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Documents: Going Paperless, Staying Paperless
By: donald nason
The benefits of converting paper documents to electronic are indisputable – and so much greater than just the storing and access aspects. Automated workflow streamlines processing, enhancing process cycle times, and brings a whole host of BI (business intelligence) and management information benefits. And yet many organisations seem to be missing this trick – AIIM recently reported on the findings of a research paper highlighting that more than half the organisations surveyed said they retyped data from scanned images.(read
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Category : Hardware/Software
Accounts Payable – To Automate Or Not To Automate? Are You Getting Ahead Or Just Getting By?
By: donald nason
An interesting report from the Payments Council highlights that as individuals financial planning is the task we are most good at putting off. Apparently only 5 percent of us have the topic at the top of our ‘to do' list. According to the social psychologist, Dr Gary Wood, who co-authored the report, this is because “Where finances are concerned we tend to be more reactive, than proactive... In short, we focus on getting-by rather than getting ahead.” This ‘if it ain't broke, don't mend it' approach can also overflow into business – take automating Accounts Payable (AP) processing.(read
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Category : Hardware/Software
What Is Your Idea Of The Perfect Document Storage System?
By: donald nason
Do you have a list of ingredients which constitute your idea of the perfect document storage system? And before we go any further, I mean step away from specific types of system and ask how – in an ideal world – you would organise, store and access the documents that drive your business? People we speak to consistently put wanting to eliminate the paper – and automating will certain do this. But automating isn't only about the physical removal of paper. Automating also means streamlining processing – and in doing so ticking many of the other boxes on a perfect storage solution wish-list.(read
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Category : Hardware/Software
With 73 Percent Of Incoming Correspondence Still Paper-based, Could A Digital Mailroom Help Your Bus
By: donald nason
“A number of today's businesses are now paperless by default at account inception, and some may even demand payment for printed versions of bills and statements.” This was a comment in an article posted by Document Media last week revealing that the move to paperless transactions is definitely growing. Nevertheless, it remains a fact that much of the communication in the business world is still received in paper format – we recently commented that this figure is 73 percent of documents received, with 62 percent coming through the post and 11 percent arriving as faxes.(read
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Category : Hardware/Software
The Plausibility Of The Paperless Office
By: donald nason
With paper probably too ingrained in business culture to ever disappear completely, but the case for removing paper from many business procedures irrefutable, I concluded that the answer to the question of whether the paperless office is myth or reality is – a mixture of both. The fact is there are many departments where becoming paperless is not only possible, but overwhelmingly advantageous. However, it's not always easy persuading customers, suppliers, even partners to supply the documents you need in the format you want.(read
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Category : Hardware/Software
Document Management - And What That Means In Practical Terms
By: donald nason
Essentially document management means taking the paper out of document-centric processes, and sometimes that's enough to enable an organisation to reduce costs and achieve greater working efficiency. However, coupling document management with workflow to automate subsequent procedures can lead to even lower overheads and further streamlined efficiency.(read
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Category : General
Streamlining Back Office Functions – Nowhere More Necessary Than In Accounts Payable
Submitted as: Caroline Wigley
Businesses are increasingly looking to streamline back office functions. From CEOs to CFOs to department heads across the organisation comes the drive to unlock profit and improve productivity with efficient processing – reducing cost and enabling optimum focus of resources. Nowhere is this more necessary than in Accounts Payable (AP) where departments are manually processing high volumes of paper.(read
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Category : Hardware/Software
The Growing Problem Of Paperwork – 1956 And Now
Submitted as: Caroline Wigley
The Growing Problem of Paperwork is a title from a paper written in 1956 – and to avoid accusation of plagiarism, I confess this right at the start and that it belongs to a paper by American organizational theorist Ben S. Graham. The reason for appropriating the title? Because paperwork remains a growing problem for so many organisations today. And many of the issues Graham outlined as contributing to the ‘problem of paperwork' are the same now as they were then.(read
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Category : Computers
