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THE CHALLENGE BNP Paribas Fortis is a Belgian branch of the global banking giant BNP Paribas. Ten years ago, the bank decided to construct a new headquarters in the Montagne du Parc district of Brussels. This new head office was necessary because the previous office no longer complied with modern energy or ergonomic standards. The...
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NLP in ECM: A Revolutionary Approach to Unstructured Data
Introduction Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is a pivotal instrument in the toolkit of modern businesses. However, a significant challenge arises when dealing with unstructured data, a hidden goldmine for potential insights. That’s where Natural Language Processing (NLP) steps in as a vital component in ECM solutions. The Phenomenon of Unstructured Data To understand the necessity...
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Unburden your information management
Introduction Xenit provides open source solutions for management and legal preservation of your documents. Since 2007 we have been building solutions based on Alfresco. Open source is in our DNA. It allows us to build functionality faster functionality for our customers or reuse functionality for our customers, with great reedom for the customer and Xenit....
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Xenit’s Breakthrough In Large Active Archives: A Report From Hyland Summit 2023
Introduction Xenit’s Alfresco customers were presenting at 3 Hyland Summits in Europe in October. Following Oxford’s University Press testimony of their journey to AWS in London on the 10th of October, MNT discussed their upgrade to Alfresco 6.2 in Paris on the 19th of October 2023. At the Hyland Summit 2023 in Dusseldorf, the spotlight shone...
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ChatECM: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning on Enterprise Content Management
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have the potential to revolutionise the way businesses operate. The Enterprise Content Management (ECM) industry is surely no exception. The integration of AI and ML into ECM systems allow organisations to automate routine tasks, enhance search and gain deeper insights from their content. An intelligent content management system...
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2021 Intelligent Information Management insights and challenges
According to the AIIM report “2021 State of the Intelligent Information Management Industry’, organizations need to seriously address four specific information concerns if they hope to succeed in their journey to becoming truly digital organizations. The C-Suite is failing to align business and technology strategies. Organizations are losing the battle against information chaos and need...
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Presenting the Hyland Alfresco connector for Microsoft 365 and Teams
Last month, at Xenit we hosted the webinar “Driving full-scale productivity and collaboration with the Alfresco connector for Microsoft 365 & Teams”, together with Hyland Alfresco. As cloud adoption increases, many organizations are migrating from desktop-based Microsoft Office to cloud-based Microsoft 365 and Teams. Combining the collaborative strength of Microsoft 365 with the governance and...
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Roaring Bitmaps: The New Postgres Performant Era
Introduction to Postgres & Bitmaps You’ve probably heard of Postgres, but have you delved deep into the wonders of roaring bitmaps? If not, stick around because this just might revolutionize your understanding of database performance. What are Roaring Bitmaps? Roaring bitmaps are a compressed bitmap format optimized for both speed and space. Think of them...
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How does 2022 look like for the Intelligent Information Industry?
2021, the year of the Ox, comes to an end. Enter the Tiger and the era of the metaverse. A time in which our physical presence becomes a shadow of our true digital identity if we are to believe Mark Zuckerberg. (We do love react.js and https://opensource.fb.com, Mark). Working from anywhere (WFA) in 2021 has been a cultural and value shift, much more than a technological one. We can only admire the inventors of the internet to handle 2022 workloads with TCP/IP, introduced in January 1983 in ARPAnet. Although post-covid-crisis flexibility improves our quality of life, we should...
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How to proactively manage your Alfresco Content Services subscription
In Greek mythology, Atlas was a Titan who was condemned to hold up the heavens for all eternity. He was given this sentence because he refused to support the Gods of Olympia. In the world of Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Alfresco is a distinguished industry, Titan, with a reputation for its enterprise-level software. As a...
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Four reasons why you’ll upgrade to Alfresco Content Services 7 and you won’t regret it
If your Android phone isn’t running the latest software, your security and privacy might be in jeopardy. Every time Apple drops a major new operating system update—whether macOS or iOS—there’s the question of whether or not you should upgrade right away or wait a while. Obviously, one of the main reasons to upgrade it is...
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Entity recognition with Machine Learning – Ensemble Learners
In part I and part II of this series, we checked the effectiveness of applying automated named entity recognition on a set of miscellaneous documents in a corporate document management system. The idea is to use machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques to identify and extract natural person names from documents. This results in a list of person names and the...
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Incremental Alfresco connector for Lucidworks Fusion
As an Enterprise Content Management solution managing content from various sources, of various formats, and in various languages, Alfresco aims to structure, protect and make data available to end-users and to other applications. Search and related functionality like facets, suggestions, highlights are important pieces in realizing these goals, in both structured (metadata/properties) and unstructured (content)...
