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 the...
The idea of the paperless office was first theorized in a 1975 Business Week article that discussed how the personal computer revolution would put an end to paper records and book keeping. Now, some thirty-four years later, while the type of information contained in paper form has changed, more than ever businesses are inundated with paper records. The Environmental Protection Agency...
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 management in HR, there is...
In these uncertain economic times, most companies are faced with the challenge of how to maximize returns on tighter margins. It’s a do-more-with-less strategy that requires business operations be optimized now to meet current economic realities. One area to consider for improving the bottom line is to look at how information is managed in the organization. This includes all the content,...
In an age where as many as half of us spend two hours or more per day just looking for the information we need to do our jobs... anything that speeds our interaction with knowledge adds up to big gains in efficiency. Electronic document storage is one way to narrow the gap, in a big way. This is because documents...
Reducing paper usage is one way all of us can be more green. And this is true with builders and property owners too... who are especially interested in greener approaches in the construction of new buildings, factories, and infrastructure. With that in mind, ColumbiaSoft announced today that it has listed its Document Locator software which is used by architecture, engineering...
The last two decades of mainstream personal computers have been based on a 32-bit architecture. That design allowed the computer to access 2 to the 32nd power of memory addresses (4 GB of RAM). When the design was incorporated in the first x86 processors in the 1980s, the average PC ran on only 4 megabytes of RAM (4 MB) meaning...
A standardized system for version control is a great way to improve collaboration, and increase accountability. Here's a new short video demo on the topic. Learn more: What is Version Control For more videos on version control and document management check out the Document Locator YouTube channel.
It can't be said any more succinctly than it was summed up by a Document Locator user at State Mutual Life & Health: "Hard drives are cheaper than warehouses." The storage of paper is a burdensome cost that, when you consider it, really brings no return or adds any value to a company. Office space consumed by filing cabinets or archive...
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