When you make a capital purchase you want to estimate the total cost of ownership to understand the real costs that need to be budgeted. The same is true with services—particularly with document scanning as some providers dangle temptingly low pricing while hiding extra fees in the fine print. When selecting a document scanning partner,…
Every day that an order sits in your inbox and every additional step that an order takes to get processed represents a delay in cash flow which can hurt the financial health of any organization. Furthermore, lost orders—which happen to a surprising number of companies—mean poor customer service at best and lost revenues at worst….
Document Management, Solutions by Application
In many respects, the ongoing relationship between an organization and its employees can be tracked through its documents. If you haven’t already deployed a document management solution for your employee onboarding processes, our recent blog post on this topic may provide some insight. The same technologies used to automate the onboarding process can be extended for…
While outsourcing document scanning and cloud document management have transformed the way organizations of all sizes and industries manage their critical business documents, good old-fashioned “do it yourself” solutions can still make a lot of sense—especially considering how cost-effective and easy both hardware and software are now to operate, even for knowledge workers that lack computer-savvy….
Business Drivers Enterprise content management (ECM) systems manage unstructured content stored on paper documents, electronic records, faxes, email, etc. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems manage structured data across departments, including accounting, finance, purchasing, manufacturing, and customer service. How can we tie them together and why is this important? Content from paper documents often support transactional…
While multi-function printers (MFP) are a desirable all-in-one package, there are a number of things you should consider when figuring out if a MFP is the best fit for document scanning in your office. Below is a list of 10 key factors to consider. Efficiency: Desktop scanners are more practical if many people in one…