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Stop Your Courier Pony Express With E-Filing

E-filing becomes mandatory for civil matters in Texas courts on July 1, 2016. Are you ready?

During its 19 month life, the Pony Express was the fastest way to move information from coast to coast. Leaving from St. Joseph, MO or from Sacramento, CA; the relays of riders could make the 2,000 mile trip in 9 to 12 days.

Couriers are important. Wells Fargo began as a courier service, transporting packages and gold (remember all those stagecoach robberies in those old Westerns?).

Topics: Document Management

Find and Use Office Documents: The Basics

Find your documents when you need them through smart use of document management technology.

How often have you been frustrated by not being able to find the correct version of an important document? Or spent 30 minutes flipping through manila folders in a file cabinet looking for a misfiled customer invoice? 

Using documents to get your work done doesn’t have to be that frustrating.

Business success today is inextricably linked to the ability to find the right information (or even have that information proactively delivered to you) when you need it. 

Topics: Document Management

Documents at Your Fingertips

Documents are stored in a central location – allowing anyone to find, read, and update (all with proper permissions and authorization) documents when needed. 

If you have been in the following position, consider document management.

A potential client has moved their timeline up a week and you need to find a contract proposal – immediately. But, Todd's been working on it and he hasn't shared it yet – assuming he’s even created a draft – and you don't have a copy.

Topics: Document Management

The Technology Tipping Point

The Technology Tipping Point ... Avoid getting caught in the undertow of managing your documents, processes and technology.

The technology tipping point. We refer to it as that particular moment when you come to the realization that you’re expending more time and energy managing your documents, processes and technology, rather than your business. It’s an opportunity for transformation. A wake-up call to avoid the looming undertow ahead. A chance to step back and pinpoint even the minutest day-to-day operations that are preventing your core business from thriving—so you can regain balance and begin to tip the momentum back to focusing on your forte.

Topics: Document Management Partnering Document Workflow Managed Services

Going Green With Digital Document Management

With Digital Document Management, you'll appreciate a more attractive bottom line, and Mother Nature will appreciate your eco-friendliness.

When it comes to companies trying to become more environmentally friendly in their day-to-day practices, technology usually isn’t an option that comes to mind as a means to go green. On the contrary, technological advancements, such as electronic document management software, make it easy to be eco-friendly by offering simple solutions to older, more traditional methods.

Through electronic document management, you can convert paper documents into digital content, allowing your business to go paperless -- or at least use less paper. Since the documents are stored and filed intuitively, access is quick and easy.

Topics: Document Management DatamaxGreen

The Document Management Decision—The Stats That Say Just Do It

The average office spends $25,000 to fill a four-drawer file cabinet and $2,000 annually to maintain it.¹

It's no wonder that organizations are more active than ever in pursuing solutions to streamline traditional methods of managing documents. Without the assistance of document management software, organizing documents, emails, scans, electronic faxes, graphics, Internet content, etc., is frequently a manual process that is very time intensive. Essentially, a dated management style that just doesn't work in today's digital, fast-paced office environment. Add in the burden of “Big Data”and the challenge of information management is bigger than ever.

Topics: Document Management Document Workflow Legal Tips and Tools

Enterprising Content Management

Dare to bring the informational assets of your enterprise full circle.

Take a look at any enterprise, and you'll likely find an overabundance of unmanaged paper documents, emails, faxes, computer files, web content and images scattered amongst departments. As the volume and complexity of this data increases over time, efforts to find critical business information become cumbersome, time-consuming and costly. Sometimes, accessing data is an unsuccessful feat altogether. Enterprising companies are realizing that in order for business to thrive, critical content and disparate process technologies must come together—unifying

Topics: Document Management Content Management

Paper Trail Blazers

Blaze the way to efficient and cost-effective document workflow.

Whether your company has a small workgroup or large, document-intensive enterprise environment, it has its own unique paper trail. Your trail might be an easy path to traverse, or more difficult with mountains and valleys. Regardless of your trail’s topography, if it hasn’t been mapped and aligned with your business goals, how do you know if it’s the best route for your company? If you’ve been blindly trekking your trail, now may be a perfect time to find a guide that can help you actualize and improve your course.

Topics: Document Management Office Equipment Document Workflow

Propel Your Processes and Proceeds

Ignite your business engine and watch your processes accelerate with Document and Business Process Management.

You have key processes that run your business engine, and most of them revolve around your people and document workflow. It should come as no surprise, then, that in order for your business to grow and get to where it wants to go, those processes need to function like a well-oiled machine. For many companies, however, business processes haven't been thoroughly analyzed and documented—let alone identified—and their engines are merely putting along.

Topics: Document Management Document Workflow Content Management

Unleash the Power of the Cloud

Electrify your flow of information with a Cloud-based Content Management Solution.

If you're like many companies utilizing content management technology, you know first-hand how dramatically it transforms your business. Long gone are the labor-intensive days of excessive document handling, file cabinets and hindered information access and sharing. Now, you're empowered to capture, distribute and manage all your documents more effectively—in a secure and scalable digital system—revitalizing your workflow and making your entire organization more intelligent, agile and productive.

Topics: Document Management Content Management IT Consulting