Whitepapers

With document production consuming 3% of revenue and office machines consuming 15% of energy, what seems like a minor aspect of business operations can play havoc with both budgets and environmental targets. The good news is that with a little attention to detail, both cost and carbon emissions can be drastically reduced. Read on for tips that can improve energy efficiency, reduce waste of resources and cut costs – all without any reduction in productivity.

Efficiency begins at home

The high profile energy-hungry systems such as datacentres have already come under scrutiny, and a range of options presented ranging from virtualisation to offshoring, but some of the easy wins could be much closer to home. Gartner estimates that on average organisations spend 3% of their revenue on document production, and The Carbon Trust calculates that 15% of commercial energy is consumed by business machines. So it logically follows that optimising an organisation’s printing and copying fleet can help reduce both energy costs and carbon emissions. Yet many organisations pay little attention to the potential gains to be made here when considering their sustainability strategy. For most organisations, consideration of the environmental impact of printing is confined to email footers asking staff to consider whether printing is really necessary, and the liberal distribution of recycling bins around the office. The more enlightened install devices capable of printing double-sided, and use this as the default setting. It may be argued that this is better than nothing, but research indicates that the effectiveness of such steps is limited, and could even be counter-productive. Recent research by KYOCERA Document Solutions discovered a significant backlash against “print green” messages, with 58% of people responding negatively to such entreaties, branding them “ineffective” at best, and “pointless and patronising” at worst.

Breakthrough speed, professional quality

Using breakthrough HP PageWide Technology, HP Officejet Pro X Series desktop printers and MFPs deliver up to twice the speed at up to half the printing cost compared with color laser printers.

This new class of devices offer the best of both ink and toner technologies, including:

• Fast printing speed, up to 70 pages per minute in General Office quality mode
• Powerful savings—up to 50% lower cost per page than color laser printers
• No-compromise print quality, reliability, and energy savings
• Compatibility with corporate enterprise networks for management and workflow solutions3

Original HP pigment inks deliver superb output quality and resist smearing on ba broad range of papers. Plus, offices can save money through low acquisition and operating costs, and help save additional money and resources with an ENERGY STAR®qualified device.

Introduction

Optimized for enterprise-wide usage, Kofax Capture is a modular application. Right out of the box it can support the needs of a small or medium sized business or a single department, or it can expand to meet the needs of a high-volume enterprise.

Kofax Capture's flexible design makes it easy to incorporate customizations that perform highly specialized tasks to accommodate unique enterprise requirements.

The Kofax Capture platform offers exceptional compatibility with scanners and other caputre devices, content and document management systems, workflow applications, and databases. No matter what hardware or enterprise applications are implemented, Kofax Capture ensures consistent capture, indexing, and validation of the information needed by an enterprise.

As the capture industry leader, Kofax has the experience and expertise to address the neesds of any size enterprise. To do so, Kofax adheres to the following precepts:

Leverage Industry Standards to Include:

• High availabilty
• Standard platforms and communication protocols
• Minimal operator training

Offer cusomtization enhancements such as:

• Sample custom modules
• Fully commented and self-documented sourch code examples
• Extensive API libraries

Provide business process flexibility

Optimize capture and data extraction

I. INTRODUCTION

Enterprises increasingly recognize cloud computing’s compelling economic and operational benefits. Virtualizing and pooling IT resources in the cloud enables organizations to realize significant cost savings and accelerates deployment of new applications. However, those valuable business benefits cannot be unlocked without addressing new data security challenges posed by cloud computing.

Deploying confidential information and critical IT resources in the cloud raises concerns about vulnerability to attack, especially because of the anonymous, multi-tenant nature of cloud computing. Applications and storage volumes often reside next to potentially hostile virtual environments, leaving information at risk to theft, unauthorized exposure or malicious manipulation. Moreover, it’s possible for remnant data to persist when consumers vacate cloud volumes but vendors do not recycle storage devices securely. Governmental regulation of data privacy and location presents the additional concern of significant legal and financial consequences if data confidentiality is breached, or if cloud providers inadvertently move regulated data across national borders.

As a global leader in content security, Trend Micro has pioneered SecureCloud – a next-generation advancement that enables enterprises and other organizations to operate safely and securely in the cloud. SecureCloud represents a patented security infrastructure specifically engineered to control the security and privacy of data deployed to any cloud computing environment.