As 2009 comes to a close, I want to take this opportunity to wish you a happy holiday and thank you. You have helped fulfill my vision when I set out on this entrepreneurial journey ten years ago. That vision was to become the leading provider of .NET document imaging toolkits backed by remarkable in-house customer service. With thousands of SDKs ...

A critical piece of any ECM is robust search capabilities. With SharePoint 2007, Microsoft scores well in search according to Gartner in their ECM Magic Quadrant, but will fair even better next year with the enhanced search features in SharePoint 2010. Atalasoft has recognized the need to improve the retrieval of documents in SharePoint by ...

The 8 Things series on AIIM’s Digital Landfill blog is still going strong. Today, they published my contribution, 8 Ways to Reduce your Storage and Bandwidth Costs for Document Imaging Solutions. If you’d like more imaging information like that, sign up for Atalasoft’s Imaging e-Course, where you’ll learn about the different image formats, how ...

Last night, Atalasoft and Snowtide Informatics sponsored a meeting of the Western Mass Developers Group, which featured Ben Fry speaking about Computational Information Design and the Processing programming language. O’Reilly also pitched in by giving us a few copies of Ben’s book, Visualizing Data, to give away. The talk was a fascinating ...

I’m headed to the Northeast User Group Summit on Saturday in Boston. I’m involved in the Western Mass Developer Group and Western Mass .NET – I think some other members from both are making the trip. If you’re from Western Mass or otherwise want to meet, send me an email lou.franco @ the domain hosting this blog.

Almost two years ago, I wrote this about preparing for interviews: So please, before your next interview, follow this simple checklist. Know what the company does, who its customers are, how it positions itself. Find out who will be interviewing you, and check to see if they have blogs, read them. If you can demo the ...

Atalasoft @ AIIM 2009 in Philadelphia - Day 1 from Tom Lewis on Vimeo.

Last month Atalasoft launched Vizit SP, a zero-footprint document image viewer for SharePoint. When we released DotImage in 2003, our goal was to help organizations build web-based document imaging solutions faster and with better technology. We did this by providing a powerful, yet easy to use API with many UI controls focused on document imaging ...

Just a reminder to all readers of the Atalasoft Blogs that Atalasoft has created several video tutorials about using the DotImage toolkit. The DotImage Tutorials page currently includes 3 sections (as of 07/31/08) starting with an overview of DotImage's out-of-the-box integration with Visual Studio. In just 5 minutes you get a primer on how to ...

Last month marked the successful completion of our 31 Apps in 31 Days effort where Atalasoft developers (including yours truly) developed and deployed 31 applications using the DotImage 6.0 Toolkit in 31 days, with full source code. The goal was to create small applications using our toolkit during our normal workday. It was quite an undertaking ...