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Why Protecting Research Data Should Be a Top Priority

Why Protecting Research Data Should Be a Top Priority

Handwritten Notebooks Can Hold Priceless Raw Data Over the past several decades, research in the pharmaceutical, biotech, and academic fields has been largely recorded by hand. Handwritten note taking is a legacy practice in scientific research, and continues in spite of all of the advances in data management and digital recording devices over the years….

Best Practices for Implementing an AP Automation System

Best Practices for Implementing an AP Automation System

Did you know that to experience the benefits of accounts payable (AP) automation, you don’t need to dive into a fully-featured solution all at once? Studies show that even automating small pieces of the AP process at a time could still have a significant positive impact on the efficiency of your operations. Ideally, your approach…

From Digital Mailroom to AP Automation

From Digital Mailroom to AP Automation

Congratulations! You’ve made the smart decision to eliminate invoices and streamline the receipt of your mail and email with a digital mailroom. As soon as it’s all in place, you’ll quickly start to enjoy increased efficiency and the ability to reallocate space and staff hours that were previously being wasted on managing incoming paper and…

Going Paperless? The Right Partner is Key to Your Success

Going Paperless? The Right Partner is Key to Your Success

You recently decided to go digital and end your company’s reliance on paper. You’ve already done some homework – you know the benefits, have performed some initial due diligence, and have drafted a preliminary blueprint of your digital journey. The decision is made, so let’s get started! Easy, right? Truth is, deciding to go paperless…

What are the Benefits of AP Automation?

What are the Benefits of AP Automation?

If you’re looking for a solution to alleviate financial issues caused by manual processing, AP automation is the way to go. Automating your accounts payable process can help you increase efficiency, improve accountability, and simplify compliance, all while saving your company time and money—and these are just a few of the benefits. As you eliminate…

Lab Notebook Scanning: Five Things You Should Know

Lab Notebook Scanning: Five Things You Should Know

How to Choose the Right Lab Notebook Scanning Solution Managing notes and raw data throughout an R&D program is a daunting but critical responsibility. R&D data can take many forms: spreadsheets, memos, experimental write-ups, drawings, specialty documents like ECGs, and most commonly, handwritten lab notebooks. Whatever the form, it’s your intellectual property (IP) and it’s…

Maximize Your Restaurant’s Space & Efficiency with Document Scanning

Maximize Your Restaurant’s Space & Efficiency with Document Scanning

You’ve been here before—sitting in your restaurant’s back office, looking at a pile of paid invoices. You’ll need to keep those receipts for at least seven years in case you get audited, and you may need some of them to settle payment disputes with your vendors down the line. But for right now, they’re dead…

The Benefits of AP Automation Software for Your Management Team

The Benefits of AP Automation Software for Your Management Team

As a manager, you know better than anyone that time is money, efficiency is the name of the game, and all those other clichés about digitizing being the wave of the future. So why is your team still handling accounts payable with the same old paper-heavy processes? You’ve probably heard of AP automation software, but…

Digital Transformation in Banking Whitepaper: Keeping Up with the FinTech Disrupters

Digital Transformation in Banking Whitepaper: Keeping Up with the FinTech Disrupters

The world’s biggest banks are pushing back against the industry-disrupting competition from online financial startups with billions of dollars of investments in digital technology, Bloomberg reports. Earlier this year, Spain’s Banco Santander SA announced plans to spend $22 billion over the next four years to stay competitive. In the U.S. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co….

Why RPA Projects Fail

Why RPA Projects Fail

There is a lot of hype surrounding the results of RPA (robotic process automation), which is a way to automate manual, repetitive processes in your business. When the application is implemented properly, for the right processes, businesses can gain enormous efficiencies. The best-case scenario for RPA gets even non-technical people excited about an application that…