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Also, how do you deal with negative comments from those that may say they don't see any difference? I'm trying to prepare for this when I return to work tomorrow. There are a few people that I work closely with that know about it. My mom and sisters do too and can also be very negative about this sort of thing.
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Anyway, I just want to say that I will try to be more patient for the results I am hoping for and will try not to discourage others. I will post some more photos soon - although not a lot of changes yet. Bruising is still under my eyes, but neck bruises are mostly gone now. Thanks for all of your support!
Updated photo - Day 21and feeling optimistic
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Concerned with new ridges on neck
29 days po and here is The REAL me .............
I have never worn contacts before, but am about to try to get them in - last attempt was abandoned due to early morning and not being able to get my eye open wide enough to get them in - so wish me luck. Take care, and have a great weekend!
Day 27 - I think
I have quite a few wavy vertical ridges on my neck, long forehead scars that I don't feel are sealing together very well, one obvious dent right in the center of my forehead scar and one pucker on my right temple scar. Also, you can see in the close up shots the pucker at eye corner - it seemed to be more invisible a week ago ? The left side temple has healed alot this past week. I am happy with the scarlines along the front of ears - I can not see them, but may be visible to others? I have what feels like a sharp nylon thread sticking out of the rhs of that forehead scar in my hairline. When I scrape across it with my fingernail you can hear it, and it burns like fire ants for a few seconds - so I don't do that too much -LOL!
Anxious to see what my PS has to say about all of this on Tuesday, I will let you know what he says.
PS visit today
So, as expected, he said I was doing just great, and healing very good to be at the one month stage. He examined all of my incisions thoroughly and removed several sutures -one that hurt like the devil -The one on the forehead incision that I talked about feeling like fire ants - OUCH!
He explained the brow lift was indeed endoscopic, but he
referred to it as "pre hairline" something, something. Sorry, I did not get the exact term, but I know I have read it on here before. Said he removed about 1/2 " of skin from forehead before stitching to scalp and pulled the muscle up from between my eyebrows- yuk that sounds awful, but I know it wll last a while. He said the hair line would grow back into it. He said the wavy things on my neck were just where the swelling was going down unevenly, and would be fine. Also said the hairline scar would flatten out in time and the hair would grow over it. Said all the puckers would flatten out "some" to massage those areas LIGHTLY to help with smoothing them down.
He is not concerned with the bruising, said he has had some patients that had them hang on, but they will eventually go away. I do recall years ago ( in my 20's) I was trying to learn to water ski anf ski flew off and popped me in the thigh - the bruise did not go away completely for 9 months!! So, I guess it happens sometime. Again, he poo-pooed the benefits of arnica or other natural remedies. He suggested that he could inject some sort of numbing (I think) solution into the bruised areas and it would wipe out the bruising, but I decided to just wait it out.
So, I guess that is about it for this week. I feel like I had a hard recovery, but when you think of it, I did go back to work in two weeks, so it must not have been THAT bad, right?
Please take care of yourselves, and if anyone wants to ask me anything feel free to post or send me a message and i will be happy to answer your questions. If no new changes, I will see you next week!
Hey tdn931, your eyelids must not bother you as much as mine did - I am happy with the trade off to have a slight blip at the corner of my eye in place of the droopy fold of skin that I had before. And it has only been two months. Will post update when I see my PS for scheduled follow up on Tuesday.
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Very accessible and kind - was referred highly by my PCP of 20 years - he did her facelift several years ago. So far experience has been positive, but a few minor little touches that I read from other reviews that were missing along the way - but nothing that should effect the final result. I had alot of pain, but I don't think it had anything to do with how the surgery was done. I have complete confidence in Dr. Moore and his staff. My husband called his cell phone several times the first week all after business hours and he always answered promptly and with no indication that we were bothering him or being overly concerned. This is a big plus in my opinion. I had called him several times before surgery date with questions and he was accomodating as well, always returning my calls promptly. His office staff and nurses are delightful and very kind. They were all just as gracious when I underwent my revisions - all at no cost to me. Dr. Moore was very concerned with making things right and ensuring that I was happy with my surgery.


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Grand Rounds. Carnival of Hope. Various Updates
This week's Grand Rounds is up! Because of the cat crisis this weekend, I missed the submission deadline; this is the first time I haven't been in Grand Rounds since I started submitting. Oh well. There's always next week!
And speaking of blog carnivals, please remember that the deadline for this month's Carnival of Hope, with a January theme of "new beginnings," is this coming Thursday, January 11, at 5:00 PM PST.
Cat update: We just took Balthazar for his post-hospital checkup, and he's fine. His temperature was normal, and the vet said he looked good. Yesterday I'd noticed some clumsiness and head tremors; today he seems fine, but she said I should keep an eye out for that, since various things can cause neurological deficits in kittens.
I haven't had a chance to get back to the ED sonnets, although I want to. Work is very busy right now, and will be for the next two weeks at least; I may actually get a bit of a break when classes start on the 22nd.
And on that note, off to the office!
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Karachi, Dec.13 (ANI): Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said foreign diplomats cannot be apprehended in the country, as doing so would violate the Geneva Convention.
Interacting with media persons at the international airport here, Malik said international laws bars frisking or arresting any foreign diplomat who has a proper identity card.
"We are out to make friends not enemies," The News quoted Malik, as saying.
Malik's statement comes a couple of days after he claimed that foreign diplomats were supporting local terrorists.
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RKO was already discussing "Kitty Foyle" with Ginger Rogers when she began working on "Lucky Partners" with Ronald Coleman.
"Lucky Partners" is one of those frustrating movies that starts with 10 minutes of charm and promise but gets caught up in a farfetched plot point that seems even more unbelievable as the story progresses. The appeal of its leading players cannot help the story as it builds toward a copy-cat finale.
Rogers plays Jean, a woman who works for her aunt's bookstore. While delivering some books, she passes on the sidewalk a stranger, David (Coleman), who wishes her good luck. She is startled by this, and as the two continue walking in opposite directions, they turn to check each other out. Surprisingly enough, Jean does encounter good luck during her delivery, and as she tells her aunt (Spring Byington), Jean notices David across the street and has a brainstorm. Based upon her luck, she proposes a partnership with David in which they split the cost of a sweepstakes ticket, with the winnings also split between them. Jean explains the money would help her and her fiancé Freddie (Jack Carson) so they can get married and start their lives together.
David agrees but only if he can spend his winnings taking her on a platonic "honeymoon" before she gets married as an "experiment." Aghast, Jean runs to get Freddie, who eventually agrees with David, thinking he will never win.
This very strange plot twist doesn't work, because we know nothing about David. He is a mystery man, and the story hints he's running away from something. But this is one of those films that mistakes the star for the character. Because Ronald Coleman is playing David, he must be OK and therefore it makes sense Jean would agree to such nonsense. Frankly, though, it's just mortifying that Jean would run off with this unknown man on an experimental honeymoon (which, frankly, I'm still not sure of the reason behind the so-called experiment). So much time and talk is made of this strange arrangement that no real conversations exist between David and Jean, which makes the romance that begins to blossom even more unbelievable.
