“Chaos to Order!” was the first thing mentioned while kicking off KTM 6.0 at Transform 2013 in beautiful San Diego.
KTM 6.0 (not yet officially released) appears to have made significant improvements in two key areas that I feel will impact our customers.
The first area is Classification. Classification is the “What is this” in the ECM world. Most document management implementations flag what type of document (invoice, cheque, contract, etc…) by the user declaring it at scan time. This is a rock solid way of classifying but it doesn’t fit every customer’s needs. Other organization’s documents (paper, mail, and emails) are bundled together as chaos and pre-sorting is simply not an option. For years, Kofax has been a leader at taking this “Chaos to order” and from the surface KTM 6 takes this to the next level.
Kofax’ improvements appear to following the trend of less coding and more application training. With simply gathering lots of samples (often easier said than done) and pre-sorting them, the KTM project can be taught what to be looking for without any configuration. The improvements in this “Learn by example” classification, nicely complements the following suite of classification techniques:
- Layout Classification
- Text Classification
- Instructional Classification
- Custom/Other Classification
Our next article will look further into KTM 6.0 and its improvements in Online Learning.
Want to know more about KTM 6.0 and Classification? If you'd like a more in-depth conversation with Joseph, specific to your industry, business or technical environment please contact us and we will arrange a time with you.
Process Improvement First and Foremost on CFOs Minds!
What Is Capture and Where Should We Start?
Yakidoo Team Attends the 2013 Kofax Transform Conference
Joseph Haroun, Director of Technical Services
Prior to joining Yakidoo, Joseph was a business analyst and Manager of IT Programs Delivery at DHL, the global multi-national courier, freight, logistics and shipping service provider. During his tenure at DHL Joseph oversaw the implementation capture and process automation projects. Joseph and members of the Yakidoo helped DHL implement various capture and automation technologies for Waybill processing, Accounts Payable invoice processing and Accounts Receivable payment processing.
Joseph has experience and expertise in the areas of process improvement, efficiency, automation, project management and technology integration with our valued clients and partners. His role at Yakidoo is to lead the technical services delivery team on capture and process automation projects.
On May 2nd, 2013, McMaster Marauder Football celebrated their programs rich history as they honoured their OUA major award winners at the 16th Annual Football Gala Dinner & Reception.
McMaster Football has seen fifteen Marauders recognized as OUA major award winners, including seven OUA MVP’s, five President Trophy winners and three J.P. Metras Trophy winners. One of the MVP winners includes Yakidoo’s own Phil Scarfone (Yakidoo VP of Sales) for his efforts in (‘83/’84).
Winning the Hec Crighton Award as Canada's top football player (1984) capped Phil's outstanding career. No Marauder quarterback has more passing yardage, completions, or touchdown passes. Phil claimed the Omega Trophy twice as MVP in the OUAA, a league where his 5,447 career passing yards is fourth best ever. In 1984, this exceptional athlete guided Mac to a 7-0 record and a #1 national ranking.
At the dinner on May 2nd, Phil was accompanied by his proud family including spouse Diane, daughter Page, sons David and Michael and mother-in-law Marie.
Pictured from left to right are: David, Phil, Page and Michael.
Phil is now Yakidoo’s Sales Quarterback. We are proud of his past endeavours and to him being a part of our great team. Congratulations Phil!
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Victor Bensusan is CEO of Yakidoo. He has 20 years experience in Finance and Information Technology primarily in the area of process automation, information management and business performance improvement.
Here at Yakidoo we take great pride in our work within - not only our own community - but the communities in Latin America that struggle on the daily basis with poverty and poor living conditions. Many of us here at Yakidoo have Hispanic roots that we are very proud of. Within our team at Yakidoo we work in association with the non-profit organization Hispanic Cultural Forum. One of the directors of the organization is our own Eduardo Bensusan. The Hispanic Cultural Forum was founded in 2012 as a non-profit organization in the province of Ontario. The Hispanic Cultural Forum is dedicated to promote Hispanic culture to Ontarians by having events featuring literature, music, dance, film, and theatre.
Yakidoo was lucky to be introduced to Blanche Hinton by the Hispanic Cultural Forum known in Panama as “the lady who’s teaching sign language to the deaf”. Blanche a Milton Rotary Club member is a retired teacher of the Deaf for 26 years. In July 2012 Blanche spent a month in Boquete, Panama, learning Spanish. Since she always needed to keep herself busy she asked the local school if they could suggest a place where she can volunteer her skills, they recommended la Fundacion Pro Intgracion. On her first visit she found 6 women and 1 young man, all deaf, and only 1 had ever been to school, never been taught a language and no one at their home has tried to teach them anything.