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Knowledge Management Tips to Improve Employee Experience in 2021
Last month, we hosted the webinar “Knowledge Management Tips to Improve Employee Experience in 2021, together with Lucidworks. In the past, we already addressed today’s challenge companies are facing: finding and getting employees the information critical for their jobs. Just mentioning a few of our titles if you are interested in refreshing your readings – From Enterprise...
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Entity recognition with Machine Learning – spaCy
In our pilot study – Entity recognition with Machine Learning – we checked the effectiveness of applying automated named entity recognition on a set of miscellaneous documents in a corporate document management system. The idea is to use Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence techniques to identify and extract natural person names from documents. This results in a...
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The benefits of auditing your Alfresco
In the previous article “A 3-step approach to audit your Alfresco“, we have highlighted the importance of performing a regular audit of your Intelligent Information Platform to evaluate its performance and effectiveness. An audit helps to identify patterns that keep Alfresco up & running to sustain your business every day. It is also the starting...
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A 3-step approach to audit your Alfresco
Do you experience slow response time? Are your UI pages taking forever to load?Are you running an old, unsupported Alfresco version? Do you experience version control issues? Are you reaching a +50M documents milestone? If you have answered yes to any of these questions, it might be time to get ready for the digital future....
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Magic Quadrant for Content Services Platforms – Gartner 2020
The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content Services Platform, 2020 is available. Alfresco Digital Business Platform has been named leader, as well as Hyland, which has just completed the acquisition of Alfresco. Gartner defines a content services platform (CSP) as the foundational component in an organization for the management and utilization of content. CSPs provide a...
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Intelligent Information Management unleashes the cognitive revolution
“Consider a future device … in which all of your books, records, and communications have been stored and engineered to be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. You now have an enlarged intimate supplement to your memory.” This is how Vannevar Bush, American engineer and Head of the US Office of Scientific Research and Development during...
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The impact of COVID-19 on cloud adoption
A few months ago, Maria DB conducted a study to gauge the initial COVID-19 impact on businesses moving to the cloud and IT professionals’ attitudes on what has changed and what they think will change going forward. Over the past year, we have already discussed the rapid expansion of cloud services and platforms as a service. Many...
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From Enterprise Search to Cognitive Search
More than half (54%) of global information workers are interrupted from their work a few times or more per month to spend time looking for or trying to get access to information, insights, and answers. The problem: old keyword-based enterprise search engines of the past are obsolete. This information is typically available within the organization...
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Top 6 features of Intelligent Information Management Systems
Over three years ago, AIIM introduced the concept of Intelligent Information Management, or IIM, and began researching the connections between IIM and Digital Transformation. The definition of Intelligent Information Management is a set of processes and underlying technology solutions that enable organizations to manage their data. IIM refers to how both content and data are managed...
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AI and Enterprise Search empower remote workers in a Post-Covid 19 Era
The teleconferencing company Zoom has seen a massive increase in profits and has doubled its annual sales forecast, driven by a surge in users as more people work from home and connect with friends online during the coronavirus crisis. (Source – Zoom booms as teleconferencing company profits from coronavirus crisis – The Guardian) There is enough...
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Search indexing Alfresco
Enterprise Search is the totality of all software for searching for information within an enterprise. It allows you to forget that there is a multitude of content management systems, orchestrated together to handle the inbound information. As long as you are entitled to access a piece of information, it should not matter which business line or...
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Enterprise search empowers people: let’s discover how
Last year, we addressed the rhetorical question Do workers still waste time searching for information? Depending on the (digital) nature of your business, any number between 10 to 30 % of knowledge workers’ time is spent searching for information. That time can be well spent, but it is a substantial and significant cost. If people at your company spend...
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Ethias: how to scale up beyond 100 million documents in Alfresco
In the previous blog, we celebrated Ethias, one of the largest insurance companies in Belgium, that had reached the milestone of 100 million documents managed in the Alfresco Digital Business Platform. Reaching this milestone in our customer’s environment reaffirms our commitment to continuous re-evaluations of the system to look for optimizations to current or future scalability...
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Ethias: 3-sec search response time for 100 million docs in Alfresco
Last month, Ethias, one of the largest insurance companies in Belgium, reached the milestone of 100 million documents managed in the Alfresco Digital Business Platform. Reaching this milestone in our customer’s environment reaffirms our commitment to continuous re-evaluations of the system to look for optimizations to current or future scalability limitations. As we have done...
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Digital Signature: new integration in Alfresco with Alfred Finder
Digital Signatures have become the new normal however, there are still many misconceptions about them. Does a digital signature have the same legal value as written signatures? What is the importance of identification in a signature session? Does the end-user always have to download software when signing documents digitally? Consumer purchases, business-to-business transactions, and governmental administration are...
