Are your offices feeling cramped? As your organization grows and you continue to add staff, workstations, and storage, it’s only natural that your once spacious branch or headquarters will quickly begin to feel less roomy than it did when you first moved in. Before you consider relocating to a larger space, ask yourself this: have…
Everyone wants to capture more information, faster, while spending less time to process it manually. That’s a tall order, but document capture technology helps to achieve this quest for digital transformation and efficiency, some of which is much older than you realize. Case in point: optical character recognition (OCR). OCR has been used widely on…
Looking to make some changes within your organization to boost your efficiency but unsure where to start? While most organizations have plenty of areas that could use a little streamlining, we often recommend narrowing things down by evaluating your reliance on paper. Business processes that rely on paper documents are slow and prone to bottlenecks,…
Some of a business’ most valuable assets are ideas. From research data in lab notebooks to proprietary designs and trade secrets, intellectual property (IP) comes in many forms, making it a challenge to know how to protect it. What’s more, protecting intellectual property is a multi-layered process, as Forbes Technology Council points out. The best…
Corporate mailroom management – with all its envelope opening, paper sorting, and mail distribution – can be taxing but is usually manageable. For the most part, even temporary upticks in mail volume can be deftly handled with a bit of extra effort on the part of your mailroom staff, and while that might cause some…
Even in the busiest times, most businesses can stay on top of mailroom management with a little extra effort or some overtime on the part of mailroom staff. Permanent increases in mail volume, however – due to mergers, acquisitions, or business growth – aren’t as easily remedied and could lead to a mailroom meltdown if…
These days, when it seems like we read about some new hack or data breach every few months (each one bigger than the last), encryption is becoming more important than ever. What is Document Encryption? Encryption is the process of encoding a document or data so that only individuals with access to a secret key,…
Workflow automation streamlines your manual business processes to reduce inefficiency, provide transparency, and lower costs to generate greater ROI. But while automation is a reliable, short-term implementation that can lead to long-term results, it’s not a magic pill to fix what ails your business. That’s why we always recommend starting small as you introduce automation…
Handling Different Asset Types A company can have many different types of assets: the traditional type, equipment, inventory and buildings, as well as document assets, like signed contracts, manufacturing spec sheets, engineering drawings, lab notebooks, and other intellectual property. Document assets are just as important as equipment and buildings – losing or damaging them could…
It’s getting more difficult for non-profit organizations to minimize their operating expenses when asking rents on older loft buildings in places like South Midtown NYC – historically shunned by traditional businesses and coveted by non-profits – have surged over the decade. The gap between Class A and Class B properties has narrowed considerably as well….