The ending is a courtroom scene, just like "You Can't Take It With You," complete with Harry Davenport as the judge. And I still don't get all the commotion around David's disappearance. It's a shame, too, after such a promising beginning. And it wastes the talents of all involved – Coleman, playing an underwritten part; the always likable Carson, who isn't stretched here; and Rogers, who is so appealing (and an even darker brunette than in "Primose Path"). But even she looks a little lost at the end.
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Honey, We Lost the Kids: Re-Thinking childhood in the multimedia age
Submitter: The content of this book was great in 2005. By now it's dated and needs weeding, which is ho-hum and to be expected with tech topics in particular. The sh!#-storm is the cover, which was NEVER OKAY. Honestly, we weed constantly. I don't know where these things keep popping up from.
Holly: That cover is horrid! Zombie Marge Simpson is after her! Are those piercings and a tattoo on the child's head? I'm sure it was a fine book 15 years ago, but I'm with submitter. Weed it.
More Damaged Kids:
Satan for Kids (If that doesn't damage a kid, I don't know what will!)
And some equally cringe-worthy titles: "It Takes Global Village", "Teen Rites and Wrongs", "The Unholy Trinity"…meh
the cover looks more appropriate for soft skull press
I would hate to look into the mind of the person who designed the cover. Or the person who approved it for that matter. It is just awful.
But does it cover backmasking?
Forget the kids…I do believe THIS BOOK is on something…
Not to be that guy, but really, stuff like this just bothers me – it got the wrong network for Powerpuff Girls.
I think that's a fair complaint here. I mean, if anyone should know the details about kids' TV shows, it should be the author of this book!
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The man who did the tapping was British Telecom chief executive Sir Peter Bonfield. The job is to run the core UK telecoms business for BT while Sir Peter and BT chairman Sir Iain Vallance jet around the world trying to sew up a global telecoms company under the banner of Concert. Suddenly, just 18 months after joining WH Smith with the brief of blowing the cobwebs away from that sleepy retail giant, Cockburn is on his way again to an entirely different challenge.
"I suppose this proves you're never the master of your own destiny," he reflects. "I had not given any thought to leaving, but this job is an opportunity that does not come along very often."
This is not the first occasion that fate has intervened in his career. Born in 1943 and the eldest of eight children in a working-class Edinburgh family, Cockburn wanted to join Boots as a trainee but was advised by their personnel department to get a degree first. He thought of going to Heriot-Watt University, but when he went to visit the campus - so the story goes - he found the place closed and instead decided to go to a nearby careers fair. There he saw a recruiter for the Post Office, which was offering starting salaries of pounds 618. "A fortune in those days," says Cockburn.
With his appointment at BT, Cockburn will be returning to an organisation he last worked for in 1971, when telecoms was state-owned and part of the vast Post Office empire. Cockburn was plucked from post office management to become assistant to the then PO chairman Sir William Ryland, at the tender age of 28, to wrestle with the introduction of new technology to a highly bureaucratic organisation. Two years later he moved back to the postal side, rising inexorably through the finance department to become chief executive of the Post Office in 1992.
His time with Sir William had a profound effect on him. "That was a defining moment," he said recently. "There I was with this amazing workaholic at a time of turmoil and change. I learned how to take pressure and to work fast and hard." Ironically, his successor as PA to the chairman , flagged as a "fast track" job, was another Scot, Iain Vallance, who will now be his ultimate boss at BT.
The Ryland method - hard work combined with a disrespect for bureaucracy and the status quo - has been a feature of Cockburn's management style ever since. In his short tenure at WH Smith, Cockburn has torn into the "mediocrity" that he saw suffusing the corporate culture, and has tried to rally the organisation behind the idea that to compete on the high street one cannot just put stuff on shelves and expect punters to buy it.
His actions up until now have been mostly confined to reorganising the company's structure, selling off unwanted parts like the office products company Niceday and extricating Smiths from the disastrous Do-It-All joint venture with Boots at a cost of pounds 50m. He also chopped 14,000 items off the WH Smith stock list, a move designed to restore some retailing sanity to a chain that, unlike its specialist competitors on the high street, still tries to be an "everything" store.
At BT he will focus on making the basic telecoms operations more profitable in the face of increasing competition from other telecoms licence-holders, whom he estimates will number 200 within three years. "Telecoms is really a wonderful business. If you can increase the average utilisation of the phone by a residential customer by just one minute a day, that's pounds 350m on the bottom line of BT. At the moment we use the phone for about 10 minutes a day, about half that of the US. The potential here is amazing if you get the marketing right."
It would appear, then, that Smith's loss is BT's gain. But what becomes of the company he has left behind? According to Smith insiders, feelings are divided within the company over his departure. "There's an element, who I'll call the 'Civil Servants' who are glad to see the back of him, because he was shaking a lot of people out of their cosy little empires," says one senior employee. "And there are others, myself included, who feel a bit let down because the job here is only half-done."
Cockburn acknowledges that those two schools of thought will exist after he is gone, but believes that it will not stop his successor from seeing the WH Smith restructuring strategy through. "Managing change is never a popular thing to do," Cockburn says, "but there is no advantage in looking back. This company has to move forward, and my leaving makes no difference. My successor will have the task of implementing the strategy, particularly when it comes to the core retailing side."
So far no successor has been named, but company sources think it will be an internal candidate, probably finance director Keith Hamill. Cockburn has made his own recommendation, which he will not disclose. However he speaks highly of his newest recruit, Beverley Hodson, who joined the company just four weeks ago as head of retail for Smiths, with the mission of jazzing up the marketing in the core high street stores.
Whoever replaces Cockburn will have their work cut out. WH Smith is expected to report profits for the year just ended of around pounds 125m, in line with analysts' expectations and a far cry from the pounds 200m loss (including exceptional charges of pounds 283m) recorded for 1995. The question on analysts' lips will be whether Cockburn's successor can maintain an improved profits record now that the company has seen the benefits of the financial restructuring and now needs to show organic improvement in the newspapers-and-all retail side.
The other WH Smith divisions, Virgin/Our Price, Waterstones and the US hotels and airports retailing operations have been given much more autonomy and are thriving by all accounts. But sources familiar with the company paint a gloomy picture of the core retail division's prospects unless the marketing side receives some attention. "Smiths is like the Norma Desmond of retailing at the moment," says one retail expert. "It's as if they are living in the silent era when other retailers have moved on to talkies and technicolor. The attitude seems to be: we're still big, it's the high street that got small."
Analysts remain cautious about the company's prospects. "There does not seem to be a sales strategy as such within the main chain," says Tony Shiret, retail analyst at BZW. If anything, Shiret says, Smiths have had it too good for too long. "It still dominates the high street, and the margins are if anything too high for the types of products it sells. If it keeps on its current track, the only way is down."
