Today, business is more competitive than ever. The need to provide employees with the best tools to do business in a financially limited environment is a constant challenge. The debate over “going in-house” versus “outsourcing” has run on for years with companies doing one or the other, or both. For your business, the decision is even more difficult if you have an existing set of records and no equipment or expertise left in the office to handle the responsibility.
Topics: #Scanning, #Digitization, Organization, Scan, Documents, Paperless, Backfile, Digitize, Automate, Efficiency, Outsourcing
Artificial Intelligence has been in the headlines for years. From bringing the end of humanity or the end of human suffering, the promise of a different world has long been expected as a product of thinking machines. While we are still a long way off from sentient self aware computers, the use of several techniques that fall under the category of “Artificial Intelligence” have taken hold in the document management services industry.
Topics: Documents, Document Classification, Automate, Efficiency, Data Extraction, Business Leadership
If you have documents that you need to keep for regulatory or compliance reasons, you might have considered storing them off site or getting them scanned. Having a framework to help you make the decision as to which is best in what cases can be helpful in understanding when you should continue to store your documents and when scanning them would produce a return on investment.
Topics: Storage, #Scanning, #Digitization, Organization, Scan, Documents, Paperless, Store, Filing Cabinet, Digitize, Efficiency, Storing Documents, Document Storage, Outsourcing
For over 20 years companies have been selling different versions of OCR and data capture software promising to replace data entry for your employees. We have bought the products hoping that someone eventually would live up to their hype. It would be extremely valuable to a company like ours to be able to automate data capture tasks. But so far, the data capture service our company offers always requires more than just OCR and data capture software to be viable. Here’s what we’ve learned from decades of failure attempting to use OCR capture software as the solution for data capture.
Topics: Storage, #Scanning, #Digitization, Organization, Scan, Documents, Security, Compliance, Paperless, Store, Digitize, Automate, Efficiency, Storing Documents, Document Storage, Remote Access, FDA, Quality, Regulatory
Topics: Organization, Digitize, Automate, Efficiency, Reports
Your lab notebooks serve as your primary record of research performed. They’re also typically proof of your intellectual property rights for your organization. Laboratory Notebook archiving requires a unique approach and requires specialized book scanners that are specifically designed to handle the curvature of text near the lab notebook’s spine, ensuring the integrity of data capture while maximizing the scanned image quality.
Topics: #Scanning, #Digitization, Organization, Scan, Documents, Compliance, Lab, Lab Notebook, Paperless, Digitize, Automate, Efficiency, Remote Access
Today’s opportunity for improving your HR business processes has never been easier or more affordable. But understanding what is “best practice” and what is just a fad is getting harder and harder to know in the ever changing landscape of HR technology. When thinking about your processes, like your hiring workflow or your review process, there are now endless automation opportunities that might exist, but remember to start with the basics.
Topics: #Scanning, #Digitization, Organization, Scan, Documents, Security, Paperless, Digitize, Automate, Efficiency, Human Resources
With the onset of increased amounts of invoices due to your business growth, it is more challenging than ever for accounts payable departments to get their invoices reviewed, approved and paid on time. Not only is this a large concern for growing businesses, but so is the need to budget for more accounts payable employees to get through the workload if your process is not automated.
Topics: #Scanning, #Digitization, Organization, Scan, Security, Paperless, Digitize, Automate, Efficiency, Work From Home, Remote Working, AP, Accounts Payable, Accounts Payable Automation
A Digital Mailroom is a simple way to free up valuable office space and resources. Digital Mailroom services provide you with a streamlined, auditable mail fulfillment process while eliminating your paper mail management, headaches and overhead. It can also help you to improve productivity and keep your business running from anywhere.
Topics: #Scanning, #Digitization, Organization, Scan, Documents, Security, Paperless, Digitize, Automate, Efficiency