This Document Management Blog's very own Carl Azar will be speaking on a topic of current concern in the AEC industry this week at ZweigWhite's AEC Technology Strategies Conference in Las Vegas. He will be joined by Burns & McDonnell Engineering's Vice President and Chief Technical Officer Gregory...
We've all seen it at one point or another. The "paper chase" is that routine paper-driven process that happens over and over again, but for some reason is still operating in an ancient pre-digital area. Accounting offers a good example, where some companies are ahead of the curve, and others are still passing paper. Here's a pretty generic scenario that applies...
If interest in our recent press release: Document Management over Citrix is any indication, application virtualization in general, and Citrix in particular, is a hot topic right now. Our news centered on Citrix, but really we can support document management over virtually any virtualization network of choice, including VMWare and Microsoft's Terminal...
In talking with a customer recently at a large energy firm, I learned they were just about ready to integrate our document management application within SharePoint. The reason: They want to combine the two tools to make a very good portal solution that has advanced document management features integrated right within. They felt it was the right...
Meridian Systems has their Top 10 reasons why you should attend their users conference coming up in a couple of weeks. We have another good reason to add to the list, especially for those who use Meridian's Prolog construction project management software... so here it is - Reason #11: See a first...
Our friends over at eCopy sent us a link to their new Document Imaging Wiki. It's new and just getting started, and over time it will become a more and more valuable resource for imaging-related info. Speaking of eCopy, if you have not heard of them before or their technology, it's worth checking out. A bit of a disclaimer...
We heard from Ed Fry (Chevron) this morning. He talked about the challenges of managing the development and operation of large, long-lived capital projects. Here are some interesting numbers to think about: Chevron currently has 5-10 petabytes of information stored for their existing capital projects. Because of the high current rate of capital development and development...
Random notes: Lots of talk today about ISO 15926, which is the data integration standard initiative for FIATECH. Here’s how FIATECH describes the standard: “ISO 15926 is an International Standard for the representation of lifecycle information for process plants, including oil and gas production facility. This is specified by a generic, conceptual data model that is...
Day 1 at FIATECH, and I thought the most interesting session was by Barry LePatner, who focused on “How to fix America’s broken construction industry.” As you can tell, LePatner argues that Construction is uniquely broken among U.S. industries, and is essentially continuing to do business the same way and with the same technology as 100 years ago. Here are...
Just a brief mention... The Construction Financial Management Association is holding their annual get together this year on May 17 in Orlando, and ColumbiaSoft will be there... exhibiting in booth #518. If you can't make it to this year's show, you can always check out our virtual CFMA trade show page.
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