For Cockburn, WH Smith will all soon be a memory, along with the feeling of running the show. The move to BT effectively puts him out of contention for the top slot there, since both his superiors are his contemporaries in age. But it will be mitigated by the fact that Cockburn is swapping a 36,000 employee company for one employing 120,000. "I enjoy getting involved, and I enjoy motivating people," says Cockburn. "Where better to do that than running a huge organisation like BT that is going to have to get its hands dirty responding to a changing market?"
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We're infusing our EIM platform with cognitive technologies to provide our customers with deeper levels of insight and understanding into their enterprise information. We've accomplished this using analytics technologies like semantics and reasoning analysis in our Analytics Suite. In OpenText Release 16, the machines are waking up, and they're talking to each other. Cognitive Applied with OpenText Release 16 As illustrated in the following applications, when analytics are applied to unstructured information in a secure EIM repository, the information becomes much more valuable and insightful. Election Tracker '16 Election Tracker '16 is a lightweight information-based app that provides deep insights into candidate information, revealing much more than traditional polling data can. It scans and reads hundreds of top online media publications around the world. This information is analyzed to determine sentiment and extract additional information. Interactive dashboards and reports reveal trends and sentiment changes for a holistic view of how candidates are performing. Finding H1N1 A Canadian public health agency scans up to 20,000 articles a day for early warnings of disease outbreak and other disasters. The system crawls unstructured information publicly over the web and applies a cognitive engine to produce a report. Thousands of threats are monitored—from H1N1 to bush fires in California to pestilence outbreaks in Africa. A cognitive system helps the agency identify, count, and track instances of possible threats to help save lives. Intelligent BPM Cognitive capabilities create intelligent BPM by examining tens of thousands of processes to find ones that are stalled, locate bottlenecks, elevate priority processes, or identify processes that are good candidates for automation. This is just one example of many of how cognitive can be applied to BPM for extreme automation and efficiency gains. The possibilities of cognitive systems in OpenText Release 16 are endless. With the announcement of our cognitive platform, Magellan, our focus is moving beyond analytics to cognitive learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI), opening up our EIM platform to third-party algorithms. In my next post, I will explore how our EIM solutions, when combined with our OpenText Business Network, provide unparalleled opportunity for digital transformation across extended business communities. Find out more: www.opentext.com/16.Read More
The Future of Information: Analytics Everywhere
In addition to being available as a discrete offering, we've infused analytics throughout all of our OpenText suites, including the Business Network, to deliver leading edge capabilities for information companies to mine, extract, and present the true value of their business data. OpenText Analytics Suite gives your organization an easier way to access, blend, explore, and analyze big data to better understand customers, markets, and business operations. We recognize that not every organization has the in-house data scientists, IT resources, or technology infrastructure to support big data analytics solutions, so in addition to being available as an on-premises solution, OpenText Analytics Suite is also available in the OpenText Cloud. Analytics Everywhere Most organizations currently employ some form of basic analytics (illustrated in orange and purple in the above figure). While these insights can be helpful in discovering what has happened and why, they often lack the sophistication that allows companies to reveal what will happen and what should be done. These insights come from the deployment of more powerful, predictive and prescriptive analytics. And that's where the real value lies in OpenText Analytics Suite. Using predictive analytics, OpenText Analytics Suite provides insight into what is likely to happen based on business data and determines which actions an organization should take. The possible implications of each action are based on business data and rules, optimization, and simulation. Connected technologies like machine-to-machine communications will help information companies to progress along the technology curve toward cognitive systems by automating not only data processing, but also the execution of business actions. With OpenText Release 16 we've removed the complexity of integrating analytics within the enterprise. We've built a lightweight development tool that easily embeds analytics capabilities in both internal- and external-facing applications. We've also expanded our out-of-the-box connectivity to work with over a dozen sources—from Apache to XML to Salesforce—providing more ways to integrate analytics into the enterprise systems. While the volume and variety of information may vary from industry to industry and organization to organization, one thing holds true: we are all information companies. The availability of big data has unleashed huge potential in terms of gaining customer insight to inform marketing, product development, and service delivery. Whether deployed on-premises or in the Cloud, OpenText Analytics Suite allows organizations to uncover information that helps to differentiate products and services for increased satisfaction and market share. With analytics infused across all of the OpenText Release 16 suites and the Business Network, we've applied cognitive capabilities to OpenText Suite 16. I'll explore the enhanced role that cognitive systems play in OpenText Release 16 in the next blog in this series. Find out more: www.opentext.com/16.Read More
On Living: Why I'm Walking in Light The Night
On September 6, 2016, I shared my story as a Leukemia survivor with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada (LLSC) to support the "Light The Night" Toronto event. I'm honored to be the co-chair of Light The Night Toronto, an event sponsored by LLSC to help raise funds for research and promote how the organization is advancing research and saving lives. Here are some excerpts from the article: "Being surrounded by family and the people at OpenText who are passionate about what they do and are genuinely concerned for each other's wellbeing was a source of strength for me. Staying connected to my family at OpenText helped me to stay the course and keep fighting. My work gave me purpose, but my OpenText family fueled me. They gave me the energy and support I needed to fight. Even when my odds of survival dropped lower, my support network sustained me. My treatments included many drugs that wouldn't exist if not for innovation. One drug was derived from a fungus on Easter Island and another from sea sponges. Innovation saved my life. That's why I support the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada and events like Light The Night. The goal of LLSC is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and provide information and support to improve the quality of life of patients and their families. With our help, LLSC can continue to conduct research and come up with innovations that will eradicate cancers and diseases, saving many more lives." Read the full article. Why I'm a part of Light The Night. Learn more about my journey in my On Living talk.Read More
OpenText Enhances ECM Functionality and Deepens EIM Offering with Acquisition of Dell EMC's Enterprise Content Division, including Documentum
I am pleased to announce that we have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Dell EMC's Enterprise Content Division (ECD), including Documentum. This agreement marks another significant milestone in our journey to redefine enterprise software and represents one of the most important Enterprise Content Management (ECM) acquisitions in the history of the company. The agreement includes the acquisition of Dell EMC's ECD offerings from the Documentum, InfoArchive, and LEAP product families. When combined with existing OpenText products, these offerings will enable customers to manage content across the enterprise securely and compliantly, decommission legacy apps to make information more available for complete analysis and insight, and create new ways to work across any device. In keeping with our flexible deployment options, they will be available as on-premises, cloud, or hybrid architectures. At OpenText, we are committed to providing our customers with complete automation across the entire EIM flow, from Engagement to Insight. The addition of these offerings strengthen key components of our vision—from Capture to Archive—and adds to the core OpenText product portfolio with capabilities in information life cycle management, ECM, archiving, and collaboration. Furthermore, it accelerates our reach into key verticals, including healthcare, life sciences, and public sector, while adding to our strong presence in financial services, energy, and engineering. ECD's more than 25 years of experience in ECM both strengthens our position and expands the OpenText EIM offering with domain expertise, increased channel presence, and deep global customer relationships. The addition of ECD will make OpenText the partner of choice for organizations as they seek to harness the power of enterprise information to transform their business. I look forward to welcoming ECD customers, partners, and employees to the OpenText family when the transaction closes. For more information, read the press release.Read More
