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Title: BizDocs - How to make your small business paperless using SharePoint with integrated imaging and scanning!
Posted: March 18, 2013 at 8:31 am
Source: http://www.technologyfirst.org
Continued from the March 2013 edition of our magazine
Lesson learned
What is the difference between credit card statements, invoice and a receipt?
We first included these document types in one document category “Invoice”. However while identifying the metadata for each document type, it became clear that these document types look alike but they are
not. Credit card statements contain the list of transactions during a billing cycle and also contain the account balance to settle at the end of the billing cycle. Invoice is an itemized bill for goods sold or services provided, and includes the total charge. Receipt is an acknowledgement of a payment for any goods and / or service. 3 separate content types were created for these document types.
What is the difference between auto loan or home loan documents?
Both of them represent loan documents even though they represent different kind of loans. A content type of “Loan Documents” was created to cover these document types.
What is the difference between life, auto, home, medical insurance documents? In addition there are several document types under medical insurance documents a) Insurance Policy b) Policy Amendment c) Card d) Claim e) Claim Documentation f) Prescription g) Mail Order Pharmacy h) Flexible Health Account i) Healthcare... Read More
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Title: Google BigQuery
Posted: January 20, 2013 at 3:38 pm
Source: http://www.technologyfirst.org
During the recent Google I/O 2012 conference I watched one of the keynote sessions from the comfort of my favorite web browser and was introduced to their BigQuery service, which is the public version of Google Dremel, their internal tool for analyzing large datasets. I was intrigued by the demonstrations on a dataset of 137 million records with query response times in the 3-5 second range. But was this like the tomato-slicing machines hawked on television that work great for their well-practiced spokesperson, but do a better job of making tomato juice in my kitchen? But if this few order of magnitude difference in performance was real, it could be a great benefit, and since the cost to try it out amounted to pocket change, I decided to see for myself.
First a little background on the three key differences between using BigQuery and the familiar relational database technology. BigQuery uses a table scan for everything. No indexes or other mechanisms to write data to disk in a manner that may help later retrieval. Its those key differences that make this happen with great speed.
The first difference is using a column-oriented database approach, which simply is... Read More
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Title: Mobile Applications - Better Real Time Information=Improved Profits
Posted: October 31, 2012 at 4:34 pm
Source: http://www.technologyfirst.org
In today's market the use of mobile devices is exploding because they lower costs and bring value to diverse organizations. The SMS Group will present information on mobile applications in the workplace. The presentation will include ITW Hobart Toolbox, an application for engineers, as well as discuss the benefits of fleet management.
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Title: Agile Business Intelligence
Posted: October 30, 2012 at 4:21 pm
Source: http://www.technologyfirst.org
The best way to complete a business intelligence project is by using Agile methodology. This responsive approach is the best way for IT to lead the business to figure out what it wants, and understand what data it has and what needs to be captured. We will walk you through a methodology that lets BI projects be successful by the most important criteria - it is exactly what the business needs.
Joshua Smith, Sogeti USA Business Information Management Practice Leader, will show you at the Taste of IT how he has helped clients transform massive amounts of data stored throughout their organizations into meaningful and trustworthy information allowing them to make insightful business decisions.
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Title: Your Search for Document Management Ends Here
Posted: October 29, 2012 at 4:09 pm
Source: http://www.technologyfirst.org
Learn more about our process-oriented document/content management application that enables organizations to streamline their operations by dynamically controlling and organizing the creation, capture, management, access and distribution of documents within their business processes. Our solutions provide perfect combinations of functionality, flexibility, security and scalability, while delivering a high cost-to-value ratio. It can help organizations to achieve their organizational goals by optimizing the management of all information and data.
Meet Leah Seymour, Document Solutions Senior Account Manager, to discuss this further at the Taste of IT. Get your tickets today! Read More
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Title: HyperV 3, Windows Server 2012 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager
Posted: October 26, 2012 at 3:39 pm
Source: http://www.technologyfirst.org
Microsoft's hypervisor: it's here and it's ready for primetime. Learn about the new features built into Server 2012 as it pertains to HyperV 3 and why you need to consider utilizing it in your datacenter. All this and more from Software Information Systems' (SIS) seasoned IT veteran, Tom Miller.