What they did and do have is ‘home sign’ sign which is extremely limited, and which only their own group understands. At that point she made decision that she could not just ‘go home’ and leave the group hanging. She has now taken a year’s lease on a her tiny apartment, makes back and forth short visits twice during this year, and then again for 3 months at the beginning of 2014. The group has now grown to 14 adults plus 3 children who come when possible. She runs classes of 1 to 4 people, all working at different levels, and each group comes twice a week - some for 1 to 1 ½ hours, others for 2 plus hours. On Saturday mornings everyone comes. All together she spends about 33 hours a week at the Fundacion – 6 days a week – the other time is utilized to write further programs and materials.
Yakidoo is privileged to having the opportunity to work with people like Blanche Hinton and organizations such as Fundacion Pro Integracion and the Hispanic Cultural Forum to do what we can to provide assistance to these non-profit missions. We look forward to further endeavours with Blanche and both organizations.
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Alfredo De Vanna is the CTO of Yakidoo. He has over 10 years of international experience deploying over 80 critical information technology and enterprise content management systems. He is fluent in English and Spanish.
On Thursday March 7th 2013 Yakidoo held its first in a promising series of networking seminars. The seminar took place at the Living Arts Center in Mississauga and consisted of cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, a short introduction of “Who is Yakidoo” by the founders Alfredo De Vanna and Victor Bensusan followed by a short presentation by Phil Scarfone (VP of Sales – Yakidoo). On site were live demonstrations of the Yakidoo CS and Kofax Transformation Modules technology for attendies to try out.
The main focus of the seminar was networking… allowing existing customers and new prospects to mingle and discuss in their-own-words successes with Yakidoo and any issues that may need to overcome when implementing and supporting a Yakidoo solution.
It is Yakidoo’s goal to expand the Networking Series to other locations. Stay on the lookout for more details or visit our Website for updates to when the next event will be taking place.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Phil Scarfone has over 22 years experience in document management and technology working for top brands including: IBM, Xerox and Canon.
Over the past 26 years, Phil has held senior Sales and Marketing positions for three international companies (Xerox, IBM and Canon) and three entrepreneurial businesses. Phil has extensive expertise in staffing, training, budgeting, P&L management, recruiting, compensation, change management and process improvement.
Six staff members from the Yakidoo Team along with a strong representation from the Canadian Banking industry attended the annual Kofax Transform Event in San Diego California.
Phil Scarfone (VP of Sales for Yakidoo), Joseph Haroun (Director of Technical Services) and Mohammad Ghias (Senior Technical Specialist) attended designation training which included; Kofax Sales Training, Kofax Mobile Capture and Front Office Server Certification, while Alfredo De Vanna (CTO) and Victor Bensusan (CEO) met with Kofax executives to discuss the opening of Yakidoo’s office in Panama and the strategy to expand the market in Latin America.
It was not just about learning and networking, the Yakidoo team also toured the California Coast and attended a harbour cruise cocktail party organized by Kofax.
Several blogs will follow shortly to introduce you to what Yakidoo learned during the 2013 Kofax Transform Conference.
Please do not hesitate to call your Yakidoo Sales Executive to learn more about Yakidoo or to discuss what Kofax products offer.
Victor Bensusan is CEO of Yakidoo. He has 20 years experience in Finance and Information Technology primarily in the area of process automation, information management and business performance improvement.
With the start of the New Year, it’s time to look back at what we’ve accomplished, what’s worked, what hasn’t and what’s upcoming. Over the last quarter, there have been some great new solution implementations. Whether it is a Cloud Solution, Data Capture or Content Management in any location in the World, Yakidoo is always looking to assist our prospects and customers to realize their vision. The following is an overview of some of the successes we’ve experienced this past quarter.
Provided a large scale data capture solution for the automation of invoice processing in an accounts payable department - Canada
Won a request for proposal from a client to continue the support of their IBM Content Management system. We are proud to have our clients’ returning business – Canada
A Central Government Bank continuous to rely on Yakidoo to help them grow and maintain their technology both in data capture and content management - Caribbean
Over the last quarter, we have experienced great advances in many areas such as the deployment of Yakidoo Cloud Solutions (capture and content system), Managed Solutions, and On-Premise Data Capture, Content Management and Business Process Automation. Our clients rely on us to keep them up to date and forever moving forward.
We’d also be happy to act on your behalf and get answers to the key questions and concerns you have about accounts payable automation. If you have questions, leave a comment below, contact us through this web form, send us a Tweet or contact me personally on LinkedIn. Help us shape the editorial agenda for this blog so you can get the most value out of what we produce.
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Alfredo De Vanna is the CTO of Yakidoo. He has over 10 years of international experience deploying over 80 critical information technology and enterprise content management systems. He is fluent in English and Spanish.
