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There are about as many ways to calculate ROI on a document management system as there are ways to use the software in various aspects of daily business. But for Shannon Puaokalani at Pacific Northwest Collections, the cost-justification turned out to be a simple equation. "Before using Document Locator, each person in the department spent approximately two hours a...
Moving a company headquarters office from one location can trigger discussions on all manner of topics, from how close one department is located to another, to how much of that expensive real estate is allocated to document storage. Fortunately for us, the latter discussion over document storage space will not be an issue when we make our big move in...
I noticed today that ARMA - the national association of Records Managers and independent authority on all things records management related, was getting some attention on their Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles (GARP). I thought that readers here might be interested as well. For anyone developing policy, putting together a new operational plan, or just...
It's common among companies in many different types of industries to have their own particular processes that are unique to their line of business. For instance, construction and engineering companies contend with "change orders". In an upcoming 20-minute webinar, solution engineer Dave Howell will be presenting a way to control and document the process in an online change order demo....
A quick note to welcome Spectrum IT Services into our referral network of Solution Advisors. Spectrum IT Services is a division of long-time Document Locator customer Spectrum CPA Group.With Spectrum's IT division now offering outsourced IT services direct to customers, and having knowledge and expertise of the document management system from internal installations, joining the Solution Advisor network and recommending Document...
Studies have shown that the average office worker uses as much as 10,000 sheets of paper a year. Where does all that paper go? It's thrown away, filed away, shuffled among co-workers, and shipped around in slow, costly, delivery processes. So, going paperless has some real advantages, and here is just a few examples... First, it eliminates hard dollar costs. Not just...
"Going paperless" isn't just good for the planet, there are practical business benefits as well. Sure, saving trees is a great added bonus. But, on April 22, we're going to be discussing some business reasons for a paperless office in a webinar: Document Scanning: Best practices for a Paperless Approach using Document Management. All who are interested are...
From time to time, members of our team here at ColumbiaSoft are called on by various magazines and other media publications to contribute articles extending their knowledge of document management. For those in the construction industry in particular, you may be interested in the latest article by ColumbiaSoft product manager Scott Zieg who writes in Modern Contractor Solutions about...
Proposal processes are complex. Whether they are done on an ad-hoc basis by a single person at a smaller company, or they are rigidly-managed by a proposal team at a large firm, the details of putting together a proposal project for RFPs, RFIs, or other submittals are a complicated mix of content, planning, and good old fashioned project management. To...
Whether it’s employee requests for benefits information; managers looking for past employee reviews; or the accounting department trying to find W-4 tax forms... it all comes through to HR. Human Resources professionals wear many hats, and one among them is that of controller of all records workforce-related. Bet when looking at the entire picture of document...
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