The Future of Information: CEM Delivers the Full Customer Journey
Customer experience is the sum of all experiences over the duration of a relationship between a consumer and an organization. A consistent customer experience is based on unified customer data. The experience must look and feel the same regardless of channel or device, and it must be tailored, reflecting knowledge or insights about the customer to exceed expectations. In the battle for market share, an engaging customer experience is a key differentiator. We've designed OpenText Experience Suite 16 to address the complexities and speed that your organization needs to digitize the entire customer journey with applications for media management, web experience management, and customer communications. Delivering the Full Customer Journey with CEM OpenText Experience Suite 16 provides unprecedented insight and control into the customer journey—at any point, involving any asset. It provides tools that help improve time-to-market with rich, personalized, and engaging experiences. OpenText Experience Suite innovations include: Embedded Analytics: Dashboards that track user activity to gain insight on content, assets, or events used across different channels, devices, or applications, to provide intelligence on users and help optimize and tailor their experiences. Communications Center and Interoperability: With a newly refreshed UI and enriched Customer Communications Management (CCM) functionality, our customers can experience even greater integration with cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications. Extreme connectivity, at all stages of the customer journey and across all correspondences, helps maximize and customize not only customer experiences but also vendor and employee experiences. Adaptive Media Delivery: A responsive approach for media delivery across formats (web, kiosk, tablet, mobile devices, etc.) that ensures consistency. The delivery of a consistently branded, multi-channel experience deepens engagement while protecting and strengthening your brand(s). Embeddable Widgets in WEM and OTMM: Assets are updated automatically when tethered or included in other applications. Assets and folders can appear in other applications by simply copying an embed code, ensuring on-brand, consistent experiences. ECM Integration with Communication Center CRM: Web-based document generation which uses front-end CRM data from Salesforce and business data from Content Server and SAP, all executed seamlessly with OpenText software. The integration of key enterprise systems provides a single source of the truth. Improved UI for Better Productivity: With a customizable home page and a redesigned responsive HTML5-based UI, users can create tailored environments that meet their needs and adapt to their devices for an engaging digital experience. To succeed in the digital world, it's not enough to think mobile first, the requirement is to think users first. OpenText Experience Suite helps your organization create a digital presence and deliver the correspondence to augment your online marketing strategy, manage global brands, embrace social business, and produce effective customer communications every time, all while keeping the user top of mind. Each of the OpenText Release 16 Suites have been infused with Analytics. I'll discuss this in greater detail in my next blog in this series. Find out more: www.opentext.com/16.Read More
The Future of Information: BPM – Creating Digital Business Processes
When information is harnessed, organizations can reach maximum levels of efficiency, impact, and value. But in order to take advantage of these new opportunities, organizations must digitize their processes. Only when processes are digitized can organizations truly realize the benefits of extreme connectivity and extreme automation. Creating Digital Business Processes with BPM OpenText™ Process Suite 16 offers a single, multi-tenant, web-based platform that supports information-rich processes, enabling organizations to rapidly analyze, build, and automate business processes that run on multiple devices. OpenText Process Suite is available as an on-premises solution or a cloud solution (deployed in either a private cloud or the OpenText Cloud). New features in this release include: Entity Modeling: A new low-code application development approach for the rapid and agile development of processes with case management capabilities. Processes can easily be tailored by "citizen developers" to suit business needs without requiring development resources. Case Management: Provides the flexibility for organizations to manage unstructured and complex processes or cases from a single platform. Organizations can relate independent business documents across the enterprise into a single virtual folder (or 'case'), gaining control over a case whether it's a defined or ad hoc process, or a combination of both. Contract Management: This release of Contract Center provides an integrated solution for all types of contracts. An out-of-the-box solution, it supports all aspects of contract processing, from initiation and request, to authoring, negotiation, approval, execution, management, and renewal. Organizations can accelerate cycle times, while still adhering to standards and regulations when managing contracts. Analytics Integration: Analytics integration into OpenText reporting solutions delivers dashboards that increase visibility into processes, enabling better measurement and ultimately, smarter business decisions. More than simply executing processes, organizations have complete visibility to their people and processes so they always know the status of all tasks, processes, and business objectives. OpenText Process Suite 16 is a comprehensive suite that addresses every information company's needs, from workflow, business rules, connectivity, process orchestration, and enterprise mobility all the way through to building and deploying lightweight applications that integrate deeply into enterprise systems. Processes can be optimized with the visibility that analytics integration provides. Not only can our customers digitize their processes with OpenText Release 16, its broad functionality also includes the ability to digitize the entire customer journey. I'll discuss this in more detail in my next post in this series. Find out more: www.opentext.com/16.Read More
The Future of Information: It's Time to Rethink ECM
ECM has evolved. It's about more than just information governance. A new way to work means that ECM should foster collaboration, increase productivity, and deliver insights based on enterprise information. With new capabilities and improved features, Content Suite 16 is ECM reimagined. Rethinking ECM We've added new capabilities to OpenText™ Content Suite 16, including: Connected Workspaces: Workspaces connect content management to business processes and fundamentally change the way ECM is planned, resulting in unified information silos and better collaboration for true connectivity gains. New Content Server User Interface (UI): A new intuitive UI for OpenText Content Suite and Extended ECM has responsive capabilities, role-based views, access to most recent documents, and many more new features to make users more productive and collaborative. Our new UI delivers deeper engagement with connected and consistent experiences and increased security via role-based access to information. Analytics Integration: Suite-wide integration of analytics for real-time query or batch download of data from OpenText ECM solutions results in cognitive abilities for richer layers of business insight. Integrated Social Capabilities: End-to-end lifecycle management of new disruptive content formats (like social) with added capabilities for users to interact with content improves collaboration and enriches search, deepening engagement and helping to ensure the security and protection of corporate IP/information. Enterprise Search with InfoFusion: Conduct scalable, secure, permissions-based searches for content from multiple enterprise systems by leveraging content analytics and Personally Identifiable Information (PII) identification. Additional features and capabilities in this release of OpenText Content Suite include auto classification for massive archiving projects, a built-in HTML 5 viewer, drag-and-drop email support, dashboard reporting, enhanced compliance and security, and integration with OpenText CORE, making file sharing and external collaboration in the Cloud a natural extension of the OpenText Content Suite environment. It's time to rethink ECM. OpenText Content Suite 16 offers so much more above and beyond robust information governance. With enterprise search, deep ERP and analytics integration, and availability in the Cloud, our customers will be able to increase productivity while lowering costs. OpenText Content Suite 16 has everything an information company needs to control and protect their information. Once this is accomplished, information processes can be effectively digitized. This is the topic of my next blog in this series. Find out more: www.opentext.com/16.Read More
