We talk to K-12 professionals every day who want digital student cumulative folders, but are overwhelmed with how to begin the process. They stare at the room(s) full of filing cabinets with a look of dread/panic until they quietly shut the door and continue with paper creating processes. The process of going paperless isn’t easy, Continue reading
Author: John Riordan
Is Your School District Taking a “Gap Year”?
For young people graduating high school in the midst of a pandemic, a gap year before starting college is becoming a more popular option. The changes to the traditional “college experience” and added stress due to COVID-19, including remote learning, social distancing and cancelled events, is causing many college students to just take a year Continue reading
Teaching is Moving Online; What About K-12 School District Administration?
2020 will certainly be remembered for the coronavirus pandemic but in K-12 education, it will also be remembered as the year online learning was implemented for nearly all students in a very short period of time. Teachers are learning on the fly how to engage children in new ways and provide effective lessons across digital Continue reading
Hyland Announces OnBase Annual Maintenance Uptick
The OnBase renewal maintenances invoices for most of our clients will be dropping over the next few weeks. Many of our clients will see a small increase in annual maintenance due to Hyland’s decision to schedule flat maintenance increases each year. Hyland is looking for a way to fund additional product development (something we all Continue reading
Which Type of Enterprise Content Management Do You Need?
Enterprise Content Management started with a single objective:reduce the paper needed to run a business. Over the years, the goal grew more ambitious: to provide digital tools that manage all types of content across the enterprise. To accomplish this broader purpose, ECM solutions evolved in complexity to include the following content management functions:
Document Management Has a Whole New Meaning with 3-D Printing
Businesses and theorists are always trying to anticipate the next big thing. In his 1971 book Future Shock, futurist Alvin Toffler hypothesized how technology would change the way we work, theorizing we would exist in a constant state of shock due to the incredible speed of change. I’m not sure we live in constant shock, Continue reading
5 Steps Your ECM Provider Should Take to Help You Go Paperless
Where do you start when your organization decides to go paperless? You may be inclined to start building something right away, or your company may prefer to find a commercial off-the-shelf product. There are even some organizations that choose to hire a consultant to build it for them. But the best place to start is Continue reading
ECM – Build Vs. Buy?
The broad adoption of Microsoft SharePoint provides an option for many IT departments to build a solution which was previously only available as a pre-packaged solution. But because they can, does that mean they should? If your organization is trying to decide whether to buy an ECM solution from a vendor, or build a custom Continue reading
Microsoft To Retire InfoPath: Your New Form Solution
UPDATE February 2015: Microsoft has listed FOSL (Forms on Sharepoint Lists) as cancelled on the Office365 roadmap. This was supposed to be one of the technologies used to replace InfoPath. At the same time on the Office Blog they officially announced that InfoPath Forms Services will be available in SharePoint 2016 on premise and supported Continue reading