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Getting Up to Speed with Microsoft

DotNetNuke 5.3 was only released at the end of March. That update included improved content administration through the addition of page level workflow, a new ribbon bar control panel and improved access to page editing.

But they had more work they needed to do. That included ensuring the DotNetNuke platform supported Microsoft’s latest platform updates with .NET 4 As you probably know, DotNetNuke is built on ASP.NET, so it was important to ensure it would work with both .NET 3.5 and .NET 4.

As is normal course when testing compatibility with technology updates, there were a few issues, but these were resolved and DotNetNuke 5.4 was on its way to release. If it makes you happy, the issues were resolved through working with the Microsoft Web Platform team.

New Document Management

But support for .NET 4 isn’t the only thing new in 5.4. Another major feature introduced to the professional and elite editions is document management. Prior to 5.4 DotNetNuke did not have any strong document management functionality. But according to Shawn Walker, co-founder of DotNetNuke, there were several third party modules available.

So DNN took a look at what was available on their Snowcovered Marketplace and decided to obtain the IP for one of those solutions. The one they chose came from Xepient and was called OpenDocumentLibrary.

Now the commercial editions have document management capabilities such as:
– WebDAV
– Check in / Check out, Versioning, Rollback
– Automatic synchronization with existing document libraries
– Workflow for documents
– Creation of document folders and permissions on folders
– Usage reporting

According to DNN 1 in 4 organizations using the platform use it for intranets or extranets and this functionality fits perfectly with those needs.

What’s in it for the Community

So the commercial editions picked up document management, but the community also got a few things as well:
Folksonomy: In 5.3 DNN taxonomy capabilities were added to the DNN core. In 5.4 the core now has Folksonomies — basically a crowdsourcing approach to tagging content. Because it’s added to the core, all editions get the functionality. To make it sweeter, there’s an associated API that will enable developers to add the functionality to their own DNN apps.

Ribbon Bar Control Panel: Remember that ribbon bar control panel added to the the commercial editions in 5.3? Well now it’s also available in the community edition.

Telerik RAD Editor: The Community Edition also now has the Telerik rich text editor. This is a continuation of the OEM agreement with Telerik. DNN will still ship with the FCK Editor, which was the prior editor, but all new downloads of DNN will have the Telerik RAD editor as the default editor.

Navin Nagiah, CEO of DNN told us that they are committed to both the commercial and community editions of DotNetNuke. In order to strike a balance between the open source edition and the commercial editions, they always think about what they can give back to the community when they introduce new capabilities in the commercial editions.

The functionality they choose to move into the community edition is based on what the community is asking for and how they can make the experience as seamless as possible between their editions. And of course we have already seen that some functionality is added to the core automatically making it available to all editions.

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The 5 “w’s” Of Document Management Systems

Document management systems are one of the most popular types of computer programs currently utilized in modern business and manufacturing environments. In an era often termed the “Information Age,” a document management system provides much needed control over an ever-expanding array of data, words, spreadsheets and statistics.

1) What are Document Management Systems?
Document management systems are simply computer programs (i.e, software) that manage and control documentation. “Documentation,” though defined somewhat differently by separate program developers, often refers to any file type (including spreadsheets, presentation files and even graphics). Document management systems are essentially information controllers, information storage keepers, information protectors– and finally–portals for communication between individuals and entire organizations. These last communicative features are an especially valuable characteristic of many document management computer programs as they allow the rapid segue of recorded information to be controlled and organized from virtually anywhere across the globe.

2) Who Uses Document Management Systems?
As hinted earlier, all types of businesses and manufacturing environments utilize document management systems. Legal and medical offices use the technology to improve customer service and to comply with HIPAA regulations. Hospitals utilize the technology to comply with JCAHO standards and automotive manufacturing environments utilize the technology to manage APQP and PPAP related documentation. Don’t forget pharmaceutical, aerospace, biologics or biotechnology companies. All of these companies are becoming increasingly automated and increasingly more adept at managing their document management systems.

