Groupware: What Works the Way Businesses Do? by Joe Miller
Groupware The internet is full of 1.5 million to 7 million indexed pages of groupware packages available on the market today. Every business needs groupware to control, manage, or track documents. Groupware is similar to other systems that enable document management, often using a centralized... In searching through the groupware available, there are technologies to keep an eye out for which enable document tracking during hectic, ad hoc, document collaboration. ... Tracking In an ad hoc business environment, tracking your document versions can be a chaos.

Groupware: Answers the 5 Questions of Document Collaboration by Joe Miller
Every organization which creates collaborative documents, whether they are budgets, presentations, reports, spreadsheets, or other documents recognizes that collaborative efforts are requirement. That collaboration always forces the 5 eternal document collaboration questions: Who? ... You can also rely on the Document Signature to open with the document to tell you exactly what you are looking at. ... When that happens, especially in the electronic document world we work in, you may be asking later “Where did that document go?” You may also receive information and ask “Where did this come...

Groupware: Avoid the Ad Hoc Shuffle by Joe Miller
Groupware Efforts are continually made to manage the unavoidable ad hoc business process, but ad hoc processes do not necessarily mean a pile of messy, shuffled documents, at least not anymore. Groupware is software which tracks and manages the ad hoc business collaboration. ... Digital Thread technology tags the meta data of an electronic document, tracking the who, what, when, where, and how of any changes made in the text or the location of the document. ... When searching for the document management and collaboration technology for your business, remember that document management will...

What is a Document Manager without Version History? by Joe Miller
Document Manager and Version History In previous articles I have discussed the usefulness of a document manager, such as groupware, in organizing document sharing. I have also discussed the role that a Version History plays in a good document manager. ... As a document is created, whether a budget plan, a marketing presentation, or a legal contract, Digital Thread Technology inserts tracking information into the metadata of the electronic document. ... This allows the document to be tracked over various email boxes and drives, even if the document has been sent to individuals who do not...

Groupware and Version History: Collaboration Series #1 by Joe Miller
This article is the first of a series of articles exploring specific aspects of groupware. The brief informational articles in this series discuss some of the technologies associated with groupware, as well as some of the characteristics of groupware. ... But, in order to provide the document tracking and management necessary to run effective document collaboration, even in an ad hoc setting, groupware must have the ability to track documents and their versions across multiple email boxes, hard drives, and servers.

Document Data Entry Scanning by Ross Bainbridge
Managing records or documents is a key task in every business. It involves identifying, classifying, storing, circulating and disposing of documents among others. Each of these activities involves multifarious, minor tasks that are often time consuming and costly. ... Compared to the scanned images, the electronic documents stored using earlier technology or computer program are prone to changes that require tracking and security authorization. ... Document imaging is the latest technologies used today in order to capture, store and manage documents that are scanned.

Collaboration Software: Index of Collaboration Software Technologies by Joe Miller
Collaboration Software Collaboration Software, also known as group collaboration software or groupware, is software which allows cooperation on a business document between multiple parties on multiple computers. Collaboration software also allows the integration and merging of document changes... Merging documents is often synonymous with sifting through document chaos, but collaboration software suites which can manage ad hoc business collaboration simplify the tracking and merging of document drafts.

Scanning & Data Entry of Documents by Rajeev Guglani
In Modern world managing records or documents is a key task in every business. It requires identifying, classifying, storing, circulating and disposing of documents. Each of these activities involves multifarious, minor tasks that are often time consuming and costly. ... Document imaging is the latest technology used now a days in order to capture, store and manage documents that are scanned. ... As compared to the scanned images, the electronic documents stored using earlier technology like typing or computer program are prone to changes that may require tracking and security authorization.

Electronic Document Management Systems by Eric Morris
An electronic document management system is a computer-based system whereby software tools are used to capture, process, index, store, retrieve, distribute and dispose of the documents. The documents may be in the form of spreadsheets, word processing documents, multimedia files and the like. ... A user can create a document, attach graphical images and index the document along with the attachment, using the software. ... An electronic document management system is more cost-efficient than paper-based document management.

Bar Code Tracking Software by Eddie Tobey
All products are labeled with bar codes today. Even the smallest retail items, like chocolates or pencils, have a unique bar code to identify them accurately. Bar codes have specific symbology that is defined in the height and width of the bars as well as the spacing between them. ... Bar codes help during data collection, inventory tracking, and other asset tracking. ... All fixed assets can be bar-coded and kept track of using bar-code fixed-assets tracking software. ... Fixed assets tracking software is a big help in such areas where a company needs to have an idea of where assets are...