Business: Who Would Want to Bug Me?

Who Would Want to Bug Me?

Written by Marvin Badler

Today’s electronic eavesdroppers is not repparttar

fictional secret agent we’re so familiar with, instead, it could be another business person, a worker, even a private citizen. It could be anyone who stands to profit form having access to your company’s private and confidential information. Here are just some examples of today’s most frequent eavesdropping and their motivations.

The Activist: Dedicated, yet misguided activists may wish to further their own cause by releasing your private disclosures to repparttar 138799 media.

The Dissident: Dissidents want to damage more then your company’s reputation. They may use eavesdropping as a means of compromising your internal security, valuable products and equipment, and even executive travel plans in order to commit crimes against your property and personal. Financial Operators: Unethical financiers can benefit greatly from prior knowledge of a company’s financial dealings.

Competitors: Competitors may seek to gain information on new product development, marketing strategies, customer lists and critical vulnerabilities.

Bridging the Gap between Paper and Data

Written by Tokairo

The cornerstone of successful automated office systems is repparttar

ability to convert printed information into electronic data. Document processing applications need to capture and index data accurately and efficiently to bridge that gap.

This capability can be enhanced with repparttar 138782 integration of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. By this means, extracted data is used to index and save repparttar 138783 document into repparttar 138784 document management application.

This intelligent document recognition and classification is central to Tokairo’s new contract with a major UK supplier of dairy products. The delivery and receipt procedure works like this:

• When an order is received from a customer a despatch note is issued listing product description, quantities, weight and code

• On delivery repparttar 138785 note is signed by repparttar 138786 customer along with repparttar 138787 customer’s Goods Received Note (GRN) which details repparttar 138788 goods actually delivered

Problems arise if goods are damaged, lost or delivered piecemeal, as discrepancies can occur between repparttar 138789 despatch note and repparttar 138790 customer’s GRN.

The system has been set up so that these documents can be automatically read, matching delivery line items with corresponding items from repparttar 138791 company’s despatch notes.

After every delivery, despatch notes, GRNs and any other delivery/receipt documents are scanned by repparttar 138792 delivery driver at any one of repparttar 138793 company’s 20 depots in repparttar 138794 UK.

Coping with different document styles and formats

The company’s system is configured to recognise every GRN’s header and footer, so it can read each item’s line code and quantity. This process is made complicated because each customer uses a different GRN style, format and layout. Also, there can be multiple GRNs for one despatch note – typically when a single delivery goes to several different customer sites.

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