Workflow is a comprehensive editorial website dedicated to exploring, defining and articulating the ever-changing technologies and business processes of the office technology industry.
As hard-copy information continues its transformation to more dynamic and electronic forms, an increasing number of office and personal devices are becoming part of the larger managed information technology landscape, compelling vendors and consumers of related equipment, applications and services to seek out ways to streamline their processes and improve efficiencies.
Through examination of workflow applications and services and their providers, Workflow informs its audiences of these shifts in enterprise content management (ECM), business process management (BPM) and optimization applications, providing a one-stop repository of actionable news and information for the office technology and managed services industries.
Workflow’s goal is to not only recognize these shifts, but also bring together these disparate worlds of information technology to provide a centralized resource for understanding and mastering the information lifecycle of tomorrow’s office.
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The Office of the Future: Automation and Innovation in the Virtual Workplace
The workplace is changing. Although the physical office can still be a place of productivity and collaboration, companies are empowering the individual worker by providing all the tools necessary to be a valuable member of the organization from any corner of the globe. Today’s workforce is becoming increasingly flexible, mobile, and even global in nature — virtual collaboration is at the center of the workplace and shaping the way businesses operate now and for the foreseeable future. Read More
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Blogs
What Tool Will You Use to Grow Your Business?
by Christina Robbins | 9/26/16
How are you planning to grow your business in the second half of 2016? What if you could increase the size of each sale rather than having to find more net-new customers?
OpenText Buys Dell-EMC’s ECD Division: The Market Continues to Consolidate Despite a Growing Global Market
by Patricia Ames | 9/20/16
Open Text agreed last Monday to acquire Dell EMC’s Enterprise Content Division (ECD) for $1.62 billion. The move comes 11 months to the day after Dell purchased EMC — the biggest tech deal in history — and just days after that deal was approved. OpenText will absorb “the software, associated services, and employees of ECD,” including the Documentum, LEAP, and InfoArchive product families, according to the company’s press release.
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Lexmark Enhances Kofax Product Offerings To Drive Digital Transformation Initiatives
LEXINGTON, Ky., Sep 27, 2016 — Lexmark International, a global technology leader, today announced the availability of five upgraded software products to complement the Kofax TotalAgility platform and deliver omnichannel customer engagement for rapid digital transformation across multiple use cases. These include Kofax Kapow 10, Kofax Insight 5.4, Kofax Mobile CapturePlatform, Kofax SignDoc 2.0 and Kofax Claims Agility1.2.
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Indellient, a Software Development and IT Consulting Professional Services Firm, Opens Office in New York
September 27, 2016 – Oakville ON. – Indellient Inc., a software development and IT professional services firm serving the critical technology objectives of today’s Fortune 100 companies, has recently opened their second office in New York State. This expansion accommodates Indellient’s growing client base in the United States, and will accelerate its increasing footprint in the US market.
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Konica Minolta Continues its Enterprise Content Management Expansion with the Acquisition of Quality Associates, Inc. and DocPoint Solutions
Ramsey, NJ – September 23, 2016 – Building on its strong imaging heritage and extensive experience in document and content management, Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta) announced the acquisition of Maryland-based Quality Associates, Inc. (QAI) and DocPoint Solutions, LLC (DPS). The acquisition will add value and further enhance Konica Minolta’s ECM capabilities through QAI’s core competencies, namely SharePoint and Kofax and BPO scanning services in the East.
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Features
What is Business Intelligence — And Why Should You Care?
by Kevin Craine for Workflow
Business intelligence (BI) is a technology-driven process for analyzing data and uncovering actionable insight to help executives, managers and analysts make more informed business decisions. The world of BI embodies a variety of approaches and methodologies, but in the end it’s about enabling organizations with the ability to not only collect data, but also to make sense of it in more thoughtful and profitable ways. After all, information is only as good as the insight that it provides, so BI systems are geared to help prepare data for analysis, run queries against the information, and create a variety of reports to make the results available to decision makers in ways that make a difference.
The Wavelength: Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence, or BI, is a term we hear everywhere these days. From entertainment to manufacturing, businesses are collecting massive amounts of data and analyzing it in order to make better business decisions and improve customer service. We asked some executives who are very familiar with BI a few questions about what trends they see in the field and how their own businesses apply it.
Business Intelligence in the ‘Acceleration Economy’
by Ken Stewart for Workflow
Deriving actionable insights from massive amounts of data is the entire point of business intelligence. For years, businesses have teamed with high-priced consultants and software vendors
to glean that one, special piece of information that would change the game — win that huge deal, shave millions from operating costs, or uncover the next groundbreaking product. Yet many of us are left wondering if the way we’ve grown up thinking about business intelligence is going to work for tomorrow’s leading players?
