The Future of Documents | Document Management and Smarter Document Technologies

Open Xerox Innovation

2009-11-07T03:27:37-08:00

Nice initiative: test drive some of the latest Xerox Innovation – Open Xerox is an Open Innovation space to explore Xerox technologies, interact with Xerox scientists, or even establish innovation partnerships. Currently only one demo is available online – Natural Language Color Editing. This technology lets user use common words and phrases to change and improve color images [...]

Similar Image Search becomes mainstream

2009-10-29T09:26:32-08:00

The ways of “cutting through the clutter” and surviving the information overload have changed: after trying to impose a structure on data by adding metadata, we quickly realized that was helpless and would not scale up if front of the explosion of the Digital Universe. Instead, we decided to (barely) keep head over water by using whatever techniques were available [...]

Back from Optimizing Innovation

2009-10-26T07:16:45-08:00

The conference was really interesting. I was honored, thrilled (and intimidated) to be presenting along Chief Innovation Officers, Strategy VPs, and other such great presenters. The focus was on understanding how to drive innovation into any organization – either using a top-down strategy, or, as in my case, in a bottom-up fashion. Although my presentation was outside the ”core”, I [...]

On my way to Optimizing Innovation ‘09

2009-10-20T15:07:40-08:00

Getting ready for my presentation at Optimizing Innovation ‘09, Thursday morning, in NYC. Should be an interesting story on how the “Less Paper Office” meets Business Process Improvement. Promises to be an interesting conference: “Optimizing Innovation 2009 will give you the opportunity to hear ideas and experiences from top speakers from the most innovative companies, on [...]

Automatic Text Categorization for e-Discovery

2009-10-18T13:49:39-08:00

Technology can help in many document-intensive processes – even sometimes in the most difficult cases, where human was until now considered the only option. For example, Xerox Litigation Services is now leveraging Categorix, the Text Categorizer,to expedite the review of documents in a litigation case. Categorix is a technology developed at the Xerox Research Centre Europe, which [...]

Getting ready for Optimizing Innovation ‘09

2009-10-14T08:13:41-08:00

I’ll be presenting at the Optimizing Innovation conference next week in NYC. Under the theme of “Succeeding through Service Innovation”, I’ll be talking to how we are making the “Less Paper Office” a reality for our customers - reducing cost, improving productivity and quality, and driving sustainability into our clients paper-intensive document processes. I will be sharing [...]

Ads-sponsored Health Records?

2009-10-12T06:21:41-08:00

The Stimulus package is definitely a great incentive for getting small practices and large hospitals to move towards Electronic Medical Records – despite a pretty high upfront cost of around $44000 per physician to install a new electronic health-record system. Daily Finance has an interesting article and interview on a new trend: ad-sponsored online health records. Practice [...]

Kindle and eBook news

2009-10-09T05:59:22-08:00

The big news in e-books this week is obviously the launch of Kindle to the rest of the world - obviously. Kindle Review has all the information you might need, including review, international wireless coverage, or even a comparison between the Kindle international and Kindle US - although the conclusion is pretty obvious. Sure, lots of [...]

Nuance acquires eCopy

2009-10-06T00:43:04-08:00

Nuance announced yesterday that it acquired eCopy, a leading provider of solutions integrating paper documents into business software applications, for about $54 million in stock. That extends Nuance’s footprint in owning paper- and document-intensive business processes. This acquisition should complement nicely their desktop scanning applications and Intelligent Document Recognition technologies with eCopy’s server-based offering and direct access [...]

Do “living documents” really exist?

2009-10-05T08:07:53-08:00

Interesting post from Mark McDonald, at Gartner, about the (mis)use of the term ”living document”: Why most ‘living documents’ are dead on arrival”. He makes very interesting (and true) points about the fact that “living documents”, or what we call as such today - often excuses for unfinished work. “living documents” rarely live on, and are – at best [...]

Francois Ragnet Podcast Interview with Julie Meyers

2009-07-31T00:00:00-08:00

How To Succeed in a "Less Paper" World: Recommendations On How To Manage Documents In All Their Changing Forms

Section II - Interview with Francois Ragnet: Working with Documents in Different Formats

2009-06-01T00:00:00-08:00

Francois on how to more efficiently work with paper and digital documents in a variety of formats in workflows.