3) What Are Document Management Systems Used For?
Document management systems are used for a variety of functions. Primary functions include the creation of a collaborative virtual environment where users from around the world can collaborate together as essential documentation is created and edited simultaneously. This feature is often improved with another feature: version control. Version control provides the necessary functionality that automates the tracking of documentation and the tracking of subsequent changes as a document is routed to multiple users. Version control often makes use of meta-data for the creation of audit trails and for quick search and retrieval of all documentation. Document management systems are also commonly used to trigger escalations for high-priority products or to trigger training tasks related to various document updates, etc. A document management system also acts as the classic—yet virtual—documentation vaults, protecting essential records from both virtual and physical dangers.

4) Why Use Document Management Systems?
Companies that are not currently using document management systems might consider the following rationale for DMS implementation within their own business environment.

• Save Money – Document management systems often pay for themselves in 6 months to a year
• Greater Efficiencies – Document management systems eliminate the need for most paper-based copies and eliminate the need of manual office-to-office routing, escalations and the pains of manual document collaboration endeavors
• Compliance – If your company needs to comply with government regulations or wants to become accredited with specific national or international standards, a document management system is often the tool that helps obtain and maintain compliance or accreditation
• Peace of Mind – Legally, for most industries, it’s simply best-practice to maintain and protect sensitive documentation

5) When Did Document Management Systems Become Popular?
Document management systems have become more popular with the every-advancing popularity of the Internet and increasing opportunity for inexpensive forms of online communication and online business conglomerates. Document management systems have also become more popular as faith in the protective powers of well-built computer software broadens and the need to comply with increasing national and international regulations and standards increases almost daily.

How Do Companies Utilize Their Document Management Systems Creatively?
Many companies often think of document management systems as “stiff” systems with little flexibility or no creative “impulse.” In today’s world of increasingly flexible computer programming users should demand more from their document management systems. Whether a company desires an off-the-shelf (compatible) model, a fully configurable model or something in between, users need to demand functionality that can be utilized creatively. Document management systems that can automate training and be integrated with a company’s ERP, CRM, MES and/or PDM applications manifest true creativity in the every-changing evolution of document management systems.

Marci Crane is the Lifeline Publications Editor for MasterControl, Inc. in Salt Lake City, UT. To learn more about document management systems for modern business and manufacturing environments, please feel free to contact a MasterControl representative.

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What to Look For in a Document Imaging Company

There are many companies in operation that offer document imaging services. There are too many to list, but I can share some of their benefits. Some offer Multipage TIFF encodes and decode. This comes with support for many obscure flavors of TIFF. WPF viewer control, and Web project templates for creating AJAX document viewers. The processing and function of the documents includes, fast Auto-Deskew for binary images, despeckle binary images, noise removed from binary images, removal and detection of auto boarder, advanced threshold ling to convert grayscale or color images to binary and binary morphological filters. This includes erode, dilate, boundary, thinning and extracting.

Most of the document imaging products can be used in various business settings. Some of the most common places for use are medical records, insurance claims processing solution, mailroom document application, check management in financial or banking services and as an online mechanical drawing viewer.

The majority of the document imaging services offer superior customer service and flexibility. They do this by employing teams of software engineers whose sole responsibility is to offer expert guidance and support. This is to ensure that their customers complete their projects in a timely manner.

Customers are invited to attend webinars for question and answer sessions and also for training purposes. The webinars are designed to help the company to get started with their product. The document imaging company that you choose will help organizations to reduce costs and improve efficiency with records management. The document imaging companies will manage your information in a timely and professional manner while you focus on the growth of your business.

Your business needs to be sure that they choose the right partner for the management of their important information. The responsibilities of these companies are to help your company to save lots of money. They help to increase the effectiveness of your operation. This is for the purpose of having a paperless office.

Your business will have the choice of having their documents stored in a secured offsite storage facility. This includes storage of hard copy documents as well. The companies that offer document imaging and document management offer a wide range of managed services.

One of the services that are offered by document imaging companies are electronic content management. This includes data extraction, data security and control, hosted data and imaging and advanced workflow automation. Health record data management such as remote coding, onsite coding support and offsite storage. Theres a long list of services that these companies offer.

When in search of a company to supply a solution to your imaging needs it would be best to partner with a company that can offer you a range of services. Once you decided that your organization is in need of document imaging services there are things that you need to keep in mind. Make sure that the company offers complete scanning solutions, with Web based document management. It would benefit your company greatly if you choose a company with expertise at document management and who would place the needs of your company first.

