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SITROF NEWS
Sitrof Technologies Names Dave Ferretti Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing
Sitrof Technologies, Inc., a leading document management, compliance, eDiscovery and security solutions provider, announces the appointment of Dave Ferretti as Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Marketing. With more than 25 years of sales, business development, product management and engineering experience, Ferretti will lead the company’s sales and marketing expansion initiatives on a global basis. Click here to read more.
INDUSTRY TRENDS Open Source ECM
Jen Witte, Sitrof Technologies, Inc. The newest trend in enterprise content management (ECM) is an open source alternative. Alfresco, founded by Documentum Co-Founder John Newton, is the current leader of the open source alternative ECM. The system merges innovative open source capabilities with the classic enterprise-class platform. The benefit of an open source ECM platform is its ability to use the highest quality open source technologies, as well as take advantage of contributions from the open source community. This allows users to access the most quality software at the lowest cost. Alfresco claims to be five times faster than traditional closed systems and ten times cheaper. Alfresco’s speed and cost efficiency is accomplished by using the latest open source infrastructure components including: Spring, Hibernate, Lucene, MyFaces and based on Aspect-Oriented-Programming. Click here to read more.
TECHNICAL CORNER Liquid Machines Offers Data Protection for a Collaborative Environment
Bryan Reynolds, Sitrof Technologies, Inc. Data protection is a major concern for organizations in every industry. Currently most data protection efforts are restricted to full disk encryption, meaning that only content on the hard drive is protected. For collaborative enterprise organizations, this leaves all content that is shared and consumed in the environment unsecure. To achieve maximum data protection and effectively protect all valuable company information, organizations must implement security tools that also protect unstructured data that often resides in multiple locations, travels between various users, is contained in email attachments, saved onto storage devices or any other location beyond the reach of the organization’s security measures. Click here to read more.
WAVE OF THE FUTURE Cloud Computing Cloud computing can be basically defined as implementing a process via virtual servers available over the internet, as opposed to on a local device. The “cloud” becomes the application for business processes. Cloud computing allows for data and business applications to be processed online without the need for client or local software. The focus of cloud computing is to provide a way to increase capacity or add capabilities, on the fly, without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new software. Cloud computing allows for business applications to be conducted from any place and at any time without the necessity of a local desktop. This increased data processing ease allows for company-wide real time interaction and availability. Click here to read more.
SITROF NEWS Sitrof and StoredIQ Partner to Offer Proactive “Litigation-Readiness” Solutions Sitrof Technologies, Inc. and StoredIQ have entered into a collaborative technology partnership to integrate and cross-sell their proactive “litigation-readiness” solutions. Combining Sitrof’s knowledge and expertise in implementing and supporting Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems with StoredIQ’s leading eDiscovery solution, organizations will be able to easily and efficiently meet their compliance, governance and legal discovery requirements. Click here to read more.
INDUSTRY TRENDS eDiscovery in Regulated Industries
Bryan Reynolds, CEO, Sitrof Technologies, Inc. Many organizations in highly regulated industries are becoming increasingly inundated with constantly changing compliance standards such as HIPAA, Personal Data Privacy, ISO, SOX, and CFR 21 Part 11. As a result, these organizations often find themselves facing costly and time-consuming litigation investigations. Sitrof Technologies is highly qualified to help organizations prepare for these situations by implementing proactive "litigation-readiness" solutions. Our technology partner, StoredIQ, provides the ideal tool for enabling organizations to easily and efficiently meet their compliance, governance, and legal discovery requirements. The StoredIQ eDiscovery Preparedness solution creates a highly customizable, auditable data topology map of active electronically stored information (ESI) files and emails that are located on network servers, email servers, content management systems, storage systems, and PC's. Click here to read more.
TECHNICAL CORNER StoredIQ and Information Management: eDiscovery Opportunities for the Enterprise Is it a surprise to anyone that corporations struggle to manage their unstructured data? We are not placing blame here; there really is none to go around. It is no one’s fault that unstructured data is growing as fast as it is, that it is also the most difficult to manage, or that IT has lacked the tools to make a meaningful dent in managing all that information. As long as the trouble seemed limited to managing storage, then it was a problem the corporation was content to live with. No one was particularly concerned about what was contained within all of that digital storage, and over time even the original owners of this electronic content forgot about it or moved on. So IT made do with additional storage devices and long-term tape-based retention. But then the eDiscovery process blew up in corporate faces, and the problem of unstructured data management blew up right along with it. eDiscovery morphed from a cost-of-doing-business process – and a great way for outside law firms to make a lot of money – into a quagmire of missed deadlines, sanctions, and multi-million dollar review costs. Click here to read more.
WAVE OF THE FUTURE Merging Virtual and Real Controls At last month’s Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) Conference, Microsoft researchers presented a system called Ensemble, a software for touch-screen surfaces that enables the added functionality of physical controls. This software also allows the user to define the functionality of each button on the physical controller. While proving beneficial for team collaborative efforts, large touch-screen tables have been lacking in precision control due to limited resolutions. Click here to read more.
