San Jose State University was our first recipient of the new ECMECOSYSTEM® Award for developing a comprehensive vision for Enterprise Content Management implemented institution-wide providing efficiencies and cost savings. As the technology implemented expands out to multiple departments they are seeing the value of their solution increase exponentially.

Mira Costa College was awarded in the category of “Largest Return on Investment” due to the cost savings experienced since transitioning from a dated scan, store and retrieve technology to an all-ILINX® platform. Initially saving an estimated $150,000 with their platform choice, they have also seen yields in the form of efficiencies, improved customer service and user adoption with minimal training.

Debbie Horton
ImageSource
Corporate Communications Director

This phenomenon is particularly problematic in the world of Enterprise Content Management. Organizations are rapidly adopting ECM, and quick access to critical and timely data has become part of their DNA. In the absence of network connectivity, these ECM systems are simply inaccessible, crippling an employee’s ability to access and edit content.

Nothing is going to change the fact that, to some degree, reaching a repository requires a network connection. But, with Notebooking from ILINX® Content Store, you can have the next best thing.

Notebooking is one of many new features in the ever-expanding ILINX Suite, and it has made the offline availability of content both feasible and intuitive. With a few simple clicks, a user can store documents from the server locally, and view them in the familiar Content Store interface without a network connection. Should the user make redactions, highlights, or any other markups, the changes will sync with Content Store when an internet connection is reestablished. With ILINX, your content can follow you everywhere, for better or for worse.

Allow me to extend my sincerest apologies to anyone who thought that they could have an excuse not to work this weekend.

Kyle Miller
Corporate Communications Manager
ImageSource, Inc.

The Public Sector Specialization recognizes Partners that have demonstrated their ability drawn from Oracle’s portfolio of software and hardware solutions to solve unique public sector needs. ImageSource achieved the Public Sector specialization though testing that demonstrated an understanding of Government technology challenges and through validated solutions and customer references.  

As a leading integrator for Enterprise Content Management technologies, ImageSource has been providing business efficiencies tools for the public sector since 1995. With extensive ECM experience in city, county and state governments, solutions include imaging and document management, records management, web-content management, workflow solutions, Higher Educaiton solutions, agenda management and much more.

The three previous specializations ImageSource earned were Enterprise Content Management, Service Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Manager.  We are proud to add another specialization to our achievements in the Oracle PartnerNetwork Knowledge Zones and continue working on additional designations.  We look forward to announcing their completion in near future.

Debbie Horton
ImageSource
Communications Director

For a week we blew into OracleOpen World in San Francisco, CA . If you’ve never attended Oracle OpenWorld, be ready for quite a technology experience. As an Oracle Platinum Partner there is no way we would have missed it!  As a systems integrator for Oracle Middleware, we were eager to help attendees learn how to run more efficient business processes by implementing Oracle IPM and UCM solutions.  There was a lot of interest in our recent implementations of Oracle Webcenter Content 11g. We look forward to going back in 2012 and hope to see you there.

While many of us were at OOW, our ECM expert, John Smetana was attending the AIIM ECM Bootcamp in Minneapolis, MN on October 4.  AIIM members and attendees collaborated on ways to minimize paper and manual processes in core backend activities and discussed better ways to engage social technologies to reach customers.

Next stop landed us in Vegas, Baby! We were a proud exhibitor of the IBM Information on Demand Conference that happens annually at the Mandalay Bay. And we are hoping what you saw there, doesn’t stay there. Take back what you learned from our IBM ECM team to get started on automating processes or to expand your current solution, enterprise-wide. We can wait to get back to IOD in 2012

Next up, we couldn’t have been more excited or proud to host Nexus ’11, our annual ECM Solutions Conference on November 3-4.  With over 28 breakout sessions, world-class Keynote speakers and peer-to-peer networking, this event has become the best education ECM technolgoy event on the West Coast!  Pre-conference training for AIIM certifications and other continuing education credit were provided in the days leading to the conference. Our vendor partners, including Fujitsu, Panasonic, IBM, Kodak and other industry leaders were on hand to show their latest product offerings and answer questions in our Expo Hall. This year’s hot topics included planning your ECMECOSYSTEM™,  Capture solutions from ILINX and Kofax, and implementing mobile and social technologies. You can check out presentations and video from this year’s event or register for what’s in store for Nexus ’13!

