document management

In November, we gave SharePoint 2010 beta a test drive. Now, we put the shipping product through its paces and find that Microsoft has delivered a multi-purpose tool that delivers a bigger bang because of its tight coupling with Office 2010.

Small business owners and managers have a common reaction when someone, usually a salesperson, suggests going paperless and jumping into electronic document management: they cover their ears, start screaming “la la la I can't hear you,” and run out of the room. So don't say “electronic document management” but say “use our scanner to reduce clutter and save money.” Bosses pull their hands away from their ears when they hear “save money” and you can leverage the scanner on your MFP to ease into document management, I mean, reduce clutter.

While researching enterprise content management (ECM), you've probably read some discouraging statistics about IT project failures, ranging anywhere from 30% to 50%. Although there are numerous reasons for project failure, change management is one of the root causes.

An enterprise content management (ECM) implementation is more than just a solution to inefficiency, a way to address unique business challenges, or a chance to get ahead of the competition. It’s also a relationship between you and your vendor’s support team.

Insurance companies offering liability coverage, workers compensation, and those that are self insured have struggled to prepare for the new Medicare reporting requirements since the federal mandates were announced. Art Meadows, President and CEO of Panhandle Farmers Mutual Insurance Company shares tips for success.

With records management requirements getting more stringent with each coming year, the time to enact a strategy is now. To help you implement a records management strategy that meets industry standards, we’ve included some answers to frequently asked questions.

Although many organizations today employ data entry clerks as a cursory nod to electronic record keeping, the potential for the digital mailroom goes far beyond logging in mail. This article outlines ways that scanning, digital storage, and process automation can help organizations save time, money, and backaches associated with traditional mailroom processing.

A revamped software architecture for the Google Search Appliance (GSA) and a new high-end model of this enterprise search device lift its indexing capacity to billions of documents and make it easier to scale it up.

I'm rapidly starting to view Evernote as one of the Web's all-time best services. Though it's really nothing more than a tag-based note manager, it makes capturing and synchronizing those notes a breeze. And that makes it invaluable for all kinds of organization.

A small thought experiment for you on this bright but chilly winter's morning. In your hand you have a 40 page document. On your computer screen you have an electronic document open in a word processor. You have been told they they are "the same document". How can you tell? What does it even mean to say that they are the "same"?

John Mancini over at the Conquer Information Chaos blog thinks so, and he can’t understand why it hasn’t become a priority in document management yet. Here’s an excerpt from his post: In a nutshell, email is a microcosm of the DIGITAL LANDFILL that exists in most organizations…. We all have it.