Our first edition of LinalisNews for 2008 aims to bring you an insight into what is happening with Linalis, with open source developments and with our clients. In this edition you can get a brief insight into Enterprise Content Management, find out about our new Business Intelligence Accelerator and discover what is coming soon in the way of seminars, training and new services.

Upgrading to Microsoft Vista(TM) is a hot topic for many of our clients at the moment so we have planned a seminar to look at whether Open Source can offer you a viable alternative. For more information, please read on.

We are always looking to improve what and how we communicate. If you have any suggestions regarding LinalisNews, seminars, training or services, please do not hesitate to contact us.

In the meantime, I hope 2008 has started well for you and look forward to meeting you in the near future,

Warmest regards

Steve Adams

sadams@linalis.com

Enterprise Document Management – can Open Source EDM meet the demands of modern enterprises? In order to assess this, we need to define the 5 areas that any EDM implementation needs to address prior to software selection:

Capture: Manual entry of information, document scanning, optical character recognition, reading barcodes, treatment of Web forms, etc.

Management: Version management, search and navigation in the server / network, audit tracking of modifications, collaboration between users working on the same documents, management of web contents, recording, protection of information and metadata storage, supervision and workflow processes.

Storage: deposits or data bases, search services, etc.

Publication: distribution and transformation of information or documents, addition of security elements, etc.

Filing: strategies for long-term data storage, for example the automatic migration of data to archive storage, etc.

In our article published recently in IBCOM, we specifically look at whether the leading professional Open Source application, Alfresco, compares as a software of choice. To see the full article submitted, please click here.

We would like to offer you the opportunity to express your opinion, talk about your current IT challenges and your view on future developments or issues. If you have anything you'd like to say, please contact us and we can include your quotes, comments or full text articles in future editions of LinalisNews. Those that would prefer to remain anonymous will be allowed to !

Business Intelligence and data warehouse developments are both topics of interest to many of the companies we speak to. However they pose many challenges to IT professionals and projects often get postponed, delayed, reduced in scope or simply remain in the long list of “nice to haves” without gaining any real momentum.

In order to help you address some of these issues, Linalis has developed a new service, The BI Accelerator. This provides a quick and highly cost effective springboard in the right direction. Using a license-free approach, within 3 days we will provide you with a datamart and OLAP views on a subset of your business data. This can then be presented to the business to help define requirements, identify opportunities for internal application, build project plans and business cases or may itself be the productionised solution to simple analysis requirements.

This service costs Sfr 5,500 and will leave you with a working, license-free application. For more information, please contact us.

Coming very soon, Linalis will be providing a Hosted Customer Relationship Management solution ideal for PME's who need to improve their contact management processes. More about this in our next Newsletter.

Linalis is also the organiser of the most important IT exhibition dedicated to Free Software in "Suisse Romande", which will be hold on the 21st and 22nd of May 2008 at the CCIG in Geneva.

http://www.linuxdays.ch