When I was growing up, one thing I noticed about offices in film and on television was that paper files were EVERYWHERE. Stacks of them. Piles of them. Those poor characters were quite literally drowning in manila. And the unsightliness of those teetering towers traveled well beyond their Hollywood representation. My father’s insurance office, forRead more

Enterprise solutions challenge their owners in a way no personal software product does. They come with longer, more technical manuals. Their features may be too numerous and complex for any one employee to ever fully appreciate. They sometimes require a whole team of technicians for implementation. And they present purchasing managers with one crucial decisionRead more

It’s a question for the renaissance, for the industrial revolution, for the age of computers, and now for the internet era. Perhaps an age-old question but one that is sparked by technological revolutions and paradigm shifts. How can I speed up my business processes? If you search online, the answers aren’t readily available, even ifRead more

This is a question that business people have been asking themselves for decades, maybe even centuries in one form or another. Since the term “business intelligence” was first coined in the nineteenth century, the term has taken on several meanings. However, for much longer than that, business interests with some risk have required some reconnaissance.Read more

Companies of all sizes are seriously thinking about the impact of cyberattacks. Virtually no business can operate effectively without relying on information networks to create, store, manage and communicate data between employees, customers and business partners. But network access and online file storage can create significant risks as well. Business managers across the enterprise, includingRead more

With the emergence of hundreds of programs and software for companies over the last two decades, businesses are able to easily tackle nearly all paperwork digitally. Employees and business partners can create, import, look at, and edit a company’s data at any given moment. Because technology makes it so easy, these are all everyday practices.Read more

Throughout the Definition Series from Contentverse, we’ve talked about how to take your company’s excessive paperwork overload and digitize it, how to index it, all about how to extract data using forms capture, and how batch processing can do bulk tasks at work without the need for human interaction. Today we’ll be learning about howRead more

Once upon a time, in the early days of computers, many of them could really only do one thing—as opposed to today, when our computers are built and designed to do everything. These archaic computers were also much slower than ours are now, and were operated by control panels, which a worker would have toRead more

In 1975, an article called “The Office of the Future” was published in Business Week. In this article, the author describes this distant office of 1995, explaining, “[There will be a] TV-display terminal with keyboard sitting on the desk. I’ll be able to call up documents from my files on the screen, or by pressingRead more