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Rein in chaos with enterprise content management software

By Sarah Gayda posted 4 hours ago
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Content control is attainable by harnessing the full power of Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online for modern ECM Is content sprawl plaguing your organization? Is your team pumping out more documents, emails and records than ever before, but unable to find what they need when they need it? You’re not alone. Content is proliferating at unprecedented rates. And it’s only expected to get worse. Organizations predict volume will grow by 4.5x over the next two years, according to AIIM International . By 2025, the combined volume of data worldwide will grow 10x and skyrocket past 180 zettabytes, says IDC . Teams sprawl is the new ...
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Automatic Document Classification for your Bank or Credit Union

By Cameron Marks posted yesterday
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These days, it’s not a question of if financial institutions will automate workflows, but how. FI’s with the initiative to invest in their automation functions are searching for ways to deliver faster workflow processes and reduced manual intervention even further for incoming documents. Alogent FASTdocs seeks to be the bridge between these desires and future automated endeavors taken by banks and credit unions. When implemented, intelligent document classification, powered by AI and machine learning, will provide users with a fully automated digital ecosystem that acquires documents from all sources, understands and deciphers them on a holistic level, and ...
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Robotic Process Automation is the Next Chapter of the Staffing Industry’s Development – Part 1: Automate the Sourcing Process

By Shelly Mahon posted 2 days ago
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The staffing industry will continue its rapid growth due to the vast potential to digitize, reduce internal turnover, and increase productivity exponentially. **RPA; future of staffing industry; automation of recruitment; modernization of staffing industry** In my last article titled, “ How Privacy Laws Will Speed Up the Digital Transformation of the Staffing Industry ”, I commented on how privacy regulation will increase the need for the staffing industry to digitally transform in the coming years. As is the case with many industries, it can take a looming threat to create the spark needed to build momentum. Further, it can take years for businesses ...
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Employee Engagement and the Success (or Failure) of your Digital Transformation Project

By Cameron Marks posted 8 days ago
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Efficiency is the Name of the Game Digital transformation: two words that have taken over the financial services industry and completely changed the way banks and credit unions operate. Noted as a top priority for many executives, investing in such technology is often understood to be a benefit for their institution. It’s commonly believed that ‘digital transformation’ narrowly means offering digital tools to customers and members, and while this is likely a component of your larger effort, the scope and benefits reach much wider. Typically when introducing a new solution or process, it’s thought about in relation to customers and members – how will ...
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California Strengthens Online Privacy Landscape with Child-Specific Legislation

By Zasio Staff posted 8 days ago
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The following article first appeared on Zasio.com By Brandon Tuley -- Research Assistant California recently became the first state to enact legislation governing the profiling and processing of personal information gathered from children online. [1] The California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (CAADCA) becomes law on July 1, 2024, and builds upon the state’s current privacy legislation. [2] The law applies to any business that provides an online service, product, or feature that children are likely to access and meets one or more of the following three criteria: (1) has gross revenue above $25 million; (2) buys, sells, or shares the personal ...
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Digital Therapeutics And The Challenges They Pose For RIM Professionals

By Zasio Staff posted 16 days ago
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By Heather Houle -- Senior Research Analyst This article first appeared at Zasio.com Digital therapeutics is a novel technology with many implications for records management. This blog will address some emerging records management issues specific to digital therapeutics. What are digital therapeutics? Digital therapeutics (sometimes referred to as “DTx”) combine software and monitoring devices for the management and treatment of physical, mental, or behavioral health conditions. To be approved by a regulator, a DTx device or app needs to be scientifically and clinically proven to manage or treat a medical disorder. An example of a digital therapeutic ...
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Automating Your Customer Ordering and Fulfillment Process: Low-Hanging Fruit Volume II

By Shelly Mahon posted 17 days ago
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In my last blog of this series, Automating Your Customer Ordering and Fulfillment Process: Low-Hanging Fruit Volume I , I focused on Digitizing Core Organizational Processes by leveraging Intelligent Document Capture solutions to remove paper processes from your business. I initially planned for the next blog in the series to address strategies around no-code/low-code workflows and automating compliance and governance. Instead, I decided that addressing the use of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to accelerate hyperautomation/digital transformation was a bigger priority. Keep an eye out for more information on no-code/low-code in volume III. Zia Consulting ...
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Automating Your Customer Ordering and Fulfillment Process: Low-Hanging Fruit Volume II

