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According to a Xerox study, “80 percent of companies want to create paperless processes and workflows. Unfortunately, the Sierra Club coupled with Reduce.org, are quick to point out that the average office employee still uses an unprecedented 10,000 sheets of paper per year” (integrify.com). This clearly shows that businesses are interested in making the change to a paperless office, but fear and concerns are holding them back. Here are the top five most common fears about going paperless and why you shouldn’t be afraid to take the paperless leap.  

Topics: #Scanning, #Digitization, Scan, Documents, Security, Paperless, Digitize, Automate, Efficiency, Document Storage, Document Management

Maybe you were ahead of the game and had already invested in the digital technology and tools like a document management system that would help your business operate effortlessly from anywhere, or maybe your business is like the majority of organizations that had to learn quickly how to operate a remote workforce. A survey conducted by Upwork of “1,500 hiring managers found that due to COVID-19, 61.9% of the companies were planning more remote work now and in the following years to come.” The work from home setup may have only been a temporary setup, but for hundreds of companies, working from home is here to stay. 

Topics: #Digitization, Organization, Documents, Security, Digitize, Automate, Efficiency, Work From Home, Remote Access, Remote Working, Cloud Services, Document Management

Even though it has been proven that statistically, outsourcing your document scanning and management helps to cut costs and improve efficiency, many businesses are still skeptical of outsourcing their document scanning needs or are just holding onto their manual paper processes for dear life. This is a large waste of resources and money, because according to PricewaterhouseCoopers “the average company spends $20 in labor to file a document, $120 in labor to find a misfiled document, and $220 to reproduce a lost document. Meanwhile, companies lose one out of every 20 documents, and spend 25 hours recreating each lost document.” Don’t buy into the typical myths about outsourcing your document scanning, we are here to debunk them for you. 

Topics: #Scanning, #Digitization, Scan, Documents, Security, Compliance, Backfile, Store, Digitize, Automate, Efficiency, Storing Documents, Document Storage, Cloud Services, Document Management, document scanning company

The buying, selling, and managing of properties is a paper-intensive process. You are in charge of keeping many different documents organized and secure. You or your team members are always on the go and many of you probably work remotely. So what does that mean for the various forms and documents, like property tax statements and insurance claims, that are being mailed to your physical business location? You or someone on your team has to drive to your office or PO box, collect the mail, and then sort it. This leads to wasted time and possible issues of lost documents or documents not getting to the right people. 

Topics: #Scanning, #Digitization, Organization, Documents, Security, Store, Digitize, Automate, Efficiency, Document Storage, Remote Access, Remote Working, Outsourcing, Cloud Services, Document Management, document scanning company, digital mailroom, Real Estate

Electronic document management is a system or process used to manage, track and store electronic documents. But why is it important? According to the Associate for Intelligent Information Management (AIIM), “organizations expect the volume of information coming into their  organizations to grow from X to 4.5X over the next two years” (AIIM 2020). With the majority of that information coming in the form of paper documents, it’s important to have a system to help your business securely find, manage, and distribute those documents. 

Topics: #Digitization, Organization, Documents, Security, Compliance, Store, Automate, Storing Documents, Document Storage, Remote Working, FDA, Workflow, Cloud Services, Document Management

What is data extraction?

Topics: Documents, Security, Data Extraction, Data, Accounts Payable, Data Entry

There are many small but mighty steps you can take to become a paperless office, from scanning your backfile of documents to utilizing paperless cloud services for future processes. Not only do paper-heavy business processes waste time, they increase unnecessary costs and reduce productivity.  Did you know that every 4-drawer file cabinet holds between 10,000-12,000 documents, occupies around 9 square feet of floor space, and costs $1,500 yearly to maintain? On top of that, according to an AIIM market study, going paperless can improve staff productivity by nearly 30%. 

Topics: #Scanning, #Digitization, Organization, Documents, Paperless, Digitize, Automate, Efficiency, Storing Documents, Document Storage, Work From Home, Remote Access

An example of a workflow can be anything from automating an accounts payable invoice review process, to the hiring and onboarding of an employee, to the process of reviewing and signing a contract. When people refer to a workflow, they often mean an implemented software or service that manages that business process for them. A workflow helps to eliminate the manual and repetitive tasks within a process, usually a document-heavy one. 

Topics: #Digitization, Organization, Documents, Paperless, Digitize, Efficiency, AP, Accounts Payable, Accounts Payable Automation, Workflow

On average, a document costs $0.08 to $0.13 to scan, making the cost of scanning a standard bankers box of documents about $250. However, the cost of scanning documents all depends on how many documents you have, the type and size of the documents you want to scan, and even more so by the level of effort it takes to prepare your files for scanning. Here are some other factors that may alter the cost of document scanning.

Topics: #Scanning, #Digitization, Scan, Documents, Digitize, Outsourcing

Processing invoices from intake through payment is not a profit center for any company. Because of this, many companies don’t spend much time, if any, optimizing this process.  Instead many rely on the age-old “this is how it’s always been done” mindset with no real measurement around it beyond “did it get paid in time.”  The best operations, however, are always boiling down each process to a cost per number. For accounts payable, that number is cost per invoice. When considering the options for AP process automation, it's impossible to determine if there is value in changing your current process if you don’t know what it's costing you to process an invoice today.  

Topics: #Digitization, Documents, Efficiency, AP, Accounts Payable, Accounts Payable Automation, Outsourcing