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What would you like to know more about? Chances are you'll find something that piques your interest in the white papers and articles below.

Most of our white papers are in PDF format. To view them, use Adobe Acrobat Reader, which you can download here.

How Document Management Benefits Accounts Payable - This whitepaper focuses on how document management software saves time and money by automating labor intensive business processes for accounting and finance departments.

Webcast Replay: AP Metrics You Can't Afford to Miss! Imaging and Workflow vs. Paper - You will learn how to improve your AP operations, realize a rapid ROI on your investment, while streamlining processes.

If you are looking internally to identify ways in which you can squeeze cash from operations - or at least get a better handle on its flow, potentially save thousands per year by implementing imaging and workflow in your AP department, then please review this four part educational video:

AP Imaging and Workflow (Part 1)
AP Imaging and Workflow (Part 2)
AP Imaging and Workflow (Part 3)
AP Imaging and Workflow (Part 4)

Effective and Efficient Distributed Web-Based Document Capture Architecture - This white paper describes the fundamental building blocks of Distributed, Web-Based Document Capture architecture, and share numerous tricks, tips and realities of the Capture process.

Creating a Cost-Conscious Document Capture Strategy - Technology has evolved from Document Imaging to scan paper, to Workflow to route the imaged paper, to Document Management to organize our file folders, to Web Content Management to manage Intranet and Extranet documents – all are now united as ECM. The influx of both paper and electronic documents still presents an enormous business and economic challenge for any organization. It must be met with a well thought-out Document Capture strategy.

White Paper: Business Continuity Planning 101 - Is your data safe? In the wake left behind by Gustav, Hanna, Ike and other recent natural disasters, Business Continuity Planning for Small & Medium Size Businesses is essential! It is crucial to understand the risks associated with not having a BCP in place and, find out how to remove the cost and complexity burdens from your staff.

IDC - Making the Economic Case for Data Preservation - This paper examines how organizations are implementing solutions that provide greater efficiencies and lower costs while meeting stringent business mandates for record retention and retrieval requirements.

Replacing Tape with ProStor InfiniVault - This paper examines the business challenges of traditional tape backups and discusses how ProStor's InfiniVault provides the best of both worlds in terms of protecting data. ProStor's InfiniVault combines removable disk media and policy based retention management of information enabling scaleable, easy to manage corporate archive.

How to Optimize Data Retention - This white paper discusses the practical and economic advantages of long-term data preservation and how to achieve it.

ESG - Lowering the Cost of Information Retention with Effective Disk-based Archives - Further complicating matters for organizations are various regulations and corporate governance policies that require certain information to be kept for specific periods of time. Another, more recent challenge that all organizations - regardless of size or industry, must deal with is electronic discovery.

Scaling SharePoint 2007 - Confused over whether or not Microsoft's SharePoint has the ability to scale? This whitepaper provides guidance targeted specifically at the storage subsystem, introduces techniques for monitoring scalability metrics, and for modifying the storage architecture of SharePoint systems that are suffering from poor performance.

Choosing an Enterprise Content Management System - To establish greater efficiencies and allow for collaborative data sharing, reporting and tracking, many businesses are taking advantage of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems as part of their infrastructures.

This white paper covers the following topics: Before You Buy, The Requirements Analysis, Budget & Cost Justification, Technology & Functionality, Who Should Conduct the Requirements Analysis, Choosing an ECM Consultant.

Where and how does an Enterprise Capture Solution fit in your overall Content Management Strategy? - So you think you have completed all your homework with respect to your Enterprise Content Management project? You've completed your Requirements Analysis, analyzed the Content Management players, evaluated c arefully whether you should buy direct from the manufacturer or partner with VAR or Systems Integrator, assessed your "low-hanging fruit" opportunities that minimize organizational risk and maximize profitability. You are ready for primetime, prepared to purchase, implement and are raring to "go-live." However, in your careful analysis, did you inadvertently omit evaluating and defining your Capture Strategy as it relates to your overall Enterprise Content Management strategy? Does your organization's content originate internally, externally, in electronic and/or paper format? Do you clearly know where the "point of origin" for your content actually originates?

Why Purchase Your Scanners from IDT? - With so many options for purchasing hi-speed document scanners out there today, it's hard to know where you should go. Check out this quick reference sheet for some of the benefits of purchasing your important scanning equipment from IDT.

Mid Market Briefing Series:
This three-part series provides the insight and approach you can take to navigate the options and purchase of new financial software. It's focused on the specific issues faced by mid-market organizations.
Enterprise Content Management 101 - What is ECM? When do you know you need it? What are its benefits? This brief article from a past issue of IDT's Integration Insider eNewsletter is your crash course in ECM.

ECM 101 PowerPoint Presentation - New to Enterprise Content Management? Check out this 101 primer and find out what ECM is, how to know if your business is a candidate for these technologies, their benefits, where to start, etc. You'll also learn a little about IDT, our clients, and what we offer.

Green Archival Storage: A white paper that explores the energy cost and environmental impact of common archival storage technologies - This paper compares the electrical requirements and carbon footprint of network attached digital archive solutions from three leading storage vendors.

Keep Your Information Moving with Workflow Automation - Workflow automation is "the ability to convert existing manual tasks into electronically automated processes." With flexible, scalable technology, it enables the automatic routing and management of transaction information (like purchase orders, claims, invoices, and applications) throughout one's organization and over the Web. Read this archived IDT Integration Insider article to find out more about workflow, its benefits and the Top 5 reasons to consider it.

The Upgrade Decision - As budgets are prepared, the question of "to upgrade or not to upgrade" often arises. The path to the answer can be complex and require a great deal of consideration. Getting your company through an implementation can be difficult. Upgrading can sometimes be tricky as well. It is essential that some basic analysis is done to establish whether an upgrade is right for your organization and if so, which upgrade path you should follow. Read this archived IDT Integration Insider article for some tips in making your decision.

Five Ways to Improve the ROI of Your Next Technology Investment - New technologies, when evaluated and launched wisely, can help your organization make significant productivity leaps and gain competitive advantage. To make sure your organization maximizes the impact of its next technology investment, consider these five tips as offered in the premier issue of the IDT Integration Insider.

A Case for Centralized Mail Processing of Communications Through a Virtual Mailroom - Courtesy ofCaptiva Software Corporation - As businesses continue to automate their information processes-enterprise content management (ECM) systems replace file cabinets, document and data capture technologies replace manual data entry-one domain of the information flow remains unchanged: the mailroom.

Read this article published in the IDT Integration Insider to find out more about the inefficiencies of paper, the need for centralized mail processing and the digital mailroom.


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