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Entity Recognition with Machine Learning
In this pilot study, Tom Magerman – MSc Business and Information Systems Engineering, PhD at UCLL (University Colleges Leuven Limburg) – and our team at Xenit, want to check the effectiveness of applying automated named entity recognition on a set of miscellaneous documents in a corporate document management system. The idea is to use machine...
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Automatic Document Classification with Machine Learning and AI
Nowadays modern businesses are leveraging machine learning (ML) based solutions to help automate operations and make the whole process of document management faster and more effective. The latest systems are incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) to “read” documents like a human, identify and classify the type of document and extract key data. Such systems can efficiently,...
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Alfred Telemetry: metrics for Alfresco Digital Platform
Monitoring is the key to a healthy Alfresco Platform installation. Metrics give insight into how the application is behaving and make it possible to react quickly when something is not right. At this moment an enormous amount of monitoring systems are available, each one with its own concepts and usage. Furthermore, there is not one...
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Reducing maintenance costs of Alfresco with Care4Alf
Editor’s note (2019-10-02): A slight oversight on our part has been brought to our attention: Our companies artefact repositories have not yet been replaced by public repositories yet. We apologise for this inconvenience and will amend this as soon as possible. To view our open source projects, visit our GitHub page. ——- Care4Alf is a toolkit designed...
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Alfresco recognized as Leader in the Forrester Wave Evaluation
Cheryl McKinnon, principal analyst serving enterprise architecture professionals, is the author of the report: The Forrester Wave™ – ECM Content Platforms, Q3 2019. In a 26-criterion evaluation of enterprise content management (ECM) content platform providers, Cheryl and the team identified the 14 most significant ones — Alfresco Software, Box, GRM Information Management, Hyland, IBM, iManage, Laserfiche, M-Files,...
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Intelligent Automation Trends: AIIM’s survey
The Association of Intelligent Information Management (AIIM) published survey results from 100 Leaders in Document Automation, focusing on how the digital workforce takes advantage of Document Automation Solutions. 1. Document processing automation Major trends are expanding advanced capture, replacing paper forms with e-forms, processing more born-digital documents and expanding to the cloud. What do you see as...
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Xenit open sources Alfred Software – part II
Today, software and service as often merged into one concept. Alfred is our solution to achieve the highest standards in performance and availability when running Alfresco Content Services. It is software, a reference architecture, best practices & managed services. Our arsenal of tools consists of proactive monitoring, systematic failure analysis, downtime avoidance, and continuous performance tuning. With...
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On-Premise vs Cloud: Which ECM is right for you?
Cloud Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is one of the biggest trends in business software, mostly due to the flexibility and savings the cloud offers. However, these benefits often contend because the cloud may not be superior to on-premise ECM in all cases, and are both options mutually exclusive? ECM helps users to find the right...
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XeniT open sources Alfred Software
Summary TL;DR: To lower Alfresco’s total cost of ownership and increase the agility and scalability of the digital platform, Xenit launches the Alfred Suite. The Alfred Suite is a set of software components, combined with managed services, that are fully integrated into Alfresco. Alfred software components are released as open-source software under LGPL (Lesser General Public...
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How to quickly develop Alfresco repository extensions
For the last couple of months, at Xenit we’ve been working hard to get Dynamic Extensions up and running on Alfresco 6.0 and 6.1. Alfresco’s Spring Global Virtual Hack-a-thon was the perfect opportunity to step up our game and kick off the final sprint towards a Dynamic Extensions 2.0 release. What dynamic extensions is and how...
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How to quickly bootstrap an Alfresco project with Xenit Initializr
Alfresco Global Virtual Hack-a-thons are open to everyone in the Alfresco community. While there is typically a large percentage of attendees who are developers, we also like to see end-users, managers, and other people interested in Alfresco and its ecosystem of products (Content Services, Process Services, Governance Services, Application Development Framework, Digital Workspace, Activiti Cloud,...
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Content Management for dummies: 6 tips to select the right solution
The Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) has said that ECM (Enterprise Document Management) is no longer an adequate definition for the ways in which organizations interact with these solutions. It has been suggested that Intelligent Information Management (IIM) is more appropriate for describing the market space and the strategies associated with content management....
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Alfresco ECM: Cloud first, content and process!
Last March, I attended the annual Alfresco Sales Kickoff event, held in Dublin. The aim of the event was to bring together Alfresco Top management, the Sales and Marketing teams, and key partners and share the global vision. I represented Xenit, which was the only Belgian partner that attended and sponsored the conference. Monday –...