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Recruiting software – let it serve you

In today’s age of human resources enterprise technology, everything seems to revolve around utilizing software to get ahead in the business world.  Whether it  be making work flow more efficient, cutting costs, or organizing team collaboration- there are a myriad of functions that enterprise recruiting software and applicant management systems can serve.  However, with the number of options for software out there and the number of features per piece of software, it can often be a daunting and confusing process to pick and set up the perfect solution for your company.

We need to remember that the technology is there to serve us- not the other way around.  So the question is, how can we create a work environment where our recruiting software is serving us, making us more efficient, and boosting the collaboration our company requires?

The first step is to find recruiting software that is dead simple to set up. The setup is often telling of how smooth the whole process will go- so make sure your recruiting and hiring solution fulfills the requirement of simplicity first.  No matter how many bells and whistles the software touts, if the process is too complicated for your hiring managers and recruiters to utilize, nothing else matters.

In today’s technological age, software that you need to install directly to your hard drive (the type that comes as a CD installation disk) is an artifact of the past.  Utilizing HR software that lives in the cloud (or online) will save you a ton of hassles and will work to keep your company’s applicant management process simpler.  There are a number of reasons that working online can save your company time and money.  It is as simple as your employees logging in and accessing data from any computer that has internet access.   Greater access to your applicant management system means greater efficiency- whether a hiring manager is working from home and needs to collaborate with a recruiter downtown, or a manager is away on vacation and needs to deliver urgent data.

Collaboration is king in the recruiting software field, I cannot stress this enough.  No matter how fast a piece of software runs, or how many bells and whistles it has, its primary function needs to be a conduit that your employees can communicate through.

Sometimes it helps to look at your recruiting software like any other nifty online applications or social networks that people utilize on an everyday basis for communication.  Imagine if Facebook or Myspace lacked the functionality to make it super-easy to communicate, message, post and browse.   No matter how many other bells and whistles the social network had (video uploading features, location based technology, etc.) it wouldn’t matter- the application would not get any users.

Recruiting and Applicant Management software should not differ from your everyday social networking site in this manner.  It needs to fulfill its basic needs before it can offer anything beyond that.  When you are shopping for an enterprise HR software vendor, make sure you keep this in mind as you demo and preview their product.

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Business Process Management: The growth agents

The foundation of the strongest companies across the world rests on excellent processes. Smooth processes ensure higher efficiencies for your company and also pave the way for greater customer satisfaction. Now even you can reach greater heights with the help of modern day business process management tools which will surely help your organization soar higher.

In today’s competitive world, employing software is just not enough. What you need is a technology which can automate the different types of software. The modern day business automation or business process management tools are adept at achieving this. Tools like CRD (Crystal Report Distribution) and MARS (MS Access Reporting Software) have evolved as the preferred choice of the global managers owing to their high degree of functionality. They will help you customize various software and streamline the processes of your company.

MARS (MS Access Reporting Software) is one of the most powerful enablers in the industry today that can help make business process management much easier. It will enable you to leverage the features of MS Access in a very constructive manner. The software will dissolve all the boundaries existing between various departments of the company and set up a smooth channel for the flow of information. It will help you update each and every employee within the length and breadth of your organization.

If you are an avid user of Crystal Reports and use it on a regular basis to generate impressive reports then CRD (Crystal Report Distributor) will prove to be the perfect solution for you. It will enable you to automate and customize the crystal reports and send it to users in their desired formats. The software will help you save tremendous amount of money as well as paper!

Last, but not the least is the Microsoft SQL Reporting Services. The tool used is SQL report scheduler which is also known as SQL-RD. It is one of the most effective data mining solutions offering you an automated way of delivering reports to various customers in their preferred formats. It adopts a customer driven approach enabling you to reach out to them in a very proactive manner. It will also help you save tremendous cost across the entire organization.

The automation software will surely prove to be one of the best investment decisions you will ever make for your company. These tools will help you streamline the process within your company and also delight your clients with timely and effective reports. The automation tools will take care of every aspect of business process management and will ensure that you smile all the way to the bank.

CSS offers various reporting software to help streamline your business processes. The website christiansteven.com offers complete information about the company.

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