Showing posts with label open platform products. Show all posts
Showing posts with label open platform products. Show all posts

Life Fitness announces an open platform product called LFopen™

By  at 2:36 AM  ,  

With the aim of providing customer with the best workout experience, Life Fitness decided to open its code, also known as API (Application Programming Interface).


In this strategy, they introduced LFopen™, an open platform product. It allows outside developers to access to future Life Fitness equipment software codes and customize applications. For this reason, developers have a lot of chances to create apps while exercisers also have a ton of possibilities to enjoy thousands of apps to personalize their workout experience instead of one application. 




What is more, for gym owners, they can integrate their branded solutions into Life Fitness equipments such as tracking apps and incentive programs so that gym members can update content in an effort to improve their workout experiences.

Visit the site to get further information about this open platform product.

Source: lifefitness



Jumpy - An open platform smartwatch for kids

By  at 12:04 AM  , ,  
With the aim of bring a wonderful smart watch experience to kids with added peace of mind for parents, Joray Tech has announced Jumpy, a cool smart watch for kids. It offers edutainment to their wrists and encourages parent-child interaction. 



According to Founder and CEO Jerry Chang, providing an open SDK and releasing new apps by JoyRay and third-party developers every month is the key to creating a kids’ smartwatch. 

Although kid wearables have a lot of options but a few products gain interest. While Jumpy is an innovative and multi-functional smart watch for kids of age 5 to 8. It is compatible with Android and iOS and interacts with other Jumpy devices. This is wonderful for siblings. 


With Jumpy, parents can feed in daily reminders and messages to make education a fun activity for kids. In addition, Jumpy’s watch head can interact with other devices. At present, this smart watch is on Kickstarter and reportedly shipped in March.

Source: crybytes


Docker – an open platform for distributed applications for sysadmins and developers

By  at 2:36 AM  , , , ,  
How to define Docker?

Docker is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run any application anywhere. It include a portable, lightweight runtime and packaging tool called Docker Engine and a cloud service for sharing applications and automating workflows called Docker Hub. 



Docker lets you to assemble quickly apps from components and eliminate the friction between development, QA, and production environments. 


What benefits do developers receive when using Docker?


Docker lets developers build any app in any language using any toolchain. The app is completely portable and can run anywhere. By starting with one of the 13,000+ apps available on Docker Hub, developers can get going quickly. Docker Hub also allows developers to automate their build pipeline and share artifacts with collaborators through public or private repositories.

With Docker, developers can build and ship higher-quality applications faster.


What benefits do sysadmins receive when using Docker?


With Docker, sysadmins can provide standardized environments for their development, QA, and production teams and eliminate differences in OS distributions and underlying infrastructure. Due to standardizing on the Docker Engine, sysadmins are given flexibility in where workloads run. Importantly, with Docker sysadmins can deploy and run any app on anywhere, reliably and quickly.


Source: docker



Why should we use an open platform?

By  at 9:56 PM  ,  
As you are aware, an open platform is a fairly new concept that has become famous for IT experts for years mainly because open platform software is free to use. Open platforms are indeed useful when they have a lot of advantages. Let’s discover these benefits to explain why we should use an open platform.



Firstly, open platforms provide free open platform software. It can be free to use, distribute, and modify. Open platform software has lower costs. In most cases this is only a fraction of the cost of their proprietary counterparts.

Additionally, open platform products are more secured since codes are accessible to everyone. Anyone can fix bugs when they are found. Therefore, you do not have to wait for the next releases. In fact, codes are continuously analyzed by a large community to produce secure and stable ones.

Open platforms are independent on any company or any author that originally created them. Even if companies fail, codes continue to exist and be developed by their users. 

What is more, open platforms use open standards accessible to everyone. For this reason, they do not have the problem of incompatible formats that exist in proprietary software.

Last but not least, companies using open platform products do not have to think about complex licensing models and do not need anti-piracy measures.

Source: cloudtweaks


Why is an open platform good for business?

By  at 9:46 PM  , , , ,  

Image you are using expensive software of a company. The company is famous and has a lot of customers because expensive software is safe.

But one day, the company is out of business. All of its customers are stuck with software that is no longer updated or supported. It is all proprietary software built on closed platforms and no one could support or improve it. Then, it is completely out of date. You are one of those unlucky customers.

