Word from CDI's President

Juan J. Celaya

 

Stop The Finger -Pointing! While Reducing

Maintenance Cost (and your blood pressure)

by Bill LaPorte

For many of us, our unique business requirements generally dictate the procurement of equipment from different manufacturers when building an IT infrastructure. Our servers come from one manufacturer, perhaps the storage from another, scanners from somebody else, and so on. While this can be beneficial in terms of getting the best value overall in terms of performance and initial price...Full Article.

 

  

Is There an Ideal Capture Strategy for SharePoint?

by Jeff Shuey, Director Business Development, Eastman Kodak Company

 

How should buinesses think about processing both paper and

electronic documents? Is there a best way? Is there a right way?

 

 

The Simple Answer.....No!

 

There is no "ideal" capture strategy that will work for and apply to every business. Every business has a unique need for scanning (aka capture), processing and categorizing content.

 

Some businesses may seek to go completely paperless. This is an admirable goal and one that might work for certain businesses. The fact is that paper will continue to enter the business-recipts, invoices, purchase orders, and yes mail too. The Good News.......

 

 

Do you already have what it takes to deal with

Exchange emails?

by Juan J Celaya

 

Managing and searching for emails has always been a headache for many including me. This is compounded when dealing with hundreds of emails generated by tens or hundreds if not thousands of mail boxes that must be monitored for duplicates and most important for compliance with Records Management and eDiscovery rules. If you search the Internet you will find......More.
 

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Don't miss out on the Kodak i1400 series SAVINGS......

  

 

Scanners that stand up to the challenge...........

High-impact advantages for low-volume production scanning

  

Documents aren't always the perfect size, shape or quality for scanning. Which is exactly why CDI is having a SALE on the Kodak i1405, i1420 and i1440 Scanners which are perfect for scanning all your documents.

 

For a limited time, CDI is offering a 30% discount on the Kodak i1400 series scanners.

 

For more information, email sales@cdlac.com so that we can address your specific requirements. Offer expires: March 31, 2011.

Word from CDI's President

Juan J. Celaya

As social media and the Internet has become a primary mode of communications, CDI is using these two mediums to share our experiences and knowledge with you. As such I am happy to introduce our first company Newsletter.

Everyone in our organization is very excited about the investment we have made in creating the infrastructure that allows us to provide you with useful information. We will continue to work towards sharing with you exciting news from the ECM, Search and Capture markets along with new product offerings and discounts from our partners which we believe are worthwhile for you to know about.

Please help us by providing feedback to improve this Newsletter as well as the other methods in which to communicate with you.

Thank you for the privilege of letting us into your "Inbox" and for your help in making this and future Newsletters worth your while.

You Have To What!? - Content And Data Integration^TM is what we need to address...

by Juan J. Celaya

In this blog posting Juan starts a discussion of the issues one finds in building a solution with the goal of providing access to information, from one interface or portal, which reside in many or all the data sources in an organization.

Read the complete article and register on the blog site to contribute your feedback and experiences in similar types of projects you have been involved in.

Go ahead, the more information we share the better we will get in providing successful solutions to our customers and organization!

Check Out Our BLOG!

by Bill LaPorte

It's official! Our BLOG has launched into Cyberspace and we at CDI hope to use it as a medium for discussion and education in the realm of Content and Data Integration or CADI^TM. The BLOG is lovingly called CADI's Corner and will be the single point of up-to-date information on topics such as document and data capture, content and records management, compliance and the like. Please come and visit and if you like, you can even post once you register. We look forward to seeing you there!

COMPU-DATA International Awarded Certificate of Networthiness from U.S. Army

CoN granted for DigitalAsset Finder^TM (DAF) Suite

COMPU-DATA International, LLC (CDI), a leading developer of Content And Data Integration^TM solutions for government and industry, today announced that DigitalAsset Finder^TM v2.0 has received the Certificate of Networthiness (CoN) from the US Army Network Technology Command (NETCOM). More...

Down the Rabbit Hole! (CDI ventures into Social Media Venues)

by Bill LaPorte

When I first discussed delving into the world of social media with our CEO, I have to admit that I was pretty skeptical. It wasn't so much that I am against SM venues, but that I failed to see that there was any business benefit in spending the time and effort to develop a COMPU-DATA International presence there. Persistent and persuasive as always, Juan asked me to help bring the company into this 'new' world and so, off I went to research and write and organize. What I found was pretty incredible.........

Kodak i4000 Series Scanner

The all-new KODAK i4000 Series Scanners are ready to make a SPLASH.

The most versatile document capture solution Kodak has ever built also can deliver significant advantages over the competition in terms of performance, durability and total cost of ownership (TCO). Built tough, with an entirely new architecture, the KODAK i4000 Series Scanners offer:

1. Out-of-the-box ease of use, ready to plug into your network.

2. Up to 120 ppm and 50,000 daily volume, to expand business-process automation.

3. Immediate productivity, with a total new user experience that automates document capture.

4. A complete solution that includes scanner, software, service and support.

For more information on this product or any product offered by CDI please email us at sales@cdlac.com.

