Transactional Content Management Blog

Zone optical character recognition (zone OCR or zonal OCR) has been touted by some as the most efficient method to date for document management. The ability to identify specific areas, or zones, on a document and index them based on preexisting definitions certainly helps to streamline the data entry into Microsoft Dynamics GP, NAV and AX enterprise resource planning software, or into other ERP systems. But zone OCR may not always be the best option.

A recent blog post over on the AIIM expert blogs got me to thinking about how complex a move to paperless is for most companies. In his post, entitled "If you want to be paperless, eat your own dog food," the author talked about how people in the ECM and capture industries still rely heavily on paper. “Almost comically so,” he said, recounting his experience at a paper-capturing and digital-workflow-process conference, where paper documentation seemed to be the norm rather than the exception.

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The advent of the paperless office has been heralded for years now, as you can see from the above outdated graphic of the KwikTag paper monster, but for many businesses, it simply hasn't happened...at least, not entirely. While computer technologies did reduce reliance on traditional hard-copy filing, they weren't able to completely digitize transactional documents such as invoices and order forms. In fact, many experts now think that offices will never be completely paperless, and that hard-copy documents will always have a role to play in the world of business-to-business commerce. However, the manual filing and management of paper documents is fraught with risk and error, sometimes resulting in costly miscues, but it was something that simply couldn't be completely avoided until transactional content management software came along.

We are sending out our KwikTag Partner Newsletter today and it has a special theme - THANK YOU to all our KwikTag Partners who have helped provide transactional content management solutions to so many customers this year!

FRx FOCUS – August 10^th and 11 - Dallas

Electronic filing software has been around for many years, especially when measured against the speed of technology advancements and new software innovations.  But it is still evolving and growing into greater and greater value and benefits for the companies who use it.  The benefits of electronic filing software, now evolved into Transactional Content Management (see our related blogs), are well-known, but to review, they include: increased efficiency, improved access to information, simplified audit and compliance, reduced costs through the elimination of your paper burden, and high return on investment.

It is official!  We have completed our testing and certified KwikTag Release 4.6.5 R2 with the Microsoft Dynamics ERP "R2's" - GP 2010 R2 and NAV 2009 R2.  Customers and Partners who are upgrading should contact KwikTag Support for instructions and files as necessary at support@imagetag.com.

We are so passionate at ImageTag that Transactional Content Management - document imaging and automated workflow within your transactional business processes - is a cost-effective way to streamline processes, reduce costs, improve service inside and outside your organization, and improve visibility to document information when and where you need it, that we are offering a webinar that may not even showcase our product, KwikTag. 

When it comes to information systems, we have lived in a siloed world ever since we moved past the first company mainframe.  As the network revolution gathered steam over the last 20 years, the information we need to do our jobs continued to splinter.  Customer information was in one place, product information in another and pricing information in yet another.  The growth of ERP systems over the past decade was an effort to pull together business information into a single set of applications. (Note – prior to “ERP”, companies used one vendors accounting system, another’s HR system, yet another warehousing application etc.).