How to Choose the Right Lab Notebook Scanning Solution Managing notes and raw data throughout an R&D program is a daunting but critical responsibility. R&D data can take many forms: spreadsheets, memos, experimental write-ups, drawings, specialty documents like ECGs, and most commonly, handwritten lab notebooks. Whatever the form, it’s your intellectual property (IP) and it’s…
You’ve been here before—sitting in your restaurant’s back office, looking at a pile of paid invoices. You’ll need to keep those receipts for at least seven years in case you get audited, and you may need some of them to settle payment disputes with your vendors down the line. But for right now, they’re dead…
With commercial real estate costs continuing to rise year over year, prices are getting prohibitively expensive for many companies, especially in major metropolitan areas. Today New York City prices are second only to San Francisco in terms of cost per square foot. Real estate costs have a significant impact on the bottom lines of businesses…
Every year on April 22nd, people across the globe come together to celebrate Earth Day; an event held to show support for environmental protection through civic participation. It is designed to create awareness around how the actions of people and businesses alike are harming the environment. Fortunately, this isn’t the only holiday dedicated to this…
Document Management, Document Scanning
With Labor Day 2018 right around the corner on September 3rd, it’s easy to get caught up in thoughts of where you might go for the long weekend or the projects that need to be done around the house. But what you should really be thinking about on Labor Day is the happiness of your…
By now, you probably know that the advantages of going paperless are numerous: better efficiency, cost-savings, reduced space needs, and more. But how do you do it? Should you outsource the job to a professional scanning service or do it yourself (DIY) by investing in people, equipment, and software? Or should you consider some combination…
Are your offices feeling cramped? As your organization grows and you continue to add staff, workstations, and storage, it’s only natural that your once spacious branch or headquarters will quickly begin to feel less roomy than it did when you first moved in. Before you consider relocating to a larger space, ask yourself this: have…
Everyone wants to capture more information, faster, while spending less time to process it manually. That’s a tall order, but document capture technology helps to achieve this quest for digital transformation and efficiency, some of which is much older than you realize. Case in point: optical character recognition (OCR). OCR has been used widely on…
Some of a business’ most valuable assets are ideas. From research data in lab notebooks to proprietary designs and trade secrets, intellectual property (IP) comes in many forms, making it a challenge to know how to protect it. What’s more, protecting intellectual property is a multi-layered process, as Forbes Technology Council points out. The best…