By categorizing operations/processes into core activities and non-core activities, organizations can differentiate the areas where they should focus to attain competitive edge. Increased focus in core business operations and developing competitive advantage has left...
Digital Records to Reduce Physical Storage and to Ensure Compliance
Electronic records are simply the computerized versions of traditional paper-based records, which are supposed to be stored for long term or short term. Records that entail long term storage require their contents to be preserved digitally, in indexed format, to make...
Princeton University Press Digitizing Past Publications
In today's publishing environment, conversion of backlist titles to ebook format is a smart move. The so-called 'backlist' comprises books kept in print because of their popularity over the years. While new titles come with promotion costs and other expenses, backlist...
NHS to Become Paperless by 2018
The National Health Service (NHS), the UK's publicly funded healthcare system, aims to become paperless by 2018. The idea of digitization was put forward by the Secretary of State for Health Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt in January 2013, with the intention to improve services...
Trends in the Digital Publishing Industry
With the rising popularity of electronic reading, many authors and publishers are striving to provide users a quality e-book experience, while managing costs and adhering to standards. When it comes to electronic publications, quality assurance is undoubtedly the most...
Chippewa Falls District Sets Up Document Management System for HR
Every human resource department faces the difficulties of managing mountains of paper documents. Handling HR documents involve huge challenge such as addressing unauthorized access, risk of losing files, high administrative and paper storage costs, and much more....
AUB Teams Up with US Libraries to Digitize Historical Arabic Collections
With the development of new technologies, libraries the world over are moving away from traditional systems into digital mode to better serve the needs of library administrators and users. Factors such as increased operational costs, decline in acquisition of library...
Advantages of Conversions to Excel Format
Excel, the spreadsheet component of the Microsoft Office Package, has wide applications in business. If you need to analyze and interpret complex numerical data presented in Word, PDF or any other file format, Excel conversion is the solution. Businesses use Excel...
How to Convert/Edit a PDF File
Let us start from the very basic question on PDF, "What is PDF?" PDF or Portable Document Format is one of the popular eBook formats, introduced by Adobe Systems in 1991. The company released it as an open standard format in 2008, making it free for developers to work...
Digitizing Civil War Letters
Civil war letters provide an unparalleled connection to the past and need to be preserved in the best way possible. Letters written by patriots during civil wars are priceless resources for future generations. These letters may contain individual stories related to...










