Francois Ragnet is a passionate man, challenged by the gap between what is and what could be. At Xerox Global Services, Francois knows where the things are heading. When he talks about, "The Future of Documents," he conjures a picture of the time when smart documents will energize companies as they move across the enterprise and perfectly integrated with all business processes. He foresees when 3D visualizations of complex information will be commonplace. And when office productivity will achieve new heights. To Francois, the future is now.
Expertise
Document intelligence and document management
Novel technology transfer
Innovative and wireless technologies
Technical Evangelist
Background
10+ years industry experience
Program Manager, Xerox Research Center - Grenoble, France
Researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technologies - Gaithersburg, MD
The Less Paper Office
The "paperless office" became a buzzword after being introduced in an article, The Office of the Future, in Business Week in 1975. It coincided with the advent of the personal computer, and the hope was that all documents could be processed electronically and that paper would become irrelevant.
Since then, a number of technologies have made it seem within our grasp-among them desktop publishing, the web, e-mail, content management systems and more. Today, digital information is pervasive throughout our organizations, is managed and secured in digital repositories and drives business at lightning-fast speeds.
But has paper disappeared? Not at all. Actually, paper consumption is still increasing, soaring to extremely high levels. Paper continues to predominate in activities that involve knowledge work, reading and collaboration.
So how do we manage paper now and in the future?
By using Smarter Document Technologies in the office, learn how to use paper more responsibly, reduce the amount of paper that your organization uses and effectively drive business improvement from a cost, communication, and environmental standpoint.
Beyond Document 2.0: The Future of Documents
Corporations spend a lot of time and money wrestling with the challenge of making enterprise document management and other information-based work easier, more efficient, and more effective. No longer just static containers of information, today the document can be a powerful, intelligent vehicle for driving business processes.
Once a document becomes digital and networked, a new set of challenges appear. Organizations can meet these challenges with a variety of software, services and hardware such as color multifunction devices, scanning with OCR, rules-based printing, authentication and accounting tools, document management systems and more. Learn more about the technologies that enable Document 2.0 and beyond.
Interview with Francois Ragnet: The future of documents
Francois explains that the future of documents and document management is here now. Learn about how the role of the document within the enterprise is changing as it becomes much more dynamic and rich through a concept that we call smarter documents.
November 2007 - Documento 2.0 event, Sao Paulo
This event focused on new ways of managing documents and information in the enterprise, by adding value and intelligence to the document. This is Document 2.0.
June 27, 2007 - Echt Society
Topic: Future of Documents & Information Security
Netherlands
June 28, 2007 - XE event Netherlands - Dutch Ministry of Justice
Netherlands
May 2007 - Digital Mailroom Congress, Brussels
This event, which was part of the Document Management Congress. It contained a number of customer testimonies and technical presentations of various vendors on the electronic mailroom, which is a digital gateway to the many and varied document workflows that are the life-blood of any modern company.
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