Is controlling documents properly called document management, content management, records management, or something else? And can the market meet the future under this cloud of confusion?

Written by John Ghrist

Next to money itself, documents are the lifeblood of virtually every enterprise. Whether they are electronic or paper, documents help businesses keep track of what they are doing and where they are going. But ironically, despite this importance, document management as a product type seems to be suffering from an identity crisis.

IBM's Infoprint Server is a powerful tool that is inexpensive, tightly integrated with i5/OS, and complements all of your legacy applications.

Written by Westley Curtiss

Do you know whether Infoprint Server for iSeries (LPP 5722IP1) is installed on your system? You may want to check. If it is, you probably have more functionality than you think, just waiting to be utilized. If you don't have it, read this article and find out more about this relatively inexpensive but oh-so-useful product.

Empower business users to easily update the look-and-feel of any form.

Written by ACOM Solutions, Inc.

EZeDocs/400 is a document output system that intelligently merges data from your current applications, such as accounting and ERP systems, with your own form designs to deliver laser-quality invoices, purchase orders, reports, forms, and other business documents directly to a laser printer, fax output, or secure email.

SpoolFlex's ability to convert spool files into native Excel spreadsheet format with predictable results impresses even the most seasoned IT pros.

Written by Chris Smith

SpoolFlex from DRV Technologies is a tool for converting and distributing reports, or spool files, that makes children's play out of formatting report data into Excel. Unlike outputting to a comma-delimited file, when a report is converted directly into Excel's XLS format, report headers are in the right place, lines break where they are supposed to, and output retains the crisp formatting that was always intended.

Learn the cost benefits of going paperless, and boost profitability through document automation.

Written by inFORM Decisions

Editor's Note: This article introduces the white paper "Make Paperwork Smarter" available for free download from the MC White Paper Center.

Paper is expensive, but that is typically not primarily due to material costs alone. The human resource costs of printing forms—including distributing, storing, accessing, and managing paper documents—may place an even greater strain on your company's profitability.

inFORM Decision's graphical data-mapping tool adds menu-driven conditional mapping to its list of new features.

Written by Chris Smith

Perhaps you have worked in a shop where someone has embedded HP PCL into the RPG code of an application and every time someone wants to underline or boldface a word in a printed report, a programmer has to go in and change the code. That is what I call job security.

The changes in 7.1 make life a whole lot easier!

Written by Steve Pitcher

Historically, converting spooled files on IBM i has been a bit of an arduous task, but in recent releases, it's become much easier. In April 2010, I wrote an article about how to convert AFP to PDF using native commands included in IBM i 6.1 at no charge. With the release of IBM i 7.1, we're fortunate that IBM has expanded on these abilities by adding a couple of neat features.

Document Management Systems (DMS) have been in existence for years, decades even, and there is a wealth of information out there. But what do you really need to know?

Written by Brian D. Smith

Here's a top 10 list to get you up to speed on why document management is a highly relevant and powerful solution to help you meet many of the business challenges of today.