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Editorial Type: Comment     Date: 01-2015    Views: 1871   





Our first issue of 2015 sees Document Manager continuing to do what it has done for the last 23 years, outlasting various short-lived attempts at competition: reporting on and analysing real world stories from the DM and ECM 'coal-face', and speaking to the people who matter

A good example is our report from the Kodak Alaris Partner Forum event at the end of last year: what was once 'Kodak Document Imaging Division' has effectively re-invented itself as a new business entity, with some very clear perspectives on the future of the capture industry as well as its own place in that future. As recently-appointed Chief Marketing Officer, James Soames, commented during his opening speech, "We are a new company, born from one of the world's most iconic brands. The market is very exciting at the moment, as we see unprecedented levels of information creation and consumption."

It is this unprecedented growth in content that drives so much of what is happening across the sector at the moment - and increasingly we are seeing a need to manage different types, as well as larger volumes, of data. It is this - dubbed by Harvey Spencer of HSA as 'Capture 2.0' - that we may well see sorting out the men from the boys in the DM/ECM industry over the coming years.

Elsewhere in this issue we hear from Vijay Magon of CCube Solutions, who examines the difficulties that SMEs have in breaking into the 'big boys' network' of public sector IT suppliers. Our sister title Cloud Hosting magazine has covered this theme in some depth in recent issues, as companies try make themselves more visible to prospective buyers in government departments and health authorities via the much-vaunted G-Cloud. Does the document management industry suffer as much as some other areas of IT from what used to be known (back when I had a 'proper' IT job!) as the 'Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM' syndrome?

We also talk to Erik Banis of Xerox Scanners, whose firm of 'new kids on the block' (his words, not mine) came almost out of nowhere to win the coveted 'Company of the Year' prize at last year's DM Awards. He explains the company's thinking in terms of product development, the need for an 'integration approach', and why, in his words: "People don't buy scanners." See our interview later in these pages to find out what he means by this potentially counter-intuitive proposition!

Dave Tyler
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david.tyler@btc.co.uk

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