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Claims processing automation with Alfresco Digital Business Platform
Recently, we co-hosted a webinar with Alfresco, entitled “Automating content-centric processes in Insurance”. We often hear from our Insurance customers what are their main drivers for systems modernization. The high-level driver for the transformation is the evolution of the market and the evolution of the customers: insurers have to deliver products and services quickly and...
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Gartner’s ECM evaluation: Alfresco better than SharePoint and Nuxeo!
The role of the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) or Content Services Platform (CSP) has never been as crucial as it is today. Organizations consider ECM as a key component of their business digital transformation. Due to the continuing explosion of unstructured information such as documents, scanned images, rich media, web content, corporate records, emails, and...
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Alfresco User Interface:tell me what you use, I’ll tell you who you’re
The user experience is paramount in the choice and adoption of the Alfresco Digital Platform and any Content Service Platform. 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 offer. Companies still struggle with user...
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High availability and performance: how to scale Alfresco with Alfred
Most companies realize that they need a strategic Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution after they have identified an overarching business challenge – often handling too much paper or unstructured information that causes bottlenecks when trying to process, access, and store the information. However, according to AIIM, nearly 50 percent of all ECM programs fail and of the 50 percent that succeeds,...
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3 Tips to migrate Alfresco to AWS or Azure
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...
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DevCon 2018 – Behind the scenes of Alfred Finder
UX design is crucial to just about everything. It renders the latest technology accessible to the masses, makes our apps and websites a pleasure to use, and determines which brands and products we return to over and over again. To put it simply, design matters. Alfred Finder is a web application, React-based, that allows you to...
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Deloitte Technology’s Fast 50 Belgium
Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 competition is aimed at fast-growing technology companies that have their headquarters in Belgium. Last October Deloitte Belgium released its Technology Fast 50, the list of the fifty fastest-growing technology companies in Belgium. Deloitte also named the 10 finalists for its Rising Star competition, recognizing promising companies that have been active in the technology...
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DevCon 2018 – Production ready Alfresco Docker stack
Last year, developers, engineers, marketing and sales, customers, enthusiasts, and evangelists were all together in Lisbon, Portugal, attending the Alfresco DevCon 2018. DevCon is an international developer conference entirely dedicated to Alfresco technology, where you can increase your technical knowledge and connect with the community. As the second article of this blog series, today we...
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Alfresco DevCon – PostgreSQL practical guide
It’s almost one year from the Alfresco Devcon in Lisbon and, while we are preparing for the upcoming event in Edinburgh, planned for January 29-31, we want to share with you best moments and takeaways from one of the most acclaimed Alfresco events, dedicated to the Alfresco community. This series is about five articles and five...
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Open Sourcing Alfresco Docker Gradle plugin
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...
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Digital Insurance: you need a content and process services management
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,...
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Digitalization in Insurance: what Ageas, KBC and Xenit think about it
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...
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Belgian Insurance Market: digital change leaders start with Alfresco
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...
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Digital Transformation Strategy: the voice of the customers
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...
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When technology meets regulation (GDPR) – part II
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...
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When technology meets regulation (GDPR) – part I
Our previous blog series, the 7 challenges for securing your documents under GDPR, is a vademecum on how to manage your unstructured data under the General Data Protection Regulation. Unstructured data are found everywhere, in emails and documents, stored on local or network drives, in the Cloud, or on USB Keys. If we want to adequately protect personal data...
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Do workers still waste time searching for information?
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...
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5 tips for improving user adoption with the right UX
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...
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4 new ways to find documents on Alfresco with Alfred Finder – part II
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....
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4 new ways to find documents on Alfresco with Alfred Finder
In today’s world, there is a proliferation of documents and organizations have huge amounts of content that is poorly managed—or not managed at all. Documents are on shared drives, emails, and different and multiple Content Services Platforms or portable devices. Employees struggle to find what they are searching for, decreasing their productivity and increasing their inefficiency....
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Stop searching, start finding: introducing Alfred Finder
Announcing a new product is always exciting, but still, people may be skeptical and when they read this kind of article, most of them are looking for a simple answer to the following question: is your product solving my problem? Going directly to the point, if you struggle all the time to find the right...
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What’s new in Alfred Desktop 3.6
In the first blog post of the Alfred Desktop series, “5 ways to boost the desktop experience of your Alfresco end-users“, we shared a few key things that can help you achieve your organizational goals with Alfresco. Today, after a full dedicated workshop held @Stadtwerke Munchen, the biggest German municipal utility, six months of development, a...
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5 ways to boost the desktop experience of your Alfresco end-users
Are you currently discovering how you can boost the desktop experience of your Alfresco end-users? We’d like to share a few key things that can help you achieve your organizational goals with Alfresco. The best way to increase the adoption rate and productivity of your organization is by choosing a simple and user-friendly Digital Content...
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