I’m not the first person to say it won’t be the last but there’s too much jargon and too many buzzwords thrown around by vendors today. Regardless of the technology that you’re looking at, these are just complicated acronyms used to describe the different ways you can go about doing simple tasks. In the document …
Over the past two or three years, I’ve noticed a significant increase in the number of human resource departments looking for document management solutions to help them reduce the amount of paper and improve their overall business process related to access and maintenance of employee files. To me, It makes perfect sense that human resource …
One of the most common reasons that people start scanning documents is because they think it can help save space. While it is true that document scanning will help reduce the physical footprint required to store files, most of the time reclaiming space should not be a primary driver for starting a document imaging project. If …
Nearly every time a transaction occurs, or an inventory is docked, or money changes hands, a paper record of that transaction is produced. Orders, receipts, schedules, loans, contracts, policies, inventory statements, memoranda and notifications all fall under the broad reach of the term “record”. In essence, a record is the footprint of successful business, and …
Permanent Removal Charges are a little known facet of a Records Management Contract, and worse yet, they’re often hidden by an incumbent document storage vendor until you want to move your boxes out of storage. When it comes time to relocate or shred documents that have been entrusted to a document storage company, typically there is a nasty …
Everyone is looking for a better way to do business, save money and be ‘green’ to help save the planet. Not many have started looking at their existing storage room of archives as a way to meet all of the above business goals. I’m talking about companies that must maintain the physical copy of a …
