As we move faster toward an increasingly digital world, the importance of digitizing data makes its way to the top of corporate productivity lists. The trend toward going digital accelerated as companies realized its many benefits in the last decade. The pandemic fast tracked digital adoption and businesses, not already fully-digital, scrambled to keep pace. 

Organizations are lining up paperless processes heading into 2021. Document scanning is part one on the road to managing information. But what happens after scanning and what’s the best way to go about storing scanned documents? Good questions! First, let’s talk about why businesses are going paperless, what the easy part of that process is, and what elements are more difficult to accomplish during digital transformation. 

You’ve decided to become a paperless office—great move!—and the first thing you need to decide is how to find the right document scanning company to digitize your old paper records. Paper records are critical assets. They’re your documented business history. When you choose a scanning company, your documents must be in safe and reliable hands throughout the chain of custody. 

Do you have large backlogs of paper documents that need conversion to a digital format? 

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic flipped the corporate world on its head. It fast-tracked digital transformation, propelled brick-and-mortar businesses into online models, and pushed traditional organizations to adopt new-age remote work options. 

In 2024, the global average cost of a data breach hit a record-breaking USD $4.88 million—a 10% increase over the previous year. For Canadian postsecondary institutions, this isn’t just a cybersecurity concern; it’s a wake-up call.

Your brand is a valuable asset. Brand value is what determines whether people believe in your company’s products and services and on turn become your customers. Improve your customers’ experience with your products or services, and you strengthen their belief in your company's capabilities. 

Documents and data reflect an organization's collective activity and progress. Business documents can be of various types and the status of these documents in the company’s storage systems changes constantly. There are project blueprints, plans, work-in-progress files, project completion reports and employee records. It is important to protect these documents from unauthorized access, save them from accidental deletion and preserve them from damage due to system failures and disasters.

Are you confident that your organization is fully compliant with records management legislation? If not, you could face hefty fines, legal action, and even data breaches that put your business at risk.