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While business objectives vary greatly among industries and companies, there’s one priority that tops everyone’s list: Improving return on investment (ROI).
In today’s metrics-driven digital landscape, it’s worthwhile to evaluate if antiquated document processes are hindering you from maximizing your productivity, effectiveness and overall success.
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Microsoft continues to push its core productivity apps to the owners of the world's most dominant mobile devices — this time, in a deal with Lenovo, which acquired the Motorola smartphone business from Google in October 2014.
Microsoft and Lenovo announced a deepening of their strategic relationship last Friday.
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You’d think stock traders, of all people, would have the best data available. But that wasn’t the case when JPMorgan started bleeding billions on bad trades.
Investors got worried. The bank dismissed their concerns as “a tempest in a teapot.”
Turns out it was a tempest in a spreadsheet.
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Dropbox is falling deeper into the enterprise with upgrades designed to drive new levels of document sharing and collaboration.
Dropbox — which recently made headlines by announcing it was cash flow positive — announced last night that it was beefing up its document creation, sharing and collaboration tools in a bid
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Productivity and productivity applications were the name of the game this week in document management releases.
One release likely to grab attention is an upgrade to Google Drive that allows users to choose files for offline access.
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New technologies change the way organizations compete. Companies either leverage these new tools or they get left behind by those that do.
This was true in the industrial revolution and it’s true in the digital revolution.
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At Microsoft's Build 2016 developer's conference in San Francisco this week, Office 2016 got a lot of attention. But so did Graph — and Connectors hogged the limelight for the second time in a week.
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Over the past two years, Google has continuously added functionality to Google Docs and the wider Google for Work suite. This week, it introduced Voice typing for Google Docs.
This means users can capture ideas, compose an agenda or even write proposals without having to touch their keyboard.
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Microsoft is trying to persuade Mac users that they aren't an afterthought. This week it added another string to the Office for Mac bow with the announcement that Mac users can become Office testers, too.
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We, as consumers, intentionally hand over our data and behavioral patterns to commercial entities like eBay, Google and Facebook. We derive value from this exchange through easy access to personal email, quickly connecting with friends, and identifying products that relate to our lifestyle.
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We've heard about the promise of the paperless office for years now, with little to no evidence of the promise translating to reality. But recent research by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) shows that maybe, just maybe, things are starting to change.
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From the New York Times to Jezebel, cultural arbiters are ridiculing or rhapsodizing about the current craze for typewriters. Bloggers opine on the joys of typewriting, and the truly committed can even attend type-ins, where groups of enthusiasts gather to … well … type.
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Microsoft confirmed this week that Office 2016 will be released Sept. 22. It also announced organizations on volume licensing schemes will be able to download Office 2016 starting Oct. 1.
Knock us over with a feather.
The dates of Microsoft releases are generally leaked well in advance and this one was no exception.
Office
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Microsoft took another step to expand its appeal in the enterprise with the acquisition of VoloMetrix, a company that uses big data to optimize organizational performance.
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