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Imaging White Papers and Articles
Snowbound Software offers the following materials for in depth information on imaging products and solutions. Enabling image viewing and image manipulation are common concerns in a document management strategy, especially one where documents and images need to be made available over the Internet. We provide free information to help you learn about existing solutions, analyze your situation and make informed decisions.
Squeeze more efficiency and ROI from your Content Management System – High-speed viewing can help
FST Magazine
April 2008
If your company has invested (or is in the process of investing) a lot of time and money implementing an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system, including Records Management or Document Management, your goal is likely to make your organization more POTENT (Productive, Organized, Timely, Efficient, Nimble, Traceable). Enabling users to access the documents they need regardless of location or platform – whether across the building, state, country or globe – should increase productivity.
Yet, even the most detailed and well-planned implementations often result in frustration, disappointing results, and an elusive ROI. Why is this – and what can you do to prevent or resolve this issue at your company?
The answer lies in how you look at the problem (and your documents).
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Heading South for the Winter - Map Your Journey to a Successful Paper to Electronic Migration
By: Simon Wieczner
E-DOC Magazine
March 2008
Migrating from paper to electronic documents is becoming commonplace for more companies. Yet document migration is a complex journey. It requires careful research and selection of tools to best support your migrations and to manage your entire electronic document lifecycle — scanning, storage, viewing, processing, and archiving. The right choices will reduce costly missteps, and ideally allow you to more rapidly achieve gains in your company's productivity and ROI.
Profiled in this article are three best practice examples of organizations that have achieved migration success. You can emulate their processes by initially evaluating your workflow, document accessibility requirements, and creation to archiving compliance needs, while incorporating end-user input at every stage.
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FlexSnap®: SI Implementation Methodology
By: Technology Services Group, Inc., An authorized SnowCAP Partner
June 2007
This white paper introduces a methodology for efficiently and effectively implementing Snowbound Software’s FlexSnap®: SI web viewing and collaboration application with back end systems including but not limited to: ECM, CRM, BPM, document processing applications, and other workflow solutions. The methodology will assist application administrators and system integrators in planning and designing a cost-effective and time-saving implementation. The guidelines set forth in this document are flexible to align with your company’s preferred approach. To help avoid common implementation issues, this paper will also highlight best practices to deliver a proven, reliable, repeatable, and scalable process.
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Universal Viewer Drives Document Imaging Productivity
Interview by: Michael Lippis, Editor-in-Chief
Outlook Series
May 2007
Simon Wieczner, Snowbound’s CEO gives Snowbound Software's perspective on viewing, converting, and manipulating documents.
The interview addresses how viewing technology impacts document imaging productivity including:
- Supporting the document capture processes and systems
- Storing and retrieving color documents
- Effectively disseminating stored information in a secure and quick manner
- Support for multiple formats and annotations
- Scalability and configurability
- Improving process throughput and profitability
- And more
Listen to the entire interview.
Review: Build A PDF Practice In A FlexSnap
By: Mario Morejon, Technical Editor, CRN Test Center
CRN Tech
March 2007
Building an entire practice around a toolset has never been as easy as reselling the FlexSnap editor from Snowbound Software. Far from ordinary, FlexSnap is a complete multi-image viewer in a box. With FlexSnap, solution providers can build a complete PDF practice in hours. Unlike Adobe's Acrobat Reader, the FlexSnap editor is a Java application with a server-side component to queue files on the network and a client to view the files.
Read the entire CRN Tech review
Finding the Sweet Spot in Document Imaging — Image Quality and Its Effect on Productivity
By: Simon Wieczner, CEO of Snowbound Software
TODAY Magazine
November/December 2006
Image quality is an important but often overlooked aspect of document imaging that holds the potential to boost productivity and profitability. Establishing standards for optimum image quality in document capture, viewing and archiving enables companies to find the “sweet spot” of maximum performance with minimal complication throughout the entire workflow.
This article examines some of the important considerations for companies that are trying to increase productivity through a document management system. It provides valuable advice, from an industry expert, on how image quality plays an important role in every step of the document lifecycle – from capture to viewing to archiving.
To Convert or Not to Convert? — A Critical Question When Managing Multiple Document Formats
May 2006
The growing need for businesses to create, capture, store, and manage information has led to the evolution of variety of electronic document formats. Regardless of which formats your organization works with, there is a good chance that productivity and profitability is negatively effected if your users depend on a multitude of creator applications to access, display, annotate, print,or whatever else they need to do with their documents..
Document and asset management technology providers have addressed this workflow issue in one of two ways: Either by converting an organization's documents to a portable format, or by implementing a viewing application with built-in support for multiple formats. The following white paper explores these two fundamentally different but potentially effective methods.
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Web-Imaging—A Crucial Component In Your Document Management Solution
May 2005
Rapid technological advancements in software and the wide adoption of the Internet as a core business asset has opened the door to, and in many cases forced, new and improved processes for managing documents. Combining the power of document imaging technology with the benefits of the Web delivers revolutionary results and streamlined workflow.
This article provides an overview of what an integrated viewing application offers and highlights several viewing options that are available to integrate with your document management system. It also provides a short checklist of items you should consider before selecting a viewing application.
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Web-Enabled Check Viewing and Manipulation - A Check 21 Guide
By Greg Rapport, Vice President, Rapport Communications, LLC - June 24, 2004
A Check 21 Check Viewing solution involves transforming a paper-based system into a digital system in order to make it interactive both internally and externally. While digitizing an image is essentially uncomplicated, sharing images can be very complicated, especially when incorporating the functionality to share, view, and manipulate images by multiple users in diverse geographic locations.
This white paper presents a strategy to evaluate and implement the image-viewing component of a Check 21 solution. It contains evaluation criteria, options for programming language and environment, options for enabling image manipulation and additional information to help the reader make the informed choices that lead to a successful technology implementation.
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Understanding Web-Enabled Document Display and Management
Web-enabling documents has become necessary for companies seeking competitive advantage. Sharing information over the Internet is the key to successful communication both inside and outside any organization.
This white paper explains the choices that must be made in order to enable the viewing and manipulation of documents and images via the Web. First, it reviews the choices for programming languages. Then, it provides the options that actually enable the viewing and manipulation process. In the end, you’ll know what you need to have a successful Web-enabled implementation.
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