SITROF NEWS Sitrof Aids in Preparing the Health Care Industry for Obama's National Digital Health Record Conversion Plan In an effort to improve the quality of health care and reduce costs, US President Barack Obama plans to invest in converting all American's health records to electronic documents over the next five years. Benefits of this conversion plan include waste reduction, reduced need to repeat costly medical tests, reduced margin for potentially deadly medical errors, elimination of excessive and redundant processes which negatively impact turn-around time and efficiency; and additional billions of dollars in savings. Click here to read more.
INDUSTRY TRENDS Improve Governance in Your Organization Using Microsoft SharePoint
Bryan Reynolds, CEO, Sitrof Technologies, Inc.
Microsoft SharePoint is an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) tool that enables organizations to collaborate efforts and work more efficiently as a cohesive unit, through shared knowledge, documents, workflows, metrics and structure. One of the most commonly noted benefits of implementing SharePoint as an organization's ECM tool is end-user familiarity. As SharePoint is a Microsoft product, users tend to adapt quickly to the program due to its familiar Windows-based look and functionality. Organizations considering implementing a content management tool should keep in mind the impact on compliance and governance SharePoint has provided its users. Click here to read more.
TECHNICAL CORNER Enhanced SharePoint 2007 Workflow: Getting Started with K2
Scott Kaelin, Sitrof Technologies, Inc. This month's Technical Corner explores: basic SharePoint workflow, why a third party workflow engine such as K2 should be used, and a step by step example of creating a more efficient approval workflow. As a part of nearly any SharePoint, or any ECM, implementation, workflow typically plays a key role. Click here to read more.
WAVE OF THE FUTURE Microsoft's 'Social Desktop' Will Your Web Based Communication and Knowledge Sharing Become One with Your Desktop? Microsoft's research labs are making strides toward advancing the ever popular, online social networking experience with their 'Social Desktop' prototype. This prototype generated great hype as one of many projects exhibited at the recent Microsoft Research's annual Tech Fest event. Conceptually the tool will enhance online file sharing by integrating a PC's Windows file-previewing function with the shared online file. Click here to read more.
SITROF NEWS New Sitrof Website Sitrof is taking the New Year by storm - debuting a completely re-vamped website! If you haven't already taken a look, come visit us at www.sitrof.com. The new site is exciting and fresh, featuring a new look, more interactivity and even more details on our solutions tailored to your company's success. Other upgrades include: case studies, industry blogs, industry white papers and a calendar and registration links for Sitrof's free educational seminars. So navigate over, browse around and see all Sitrof has to offer.
INDUSTRY TRENDS Dramatic Savings When Your Company Needs Them Most
Bryan Reynolds, CEO, Sitrof Technologies, Inc. Downsize Expensive Document Spending Instead of Downsizing Your Business As businesses across America continue to become extinct due to the current economic climate, identifying areas to save money and become more efficient are top priority. When identifying areas to cut spending, more often than not, paper usage costs slip under the radar. Click here to read more.
TECHNICAL CORNER Enterprise Scanning Soluition - Captiva InputAccel for Documentum
Pradeep Kumar, Sitrof Technologies, Inc. Captiva InputAccel is an enterprise scanning, image and document processing solution that allows customers to quickly transform paper documents to digital content for easy storage into back-end document storage repositories such as Documentum and Sharepoint. InputAccel is based on client-server architecture. Click here to learn more.
WAVE OF THE FUTURE The Paperless Office - Going for Green The idea of the 'Paperless Office' began generating hype in the '80s; however with the influx of advanced, never before seen hardware flooding the business world of two decades ago, even more paper was being produced and the vision was lost. Currently with green initiatives as a top priority and concern, companies are returning to the Paperless Office vision and making strides towards a paperless future. This future is built upon a key term - sustainability. Click here to read more.
SITROF NEWS Sitrof and Xerox Host Xerox DocuShare NorthEast User Group Attendees Learn the Latest Advancements and Applications in Xerox DocuShare Software — Sitrof and Xerox Corporation hosted the premier Xerox DocuShare Northeast User Group Thursday, December 11, at the Xerox Park Avenue building in New York, New York. The event, the first of its kind tailored specifically to DocuShare users and prospective users, was a great success attracting over 70 attendees. Click here to read more.
INDUSTRY TRENDS Streamlining Business Processes
Bryan Reynolds, CEO, Sitrof Technologies, Inc. The Power of Being Organized.Written Goals and Plans The Rule: Do a task without writing it down and you're destined to repeat it.
Who should consider workflow? Any business can benefit from automating business processes. Industries that may particularly benefit include:
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TECHNICAL CORNER Using Enterprise Workflows with DocuShare CPX
Dan Wheeler, Sitrof Technologies, Inc. The Xerox DocuShare enterprise workflow module allows customers to automate business processes and facilitate application integration. Some common examples of this include:
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WAVE OF THE FUTURE Xerox Erasable Paper Xerox Corporation unveiled its erasable paper to the public for the first time at WIRED NextFest, an event that showcases global innovations. The experimental paper can be printed on multiple times, benefiting business expenses by reducing paper use in the office and contributing to a more sustainable world by cutting back waste. Click here to read more.
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