And finally, we wrapped up our tour in Sacramento, CA at the Kofax Connect event where we presented with our customer partner, Sacramento County, to share how their are utilizing Kofax KTM to clasify, separate, extract and transform documents.  We were excited to be a part of this valuable event and have the chance to discuss capture solutions with the many Kofax users who attended. If they hold this complimentary seminar again in the Spring you won’t want to miss it.

As frost began to form and the breeze began to slow, it was finally time to click our heels and head home for the holidays. But it won’t be long till we are back out on the road to talk with all of you about implementing your ECMECOSYSTEM and making your information work for you!  Make sure to keep checking our Events calendar to see if we will be blowing into a location near you.

ImageSource is approved for their third Oracle PartnerNetwork Specialization achieving the Enterprise Manager Knowledge Zone. This distinction focuses on the use of Enterprise Manager to manage and monitor the Oracle technology stack. Oracle Enterprise Manager’s unique top-down approach to application management enables organizations to reduce complexity and increase efficiencies in their IT environments and optimally run their enterprise applications.

Oracle Specializations are designed to recognize distinguished Partners that have experience and knowledge in one or more product pillars. ImageSource achieved the Enterprise Manager specialization by showing proficiency with the product though testing in sales, support and implementation. Validated solutions and customer references required, demonstrate ImageSource’s expertise in Oracle WebCenter Content and as a leading integrator for Enterprise Content Management technologies. The two previous specializations ImageSource earned were for Enterprise Content Management and Service Oriented Architecture.  

We are proud to add another specialization to our achievements in the Oracle PartnerNetwork Knowledge Zones and are currently working on two additional designations.  We look forward to announcing their completion in near future.

Debbie Horton
ImageSource
Communications Director

ImageSource was recently approved for the Service Oriented Architecture, Oracle PartnerNetwork Specialization. The SOA specialization provides insight to Oracle’s newly released SOA 11g platform, a foundation for innovation. This platform is composed of many products like Adapters, B2B, ODI, OSB, BPEL, HWF, Rules, CEP, BAM and Governance, which work together to provide the benefits of SOA.

This is the second ImageSource Oracle Specialization which are designed to recognize distinguished Partners that have experience and knowledge in one or more product pillars. The first specialization ImageSource received was for Enterprise Content Management.  As a leading provider of Enterprise Content Management technologies and integration experts for Oracle WebCenter Content, ImageSource proved their high level of SOA expertise though testing in sales, support and implementation. ImageSource also demonstrated their experience with validated solutions and customer references. 

We are proud to announce this specialization and look forward to announcing more certifications in the near future. We are also proud to share our latest video which showcases a successful Oracle WebCenter Content solution. Enjoy!

Debbie Horton
ImageSource
Communications Director

On November 2nd 2011 at 7:00PM come meet us at the Cypress Lounge in the Bellevue Westin for some light appetizers and cocktails to start the conference off right. Come mix and mingle with people in and out of the ECM industry.

We have a number of great organizations such as Fujitsu, IBM, Oracle, Kofax, AIIM, Kodak and many others which help make this an outstanding conference.

If you want to attend our conference register online http://www.nexusecm.com and don’t’ miss out on this wonderful opportunity!

A common management response to a potential downturn is short-term cost cutting.  Though it’s important to watch cash flows carefully, being financially prepared does not necessarily mean a spending freeze.  This mindset ignores long-term financial prospects, and does little to safeguard a business from future economic slumps.

