IMAGAZ or Images

I've sat on the sidelines long enough and now it's time to enter the blogosphere right along with the other fifty or sixty million bloggers out there.

I was in the document imaging business for about twenty years before one of my customers said, "Did you know that your name spelled backward reads like images?" Nope, I didn't know it and had never even thought about it to be honest with you.

I immediately adopted this new found verbiage to a series of seminars that I was presenting for AIIM, the Association for Information and Image Management International (www.aiim.org). For several years I presented an overview of the annual AIIM Conference and Exhibition that covered every vendor in the show and the new products that they were releasing to the world of data, document and information management end-users.

By way of introduction, I am the General Manager, New England Region, for DataBank IMX, a national single-source provider of software, hardware and document conversion services (www.databankimx.com). We have ten state-of-the-art conversion centers strategically located across the country, serving most major market areas.

I've been in the document imaging industry for about 35 years and have seen the way companies handle paperwork; going from paper, to microfilm, and now digital imaging. It's an exciting industry and I would like to provide commentary on the various methodologies one can use to improve their business process through the effective capture, indexing, storage, management, retrieval and distribution of critical business information.

Business process improvements can be obtained through a careful analysis of the way a company does business today and how they would like to change. Before you can change, you have to understand those areas of your business that are cutting into your profit or adding to your costs.

Through this blog I hope to be able to answer some of your questions, challenge some of your current business practices, and be an advocate for our entire industry in presenting ideas that will make you want to refocus some of your time, money and resources that will provide a justifiable ROI for the investments you may be asked to make in our various software, hardware and document conversion services.

Please feel free to comment on the postings that will appear here or send me an e-mail for a more personalized and private communication. You can reach me at zagami@tiac.net.

It will be interesting to see what can be developed here and I am open to any suggestions, comments or criticisms that you may want to contribute to this effort.

Thank you,

Bob Zagami