At Yakidoo while we do take tremendous pride in our ability to innovate and aid our clients in keeping up with the ever-changing processes of content management and data capture, some of our proudest contributions are towards our community. It gives me great pleasure to show support to some of the recreational organizations and charities within the community.
To many Canadians the fall means the beginning of the hockey season not only for professionals, but for all the minor leagues and children that look forward to lacing up the skates every winter. As a parent and CEO we at Yakidoo make generous contributions to a couple of teams within the OMHA (Ontario Minor Hockey Association) and specifically with Milton Minor Hockey. Yakidoo is involved with the Peewee AA team along with sponsorships of the Bantam AA team providing them both practice jerseys and team bags. Along with Milton Minor Hockey we also support Milton Minor Lacrosse.
This past summer Yakidoo was able to help support a fantastic cause to help find a cure for MS. The “Bike for Mike” team at the MS Society (http://mssociety.ca) took part in a 160 kilometer ride over the course of two days and joined an astounding 1,908 cyclists to help raise an amazing total of $1.237 million for the MS Society of Canada.
For us personally here at Yakidoo we thoroughly enjoy doing what we can for an organization which battles such a terrible disease. Furthermore in the fact that we were able to aid the “Bike for Mike” team specifically to reach their fundraising goals and provide a large contribution to the MS Society of Canada gives us great pride. We look forward to many more opportunities to connect with the “Bike for Mike” team in the future to help continue their battle of MS.
Every year around December the cliché of card giving/receiving creeps into offices everywhere. Its true receiving a Christmas card is a nice gesture and lets people know you are thinking of them. However this year at Yakidoo we decided to come up with something a little more innovative seeing as that’s what we do. This year our Christmas card recipients need not open an envelope. This year we made them open up their laptops, smartphones and other devices and press play (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY8SoQVTPEg&feature=youtu.be). The interactive Christmas gram supported a donation to the foundation “Vision of Change”. For every time someone pressed play on our virtual Christmas card, Vision of Change received $5.00 from Yakidoo. Vision of Change (http://visionofchange.us/) mission is to enable communities to improve their physical, mental and spiritual resources by supporting sustainable humanitarian and educational programs. Changing the common routine of card sending allowed us to keep things fresh, fun and help to contribute to a valid cause.
Through 2012 Yakidoo provided support to other organizations including:
Here we are rolling into 2013 with confidence and surrounded by positive energy of what is about coming. One of our upcoming projects in which we hold great excitement is the forming of our foundation. This foundation is aimed to support projects within communities where Yakidoo has great involvement including Latin America, The Caribbean, United States and Canada. The foundation will support through assisting in education and enabling these communities to become self sustainable. Teaching vital skills and keeping the communities updated and in tune with the ever-changing markets will work to provide sustainability. Yakidoo's goal is to give a percentage of its profit to the communities where the foundation is present. All in all the present is bright and the future looks even brighter.
Thank you for your ongoing support and please do not hesitate reaching out to Alfredo De Vanna or I to learn more about the Yakidoo Foundation.
If you’re interested in learning more about these projects just let us know. You can contact us through our website, give us a call at (905) 267-3949 or send me a direct message me via Linkedin.
Victor Bensusan is CEO of Yakidoo. He has 20 years experience in Finance and Information Technology primarily in the area of process automation, information management and business performance improvement.
In September we attended the 2012 XXI Cl@b event in Panamá City. According to the event website: "The CL@B is an annual meeting of IT managers and high level executives responsible for risk management and the operation of the many different business concerns of financial institutions to facilitate the exchange of current knowledge, ideas and experience concerning technological solutions for the Latin American financial sector through conferences and seminars dictated by international experts."
Yakidoo is now offering cloud and managed solutions to the Latin American market and we invested in this event as part of our market expansion plans. Both Alfredo, (seen below) and I attended this event to demonstrate our serious commitment to this market and meet some people, have some conversations and learn.
I wanted to take this opportunity to brief our customers and prospective customers on our experience at the event but also outline some key reasons why we're expanding in to Latin America.
While banks and other financial institutions in Latin America are experiencing the same challenges as those in the U.S. and Canada there are unique circumstances that are affecting those companies in Latin America.
But, for Latin American institutions the following challenges exist:
Of course these challenges represent opportunities for our customers and for Yakidoo as do the macro growth economic growth opportunities facing many of the Spanish speaking countries.
First of all, you may think that we just love tropical climates since we're already serving clients in the Bahamas!. The weather, the people and of course my own heritage are great reasons to do business in Latin America for me and the team here at Yakidoo! But, these are not good enough reasons for customers and prospective customers!
From a business perspective there are three core reasons why we're focused on the Latin American market and they are:
We think that our expertise and experience in core Latin American industries such as banking and insurance, our track record and fluency in Spanish and Portuguese is a good combination for our customers. We're looking forwards to "llegar al trabajo"
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