Chicago Conference Focuses on Resource Sharing
"Resource Sharing in the Digital Age" is the theme for the upcoming Interlending & Document Supply Conference, sponsored by IFLA and ALA. The event will take place September 19-21, 2011 in Chicago.
July 2011
Arizona Courthouse Goes Digital
By Melody Smith|July 22nd, 20112011-07-21T16:03:51-04:00
Arizona court system chooses BMI Imaging’s Digital ReeL as its microfilm and microfiche conversion solution. This new process will be a far cry from the cumbersome and expensive archiving steps required in the past. With their unique indexing requirements, the solution that best made digitizing court records efficient for them was Digital ReeL.
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New Partnership Addresses ICD-10 Compliance
By Melody Smith|July 22nd, 20112011-07-22T10:59:56-04:00
Amerinet Inc. and Atigeo has joined forced to provide customized healthcare solutions. Amerinet will make Atigeo’s xPatterns solutions available to their members to reduce costs and improve productivity for ICD-10 code compliance.
Semantic Technology Applied to Customer Service Monitoring
By Melody Smith|July 21st, 20112011-07-21T10:43:28-04:00
Straight from Modena, Italy, Expert System, has developed a solution to improve customer service, combining semantic analysis of sentiment and customer satisfaction monitoring with advanced natural language customer interaction features.
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EBSCO Chosen for Findability
By Melody Smith|July 21st, 20112011-07-21T10:35:41-04:00
Nanyang Technological University has selected EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), after an extensive trial process of many services, to enable findability of the library’s content from a single search box.
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MicroStrategy is Taking to the Clouds
By Melody Smith|July 21st, 20112011-07-21T10:33:44-04:00
MicroStrategy has made available the MicroStrategy Cloud, the first cloud-based service to enable rapid, cost-effective development of business intelligence, mobile and social apps. This differs from traditional on-premises business intelligence approaches in the past. MicroStrategy Cloud provides faster and more flexible to support the full range of cloud use.
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Digitizing History
By Melody Smith|July 20th, 20112011-07-20T10:32:41-04:00
It seems simple, even obvious. But in Southern Illinois, it had not been done yet. Shurtleff College, one of the predecessors to SIUE, has leapt into the digital age with nearly four decades' worth of yearbooks now are online.
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Searching PDFs Now Possible
By Melody Smith|July 20th, 20112011-07-20T10:18:06-04:00
DocuLex recently announced that its WebSearch v. 4.0 document management software can execute document search and retrieval operations instantly for password protected PDF files. This new capability is valuable for organizations that are transferring and delivering files mainly via email or unsecure FTP, especially for highly confidential information.
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IBM Launches Cloud-Based Storage
By Melody Smith|July 20th, 20112011-07-20T10:15:39-04:00
IBM plans to launch new cloud-based storage, back-up and data recovery services for small businesses as well as larger enterprises. SmartCloud Resiliency Services will include SmartCloud Virtualized Server Recovery and Archive, and will be provided through servers and software located in IBM data centers worldwide.
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Taxonomy and Search: Access Innovations’ Founder And Industry Pioneer Talks About Three Important Trends
By Melody Smith|July 19th, 20112011-07-19T20:17:16-04:00
During her 33 years in the search industry, Margie Hlava, president of Access Innovations, has seen a lot of trends come and go. Today’s changing information environment, with its ever-growing avalanche of data and critical need for better search and more efficient organization of content, presents some unique challenges. Hlava recently shared her views with Steve Arnold, a technology and financial analyst who has more than 30 years of experience, as part of his Search Wizards Speak series. Access Innovations, Hlava’s company, is releasing an excerpt of the interview.
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