Digital Transformation Blog

Learn about the pain points of managing mailrooms manually and how they’re easily solved when working with a digital mailroom service partner.

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…

Looking to make some changes within your organization to boost your efficiency but unsure where to start? While most organizations have plenty of areas that could use a little streamlining, we often recommend narrowing things down by evaluating your reliance on paper. Business processes that rely on paper documents are slow and prone to bottlenecks,…

Paper Is Dead! Long Live Paper! In the four decades since Businessweek published the Xerox research lab article credited with seeding the idea of the “paperless office,” reams of news stories, commentary, books, and research have reported on its progress or declared it a myth. It’s safe to say the topic, at least, has not…

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…

Corporate mailroom management – with all its envelope opening, paper sorting, and mail distribution – can be taxing but is usually manageable. For the most part, even temporary upticks in mail volume can be deftly handled with a bit of extra effort on the part of your mailroom staff, and while that might cause some…

Even in the busiest times, most businesses can stay on top of mailroom management with a little extra effort or some overtime on the part of mailroom staff. Permanent increases in mail volume, however – due to mergers, acquisitions, or business growth – aren’t as easily remedied and could lead to a mailroom meltdown if…