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By Scott Draeger, HP Exstream Product Manager Last night as I sat at my desk working later than usual, I couldn’t help but notice the sun has already begun to set much earlier than it did even a couple of weeks ago. And that got me to thinking about the downside to “sunsets”. Now don’t...
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Three of my colleagues just returned from the certification testing of TRIM against the latest version of the DoD 5015.2 standard, and once again TRIM has been certified against all chapters, which gives us an unbroken certification since the standard exists. This time around the certification was interesting...
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There is no doubt that a lot of web content constitutes business records and must be managed. The question is which is the easiest way to achieve this? If the Web Content Management (WCM) system is the main tool for the creation of the web content, then it should provide an integration with the records...
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Recently I have been providing quite a lot of advice to customers who want to embed TRIM tightly within their enterprise information topology and automate their information flow as much as possible. I think it would help many of you to understand what tools are available to create a truly unified information...
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Many people are very helpful and attach documents to e-mails. This is convenient for the recipient who needs them to complete the task the e-mail asks for. However, for many other people and for the organization, every document attached to an e-mail can have negative effects. For people who aren't...
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And so we start another year of blogging, emailing, instant messaging, powerpointing, and whatever other means we have to contribute to the information explosion. During the holiday break we had time to reflect on our life and most of us have come up with ambitious resolutions for 2009, mine are fairly...
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If you are anything like me it is mostly filled with clothes you haven't worn for the last five years. You often think about the need to have a sort out but you don't get around to it. And then when you eventually resign yourself to it you can't bear to throw anything away, so you move the...
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Apparently some people fib about the purpose of their IT projects. Earlier this week I attended a briefing by a company who runs web surveys on IT spending. The briefing covered a survey about IT spending on compliance. The gist of it was that compliance is seen as very important even during a recession...
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Did you know: A US bank does 11 round trips to the moon a year. This is the result of daily courier runs delivering paper from their branches to their back office operations center. Many mortgage lenders in the US cannot produce the original loan document demanded by the courts to enable foreclosure...
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By Rhys Jones To celebrate Halloween and the nightmare season we are offering a US $1,000 shopping spree at the HP online store to the person that tells us the best story of an information disaster. We are interested in hearing about disasters that impacted – or could have impacted – your backup and...
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This week over 6000 people converged at the 2008 symposium. For those not lucky enough to attend here are a few snippets that I picked up relating to transforming document intensive workflows and information. What do you think? Do you have any best practices or maybe pitfalls that you can share? 1. For...
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Over the last 200 years we moved from the agricultural age to the industrial age, and then on to the information age. Many of us now believe we are on the cusp of a new age - the Collaboration Age. Driven by the need for global operations but local, personalized products; driven by the need to vastly...
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Today, more than ever, it is important to retain your existing customers and increase what they buy from you. Competition is fierce and the cost of acquiring new customers continues to grow. At the same time companies are looking for the best ROI on their marketing investments. How can IT help? What...
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By Urs Raas - Market consolidation creates ever larger, more diverse customers for HP TRIM. I often get asked whether to implement a single HP TRIM dataset across the whole enterprise, or create multiple datasets at a departmental level. My answer is "it depends". As a document and records...
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This week on TV we sadly saw what damage mother nature can bring as Hurricane Ike hit Texas. The newscasters repeatedly showed us the 75-story JPMorgan Chase Tower in Houston where Ike's winds shattered most of the windows on the eastern side of the building and sent furniture and files hurtling...