Your email solution used to be both your communication tool and document management solution. Everyone was sending messages and documents to everyone else and then just creating a nice neat (sometimes) folder structure to save the emails for future reference. For a while that was a tremendous improvement over phone calls, stacks of paper and filing cabinets.
Then came the demand for corporate wide information access and individual user email accounts were demoted and retention policies were implemented. The next dagger was the lack of encryption on standard email such that corporate information was therefore at risk. Possibly the final blow is that email became a spam fest. But wait, email is not dead and there are good reasons why.
Really an email is a document, a record, a corporate asset that should be treated as such. …
It seems simple to envision the tools required by a mobile worker. The basics quickly jump to mind including a phone, a laptop, chargers of course and a Starbucks or Panera card. Then you need a location, which could include a home office, an office suites membership or the aforementioned coffee shop.
We serve clients in many different industries; commercial real estate, manufacturing, insurance, telecommunications, non-profit, education, etc.
At some point in our working careers most of us have planted our initials on some form or memo to signify our approval. Yes, I agree that purchasing this $1mm piece of equipment is a good idea – 
There is no denying that many businesses absolutely need automation in order to get to that next level of efficiency. Unfortunately, large companies with large budgets drove the development of most automation solutions and therefore, those solutions are very complex.
If it’s a common refrain in your company that nobody can find anything on the file server or in the document management system, you are not alone. In many cases a company believes this is because they have a digital document organization problem or possibly the lack of a document czar. 
It’s no surprise that no two businesses are exactly alike and certainly no two employees are either. Our differences, along with the options provided by technology and changing circumstances, create a tremendous number of possible outcomes as it relates to information creation. This is especially true of information in the form of documents.
At some point every business probably feels a bit undervalued or unappreciated by customers or maybe by the markets. This may or may not be justified, but we’ve all been there. Over the years we have gained a deep understanding and appreciation for one group of businesses in particular that might feel this way – manufacturers. 
It happens every day in our professional lives, we need information to make decisions or to complete tasks. To assist us in this effort we try to use our memory, the internet and information stored away in filing cabinets, desk drawers and computers.
Some day in the future it is plausible that paper documents in the business world will disappear. Electronic documents, however, in the form of PDF’s, Word files or Excel spreadsheets, will continue to exist. In fact, it will be a very long time before documents, and the content of the documents, cease to be important in the business world.