The Future of Information: OpenText Release 16 – Robust Information Security
As the economy moves online, businesses are become more vulnerable to cyberattacks. The list of casualties grows every day, with big names falling victim to cyber breaches. The attacks are becoming more sophisticated and harder to trace, and they're becoming more frequent. Cybersecurity is a critical requirement for combatting trends such as nation-state backed espionage, more vulnerable service providers, big data, mobile apps, and encryption failures. The protection of corporate Intellectual Property (IP) is becoming an increasing concern for IT organizations as confidential information is housed in digital format. Threats from both inside and outside the company must be considered. During the Digital Revolution, organizations need to assume that they are under attack every day and that the bad guys are already on their network. Ultimately, organizations need to build a moat around their most important systems. No real risk can be mitigated to a zero percent likelihood of occurring, and some risks are 100 percent likely to happen. So how can the digital enterprise determine which risks to mitigate and what consequences to prepare for? According to research, the average organization needs to keep one percent of its information and 69 percent of enterprise information can be thrown out without suffering negative consequences. Keeping everything means higher storage and infrastructure costs. In instances of litigation, the cost of investigation increases as content is searched, examined, and reviewed across many sources. With today's dramatic growth in content volume, this approach is not tenable. Not all information is created equally and not all information exposes an organization to the same risk. EIM permits secure access to information on a "need to know" basis, while preserving an archive of information. The more data an organization stores and manages, the greater the risks for security breaches and non-compliance. To protect enterprise information, organizations need to practice the fundamentals really well. Most companies forget that security is all about "back to basics": Employees need education. Fifty percent of all cyber security issues are caused by a lack of education and "naive" employee actions. The next 25 percent comes from hardware or software assets that are not up to date. Are they running an outdated email client, for example, that has known vulnerabilities? Is the perimeter defined and protected, or were the gates left open? The response time on shutting the gates is critically important. These basics will make organizations 95 percent secure. Along with investment in an Enterprise Information Management (EIM) platform. OpenText Release 16 – Defense in Depth EIM is designed to protect information where it is used: at the point of interaction in the application itself, offering security mechanisms such as access and permissions, information audit capabilities, and secure information exchange built right into the system. In OpenText™ Release 16, our latest EIM platform, we've taken security up a notch. User- and role-based security happens at the application level. To help ensure privacy, enhanced access and identity management are available through active directory and upgrades to directory services. Both data at rest and data in transit are protected. We guarantee network security, operational security based on our state-of-the-art data centers, and many standards for compliance. Enterprise Content Management (ECM) addresses governance and compliance in OpenText Release 16—but it's much more than this. It is ECM re-imagined. Read all about it in my next blog. Find out more: www.opentext.com/16Read More
The Future of Information: OpenText Release 16 – Digital Information Governance
The regulatory landscape is complex. Companies in all industries are subject to industry-specific regulations and standards, as well as regional or national regulations. At the same time, digital technologies are introducing concerns about fraud, ethical behavior, and data security. With the growth of big data, social media, cloud computing, and mobile device usage, information governance is a key business imperative with the C-suite. Global Regulatory Pressures—A Complex Landscape By some predictions, as many as 20 percent of CIOs in regulated industries will lose their jobs for failing to implement information governance. Connecting information, people, and processes across emerging digital technologies further complicates governance and compliance challenges. If information is an agent of change in the digital world, it has to be managed. Executives and IT leaders will be required to develop and execute strategies for digital information governance. In a global economy, the impact of regulations has far-reaching consequences. Many organizations have minimal control over their operational systems and business processes that capture data required for compliance and litigation purposes. IT budgets will be required to meet future compliance requirements. But governance is about more than controlling regulatory information, it's also about enabling a better way to work. When implemented effectively as part of an Enterprise Information Management (EIM) platform, governance helps uncover the value of information for improved operational performance. OpenText Release 16 offers more comprehensive governance and compliance capabilities. We have set up data zones in the OpenText Cloud according to local laws and regulations. With growing regulations and standards, we are working to deliver compliance for every single one, from SOC 1 and SOC 2 to PCI DSS and HIPAA. This is a strategic decision we have made, and one we can make because we own our own Cloud. With this release, we are not only investing in infrastructure and compliance with regulations and standards, but information governance, compliance, and security. In my next post, I will discuss the changes we've made to OpenText Release 16 to help organizations protect their enterprise information. Find out more: www.opentext.com/16Read More
The Future of Information: OpenText Cloud 16 – The Agility to Innovate
The Cloud is quickly becoming a business imperative. First movers with cloud technology stand to quickly gain substantial market share, displacing incumbents with new cloud-based solutions. We want our customers to have the Cloud in their arsenal, as well the option to choose a cloud, on-premises or hybrid deployment of Enterprise Information Management (EIM). That's why, with our recent release, we have invested deeply in our own cloud infrastructure. All OpenText products are now available in the OpenText Cloud. OpenText Cloud 16 is a set of five cloud-based offerings that includes Content Suite, Process Suite, Experience Suite, the Business Network, and Analytics. Each of these suites has been designed exclusively for cloud deployment, spanning solutions from native Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to suite configurations delivered as Managed Cloud Services. In addition to these suites, organizations can subscribe to Core, a cloud-based, business-ready file sharing and collaboration solution, and Archive in the Cloud. OpenText Cloud 16 OpenText Cloud 16 gives our customers the opportunity to leverage the OpenText Cloud for Managed Services, Business Network Services, and OpenText SaaS applications. The OpenText Cloud infrastructure is a global network of over 40 data centers and points of presence. A custom-built private cloud infrastructure and custom SLAs, disaster recovery solutions, and architectural configurations work together to help lower total cost of ownership, while maximizing business agility. With 18 billion transactions per year representing $6.5 trillion in commerce, 3.5 petabytes of stored content, 600,000 integrated trading partners, and benefiting more than 64,000 customers worldwide, the OpenText Cloud extends business to an established network of customers and partners. Additional features in this release include seamless updates for cloud offerings on a quarterly basis, a health check on the business network to ensure maximum up-time (via State of the Grid Analytics), over 4,500 canonical maps, and next generation transportation and logistics. The Digital Revolution is accelerating the need for digital governance, which is the topic of my next post in this series. Find out more: www.opentext.com/16Read More
The Future of Information: OpenText Suite 16 – From Engagement to Insight
