Do you ever marvel at the number of choices available in the bottled water aisle at any grocery store or online market? There are dozens of options to choose from. How about barbeque sauces, bourbon, pizza or crackers? There are far too many choices and it gets frustrating and time consuming to make any kind of decision.
This has some similarities to the frustration many people experience when they are searching for a file at work. They may find a copy of the file duplicated in multiple places. Determining which copy is the final version is both time consuming and frustrating. The process of de-duplicating is not an easy task, but reducing our choices has obvious benefits and it can be done.
In document management terms, de-duplicating is the process of eliminating redundant copies of files. In…
We recently attended and exhibited at a technology trade show for the commercial real estate industry. The technologies that were in the spotlight were wide ranging from remotely monitored and controlled water values to AI solutions for recurring administrative tasks. Less “hot” technologies were also represented like accounting, lease management and of course workflow and document management systems.
Your email solution used to be both your communication tool and document management solution.
Normally we don’t do a blog post on a Friday, but since this is Friday the 13th it seems like a good time to remind everyone that document disasters can happen any day. The cause of these disasters is usually us and we can screw up today or any day. So be careful, be diligent and try to be organized. 
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.
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.