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As I noted in a previous post, containers are a big part of any cloud transition as they combine an application and its underlying prerequisites into neat packages. IBM’s Cloud Pack for Automation (CP4BA) brings that concept of containerization to the business automation portfolio. That portfolio, of course, includes the FileNet content services platform. As always, containers bring advantages to any FileNet implementation. For cloud, they are mandatory.

Software currency is hard. Keeping up with the stream of updates every software vendor releases can completely consume your talented staff of system administrators. And, speaking from experience, update work is less than fulfilling. At the end of the project, you have a different release of the software that substantially does the same thing it did before. There may be minor changes and improvements, but it is hard to convince an end-user community that all the production interruptions update projects sometime entail will truly make things better.

User experience expert Sean Gerety said that “the technology you use impresses no one. The experience you create with it is everything.” Content Services or Enterprise Content Management, in the form of FileNet, P8, or Cloud Pak for Business Automation, is a technology all our enterprises must have. Making the experience great for the users is key to our business success.

 

Genus Technologies, a Kofax Platinum Partner and a leader in Intelligent Automation, announces the acquisition of the assets of HatchWork Solutions, a consulting and professional services company focused on intelligent process and content automation.

In a 2021 Forbes article, Evgeniy Altynpara, CEO of mobile app development company Cleveroad, outlined the big reasons cloud computing is a thing and why it makes sense for enterprises to move to cloud technology platforms. They include:

A Product Asset Management solution is the next generation of Digital Asset Management (DAM). Product Asset Management connects content, data, and assets throughout the product lifecycle, from ideation to creation to sales to support. Although a product is typically considered a physical asset like apparel, food, or consumer packaged goods (CPG), it could be software, financial services, or consulting services. Nearly every organization sells some type of product.

There is a little-known feature called “Export Credentials Management”, where you can update your export credentials all in one place instead of going into each export connector setup for each batch class. The following information is taken from the Kofax Capture 11.1 Help Guide.

Automatically extracting processable data from business documents, whether they have the structure of a form or not, is key to business efficiency. Costs associated with manually converting documents to data are significant, and human error rates guarantee a level of expensive rework. Industries have standards for electronically exchanging data, but the market, for reasons known and unknown, still relies on exchanging documents, forcing every business to bear the cost of data entry or implement document automation to control those costs. That’s where machine learning comes in.

A key financial process for any business is getting the check in the bank. Leaving customer payments laying around is literally leaving money on the table. The faster payments are credited to your accounts, the better your overall cash flow.