OpenText Suite 16 is a set of four Enterprise Information Management (EIM) suites: Content Suite, Process Suite, Experience Suite, and Analytics. Each suite represents a set of integrated products that have been packaged together and can be deployed on-premises, as a subscription in the OpenText Cloud, or as a Managed Service. OpenText Suite 16 As well as helping our customers move to the Cloud, we have been working for over a year now to integrate analytics throughout OpenText Release 16. Our goal is to provide analytics capabilities in each suite for extracting valuable business insights from enterprise information. Deeper, embeddable analytics are also available as an independent suite. In addition to the EIM suites, this release includes AppWorks™—a development platform designed to speed the path from need to solution for IT organizations. To give customers more comprehensive control over their enterprise information, OpenText Release 16 supports new information flows such as Capture-to-Disposition, Create-to-Consume, Procure-to-Pay, and Event-to-Outcome. With more than 1,000 points of integration, OpenText Suite 16 is truly the most integrated digital platform available today. Each suite can be connected to existing, non-OpenText EIM applications and solutions to maximize technology investments. Our low-cost, open stack supports a variety of commonly used database and web server technologies to significantly reduce the cost of the underlying software infrastructure. OpenText Suite 16 delivers a variety of innovations of significant value to new and existing customers. The combination of cloud availability, an open stack, massive new functional capabilities, and deeper integrations make OpenText Release 16 a destination release for any business looking to take their EIM technologies to the next level. In my next post, we'll explore what's new with OpenText Cloud 16. Find out more: www.opentext.com/16Read More
OpenText Expands eDiscovery, Content Analytics, and Cloud with Recommind Acquisition
I am pleased to announce the acquisition of Recommind, Inc., a leading provider of eDiscovery and information analytics solutions that deliver insight from unstructured data to help people make better, faster business decisions. Adding Recommind solutions to our portfolio establishes OpenText as a leader in the eDiscovery space and creates significant opportunities for growth in cognitive, content analytics, and cloud-based solutions. The eDiscovery market is currently going through its biggest transition ever. Organizations are looking to take greater control of their eDiscovery processes, the selection of eDiscovery vendors, the services they buy, and how they buy them. In organizations that are frequently involved in litigation, eDiscovery is often considered a cost of doing business. But where there is risk, there is also reward. eDiscovery represents a significant opportunity from an optimization, cost, and efficiency perspective. At OpenText, we are dedicated to maintaining and growing Recommind's position as an eDiscovery leader based on the best analytics and the best user experience for review in the market. This acquisition also highlights our commitment to the Legal vertical with a one-stop shop for enterprise search and document management requirements. We are shaping the future of the enterprise market, and analytics figure prominently in this strategy. Recommind solutions will help us do this by delivering new insights that can, as an example, help to optimize profits or mitigate risks in an area that has been a big blind spot for business managers, their unstructured content. The Cloud is also an important part of our future vision. Recommind has made the transition from being an on-premises, license- and maintenance-driven organization to being a cloud-first, SaaS and on-demand driven organization and we will provide a center of excellence as enterprises continue to transition to the Cloud. Customers already rely on OpenText to help them manage and leverage their information flows—from Engagement to Insight. Combining our leading Enterprise Information management (EIM) solutions and expertise in the Cloud with Recommind's technology and talent will enable customers to solve problems at a scale not previously feasible without machine learning. Our customers will benefit by being able to identify and understand the facts that matter for litigation, compliance, and governance; connect finance professionals to more accurate data to make better decisions, optimize profit and mitigate risk; and find the documents, expertise, and projects they need from all sources and locations. Please join me in welcoming Recommind customers, partners, and employees to OpenText. For more information, read the press release.Read More
The Future of Information: OpenText Release 16 – The Most Comprehensive Digital Platform
We're in the midst of a Digital Revolution and for every company it is digital or die. To succeed, organizations must embrace digital transformation or risk being disintermediated. Success will depend on an ability to embrace extreme automation, extreme connectivity, cognitive systems, and analytics—all bundled together in a single and integrated platform. OpenText Release 16 is the world's most comprehensive Enterprise Information Management (EIM) platform for automating Engagement to Insight. It is composed of two major product components: OpenText Suite 16 and OpenText Cloud 16. Each is made up of tightly coordinated releases across all key product suites, designed to manage the complete flow of information, from capture to process, collaboration, discovery, exchange, and insight. The World's First Truly Integrated Digital Platform for EIM EIM arms organizations with the technologies they need to digitize their operations—across any device in the Cloud, on-premises, or using a hybrid model. By providing the world's best integrated EIM platform and applications, OpenText Release 16 gives organizations the foundation they need to effectively transform their operations, processes, and information to create better ways to work. Both OpenText Suite 16 and OpenText Cloud 16 give organizations the flexibility and agility they need to pursue strategic goals, such as optimizing user experience, exploring machine-to-machine communications and automation, digitizing key processes—to drive true digital transformation. Both OpenText Suite 16 and OpenText Cloud 16 have been infused with analytics. Everything from Content Suite to Process Suite to the Business Network has been designed to leverage the power of analytics, bringing significantly more value to enterprise information. It's all part of the movement to systems of insight in the technology shift to cognitive systems. This release represents the next generation of EIM, bringing customers one step closer to more intelligent systems, allowing them to realize greater benefits like lower costs, higher efficiency, greater output, and more room to innovate. OpenText Release 16 is the next generation of EIM. In my next post, I'll take a closer look at OpenText Suite 16. Find out more: www.opentext.com/16Read More
OpenText Magellan—The Next Generation of Cognitive
OpenText is shaping the future of information with Magellan, our next-generation cognitive platform. Magellan integrates visualization, voice, video, search, text, natural language processing, and semantic and numeric engines. It is cognitive democratized because it is easy to program, affordable and highly accessible, giving our customers access to Apache Spark's more than 1,000 open algorithms developed by some of the greatest minds in the world. Introducing Magellan at Enterprise World Magellan leverages Apache Spark for open algorithms, and machine learning to help our customers harness the value of their information. It is an open platform built on open standards like HTML5, Java, SQL, and Hadoop. Developers will be able to build on this platform to expand its rich ecosystem. Because it is built on open standards, Magellan is embeddable, offering our customers access to a wealth of well-studied and well-written algorithms. Magellan—Built On Open Standards The combination of Spark's algorithms with OpenText EIM will give our customers the ability to apply predictive analytics to EIM: from interactive analytics and business intelligence in finance to high performance batch computing for genomics research to connecting millions of homes to real-time stream processing gas meters. The evolution of EIM has moved from governing information to building apps on this information and finally, to its future state, which is to unlock data to find answers. We laid the foundation of the future with OpenText Release 16—the most comprehensive digital platform in the market today. Magellan is the promise of EIM fulfilled. OpenText can now fully automate Engagement to Insight: Engagement, Capture, Content, Process, Collaboration, Discover, Exchange, and Insight. This is as important as when Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) could automate Campaign to Cash. From Engagement to Insight, customers will be able to answer their most difficult business questions by unleashing the value of their data with Magellan. In the same way that Ferdinand Magellan unlocked the world by circumnavigating it, OpenText Magellan unlocks the potential for the enterprise. We expect to deliver Magellan in the second half of 2017.Read More
The People of Enterprise World 2016
