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Last week, five Accusoft employees joined over 10,000 other attendees at Microsoft’s 2012 SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.  The show focused on SharePoint and related technologies for four days filled with over 300 sessions.

Read more to find out what capability was the most in demand at the Accusoft booth!

Collaboration tools are in high demand by businesses across markets as a way to boost productivity and manage information.  Companies use collaboration tools to increase teamwork and ease communication efforts. This reduces the risk of bottlenecks in a workflow process where only one employee or department is able to perform a task due to a lack of shared expertise, shared tools or shared goals.

SharePoint has distinguished itself as a business-enhancing collaboration and information management tool.  More and more companies are even opting for third party add-ons to SharePoint to enhance functionality and reap the most business benefit. SharePoint allows employees to share ideas, manage documents, publish expertise, and efficiently find the information they need.  As businesses strive to connect their departments, tools like SharePoint have become a necessity.

Read more to find out why customizing SharePoint with additional features can reconcile SharePoint with your actual business needs.

The DMS Expo wrapped up last week, ending a very successful three days for our Accusoft representatives.  They joined over 400 exhibitors and almost 20,000 visitors in Stuttgart, Germany to talk about enterprise content management (ECM) solutions.

Read more to find out how ECM and a browser-based document viewer fit together!

A few stories that caught our attention this week include the top 5 questions VARs should ask when selecting a document management  partner, how the Long Beach police department uses OCR to catch criminals and how QR codes are key in the upcoming holiday marketing efforts and more.

In our Follow Friday series, we feature a few industry news finds to share with you.  We are constantly finding interesting, fun, exciting, noteworthy, shocking and industry-changing articles all week long on the internet. Check us out every week to see what catches our eye around the web!

Top 5 Questions VARs Should Ask When Selecting a Document Management Partner - Channel Partners
By Jim True

Businesses are constantly looking for better ways to improve efficiency and protect sensitive information while making information more accessible when needed. As a result, chances are that document management will be considered an ideal candidate in helping businesses reach their objectives.Here are five questions you can use to help determine which vendor is right for you.

How Automatic License Plate Recognition (LPR) Technology Works - boingboing
By Mark Frauenfelder

An officer from the Long Beach Police Department shows how automatic license plate recognition technology works. He demos a system installed in a patrol car equipped with four cameras. "Each camera is recording at all times, so no matter what mode you're in, it'll be recording off all four of the cameras… it shows you a picture the car, it shows you a picture of the plate that it caught and then what it does is it takes that image and using optical character recognition (OCR) it will compare it to a database. In our case we are running multiple databases -- we have 'wanted felony vehicles,' 'be on the lookout,' '24 hour hotsheet,' 'wanted by detectives,' 'LA County warrants,' and our 'gang unit.' In addition to this we have 'stolen vehicles,' which are available to everybody in the state. Currently in our database we have 24,000,000 plus reads."

Read more to see how QR Codes will affect this holiday season.

A few stories that caught our attention this week include how the adoption of cloud computing is ahead of schedule, how to get a university to go paperless and more. Check out the links below to read the full articles.

In our Follow Friday series, we feature a few industry news finds to share with you. We are constantly finding interesting, fun, exciting, noteworthy, shocking and industry-changing articles all week long on the internet. Check us out every week to see what catches our eye around the web!

Cloud Adoption Ahead of Schedule to Reach 500 Million in 2012 - eweek.com
By Michelle Maisto

Consumer adoption of cloud storage services is exceeding expectations, according to an Oct. 15 report from IHS iSuppli. By the end of June, the research firm found personal subscriptions to such services to have exceeded 375 million users—a figure that put the market already 75 percent of the way toward IHS' full-year estimate of 500 million users.

Read more to discover how a top university was convinced go paperless and how an NFL team is the first to utilize mobile ticketing.