 CDI moves to a new office!

 

We have moved! As we continue to settle into our new offices we are happy to continue investing in our future and for our customers' benefits. Moving to these offices is part of our second phase for growth and provides us with additional office space for support, sales and marketing. See some of our move pictures on Facebook!

Our new address is 431 Nursery Road, Suite A300, Spring Texas 77380

Word from CDI's President

Juan J. Celaya

Integrating Disparate Data Sources with CMIS & CADI™

My blog article on Content and Data Integration™ highlights some of the technical issues and considerations the CADI™ methodology addresses with regards to the volumes of data that exist and with which we must deal with. The uncertainty of "does the concept really work" or the stigma of being the first to implement this new approach ties directly to our constant fear of failure. Allowing fear to define one's actions has never been a part of my play book, however, calculated risks, testing and a belief of what will work has been my guiding light.

When our company got into the search and retrieval market in 1992, I believed the technology was perfect for providing access to network accessible information that was stored throughout the organization.  I have found the three main problems to be:

1. How to maintain accessibility while ensuring security.
2. Maintain access to updated information.
3. Ensure the process is not proprietary so we are not held hostage.

Go to CDI's blog - CADI's Corner™ - to read the rest of this article and find more information on CADI™ related topics or contact me and I will be happy to provide you with details.

DAF Connect™ Newest Utility for DAF 

Juan J. Celaya

DAF Connect™ is a new utility from CDI for Windows users to "Send" files to a DAF Repository; the utility is available in 32 or 64 bit versions. DAF Connect™ is part of the DAF suite of products that make the DAF™ application more flexible and easier to integrate with your CADI™ requirements.

Go to CDI's blog - CADI's Corner™ - to read the rest of this article and find more information on CADI™ related topics or contact me and I will be happy to provide you with details.

Kofax Transformation Modules

Kofax Transformation Modules is a suite of add-on applications for Kofax Capture that streamline the transformation of documents into structured electronic information, ready for delivery into business processes. It replaces manual, error-prone and expensive document sorting and data entry processes with automatic document classification, separation and data extraction.

By leveraging Kofax's world-beating intelligent document recognition technologies that can classify, separate and extract any document, regardless of type, content or format, Kofax Transformation Modules allows you to leverage a single solution to automate all your document driven business processes and achieve rapid payback.

For more information, email sales@cdlac.com so that we can address your specific requirements.

The Institute of Heraldry (TIOH) Celebrates 50th Anniversary with High Tech Content management 

TRG and CDI Complete Digital Conversion and SharePoint DMS/Workflow Implementation for the US Army 

The Institute of Heraldry at Fort Belvoir, Virginia celebrated their 50th anniversary with pride an enthusiasm this month. At the same time, they were just finishing up a large digitization/convertion project as well as the  initial implementation of a SharePoint portal for desktop access to their working documents and an automated heraldic design workflow.

CDI and The Richwood Group, Company scanned over 1.6 million pages using Kodak scanners and software, converting paper files to high quality images and searchable PDF files allowing artist, technicians and managers to access project files directly from their desktop. These files consisted of original artwork, manufacture's drawings, specifications, policy documents and correspondence. The team also migrated tens of thousands of documents in digital format from the TIOH's aging, end-of-life document management system.View Complete Article.

It's All About the data: Some Guidelines for Capture and document Processing into a SharePoint Environment

by Bill LaPorte

There is a tremendous amount of debate on the internet about the viability of using Microsoft SharePoint as an ECM or DM platform.  There are the advocates who state that SharePoint is the be-all, end-all solution; the Holy Grail if you will.  Then of course, there are the opponents who vigorously argue SharePoint will never be capable of being an enterprise wide solution in this regard.  As with political and religious debate, the arguments are perpetual but the truth always seems to fall somewhere in between the respective positions.  While it may be true that SharePoint is not robust enough in its own right as an ECM suite, Microsoft read the writing on the wall and begun adding ....

Document File Compression: Why it's an Issue (Again) 

Contributed by Joe Siegal of I.R.I.S., a CDI partner 

As technology speeds into infinity at Warp Factor three, I am sure all of us can remember when data storage was small and expensive (in relative terms).  I remember I did an installation for the U.S. Air Force of racks and racks of RAID storage devices that nearly filled a room that I could now sit on the corner of my desk!

As storage evolved, file size, format and compression techniques began to play an important role in keeping your (online) mass data storage requirements in check.  This was particularly true when dealing with image files since they were huge compared to text or other data files.  So what did we do?........ View Article.

Fabulous Fall Savings from CDI: IRISDocument 9

For a limited time, CDI is offering a 30% discount on the IRISDocument™ Server 9 with a one year support and maintenance, the most competitive and fastest professional solution on the market to convert all images into indexed and editable files, and provide multiple users with OCR services.
IRISDocument™Server 9 Features For more information, email sales@cdlac.com so that we can address your specific requirements. Offer expires: November 30, 2010.