By Shelly Mahon posted 17 days ago
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In my last blog of this series, Automating Your Customer Ordering and Fulfillment Process: Low-Hanging Fruit Volume I , I focused on Digitizing Core Organizational Processes by leveraging Intelligent Document Capture solutions to remove paper processes from your business. I initially planned for the next blog in the series to address strategies around no-code/low-code workflows and automating compliance and governance. Instead, I decided that addressing the use of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to accelerate hyperautomation/digital transformation was a bigger priority. Keep an eye out for more information on no-code/low-code in volume III. Zia Consulting ...
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FASTdocs API Brings Even More Flexibility to your ECM or EIM Solution

By Cameron Marks posted 22 days ago
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Alogent prioritizes feature developments with market trends and client requests that support goals. As a result, our product team focused on developing APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) within our flagship enterprise content and information management (ECM / EIM) suite, FASTdocs , to extend capabilities. The suite's full-featured external API enables FASTdocs to communicate with another software solutions and to provide a standard, structured, programmatic interface to its functionality. This external API also offers a secure method to directly interact with our system from third-party platforms. And, since it’s technology agnostic, the API can be ...
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A Walk Through the FI: Unique Workflows Don’t Have to be Complicated

By Cameron Marks posted 29 days ago
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Workflows are unique to each process and institution, but the automation potential can be felt throughout the organization, regardless of the department. FASTdocs has developed functionalities specifically to speed processes even further, remove more manual, error-prone efforts, and enhance internal and external interactions. With FASTdocs’ “Event Driven” workflows, users gain even more automation through workflow initiation and processing. Before we explore the capabilities of these workflows by looking at different use cases, let’s recap FASTdocs’ existing workflow functionality, “Checklist” workflows. These capabilities are great for involved, repetitive, ...
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Following the Cookie Trail

By Zasio Staff posted 30 days ago
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This article originally appeared on Zasio.com By Heather Rice Senior Research Analyst / Certified Paralegal If you are following the various privacy laws being passed around the world, you have certainly heard a lot of chatter about cookies. You may also be annoyed by website banners that pop up whenever you view a website. What are cookies and why are they used? Cookies are small text files that websites store on your device. Cookies were created by Lou Montulli and first used in 1994 by the web browser Netscape. [1] The first cookies were used to identify whether users had previously visited a particular website. Over the years, cookies have ...
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Automated Document Classification: Let Your EIM Solution Work for You

By Cameron Marks posted 11-02-2022
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‘Automation’ made our list as a top 4 takeaway from 2020 for banks and credit unions. Automation drives efficiency, which translates into faster access to information, and ultimately enables better services. With so many unknowns today, standing out by delivering value to your customers and members as a true partner will grow engagement and loyalty in the new year. But how? Automation is a broad term, every FI’s workflow is different, data volumes are surging, and there are countless layouts of documents received each day – even within the same institution. Although an increasing number of documents originate in a digital form with an accompanying digital ...
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A Connected Institution: Better, More-Personalized Customer and Member Services Depends on Your Digital Transformation Efforts in the Back Office

By Cameron Marks posted 10-26-2022
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Staffing difficulties are forcing organizations of all industries to be more efficient with technology and to enhance their automation capabilities. Banks and credit unions are no strangers to this challenge, layered with the shift in more customers and members banking remotely as a result of the pandemic. These account holders seek deep, meaningful engagements, wanting their banking needs met with the same friendly, familiar service they know, regardless of where, when, or how they transact. Although digital transformation isn’t new, meeting the market demand of 24/7/365-access with personalized service shines a new light on priorities, blending user-facing ...
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Microsoft Ignite Features Colligo as Syntex Launch Partner