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Title: Enterprise, Collaboration & Search: How companies are adapting to the Google-fication paradigm
Posted: October 25, 2012 at 3:28 pm
Source: http://www.technologyfirst.org
How are companies accelerating innovation by leveraging the collective wisdom of their teams?
What is social intelligence and how do I manage and grow a collaborative workforce?
How do I set up a curation of content - how shouldsearch organize and display results?
Learn all this and more from Ascendum's Director, Enterprise Collaboration and Content Management Practice, Sundar Kadayam at Taste of IT. Get your tickets today! Read More
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Title: How to Accomplish Work in the Unstructured Business Space
Posted: October 23, 2012 at 4:23 pm
Source: http://www.technologyfirst.org
The Gartner Report suggests that 85% of today's business involves unstructured work. Structured tools, such as structured workflow based solutions, emails and other ad hoc tasking unstructured tools fail to provide the best results. This presentation will demonstrate an easy and comprehensive solution with flexibility via an ad hoc workflow to support your task, project and process needs in today's unstructured workspace. This is also done without trapping customers into custom coded solutions.
Eric Van Hoose, owner and founder of Van Hoose Associates, will guide Taste of IT attendees through the productivity process. His patented application helped deliver a 40% process improvement to the Air Force Enterprise for management of its weapon system depot source of repair process.
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Title: Facebook Confesses Failure to Comply with Privacy Laws
Posted: December 1, 2011 at 10:10 am
Source: http://www.lexisnexis.com
After the US government filed
charges that Facebook violated US privacy law, Facebook finally
confessed that it failed to protect the privacy of its 800 million active
users. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) welcomes the public to submit comments
on the settlement through December 30, 2011.
Under the proposed consent order,
which does not include any fines, Facebook is:
barred
from making misrepresentations about the privacy or security of consumers'
personal information;
required
to obtain consumers' affirmative express consent before enacting changes that
override their privacy preferences;
required
to prevent anyone from accessing a user's material more than 30 days after the
user has deleted his or her account;
required
to establish and maintain a comprehensive privacy program designed to address
privacy risks associated with the development and management of new and
existing products and services, and to protect the privacy and confidentiality
of consumers' information; and
required,
within 180 days, and every two years after that for the next 20 years, to
obtain independent, third-party audits certifying that it has a privacy program
in place that meets or exceeds the requirements of the FTC order, and to ensure
that the privacy of consumers' information is protected.
The Facebook user community surely
welcomes these commitments to comply with privacy laws, and it's good to see
that FTC... Read More
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Title: Why Google Places is important for a Law Firm
Posted: November 30, 2011 at 11:15 am
Source: http://www.lexisnexis.com
When you last performed a search on
Google did you notice that several of the results were displayed on a
corresponding map? If you simply attributed this to the genius of Google then
you've ignored a powerful tool that can help gain your firm greater
recognition.
Becoming registered in Google places
can be a great proactive way of reaching millions of users quickly and for
free. Searching for businesses online is now more common than any other method.
This makes it ever more important for your firm to be found easily online. With
Google places you can create a listing for your firm in just a few minutes with
added extras such as photos, descriptions, videos, coupon offerings, and other
details that will encourage potential clients to contact you. You can gain all
of this exposure even if you don't have a website and best of all its free. If
you do have a website, Google places can help promote better organic ranking by
adding Search Engine Optimization value.
Your firms listing is easy to edit
and manage so you can make sure its details are current and correct. Through a
simple verification process your firm can have its Google places listing up and
running in just minutes.
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Ryan
Nelson is the Director of Operations for... Read More
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Title: How to Improve Search Results on Google
Posted: November 28, 2011 at 9:10 am
Source: http://www.lexisnexis.com
Pew Research recently reported that 92%
of adults use search engines daily and ComScore recently reported that 65.6%
of all US searches are conducted on Google. So I thought I would pass along
Hack College's recommendations about how to "Get
More Out of Google." Here are some search pointers that may improve your
use of Google:
WHAT YOU WANT: NY Times articles about Ponzi schemes and the Securities
Investor Protection Corporation, but not Picard, written between 2000 and 2011.
