Melody Smith

A Working Relationship

By Melody Smith | January 22, 2015

How do you really feel about SharePoint? With required manual tagging, often users hate to upload a document only to find that there are a half dozen fields to fill in before they can finish the upload process.

Handling the Email Chaos

By Melody Smith | January 21, 2015

The voices, or maybe the rants, differ on the advantages of email for records management. We understand the storage challenges that come with the mass amounts of data created by email and in discovery alone email poses challenges to even the strongest records management policies.

You want tools with that?

By Melody Smith | January 21, 2015

There have been many changes with the advent of digital formats. For the publishing world, the most significant is possibly the changed perception of time. You know, the time gap between writing and actual publishing, as well as the time between publishing your works to readers and seeing how they receive them. Analytics are now practically real-time. But has technology caught up with that? Are there proper analytical software tools available to gather and interpret this very valuable information?

Digital Assets Becoming More Important

By Melody Smith | January 20, 2015

It’s that time of year when we look back and forward simultaneously. Looking back at what we have accomplished while looking forward with anticipation as to what opportunities and yes, challenges, the new year will bring to each of us and the industries we work in.

Learn. More.

By Melody Smith | January 20, 2015

Learning is not just an action or a verb. Learning can be an urge, desire, and passion for many. Information seeking is not something taught in grade school; it is something ingrained in our DNA.

A Newbie’s Guide to DHUG Meetings

By Melody Smith | January 19, 2015

The biggest week of the year at Access Innovations is almost upon us. Every year, we present Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) meeting, where our esteemed clients come from all over the nation to meet and learn from the people who built the software and use it on a daily basis. Right about now, there starts to be a lot of buzz around the office. There are a lot of people coming to Albuquerque for this, and everyone here is pretty excited to swap ideas with them, because they’ve come up with some interesting uses of our software, things that have made us better in the process.

NFAIS Conference Coming Soon

By Melody Smith | January 16, 2015

The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) Conference is coming soon to Maryland. Check your calendars for the February 22-24, 2015 event. Information services are essential in everyday decision-making. The demand is growing to create relationships among linked data sources and formats has raised expectations for improved discoverability and accessibility.

Rock, Paper, Digital?

By Melody Smith | January 16, 2015

As another example of digital replacing paper, the Oneida County District Attorney’s Office, the first in New York state, is very close to going paperless.

Is it Real or is it Memorex?

By Melody Smith | January 15, 2015

Sometimes life does imitate art and vice versa. On a recent episode of the CBS Series, The Good Wife, it was part of the plot to fake metadata on an email. It is interesting that metadata has become so common to our vernacular that it is fiction television and without the typical NSA, Big Brother, Government references attached.

Partner With the Best

By Melody Smith | January 15, 2015

Data management technologies continue to evolve and offer new possibilities. Some are outstanding at offering new features and services, and some are less than satisfactory. There are many things to consider when previewing new data management technology.