For the last 20 years, ERP has been the dominant enterprise system, automating Campaign to Cash. For the next 20 years, Enterprise Information Management (EIM) will be the dominant enterprise system, automating Engagement to Insight. With more opportunities than ever to maximize your investment in OpenText solutions, Enterprise World is your roadmap to the future of information management and a better way to work. Joining me on the Enterprise World main stage will be OpenText executives, Steve Murphy, President; Muhi Majzoub, EVP of Engineering and Information Technology; and our Chief Marketing Officer, Adam Howatson. Together, we will explore how disruptive innovations are impacting the enterprise and information across all industries, with a focus on the role EIM plays in enabling digital transformation. We are excited to bring you the latest developments in EIM as we evolve from managing systems of record and engagement to empowering with systems of insight. Along with our business leaders, the conference will feature some of the industry's most respected thought leaders and visionaries. Guest speakers, including Tracy Costello (CIO, Insure the Box), Craig Chu (CIO, Asia, Westpac Banking Corporation), and Tara Mulrooney (CTO, Alberta Energy Regulator), will share their strategic perspectives on EIM and how they are leveraging disruptive technologies to capitalize on opportunities the digital revolution presents. Colonel Chris Hadfield will also be joining us as a keynote speaker. Through his 21 years as an astronaut, three spaceflights, and 2600 orbits of Earth, Colonel Hadfield has become a worldwide sensation as he infused a sense of wonder into our collective consciousness. I am looking forward to speaking with the former commander of the International Space Station to hear what "the man who made space cool again" has to say about digital technology, space exploration, and the next frontier. Appearing on the main stage, Colonel Chris Hadfield To show our appreciation we are ending the event with Nashville's finest—the Grand Ole Opry—and performances on Thursday night by world-class entertainers Josh Turner, Easton Corbin, Crystal Gayle, Dailey & Vincent, and Elizabeth Cook. The true value of Enterprise World is in the people. Information is fundamental to business, however, it is the ways that people use information that truly causes disruption and innovation to happen. People create, capture, exchange, process, protect, and add value to information. We host this conference for our customers, partners, industry leaders, and our colleagues. With so many people converging in Nashville, this year's conference is sure to be the most dynamic and compelling conference to date. Register today and take advantage of our special offers.Read More
The Future of Information: EIM – A Single Source of the Truth
No matter the size of an organization and regardless of industry, data drives business. From insurance claims to manufacturing purchase orders to contracts, company emails, strategic presentations, and e-invoices. Big or small, companies run on information—both structured and unstructured. Structured information is data in fixed fields in a spreadsheet or a relational database that is housed in ERP systems. ERP tools share a common data model, covering operational end-to-end processes, such as those found in finance, human resources, supply chain, etc. These processes depend on large volumes of data. Unstructured information is the conversation that forms around this data. It is the archived supplier invoice, expense report, receipts, presentations, faxes, memos, emails, social media, videos, and more. It is unsystematic, difficult to dissect, and represents a staggering 80 percent of the enterprise's data today. EIM – Single Source of the Truth All this data is the new currency in a digital economy. But for its value to be truly realized, it must be located, managed, shared, protected, and understood. This requirement is only intensified by extreme connectivity—expectations for fast and immediate access due to higher bandwidth capabilities, mobility, and other disruptive technologies. Integrating unstructured and structured content across silos is a challenge that every organization faces. Sheer volume is impacted by the systems and departments it must flow through. An integrated EIM platform helps information flow securely and effortlessly across departments and throughout the value network to partners, suppliers, and customers—on-premises and in the Cloud. It gives every company a consolidated view of its information, its resources, its business network, and its customers. It provides a single source of the truth. When enterprise information—in its hundreds of formats and thousands of sources—resides in one centralized and trusted place, organizations can securely embrace disruptive technologies and evolve to a better understanding, a cognition of their information. With a single source of the truth, information flows freely across the digital enterprise: from one context to another, from need to result, from opportunity to outcome. Cognition, speed, and agility are key competitive differentiators, and they are a product of a complete integrated digital platform. In my next post, I'll explore how OpenText Release 16 delivers cognition, speed, and agility—and much more—making it the transformative platform of choice for information companies.Read More
The Future of Information: The OpenText View of the World
Enterprises are facing unprecedented competitive forces. Their competitors are defying Keynesian economics and they are experiencing a massively changing workforce—all while the world is becoming a much smaller economy based on the next generation of globalization. They must disrupt or die. And the way to disrupt is through extreme automation and extreme connectivity— integrated and delivered through OpenText Release 16, the world's first comprehensive digital EIM platform. The OpenText View of the World This is the OpenText view of the world and it is driving our product development priorities. The following approaches are key in supporting these priorities: One Platform We truly believe in one platform. One digital platform that integrates data schema and architecture with user experience, across all the EIM functions. One platform for all information. One Business Network It is a corporate priority to continue to be the world's largest Business Network. Not just to manage and govern the information on that one platform, but to exchange the information in any format for commerce. For business-to-business, cloud-to-cloud, and ultimately, machine-to-machine. This is one of our core operating tenants that we strive to deliver against. Re-invent the Information Developer We can't build it all, and organizations have a lot to build. So we've made it easy to program and write apps on top of our business network. We've also made it easy for information developers to build applications on top of our EIM platform with a RESTful service into EIM, allowing them to leverage Customer Experience Management (CEM) functionality and Business Process Management (BPM) capabilities.This is our direction—to re-invent the information developer because: 1.) the developer makes all things possible, 2.) we can't build it all, and 3.) there is an enormous amount of lightweight applications that organizations need to write. Most Trusted Partner Our mandate is to be our customers' most trusted partner, to build strong relationships, and to make them hugely successful. This is a goal from the top of the organization down—to be the most trusted partner, committed to organizations as they digitize all their information and processes, as they move workloads to the cloud, as they deliver meaningful customer experiences, and as they exchange commerce and communications across all their business networks. Information Analytics The analytics software market is expected to reach $75 billion by 2020. Our objectives move beyond one platform or one business network. We're focused on empowering the enterprise to be able to report, visualize, analyze, make what-if decisions, and ultimately, predictions from all of the information on the platform and across the business network. Leadership and Expertise There are ERP companies for sale. We're not interested. There are other enterprise segments. We're not interested. There are printer companies for sale. We're not interested. As enterprises move from data to information to knowledge and even wisdom, they must ask themselves, "How can we apply cognition to enterprise information?" The answer lies with the topic of my next post — "EIM – A Single Source of the Truth".Read More
The Future of Information: The Rise of Cognitive