GOOGLE SEARCH#1: site:nytimes.com ~ponzi "SIPC" -Picard
2000..2011
EXPLANATION OF SEARCH:
site: searches pages of that site only
~ will search related words such as 'fraud' and 'scheme'
" " search for the exact phrase not each of the words separately in this
example the SIPC is the Securities Investor Protection Corporation
- excludes this term from search in this example Irving Picard (Bernie
Madoff Bankruptcy Trustee)
.. date range shows all results with the designated time range
WHAT YOU WANT: A pdf report about discovery of documents with ESI
(Electronically Stored Information) in the title.
GOOGLE SEARCH#2: filetype:pdf discovery intitle:ESI of *documents
EXPLANATION OF SEARCH:
filetype: searches only results of the file type you designate such as
pdf, doc, jpg, etc
intitle: only shows results with... Read More
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Title: Google Co-Founder Gives $500,000 to Wikimedia Foundation
Posted: November 21, 2011 at 9:30 am
Source: http://www.lexisnexis.com
Since the Wikimedia Foundation (home of
Wikipedia) is a not-for-profit, it survives by annual fundraisers. Google
co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife Anne Wojcicki (23andMe co-founder) used
their Brin Wojcicki Foundation to grant $500,000 to the Wikimedia Foundation.
The Wikimedia Foundation kicked off its 8th annual fundraiser on November 16,
2011 and raised $1.2 million the first day.
Most people don't realize that
unlike most other Social Media sites, the Wikimedia Foundation is not
generating profits rather it relies on contributions. The Wikimedia
Foundation is a 501(c)(3) for tax purposes. That means the Wikimedia Foundation
does not operate to make a profit and does not pay taxes, and contributions to the
Wikimedia Foundation are tax deductible.
According to a Wikimedia
Foundation press release from Sue Gardner (the Executive Director) announcing
the Brin Wojcicki Foundation grant:
The
Wikimedia projects currently reach more than 477 million unique visitors around
the world every month (comScore, October 2011), making Wikipedia the fifth
most-popular web site in the world.
This
is how Wikipedia works: people use it, they like it, and so they help pay for
it, to keep it freely available for themselves and for everyone around the
world. I am very grateful to Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki for supporting what
we do.
Interesting blog
on the New York Times included this comment:
Google
and... Read More
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Title: TechLaw10: How Not To Become An Accidental Cyber Outlaw
Posted: November 16, 2011 at 2:35 pm
Source: http://www.lexisnexis.com
TechLaw10 hosts Jonathan Armstrong and Eric Sinrod discuss legal issues
related to information technology.
In this episode, Jonathan and Eric discuss recent research from knowthenet
which finds that on average only 44% of UK internet users were able to
correctly identify illegal activity on the internet when presented with a range
of possible scenarios including defamation, copyright infringement and hacking.
They also talk about an online
test which you can do to work out your vulnerability - check it out and share your results!
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Title: Only 80% of US teens on Social Media
Posted: November 15, 2011 at 9:30 am
Source: http://www.lexisnexis.com
Pew's recent report came as no
surprise that 95%
of teens (12-17) are on the Internet. But why are only 80% using Social
Media? Amazingly 55% of online teens "have decided not to post something
online because they were concerned that it might reflect badly on them in the
future."
Hopefully the reason
for teenagers' concern about their future is that parents are really
taking the time to educate their children. Pew reported the following
statistics:
- 94% of parents of online teens say they have talked
with their teen about what kinds of things should and should not be shared
online.
- 93% have talked with their child about ways to use the
internet and cell phones safely.
- 87% have suggested ways to behave toward other people
online.
- 87% of parents have talked with their child about what
he or she does on the internet.
Since Pew recently reported that 65%
of adults are using Social Media daily (up from 5% in 2005) the new Pew
report that 80% of teens use Social Media certain means the age gap on Social
Media is closing.
The
80% of teens using Social Media seems to reinforce the Consumer... Read More
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Title: TechLaw10: Global HR Systems – Quick Compliance Tips
Posted: November 11, 2011 at 1:44 pm
Source: http://www.lexisnexis.com
TechLaw10 hosts Jonathan Armstrong and Eric Sinrod discuss legal issues
related to information technology.