Here is a lesson here that you should choose a product operating on a flexible and open platform. Why?

Here are 4 reasons why choosing a product with an open platform is critical:

 1. If the company is out of business, the product is not out of date.

A product built on a closed, proprietary platform is dead if the vendor goes out of business. Nobody could maintain it. However, a product built on an open platform is still supported by a large user community even if the vendor goes under.

2. Customization options.

An open platform product is easily customized to fit your business needs while a closed, proprietary product is customized only by the vendor. It means that you have many options when customizing an open platform product.

3. Integrates well with your current product.

An open platform product work well with your current product and systems. You know what this means? You don’t have to type the same information into different systems.

4. Works well with each other.

An open platform product works well with other open platform product.

When you buy a closed, proprietary product, you depend on the vendor. You are stuck with unsupported products if the vendor goes out of business. On the other hand, an open platform product doesn’t tie you to any one vendor and works well with others. It means that it puts you in charge of your own future.

iDocs Open -Open Platform Document Management for Unix, Windows, Linux and the Cloud

By  at 10:17 PM  , , , , , ,  


What is iDocs Open?

iDocs Open is a Open Platform Document Management tool provided by inFORM Decisions has experienced paperless technology for years. 

iDocs Open has the ability to capture and process print or database output from open platform servers on the market, and merge it with a designed graphical form and/or with a lot of graphic objects such as signatures, pictures, logos, and barcodes.

iDocs Open includes an automated merge engine, a built in forms designer, print or spool data mapping tool, an ability to capture data from almost any source and conditional processing and output specifications that can be defined by users.

When a form is designed, mapped, defined for output and routing specifications, the processor is enabled and this open platform document management tool runs in the background invisible to users running in their accounting or ERP accounting system.

Below are main features of iDocs Open. 
  • Intercept print or spool data output from multiple server platforms for processing 
  • Distribute output through a number of mechanisms such as email, fax and import into workflow and document routing options 
  • Distribute merge results to predefined locations such as Output Queue andWindows printer drivers 
  • Define multiple conditions for bursting, routing, sorting and distributing jobs 
  • User defined batch merge engine can process multiple output from multiple platforms 


All things about Microsoft SharePoint document capture and scanning solution of inFORM Decisions

By  at 7:25 PM  , , ,  
If routing content to Microsoft SharePoint is difficult for you, you have reached the right place. Due to iCapture’s powerful SharePoint integration, you can route your documents easily.



It is a fact that SharePoint has been extremely famous for I.T. departments while administrators are seeking applications to help structure and standardize the addition of documents and data to the repository. iCapture is an open platform product offered by inFORM Decisions. This powerful document capture engine can streamline any SharePoint Scanning and Capture workflow. 

In fact, iCapture works with any desktop scanner and can connect your scanning copier to SharePoint. Scanning is done in an instant due to iCapture’s automation. What is more, this document capture engine can automatically extract document information through barcodes, text extraction and pattern matching. As the result, you can save time while you can also do other things. Just press the green button and come back when the job is done. iCapture is really wonderful when it can scan anything from forms, contracts to invoices. You just name it and this open platform product can morph to your organization’s needs. As you can see iCapture really offers efficiency, automation and productivity. Additionally, with iCapture and its SharePoint OCR technology, everything becomes a searchable PDF. You can extract information and create a fully searchable digital “file cabinet” quickly and easily.

With iCapture, you standardize the flow of documents into SharePoint. Contact inFORM Decisions right now to get further information.

iView: a web-based content management open platform product

By  at 11:39 PM  , , ,  
Previously, I mentioned iCapture and iSign, two open platform products of inFORM Decisions. Now I give you some information about another open platform product of inFORM Decisions. It is iView.
What is iView?

 iView is an affordable web based document indexing, archive and retrieval solution. It allows users to quickly store, search and access documents via a web browser from anywhere and anytime. iView can be implemented standalone, or work with other open platform products of inFORM Decisions.

 With this open platform product, you can eliminate the cost and the time of storing, retrieving and sharing documents.

Here are some main features of iView. 

