Canon has been placed 13th in the inaugural Sunday Times Green List published with The Sunday Times on May 18. It is the first time the publication has searched to find the top 50 companies striving to improve their environmental performance. The survey takes account of the views of employees - who get to rate their organisation’s green credentials - as well as assessing the environmental performance, policies and practices of businesses.

Canon achieved 13th in the overall rankings but also came third in the ‘Bigger companies with medium environmental impact’ category and third in the South-East region. Kyosei, the Japanese word that means “living and working together for the common good” is at the heart of Canon’s corporate philosophy and supported its application to become one of the UK’s best green companies. The investment in its UK headquarters in Woodhatch, which are environmentally friendly too, has played a significant part in raising awareness and reducing its environmental impact. Achieving the international standard for environmental management (ISO 14001) for the past two years has also boosted its credentials. ■

www.timesonline.co.uk

Skywire Software, has announced general availability of PPS 11.3, policy production software designed especially for the needs of managing general agents (MGAs), wholesalers and excess & surplus (E&S) carriers. This much anticipated release is designed to facilitate rapid policy issuance and distribution, letting users
design, create and change documents quickly and easily. ■

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Skywire Software today announced it earned multiple awards in recognition of the company’s continued commitment to innovation through industry standards, customer-centric focus and growth as a leading global provider of software and services for the insurance industry.

The awards were presented during various events at the ACORD LOMA Insurance Forum last week in Las Vegas. In the ACORD Accomplishment Awards,
Skywire Software, received three prestigious ACORD Accomplishment Awards for it's pioneering automated data exchange via ACORD-XML standards for life, health and annuities. ■

www.skywiresoftware.com

What would you consider the value of your company’s data to be? Consider your organisation’s research and develop data, marketing strategies, client database, and all your financial data. What would it be worth to you to have that data returned if you discovered that the only up to date copy had “left the building”? Would you consider offering a public reward to anyone who could supply any information relating to apprehending the people responsible for the theft of every piece of valuable and confidential data that your organisation possess? Would you actually still have a job? Would you know if it happened? The reality is that in many organisations senior management are totally oblivious to the extent to which sensitive information is being leaked outside.... continue here

Email is arguably the single largest source of information creation for most organizations. Yet for the majority, email is poorly managed – if at all. According to recent research performed by AIIM’s Market Intelligence Group, email has become the biggest content security concern for corporate America. In response to this national problem, the industry association AIIM has introduced a new Email Management training program based on industry best practices for improving the control of corporate emails.

Email plays a significant role in documenting decisions and conducting the business of an organization. It is truly an enterprise-wide, mission-critical application that affects every user in an organization. AIIM’s recent study reveals that only 49% of survey respondents are “very” or “quite confident” that they can, if challenged, demonstrate that their electronic information is accurate, accessible, and trustworthy. Thirty three percent are “slightly confident” and 19% of the 652 respondents are “not confident” at all. ■

More at: www.aiim.org

EDM Group, the UK’s leading document management solutions provider today announced that Nationwide Building Society has chosen EDM Group’s Scan on Demand business solution for flexible access to archived customer data. Managing 2.5 million customer files (200 million pages of paper) and over 1 million microfiche (40 million pages) at a dedicated site in Wolverhampton, EDM scan and upload archived documents to EDM online as required giving Nationwide instant access to archived customer data enabling them to provide an efficient and fully auditable service.

The scanning and on line hosting service provides rapid access to client records for Nationwide staff and so further improves the service to the building society’s customers. Through EDM’s Scan on Demand service customer documents are scanned as required, uploaded to EDM’s web hosted service ‘EDM online’ and made available to over 3000 Nationwide employees via secure online access from any networked PC across the Society. The highly secure service also enables Nationwide to adhere to the regulatory requirements for data management and control, with full auditability on data access being provided by EDM’s technology. ■

More at: www.theedmgroup.co.uk

Pitney Bowes Management Services has added eInvoicing to its established FinanceWorks solution-set, designed to bring efficiency, automation and choice to the invoice processing function.

Invoice processing is a frequent and demanding business requirement. But rather than operating as a drain on time and resources this critical process can be transformed into a service that adds value and delivers significant savings.

Pitney Bowes FinanceWorks provides a dedicated workflow solution built on format consistency, eliminating the system headaches surrounding the typical one-to-many relationship between businesses and suppliers.

The solution is built to accommodate every possibility, whether suppliers are delivering high invoice volumes or low, or whether these invoices are paper-based or delivered digitally. ■

More at:www.pb.com
[Who can tell me the year(s) in which PB had the above headline as their advertising slogan? Ed.]

The normal News service will resume within the next week, and any news which was going to be placed here since the 22nd April will gradually appear here over the next two weeks.

Sincere apologies to any organisation who have submitted press releases since approximately the 20th April. This has been out of our control. (See archive item dated Monday 21st April 06:33 GMT) ■

OK now I have your attention! As we are changing the way we manage our advertising, we are looking for a salesperson (or organisation) to bring us the best mix of print and online ad sales possible.

For full details see our job ad in the jobs section. If you are interested, drop me an email. ■

johnbaker@greensheetmedia.com

Having heard not one jot of news from Reed, who were supposed to call me to (presumably) defend their actions in 'merging' Documation with Storage Expo, I took it upon myself to ask the industry what the consensus of opinion was.

Responses over the past two weeks have varied from, "Reed told us it was cancelled due to lack of interest", to "We weren't going to be there anyway."

So it seems there is mixed reaction to the demise of the UK's largest dedicated IM show, probably borne out by the increased interest in the London end of the AIIM Roadshow.

I cannot help but feel that if Reed had handled it properly they could have made something out of it. Partly on the basis there is no such thing as bad news, but also because reputations take years to build and minutes to destroy. (Just ask Gerald Ratner!!)

Green Sheet would love to sponsor and organise a big event, probably central'ish in the UK at the NECC, but it's not our core business. AIIM are much more adept at putting these things on, so maybe they will consider a UK equivalent of AIIM USA.

Come on AIIM - how about an AIIM Europe Show. Smaller than CeBIT (and easier to get to) but bigger than the Roadshow.

You would get my vote. ■

Comments welcome to:

johnbaker@greensheetmedia.com