In this episode, Jonathan and Eric discuss quick
compliance tips for global HR systems.
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Title: Cloud - New Buzzword, Old Legal Issues
Posted: November 11, 2011 at 9:51 am
Source: http://www.lexisnexis.com
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Title: Is There A Social Media Privilege?
Posted: November 9, 2011 at 2:32 pm
Source: http://www.lexisnexis.com
Courts faced with ruling on discovery requests involving social media
sites are forging new law. Courts can and do issue discovery orders
compelling a party of a lawsuit to grant an opposing party access to his
or her Facebook page or to permit in camera review of social media
sites set to private settings.
Rules of Civil Procedure in most states provide for liberal
discovery, e.g., "Generally, discovery is liberally allowed with respect
to any matter, not privileged, which is relevant to the cause being
tried." Pa.R.C.P. 4003.1; FRCP 34 (The Advisory Committee Notes instruct
that the rule be read broadly and was drafted with the intent to apply
to an ever evolving technological field); NYCPLR 3101 construed
liberally.
Several of the key decisions in this area include the following. In McMillen v. Hummingbird Speedway, Inc.,
2010 Pa. Dist. & Cnty. Dec. LEXIS 270, the plaintiff claimed
substantial injuries, including possible permanent impairment, loss and
impairment of general health, strength, and vitality, and inability to
enjoy certain pleasures of life, after he was rear-ended during a cool
down lap following a July 7, 2007, stock car race. The court granted
defendants' Motion to Compel Discovery and ordered the... Read More
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Title: China and Russia Accused of Internet Spying on US Companies
Posted: November 7, 2011 at 9:58 am
Source: http://www.lexisnexis.com
US intelligence agencies just
reported to Congress that China
and Russia have national policies to steal technology from US companies over
the Internet. The Congressional report was compiled by the Office of the National
Counterintelligence Executive which included this alarming information:
Many
companies are unaware when their sensitive data is pilfered, and those that
find out are often reluctant to report the loss, fearing potential damage to
their reputation with investors, customers and employees.
Unfortunately pinpointing the
culprits has been difficult as reported by the NY
Times:
Both
China and Russia hide behind the anonymity of proxy computers and dispersed
routers in third countries to pilfer proprietary corporate information to
accelerate their own economic development, according to the new intelligence
assessment.
This report should be a wake-up call
to US businesses!
Visit Peter Vogel's Internet,
Information Technology and e-Discovery Blog
For more information about LexisNexis products and solutions connect with us
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Title: Learn Attorney Website Design Versatility at ABA November Conference
Posted: November 4, 2011 at 9:53 pm
Source: http://www.lexisnexis.com
The
upcoming ABA Law Firm Marketing Strategies Conference presents a great
opportunity to learn about the applicability, versatility, and growing
importance of your attorney website design in promoting your legal practice.
The conference focuses on three important components of success in the
legal field. These components, Reputation, Referral, and Ranking, give the
conference name R3.
The
conference will be held on November 8th and 9th, 2011 at
the Four Seasons Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and will be presented by
the Law Practice Management Section of the American Bar Association (ABA). By
holding their third event of this kind, ABA continues its tradition in
providing law firms with the latest in marketing and industry news.
Two
Keynote Speakers and several other speakers will present on how to best take
advantage of your legal website design to grow and enhance your reputation, referrals, and rankings. The
ABA faculty of attorneys and speakers will be available for discussion and
questions and opportunities for networking are incorporated throughout the
event. There are also social networking opportunities before and after the
conference.
Reputation
Your
reputation and having the world know about you is fundamental to your success.
Keynote speaker Dan Hill, President of Sensory Logic, Inc. of Minneapolis, MN
will commence the conference by explaining how law firm internet marketing... Read More
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Title: TechLaw10: eDiscovery Limitations on the Horizon in U.S. Courts?
Posted: November 2, 2011 at 11:50 am
Source: http://www.lexisnexis.com
TechLaw10 hosts Jonathan Armstrong and Eric Sinrod discuss legal issues
related to information technology.
In this episode, Jonathan and Eric discuss recent developments with
electronic discovery (eDiscovery) in the U.S. and Europe.
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