By Sarah Gayda posted 10-24-2022
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Success story of Colligo customer TaylorMade Golf showcases legal department’s time and cost savings A pervasive theme at Microsoft Ignite 2022 was doing more with less. We believe in this at Colligo, often citing and hearing from partners,that we “help you get more out of the software you already own [Microsoft 365].” We are glad to see this adopted by Microsoft, as the return-on-investment conversation continues to be more and more important to global technology leaders and knowledge managers. Content is everywhere – and this isn’t good Content is everywhere. While the world shifts back to a hybrid model for work, IT leaders and records managers are ...
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What is Privacy, Anyway? A Brief Introduction for RIM Professionals

By Zasio Staff posted 10-21-2022
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This blog post, written by lead counsel Will Fletcher, originally appeared on Zasio.com Privacy is a crucial part of records and information management. Privacy, however, can be a puzzling topic to approach. Formal RIM texts frequently contain little privacy. And a RIM professional’s first experience many times involves jumping headlong into some involved issues, and without much exposure to the foundations. This can be like being handed a pair of scrubs and pulled into the operating room without completing a surgical residency, let alone medical school. In the U.S., federal privacy laws are a potpourri of requirements that apply based on the market sector, ...
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You Need an Information Management Strategy: Tips on Where to Start to Ensure Your Banking Solutions are Aligned to Meet Your Goals

By Cameron Marks posted 10-20-2022
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In an evolving market, banks and credit unions are facing efficiency challenges both internally and externally. Surmounting digital content, legacy solutions, and a lack of automation , combined with changing account holder expectations, could be holding you back. In addition, redefined staffing roles in today’s evolving workforce have pushed institutions to revisit their strategies and internal practices, forcing productivity, time, and cost to be looked at more closely. It’s critical that the process automation solutions you invest in make positive impacts with your employees, but also keep your institution competitive with market disrupters. If a strong ...
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Update on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework

By Jerry Manter posted 10-17-2022
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By Jared Walker, JD, -- Zasio Since Zasio's previous post discussing plans for the European Union-U.S. Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework, the United States has taken a significant step toward setting this new framework into action. On Oct. 7, 2022, President Joe Biden signed an “ Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities ,” which lays out steps the U.S. will take to implement its commitments under the new framework. It was the U.S.’s signals intelligence activities and a lack of adequate safeguards in place to protect personal data involved in such activities, after all, that led to the European Court ...
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Restore signed a contract with the UK's national broadcaster, the BBC

By Marcello Raiti posted 10-14-2022
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Restore signed a contract with the UK's national broadcaster, the BBC. The contract is to manage the BBC's archive of entertainment related assets, with an expected value of £22 million over ten years. The contract award is the largest in Restore's history. The BBC's archive consists of approximately 10.2m archived assets made up of a number of distinct collections which currently take up a total of 74,000 linear meterage of storage in temperature controlled vaults. The assets consist of audio, moving images, photographic stills, vinyl, and sheet music collected over the last century. Restore will build a dedicated vault in one of the Group's existing facilities ...
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Alogent Extends its Leadership in the Enterprise Content & Information Management Market for Financial Institutions with the Acquisition of AccuSystems

By Katie Mulqueen posted 10-13-2022
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Peachtree Corners, GA, October 11, 2022 – Alogent ( www.alogent.com , @alogent-corp ), a global software leader in the banking and financial services market, today announced the acquisition of AccuSystems, a leading provider of document imaging and tracking software that enhances compliance, workflow management, and business process automation for financial institutions. Welcoming AccuSystems to the Alogent family pairs two principals in the enterprise content and information management (ECM / EIM) market, strengthening its commitment to the industry and expanding the automation capabilities available to banks and credit unions of all asset sizes. “Having a ...
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iText DITO and iText pdf2Data: Two flavors with multiple document variations

By Jim Prigge posted 10-07-2022
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Before I was hired, I knew that the iText PDF SDK had been around for over 20 years but I was unaware of just how widespread its usage was. However, after attending our customer event “Shake It, Make It” I had a much better understanding of why we have more than 125 million users worldwide, spread across almost every industry. After getting to see Michaël Demey demonstrate how developers use the iText PDF library to generate PDF documents in the previous session , I was excited to watch Israel Garcia and Pavel Chermyanin show off iText’s collaborative solutions for document generation and data extraction: iText DITO and iText pdf2Data ...
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