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IDT Integration Insider Archives
Basement collection of classic back issues of IDT Integration Insider newsletters

Free your Forms from Paper - FOREVER!
Eliminating the Paper Pile-Up

The swan song of paper-based business workflows has been replayed over the last 20+ years. Innovators continue to work on ways to close the digital divide that exists between central IT and the edges of the enterprise where paper forms capture stubbornly prevails. Emerging technologies such as EDI, XML, ACH transactions, email, PDFs, TIFFs and eforms have facilitated ...
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The Economics of the Cloud - Microsoft Whitepaper
Deep dive into the economic realities of on-premise vs. Cloud based computing. Grab your favorite beverage and be prepared to put on your thinking cap ;-)
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White Paper: Green Information Technology makes the ROI Grade with Web-Savvy Document Capture Systems
Going green is more than a trend; it�s now an everyday reality. Organizations of all types, regardless of industry, are finding that reducing their carbon footprint makes good business sense � it�s good for the planet and the company bottom line.
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White Paper: Introducing Windows Azure
Cloud computing is here. Running applications on machines in an internet-accessible data center can bring plenty of advantages. Yet wherever they run, applications are built on some kind of platform. For on-premises applications, this platform usually includes an operating system and some way to store data. Applications running in the cloud need a similar foundation. The goal of Microsoft�s Windows Azure is to provide this.
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White Paper: Business Value of Microsoft SharePoint 2010
Enterprise Content Management with Microsoft� SharePoint� Server 2010 delivers both a high quality solution that stimulates and delivers user participation, and the tools for highly secure, well-managed content.
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White Paper: Microsoft Windows Azure Drive
With Windows Azure Drive, your Windows Azure applications running in the cloud can use existing NTFS APIs to access a durable drive. This can significantly ease the migration of existing Windows applications to the cloud. The Windows Azure application can read from or write to a drive letter (e.g., X:\) that represents a durable NTFS volume for storing and accessing data. The durable drive is implemented as a Windows Azure Page Blob containing an NTFS-formatted Virtual Hard Drive (VHD).
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SQL Azure vs. SQL Server - Get the Official Explanation from Microsoft
If you haven't explored Microsoft Azure as of yet, what are you waiting for? IT leadership teams should be seriously investigating the money savings opportunity!
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White Paper: Business Productivity at its best: Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010
This paper shows how two products, Microsoft� Office and Microsoft SharePoint�, contribute to the powerful architectural design of the Microsoft Business Productivity Infrastructure (BPI). The BPI stack approach suggests that only by thinking at a capability level (for example, �What do information workers want to do?�), and then adding the right aspects of capability in each place (client, server, and services), can we create desktop applications that also deliver rich server and services capabilities to information workers.
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Understanding the Datacenter Tier Ratings - Uptime Institute's Whitepaper
Have you been educated about the differences in the various Tier ratings that exist for the Cloud Computing/SaaS providers? Should you even care what kind of Datacenter your SaaS / Cloud Computing partner chose to host your application? Do you know the correct questions to ask of the SaaS/Cloud Computing Providers? Read the Whitepaper from Uptime Institute before you make your SaaS/Cloud Computing Provider final decision.
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Steve Ballmer on Cloud Computing
In a live speech at the University of Washington in Seattle, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discussed what�s ahead for computing, with a focus on how cloud computing will change the way people and businesses use technology.
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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.

Imaging and Workflow vs. Paper - 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.

Choosing an Enterprise Content Management System
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. 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.

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 carefully 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.

Part I: What Companies Should Know Before Buying Financial Software - Get the most from your investment in financial software. This first part in the three-part IDT Mid-Market Briefing 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.
Part II: How Distributed, Web-Based Document Capture, Automated Accounts Payable & Content Management Significantly Enhance ERP/Financial Systems - This second in our three-part Briefing Series is available to enhance your knowledge of financial systems. It provides you with insider information about how to achieve both efficiency and compliance through integration of your financial or ERP solution with Enterprise Content Management.
Part III: Benefits of Working with a Value-Added-Reseller (VAR) - Are there advantages purchasing from and working with a VAR versus the hardware or software manufacturer? Who will give you the better price? Should you still work with an integrator even if you have a capable IT staff? The third and final part of the IDT Briefing Series gives you straight answers about product selection, services, costs and more.