Your business has routine tasks that must be completed daily, weekly monthly and quarterly. In order to ensure that these tasks are completed with maximum efficiency and reliability, you must put business processes in place. In order to effectively replicate and improve upon a business process, you have to document it. Process documentation, however, can be a rigorous, time consuming process that can seem like it just isn’t worth your time.

Information technology resources are powerful, flexible and intuitive. This means that they will help your business a great deal, especially once you start integrating your documents into your IT infrastructure.

Your customers fuel your business. Because of this, a huge part of your business strategy should be focused on how you can obtain, retain and grow relationships with customers. This is your customer service strategy. One of the best ways to rapidly enhance your customer service strategy is with automation. Let’s take a look at how.

As your business starts to take advantage of digital technology, you must start looking at new ways to improve how you use your digital documents. To this end, one of the best steps that you can take is to invest in a secure remote access system. Here are the reasons why:

As you seek out ways to improve your document management capabilities, you will inevitably come across version control systems. Such a system may be exactly what your business needs. Here are the reasons that you might want to consider a version control system for documents:

The more productive your company is, the more opportunities you will have to grow. One of the best ways to improve your company’s productivity is to invest in more powerful tools to enhance your ability to produce. To this end, a knowledge management system is one of the best tools for you to invest in right now. Let’s take a look at how this resource will improve your company’s productivity.

Are you considering improving your business' efficiency and cost-effectiveness by doing your document scanning in-house? If this is the case, then you need to make sure that the scanner you choose works well for your office's needs. To this end, you will need a high capacity scanner. This, however, doesn't narrow your options enough. There are countless high capacity scanners out there, so finding the right one can be difficult. To help you make the right decision for your company, we have listed the best high capacity scanners to put on your shortlist right now.

Microfilm is a wonderfully reliable medium. Unlike many other types of physical documents, it doesn’t rapidly deteriorate, and it takes up less space. Despite its benefits, however, microfilm is still a physical document. It takes up expensive space, is susceptible to sudden destruction and isn’t easy to manage. Digital documents on the other hand, are highly secure, adaptable, mobile and take up no additional space per document. That’s why you are starting a microfilm conversion process.

The more effective your document workflow processes are, the better your business will run. When you have a better document workflow, your company can react and adapt faster, operate more efficiently, and save more money. Because of this, you should be constantly seeking out new ways to improve your workflows. Here is how you can drastically improve your company's document workflows in a short time.

As your company's collection of data grows, you will need to find more effective ways to retain data that you don't regularly access, but need to retain. This is where data archiving comes in. However, data archiving isn't as simple as tossing your documents into a folder – digital or physical – that you won't access very often. Improper data archiving will make your documents harder to manage, cost you money and even cause accidental destruction. The only way to avoid this is to know what data archiving pitfalls there are, and how to avoid them. To this end, make sure to avoid the following errors associated with data archiving.