The Digital Revolution is heralding the third significant era in the history of computer technology: the Cognitive Era. The first era, the Tabulating Era, took place post 1900s and describes the early use of mechanical systems to tabulate calculations. The second era, the Programming Era, emerged in 1960 when scientists created computers that were dependent on the programming of processes or rules. Which brings us to our immediate future (perhaps as near as 2020) with the emergence of the Cognitive Era and the development of cognitive systems. The Three Eras of Computing Cognitive computing is modeled after the human brain (as the most powerful computing system in the world) and its thought processes in a computerized model. Cognitive systems are self-learning systems that simulate the way a brain works using data mining, analytics, pattern recognition, and natural language processing to learn, interact, and make decisions. During the Cognitive Era, computers will mature into learning systems. They will be able to understand data—or analyze, adapt, and suggest solutions based on data. Cognitive technology is becoming a part of everyday life. Anti-lock braking systems, air bags, and crash avoidance systems are fully automated standard features in cars. Smart cities are optimizing performance by automating traffic flow, energy use, pollution, and transit systems. Prototypes for autonomous driverless cars are already on the road—and we have yet to enter the Cognitive Era. The next two decades will see the development of next generation cognitive systems into enterprise systems, processes, and practices. Cognitive computing will push the limits of what is possible with technology. Digital enterprises of the future will incorporate cognitive tools and analytics into their infrastructures. They will be used to amplify human capabilities, working seamlessly alongside people to uncover underlying patterns and trends, provide insights, make decisions, and prescribe actions. At OpenText, we see cognitive computing and machine-to-machine communications as the next big technologies on the horizon. They are an essential part of any comprehensive EIM platform, and they are part of the OpenText view of the World. But that's a whole other topic of discussion…which I'll address in my next post in this series.Read More
Enterprise World 2016: From Engagement to Insight
The Digital Revolution is introducing another mass inflection in the development of enterprise technology. Over the next decade, cognitive systems will eclipse digital as the next big technology trend. Every organization will make a transformational journey to digital and embrace cognitive systems of insight. This is one of the key themes of our upcoming annual user conference, Enterprise World 2016. We have moved from systems of record to systems of engagement. Systems of record help us protect and preserve our content—from capture through to archive and final disposition. With Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, we can rest assured that information is governed and compliant. New ways to work means that ECM should also foster collaboration, increase productivity, and deliver insights based on enterprise information. People work smarter and not harder, with the right information delivered to them at the right time. To compete in a digital world, organizations require the agility to continually deploy and refine processes. Cognitive capabilities applied to Business Process Management (BPM) creates intelligent BPM. This allows the tens of thousands of processes that are running at any given time to be examined to locate bottlenecks, elevate priority processes, or identify processes that can be automated. There are many examples of how cognitive can be applied to BPM for extreme automation and efficiency gains. Our systems of record (and all the unstructured data in them) were augmented by systems of engagement as new technologies emerged like email, social networks, and collaborative technologies. Within systems of engagement, discovery and dialogue influence the single source of the truth and conversations are communal, replacing documents as primary record types. Customer Experience Management (CEM) technologies are systems of engagement that give organizations unprecedented insight into and control of the customer journey—at any stage, across any channel. Both systems of record and systems of engagement have been extended through analytics. Analytics deliver leading edge capabilities for information companies to mine, extract, and present the true value of their business data. Agility extends beyond processes and into the business network. The efficient, secure, and compliant exchange of information between organizations drives extreme connectivity and the integration of operations to streamline the flow of goods and services across the business network. Connectivity is enriched by collaborative technologies like CORE, a cloud-based platform that connects people with the files and information they need to get things done quickly and easily with secure access to files in the Cloud. Organizations are already combining their portfolios of data with analytics, cloud, mobile, social, and the Internet of Things (IoT) to derive new forms of business value and transform their industries. The adoption of these technologies is part of the movement to systems of insight in the shift to cognitive systems. We've designed our latest Enterprise Information Management (EIM) platform, OpenText Release 16, to be more cognitive. Smart meters are embedded into our Business Network, supporting machine-to-machine communications across millions of transactions every month. First responders in the healthcare industry are capturing real-time videos and uploading this into our content server repository. In engineering and construction, we're working with companies that are deploying drones at construction sites for greater reach, portability, and capabilities. They're capturing video and telemetry data which is then being stored in an EIM system. In OpenText Release 16, the machines are waking up, and they're talking to each other. Cognitive Applied with OpenText Release 16 Being able to mine and build information-oriented applications is the next frontier of EIM. Join us in Nashville from July 11 to 14 to discover how OpenText Release 16 can help transform your enterprise through the application of cognition to information. With more opportunities than ever to maximize your investment in OpenText solutions, Enterprise World is your roadmap to transformation. Register today and take advantage of our special offers.Read More
The Future of Information: Enter the Machines
As the Millennials enter the workforce, the machines will follow. And so cometh the machine. The Internet is constantly evolving. The Internet of Things (IoT) has been identified as the next phase in the evolution of the Internet. It will transform the world as we know it, creating a giant, global network of devices and machines that are connected, communicating, and exchanging information. This market will see 50 billion devices connected by 2020 and a value of $14.4 trillion. The potential impact of the IoT on every industry is huge. While the IoT is viewed by many as a nebulous, futuristic concept, in reality it already exists: we wear pedometers, smart watches, and cameras; our pets are micro-chipped; and we drive cars with built-in sensors. Thanks to the IoT, many of our everyday appliances will soon have the ability to self-monitor and communicate with a network. The growth of the IoT is being driven by low-cost sensors and beacons, cloud computing, analytics, and mobility. The IoT automatically exchanges information over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. Instead, data exchange is based on machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. The IoT will add a whole new level of extreme automation, letting us program our homes, and even entire factory floors. Extreme automation will bring extreme efficiency. Robotics, sensors, and AI systems will continue to evolve and as they interact with the IoT. The true promise of the IoT lies in the vast amounts of data it will exchange across billions of connected machines. Analytics will add a layer of intelligence to devices, delivering unprecedented levels of insight to dramatically improve customer engagement and experience, optimize process automation and performance, reduce risks of fraud and non-compliance, and quicken the pace of innovation. Companies that learn to use this information will gain competitive advantage. To capitalize on the power of the IoT and the massive volumes of data it will generate, organizations will be required to plug into their customers' digital ecosystems. To accommodate the IoT, they will invest in disruptive technologies, integrate emerging technologies with legacy IT infrastructure, standardize their data across systems, and create dynamic and flexible processes to support new technologies and devices. All of this is possible with an EIM platform. EIM – Enter the Machines EIM helps transform the enterprise into a digital enterprise. A digital enterprise climbs the technology curve with ease. Every transaction, every process, and all of the data that flows in between is digital—from internal systems and infrastructure to external systems in an extended business network in the Cloud. Its underlying systems are fast and configurable. It supports technologies that enhance automation, like sensors, M2M, communications, and cognitive systems. When processes and data are fully integrated, predictive analytics can be applied to add value all across the enterprise and its supply network—to offer insights into better performance, customer behavior, and product innovation. As the machines evolve, they will herald in the next great shift in the history of technology—the Cognitive Era. Find out more about its impact on the enterprise, the economy, and humankind in my next post: The Rise of Cognitive Systems.Read More


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