Some of the best defensive measures a business can take are forward-looking investments.  A carefully executed Enterprise Content Management System is a perfect example of this.  On face value, ECM seems like an expensive route to financial prosperity, meant only for large corporations with almost limitless cash.  But the long-term (and even short-term) benefits of an ECM system far outweigh these initial costs, and there are systems available that fit almost any size company and business need.

Stripping a company of its valuable employees or other key assets should always be a last resort for cost savings.  A savvy manager will look to business processes first, and ECM streamlines this practice.  ECM allows business leaders to take a close look at their information management, and pinpoint inefficiencies.  Sometimes these inefficiencies present themselves as nickels and dimes on a micro-level.  But, in the larger scheme of things, the removal of these small costs across an entire organization could mean the difference between net profit and net loss.

Getting started with Enterprise Content Management is all about having the right information.  Attending an ECM conference such as Nexus is often the best way of finding the solution that fits your business’ needs.  Whether you’re an ECM pro, or even if this is the first time you’ve encountered the acronym, Nexus ’11 has sessions that will deliver any of the information you want or need.

So go to www.NexusECM.com and find out how to save your business money while keeping your focus on the long-term.

Kyle Miller
Corporate Communications Manager
ImageSource, Inc.

One topic of discussion was what to do during a disaster. What do you do to save all the paper records when there is a flood or a fire? The various answers ranged from putting them in a trash bag if it involved flooding or putting your records in a freezer if there is a fire. These do seem like practical solutions but I’m not sure how efficient this would be when you are racing against a fire or flood and there are thousands upon thousands of papers that need to be saved for a million dollar corporation.

I do understand the physical storage of paper and it is a practice that has been around forever, but now there are alternative solutions that will not only bring a great return on investment but also you do not have to stress about these “what if” situations. The solution is going paperless with Enterprise Content Management.

Did you know:
- The cost to manage a 4 drawer filing cabinet costs $25,000 on average. (futurelawoffice.com)
-It costs $20 to file a document
-It costs $120 to search for a misfiled document
-7.5% of all documents get lost and 3% of the remainder get misfiled (Inc. Magazine)
-Companies misfile up to 20% of their records (ARMA International)

If you implement an Enterprise Content Management system, these systems are designed to capture, manage, store, deliver and preserve structured and unstructured content.
If you are worried about who will have access to these records and documents, ECM is the answer. You can create restrictions so only certain people are allowed to access certain content.
If you are worried about the retention schedule of your records, ECM is the answer. ECM enables automation of records management so after the 5 year retention period comes up you will get a notification to dispose those records.
If you are worried about your files getting ruined from water or fire, ECM is the answer because you no longer  have to worry about maintaining physical copies.
And an ECM system can allow you to access your information from remote locations with multiple people accessing that info at the same time.

The possibilities are endless!

If you think Enterprise Content Management and going paperless sounds like the ideal solution then you are right. So come and explore the possibilities and capabilities of the various ECM technologies at our Nexus ’11 ECM Solutions Conference in Bellevue, Washington and we will help you get on the right track.

Tracy Lim
Communications Manager
ImageSource, Inc.

ImageSource has been implementing ECM technologies since 1994 working with Optika, Stellent and now Oracle Enterprise Content Management, recently renamed Oracle WebCenter Content.  We have a vast customer partner network where ECM solutions have greatly improved business processes and created efficiencies for government, higher education, finance, healthcare and many other industries. Our Website hosts multiple case-studies showcasing our Oracle solutions for Costco, Mazda, Suzuki, Swedish Medical Center, San Jose State University and more.

Oracle WebCenter Content provides organizations with a unified repository to house unstructured content, and deliver it to business users in the proper format, and within context of familiar applications to fit the way they work.  It provides strategic content infrastructure for managing documents, images, and rich media files, End-to-End content lifecycle management from creation to archiving and contextual enterprise application integration.  ImageSource has certified staff and extensive experience implementing this technology. We are proud to announce this specialization and look forward to announcing more certifications in the near future.

Debbie Horton
ImageSource
Communications Director