Section III - Interview with Francois Ragnet: Making Documents More Effective

2009-06-01T00:00:00-08:00

Francois on why multifunction printers need to be the core of managing documents in different formats.

Section I - Interview with Francois Ragnet: How to Succeed in a "Less Paper" Office

2009-06-01T00:00:00-08:00

Francois on the accelerating shift to digital documents and how to manage this change.

When Document 2.0 meets Office 2.0

2008-12-18T00:00:00-08:00

In this podcast, Francois Ragnet and Ismael Ghalimi, CEO of Intalio and Office 2.0 conference organizer, discuss Xerox involvement in the 2008 Office 2.0 Conference aimed at discovering the future of online productivity and collaboration.

Information Overload? The impact of the Expanding Digital Universe

2008-12-18T00:00:00-08:00

Xerox Researcher, Francois Ragnet, shares leading thoughts on the Expanding Paper Universe concepts and its effect on Information Overload.

The Future of Documents Blog

2008-11-26T00:00:00-08:00

Xerox Innovation-Related Websites

2008-11-26T00:00:00-08:00

TeXnology Showroom

2008-11-26T00:00:00-08:00

The Less Paper Office

2008-11-26T00:00:00-08:00

The "paperless office" became a buzzword after being introduced in an article, The Office of the Future, in Business Week in 1975. It coincided with the advent of the personal computer, and the hope was that all documents could be processed electronically and that paper would become irrelevant. Since then, a number of technologies have made it seem within our grasp-among them desktop publishing, the web, e-mail, content management systems and more. Today, digital information is pervasive throughout our organizations, is managed and secured in digital repositories and drives business at lightning-fast speeds. But has paper disappeared? Not at all. Actually, paper consumption is still increasing, soaring to extremely high levels. Paper continues to predominate in activities that involve knowledge work, reading and collaboration. So how do we manage paper now and in the future? By using Smarter Document Technologies in the office, learn how to use paper more responsibly, reduce the amount of paper that your organization uses and effectively drive business improvement from a cost, communication, and environmental standpoint.

The Future of Documents

2008-11-26T00:00:00-08:00

Xerox Innovation Newsroom

2008-11-26T00:00:00-08:00

PARC

2008-11-26T00:00:00-08:00

December 3, 2008 – Webinar: The Future of Documents

2008-11-26T00:00:00-08:00

Turn ordinary business documents into strategic assets. Xerox Thought Leader Francois Ragnet shares innovative document strategies that help you reduce paper handling and consumption while transforming your business.

Interview with Francois Ragnet: The future of documents

2008-11-14T00:00:00-08:00

Francois explains that the future of documents and document management is here now. Learn about how the role of the document within the enterprise is changing as it becomes much more dynamic and rich through a concept that we call smarter documents.

Unleash the Power of the Digital Mailroom

2008-11-14T00:00:00-08:00

This paper shows how Xerox Global Services is reengineering the mailroom to reduce client response time and cost, improve communications and quality, while assuring regulatory compliance. We do this through Smarter Document Process and Technologies, a unique collection of information workflow practices and software from Xerox. Combined with a fine-grained analysis of your documents and business processes, they can be combined and adapted to radically transform some of the most challenging business processes and, in this case, unleash the power of the Digital Mailroom.

Complete Interview with Francois Ragnet: How to Succeed in a "Less Paper" Office and Manage Hardcopy and Digital Documents More Effectively

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Listen to Francois Ragnet discuss how to improve document management as documents change form and impact workflows, giving insight into the document technologies that help such as natural language processing, liberating content from containers, cloud-based and evergreen documents and more.

Francois Ragnet and Ismael Ghalimi, CEO of Intalio Discuss the Role of Documents in Office 2.0

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Xerox participated in the 2008 Office 2.0 Conference where the focus was on documents and how they are changing and thus impacting business processes. Francois and Ismael also talk about cloud computing and how the conference was a real-time experiment.