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Cloud infrastructure offers many benefits and companies are progressively migrating from on-premise to cloud models, driven by the need to reduce infrastructure costs, increase business agility and modernize the IT asset base. According to recent statistics, it is estimated that by 2020, more than 1/3rd of the data will pass through the cloud, and by 2021, 94% of workloads and compute...
This month, Xenit open-sourced Gradle plugin to build Alfresco Docker images. Lars Vierbergen (LV) and Thijs Lemmens (TL), ECM software engineers at Xenit, are the authors of the plugin. We interviewed them to learn how to easily and quickly start Alfresco integration projects. #Q1 – Why did we develop the Alfresco Docker Gradle Plugin? LV – At Xenit, we...
Insurance is a highly competitive business and everyday insurers are faced with an ever-growing volume and variety of information distributed across multiple locations, systems, and platforms. Every day more data — including new claims, policy changes, detailed financial information, and other business communications — enter the system. In the new era of intelligent information management,...
Last September, the 4th edition of the European Actuarial Journal Conference was held in Leuven, Belgium. The conference has been hosted by the Insurance Group of the Faculty, in collaboration with LRisk, the Leuven research Centre in financial and actuarial risk analysis, with Alumni & Friends Actuariaat Leuven, and with KU Leuven’s Congress service Centre. The conference...
Digital is the new market force that is driving massive disruption in consumer expectations. It is requiring a different set of skills, processes, culture, and metrics. Several industries have already started their digital path; it’s time for insurers to respond to this transformation. In the previous article, we highlighted the top challenges for insurers in the modernization...
This month Alfresco hosted a few seminars across Europe, that brought together Alfresco leaders, customers, partners, and consultants. Those events are a great opportunity to get inspired by meaningful and fruitful keynotes and sessions and it is always a pleasure to spend time with experts and innovators in the content and process management context. Digital...
The GDPR requirements are quite popular now. The hype is real, as much as the penalties if you don’t comply with it. In the previous article, “When technology meets regulation (GDPR) – part I“, by showing you a demonstration to secure your information under the General Data Protection Regulation, we have anticipated how the GDPR...
The short answer is yes. Organizations do still waste valuable time every day due to broken processes. No matter the cause, the amount of time wasted in futile searching for vital information is enormous, leading to staggering costs to the enterprise. In this article, we would like to take an analytical approach, by reading through...
To cope with overwhelming increases in documents, emails, and other communications, more and more organizations are embracing a structured, centralized approach, such as Content Service Platforms, such as Alfresco. Many collaboration platforms fail because business users are presented with a default layout that is neither configured to their needs nor reveals many of the offers that the platform can...
One employee can waste up to 10 hours a month on document inefficiencies. Working on incorrect or outdated files, wasting time searching for documents or looking for the right version, and generating duplication, those behaviors decrease dramatically the productivity and increase the operational costs. Challenges that most probably your company is facing, just right now....