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This Issue:
Are You a Digital Native or
Digital Immigrant?
Industry Buzz: Open Text Acquires Captaris
SharePoint Success Story: Dollar General Website
New Risetime Publication:
Talking Biz Talk White Paper |
According to theories introduced by Marc Prensky, an internationally acclaimed speaker, writer, consultant, and designer, the digital age and new technologies have created a fundamental shift in learning styles and habits. These learning styles and habits can be summarized into three groups:
Digital Native: an individual who has grown up with digital technology such as the computer, the internet, mobile phones, and MP3 players.
Generation: Millennial, Born 1981-2000
Habits: Reads documents and emails on-screen, utilizes digital communication heavily including email, blogs, message boards, and social media.
Digital Immigrant: an individual who grew up without digital technology and adopted it later.
Generation: Baby Boomers, Born 1946-1962
Habits: Prints documents and emails to read, utilizes traditional communication (phone, face-to-face meetings) more often than digital.
Generation X: Born 1963-1980, you are the in-between group and most likely have a combination of habits and styles of both digital immigrants and natives.
Not everyone agrees with Prensky’s definitions of Natives vs. Immigrants, claiming that separating the groups by age is unfair, and that additional quantifiable research into the matter is needed. Prensky has published several papers applying these theories to learning in the classroom - but what about the workplace? Both Natives and Immigrants can learn from each other through awareness of the other’s view on communication style and workplace habits:
Among other applications, this awareness could be used for greater understanding of coworker’s expectations around such everyday work items as email responses and telecommuting.
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On October 31, 2008 Open Text announced the finalized aqcuisition of Captaris. Open Text is the world's largest independent provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software that brings together people, processes, and information. This aquisition will bring some minor changes for current Captaris users. The Captaris product formally known as Workflow has now been renamed Open Text Process Center. Open Text is committed to providing ongoing support to Captaris users, and plans to release an Alchemy service pack later this year. For complete details about the aquisition and more information about former Captaris products, click here.
With the acquisition of the Captaris suite of products, Open Text further strengthens the quality and the depth of their solutions. By integrating the industry leading capabilities of Captaris software, Open Text provides a complete software roadmap for content capture, document management, and the search and secure retrieval of business information.
The opportunities generated by this organizational alignment are tremendous. Risetime, as an Open Text Partner with extensive Captaris solution experience, is ideally positioned to leverage these new opportunities and increase the value provided to its customers. Additionally, Open Text has a number of products that enhance and extend the Microsoft SharePoint 2007 environment. This aligns with Risetime’s commitment and success as a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner specializing in SharePoint services, and enables Risetime to work closely with customers to create more powerful business solutions.
To learn more about how Risetime creates powerful business solutions, please contact results@risetime.com. |
Dollar General, the largest small-box discount retailer in the U.S., sought Risetime’s SharePoint expertise to complete a multi-faceted redesign of their corporate website. The large and continually growing organization needed a solution to quickly and efficiently present a wide variety of information to its employees, vendors, service providers, and stake holders.
The SharePoint solution allowed Dollar General many benefits, including the capability to streamline control of site content, establish workflows and departmental processes for contributing new site content, and decreased reliance on internal IT staff. By increasing efficiency in these processes Dollar General experienced increased effectiveness in their marketing campaigns from significantly reduced turn-around times.
As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Risetime served as the full service solution provider for Dollar General’s SharePoint project, assisting with capacity planning, system design, development, rollout, training and support. Because Dollar General expected to leverage SharePoint for future Intranet and Extranet solutions, training and experience received by Dollar General on the platform greatly increases company-wide adoption speed for future SharePoint-driven solutions.
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Risetime has released a new technical white paper: “Talking BizTalk®: The no-nonsense guide to one of Microsoft's most versatile and least understood products”. Contributing authors include Dan Rosanova, Steve Bunes, Josh Metcalfe, Rob Grillos, and Larry Bergman. Information presented in the white paper seeks to provide an understanding of the core features and benefits of BizTalk. Our intent for this paper is to provide enough details for individuals to determine how BizTalk might apply to and solve your business challenges. Click here to download the white paper. | |
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