DMS: the Indian angle - Express Computer

DMS: the Indian angle - Express Computer: "DMS: the Indian angle"

"New-found enthusiasm among government organisations to leverage IT as an enabler for their growth is propelling DMS adoption. Vendors foresee an opportunity in providing state-of-the-art products and solutions to Indian enterprises that are setting up offices abroad, as well as to MNCs coming to India. The rapid growth in telecom, manufacturing and retail has added fuel to this fire. The telecom sector expects to tap 500 million consumers by 2010. Forecasts Diwakar Nigam, MD, NewGen, “Greater storage capabilities and tools for automated management of data, increased demands of mobile users, integration of other enterprise applications with the DMS, superior workflow capabilities providing quick access to voluminous information such as high-quality video and pictorial data (in addition to the traditional documents flow), and last but not the least, compliance, will drive the market in India.”

Things are really hotting up in the Indian market - and Document Management is an idea whose time has really come. ‘‘Owing to the large number of public sector enterprises, which are still paper-based, there is considerable scope for DMS in India. Due to continuous geographical expansion and the launch of new operations, enterprises are demanding solutions to manage their massive amount of content, both structured and unstructured.’’ says Diwakar Nigam, Managing Director, Newgen Software.

technorati tags: ECM, Enterprise+Content+Management, Document+Management, Newgen+Software, Diwakar+Nigam

BlackBerry Orphans - WSJ.com

A good wake up alarm - at this time of the year when you are likely to be in a reflective mood - particularly with respect to work-family balance. I guess like all fads, this too will pass - after a while you do realize that if you receive an email on Saturday evening at 7:00 pm, you don't have to reply it then - nothing's gonna happen till Monday morning anyway. You might as well ignore it and go on having quality time with your family. Then Monday morning when you get to work, fire up your Outlook and start replying.

To me it seems like a vicious cycle - someone sends you an email at an odd time - you are tempted to respond immediately - I don't know why - to show you're a busy person, you are always on, you're hip to mobile technology, you are always connected, you've go the latest tech gadgets, etc, - then you do the same with someone and so on and the cycle continues. I guess if enough people decided this new year's day to break this obsessive compulsive behavior, the cycle might break a little.

technorati tags: GTD, BlackBerry, OCD, Obsessive+Compulsive

How to use a personalized email address with Google Gmail

You love the ease of using Gmail - but you already have a personalized email account on your own domain - e.g. mail@yourname.com, or yourname@yourbusinessname.com, etc. Wouldn't it be fantastic to combine the advantages of both? Here's a DIY (Do It Yourself) guide to do it this holiday season - and it doesn't cost a dime:

1. Create a Google Gmail account.

2. Get the host for your domain to change your email address from a pop address to a forwarding address. If you have access to your hosting configuration, you can usually do it yourself. Please be careful doing this - it does lead to a short window of breakdown - when your email stops working temporarily. Best time to do it is over weekends if you are a business.

3. Forward your email address (from Step 2) to the new Gmail address you created in Step 1.

4. Go into the Settings tab of your Gmail interface in the web browser and then to the Forwarding and Pop Tab. You need to Enable Pop Access here and Archive Gmail's copy after accessing from POP client. That way your emails will always be available through Gmail (that is, till you run out of the 2GB free space)

5. Click on the Configuration Instructions link to follow directions for setting up your POP Email client - Outlook, Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, etc. Remember to set your SMTP to the one that Google provides -that way your outgoing emails are also archived in your Gmail account - thus your Gmail account serves as a foolproof instantaneous archive of all your emails.

6. Sometimes you want to use the browser interface of Gmail to send emails (say when you are on a public access kiosk, etc. at an airport, convention, etc.). However you would still like to send out the emails using your personalized address - not you Gmail address. Gmail provides for this also. Go to the Settings->Accounts tab in Gmail and set your personalized account there. Also, don't forget to put in your signature in the General tab - it saves you a lot of typing.

7. This setup works great from your mobile phone also - Gmail is now accessible not only through smartphones, but pretty much any Java capable phone with a data connection. Now you can receive and send emails from your personalized account using any phone.

technorati tags: Google, Gmail, Yahoo, email, pop, pop3, free, disaster+recovery, online+backup, smtp, life+hacks, GTD, Computer+tips+and+tricks

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