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 Gould, as well as Project Manager Derrick M. Beasley in a discussion...
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 Services just to name a couple. However, Citrix XenApp...
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 hand demo of our document management Prolog integration....
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 here: we...
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 process changes (like BIM)...
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.
Like every good (and bad) revolution before it, the Email revolution is fading. Not that we won't be using email anymore... just the opposite. Email has become so routine and essential to our daily lives and business that it is no longer revolutionary. It's ordinary. Just a decade ago, when I wanted to send a written message I typed away in...
I was at a conference the other day and ran into a dutiful young lady (I’ll call her “Jill”) who, at the direction of her well-intentioned boss, had taken the initiative to make her office “paperless”. She scanned every piece of paper from every file cabinet, and voila… nobody could find a single document they were looking for. The reason: going...
We renewed our Microsoft partnership the other day (which is no small task, I can assure you, but a very meaningful and important one for us). BIG thanks are due our customers (you know who you are) who helped us out in this process. It's great knowing we have customers who care about us so much that you are willing...
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