{"id":646,"date":"2012-09-11T14:30:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T21:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/?p=646"},"modified":"2013-07-08T16:41:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T23:41:35","slug":"the-beautification-of-the-osi-model-with-document-imaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/the-beautification-of-the-osi-model-with-document-imaging\/","title":{"rendered":"The beautification of the OSI Model with Document Imaging"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was recently taking some online courses on software development best-practices courtesy of\u00a0Coursera<\/a>. \u00a0In these courses they would use the phrase \u2018beautiful code\u2019 to describe well-written software code. \u00a0This means that the software is written in a fashion that is efficient and not bloated. \u00a0Microsoft Vista, for example, was the epitome of NOT beautiful code because it was slow, had limited native hardware support and not enough compelling innovation. \u00a0On the contrary,\u00a0Salesforce.com<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Box.com<\/a>\u00a0are two excellent examples of beautiful code where the User Interface is feature-rich and useful. \u00a0Additionally, the software is quick to respond and is highly available to the user in a ubiquitous fashion, from any device, anywhere at any time \u2013 especially with the user experience optimized for mobile devices. \u00a0From a computing standpoint I happen to personally think that Document Imaging is the \u2018beautification\u2019 of the computing communication technology stack. \u00a0Let me explain.<\/p>\n

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Enriching people\u2019s lives with effective communication<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

When a particular technology is so good for so many different reasons, this is what makes Document Imaging\/ECM and Capture so beautiful.\u00a0 This technology allows businesses to reduce labor costs associated with information management.\u00a0 It affords organizations the luxury of sharing electronic files and helps to assist with compliance and regulations.\u00a0 Document Imaging is one of the best ways to have a solid disaster recovery plan which is beautiful.\u00a0 It\u2019s simply beautiful that people\u2019s lives are enriched to do other activities such as attend your children\u2019s sporting events, spend a night at the movies with your loved ones or just relax at the pool reading your favorite book instead of doing mundane tasks such as manual data entry or looking for lost documents.<\/p>\n

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Document Imaging is the crown-jewel in effective communications<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Computer networks are the collection of many different technologies that come together to do \u201csomething\u201d.\u00a0 The\u00a0OSI Model<\/a>\u00a0is a way in which the various components and\/or protocols can be described and these components are mostly just taken for granted these days, it just simply works.\u00a0 We don\u2019t need to worry ourselves about things such as TCP\/IP, DNS or IPv6.\u00a0 It just happens.\u00a0 The technology has evolved to a point we can focus on getting value from these communications networks. \u00a0So when Document Imaging is applied as an application that brings all these components together and brings true value to networked systems, this really is a beautiful thing.<\/p>\n

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The benefits of Document Imaging are beautiful things<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The benefits of applying Document Imaging within organizations can be clearly measured in tangible financial return on investment such as in the case of\u00a0AutoNation\u2019s 13-month ROI<\/a>\u00a0on their nationwide distributed scanning deployment.\u00a0 Or sometimes the financial benefits are less of a motivation such as the case is with\u00a0Care Ambulance\u2019s scanning deployment<\/a>\u00a0where they placed scanners inside of ambulance\u2019s and created an integrated capture and communication solution.\u00a0 In this case, the primary motivation of the project was to provide the highest level of patient care possible and capturing timely, as well as accurate, information was critical to this project.\u00a0 This is simply beautiful now that the emergency medical technicians (EMTs) can now focus a maximum amount of the time and efforts on caring for their patients instead of dealing with paperwork.<\/p>\n

Therefore, that\u2019s why as an industry we should be so passionate about promoting our technology.\u00a0 Creating beautiful code for a software application is a great thing, but applying technologies such as document capture and ECM to a communication network is remarkable to enrich people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n

Do you think that technology can be beautiful?\u00a0 Do you have a story to tell of how beautiful technology enriched your personal life?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was recently taking some online courses on software development best-practices courtesy of\u00a0Coursera. \u00a0In these courses they would use the phrase \u2018beautiful code\u2019 to describe well-written software code. \u00a0This means that the software is written in a fashion that is efficient and not bloated. \u00a0Microsoft Vista, for example, was the epitome of NOT beautiful code […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,109,4,3],"tags":[320,310,311,312,96,314,315,313,63,309,316,319,318,317],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capture","category-imaging","category-life_and_family","category-technology","tag-application","tag-beautification","tag-code","tag-coursera","tag-data","tag-layer","tag-layers","tag-model","tag-network","tag-osi","tag-physical","tag-presentation","tag-session","tag-transport"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"coral-dark-medium-large-2x":false,"coral-dark-large-2x":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Kevin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/author\/kneal\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"I was recently taking some online courses on software development best-practices courtesy of\u00a0Coursera. \u00a0In these courses they would use the phrase \u2018beautiful code\u2019 to describe well-written software code. \u00a0This means that the software is written in a fashion that is efficient and not bloated. \u00a0Microsoft Vista, for example, was the epitome of NOT beautiful code…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}