When your business is more productive, you get better results. The best way to enhance productivity is to figure out what is slowing your company down. If your company is still relying on paper, then there are several paper-based business processes that are holding your company back right now. We have listed six such processes below, along with how you can overcome these challenges.

In order to become quick, efficient and flexible enough to keep up with the rest of the world, governments have had to adapt. This has meant investing in digital assets that allow them to take advantage of digital technology. One of the most important steps taken in this regard is a greater reliance on digital information management. This single step allows a government organization to easily create, access, organize and share large volumes of data. Storing data digitally also allows government organizations to protect data from destruction and physical theft, since it is no longer venerable to physical attacks. With these benefits, however, come new government information security challenges that must be overcome.

There are countless data thieves who want to steal your company's data so that they can commit fraud or take your assets. You will always be a target, so you must be proactive about protecting your data. To prevent data theft at your business, you need to invest in information security resources and establish an effective information security policy.

As your company creates documents, they need to go somewhere. If there isn't a place for you to store your documents, then papers will end up disorganized, wasting your employees’ valuable time. This is why you need a document storage solution to handle your paperwork. There are multiple document storage solutions to consider; before you choose which one is right for your organization, you should compare the benefits of each.

Protecting the privacy and security of health information requires more than a lock and a key. In order to keep your patients' records secured, you must take advantage of the benefits of digital record keeping.

Libraries provide people with free access to an otherwise obscure wealth of information. Because of this, they have been important parts of society for generations. Despite the growing use of modern technological resources to obtain information, libraries continue to be instrumental tools for retaining, protecting and sharing documents. With digital technology influencing our lives more every day, however, it is clear that libraries have to adapt. But what does this mean? Let's take a look at what modern libraries are doing right now for the future, and how your library can adapt as well.

Going paperless will save your organization a great deal of time, money and space. Creating a paperless office, however, isn't as simple as copying your paperwork to a digital format. In addition to having a document management system to handle it all, you need to understand what types of digital documents you should be using. Although every company's needs will differ, you should keep the following factors in mind when determining what types of digital documents your office needs:

When thinking about how to reduce paper use, investing in a digital document management system is just the beginning. You need to take steps to ensure the reduction of your paper use and allow for you to fully realize your document management system's capabilities. Your office has been relying on paper documents for years, so you can't simply do away with all of your paper at once. Here is how to reduce paper use without disrupting your business:

No matter how big your company is or what industry you operate in, information security is a concern. Your company's data is one of your most valuable assets; before you can protect your company against a threat, you need to understand what it is. To that end, consider how the following information security issues may be plaguing your business:

Emails have already become a primary element of business operations in nearly every industry. Keeping up with all of these correspondences has become a document management issue that must be handled before it gets too cumbersome to organize. You may be considering implementing an email retention policy to store necessary emails while deleting unnecessary ones to save storage space improve access to the emails you really need. In this blog, we’ll take a look at what an email retention policy entails.