  • Documents are captured, and then automatically converted into popular and standard PDF format 
  • User-defined rules-based intelligent engine monitors for and immediately processes inbound spooled files and scanned documents tagged for Archive 
  • User friendly web browser interface utilized to retrieve documents 
  • Option available to store archived documents on any networked server via FTP 
  • Scanning import function (iScan) indexes and stores scanned-in documents. Easy to configure, works with your existing scanner 
  • Rapid deployment of enterprise documents to a self-service web portal 
  • Intelligent DataQueue engines consume no processor time until a spool file becomes available to process 
  • Archives under system profile or the user ID of the spool file owner 
  • Searchable index can be multi-line. Users can add a column of data to the search database. This is helpful for spool files that contain multiple rows of important data 
For more info, see the company's website at www.informdecisions.com or call at 800-858-5544.


 Source: inFORM Decisions

 Tags: IBM iSeries, as400 scan, AP Automation, Document Automation, digital forms, Scanning to TIFF

iCapture, an advanced document and data capture for iSeries, is available

By  at 11:30 PM  , , , ,  
iCapture is a major upgrade to iScan’s inFORM Decisions, a document capture software.



iCapture offers significantly expanded data-capture and search optimization capabilities, letting users experience a dramatic increase in document indexing intelligence functions and configuration options. What is more, the major upgrade minimizes the need for product customization and third-party utilities.

iCapture also features the advanced optical character recognition (OCR) and optical mark recognition (OMR) which allow data capture of nearly any type of scanned image into meaningful metadata text. Thanks to iCapture’s built-in intelligent character recognition (ICR) functions, hand-printed information can be reliably recognized for metadata.

Additionally, an advanced data extraction (ADE) engine within iCapture intelligently uses scripts or pattern-match logic to create or enhance data recognition accuracy when creating search metadata from a scanned document. In fact, ADE will eliminate the need to hand-key metadata information. As the result, document processing time will be reduced while accuracy will be increased.

Besides, iCapture can auto-extract complex data structures and information from even disparate documents to further enhance document archiving and searching capabilities because ADE is paired with iCapture’s advanced optical character recognition (OCR) capabilities.

iCapture works with inFORM’s iView. It lets users scan documents with PC-connected devices existing outside of the IBM i environment. Then, the scanned content is automatically routed to iCapture for processing, eliminating the need for dedicated 5250 sessions for scanning documents that are to be archived within iView.

You can explore the website of inFORM Decisions (www.informdecisions.com) to understand other benefits of iCapture more.

Source: Mcpressonline

Tags: IBM iSeries, iSeries document capture, iSeries scanned documents, iseries signature capture, iSeries imaging, document capture software

A powerful suite of open platform products of inFORM Decisions

By  at 4:09 AM  , , , , , ,  
I am sure that if you are running a company, you only want your business process to be improved as much as possible and your business environment to be more efficient. 

In fact, when you want to use products to help your business gain productivity and efficiency, you have two choices: a proprietary system and an open platform. It is believed that an open platform is better when it provides a lot of benefits. I agree with that. However, I am sure that you may be confused when there are a lot of open platform products out there. You really do not know what best open platform products are. But now your problem is solved when inFORM Decisions introduces a suite of open platform products including iCapture, iView and iSign. They will help your business a lot. 


Let’s discover these open platform products. 

iCapture : Feature-rich, affordable document capture and scanning solution


iCapture is a good capture platform for those who want to automatically scan and image. It can meet all the needs of an organization such as document scanning and import, data capture, OCR/ICR, forms processing, data extraction and the ability to migrate the information into a backend. You can use this solution whether your company is small or large. In fact, it is an affordable, scalable solution.


iView: Web-based Content/Document Management Solution 

In fact, iView is an affordable document archive – retrieval solution with powerful integration capabilities. With iView, you can archive your documents and make them available for search and retrieval via a web interface by anytime, anywhere and anyone. You can save costs related to storing, retrieving and sharing documents. 

iSign: Mobile Signature Capture

iSign, a mobile electronic signature capture solution allows you to capture signatures from a browse java enabled mobile device, apply them to business documents ranging from invoices, forms, to reports and upload iView. Signatures provided by iSign are 100% legal. 

As you see, these open platform products provide a lot of benefits. Especially, they are easy to use interfaces and powerful integration capabilities.

Source: inFORM Decisions