payment records and move the older files still necessary for retention into a central, off-campus location. Where we probably have succeeded the most has been in reducing the significant amount of labor invested in the print workflow and become more efficient through the online workflow. Data entry now happens at the receipt of the invoice, by whatever staff are responsible for the payment immediately and put into the central system that eliminates double or triple data entry. And our internal controls have improved, even if only anecdotally.
We also have some non quantitative measures that we believe prove ROI for us in this program. We have improved internal controls and expect our audit firm to note those in the next audit. We can also monitor staff performance much closer now – we can see which staff are preparing invoices and doing other work in the system and how efficient they are individually. We have much more participation in the program which breaks down silos and makes staff more aware of the work of other departments.And since imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, we know we have done something right since one of our member institutions has purchased the same software solution and plans to operate it in tandem with ours.
We also have some non quantitative measures that we believe prove ROI for us in this program. We have improved internal controls and expect our audit firm to note those in the next audit. We can also monitor staff performance much closer now – we can see which staff are preparing invoices and doing other work in the system and how efficient they are individually. We have much more participation in the program which breaks down silos and makes staff more aware of the work of other departments.And since imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, we know we have done something right since one of our member institutions has purchased the same software solution and plans to operate it in tandem with ours.
We also have some non quantitative measures that we believe prove ROI for us in this program. We have improved internal controls and expect our audit firm to note those in the next audit. We can also monitor staff performance much closer now – we can see which staff are preparing invoices and doing other work in the system and how efficient they are individually. We have much more participation in the program which breaks down silos and makes staff more aware of the work of other departments.And since imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, we know we have done something right since one of our member institutions has purchased the same software solution and plans to operate it in tandem with ours.
Good afternoon everyone, and thanks to Hyland for inviting me to speak to you today about the Claremont Colleges, the Claremont University Consortium and IT Collaboration. My focus will be on explaining the challenges and opportunities in aligning IT planning and resources with big picture Consortium plans, goals and needs. But in order to understand that, it’s important to introduce you to the Claremont Colleges and what makes us unique.