Your Document Management Knowledge Center

• Communicate with your team more often

You no longer see them in the break room or pop by their desk so you are missing those informal conversations where you learn more about each other and you also solve challenges that you are stuck on. It becomes easy to get disconnected.  Take the time to chat with each other, you would be doing it at the office, so keep doing it now. Most teamwork tools allow you to chat, call, and even video call.  Use the tools.

A few tips for helping your team work remotely.

The Forgotten Side of Process Automation

While the comfort of well-known antiquated paper processes can seem alluring, maintaining the status quo can seriously hold a company back from reaching its full potential.

Workflow management is central to business operations, which in turn is central to cost-effectively running your business and delivering your product or services to your clients.

How do you determine which workflow management solutions are best at reducing back-office paperwork volume? Which are the most adaptable to the market's evolving needs?

A team of CEOs, CIOs, and analysts at the CIO Review came together to distinguish the best of the best in workflow management solutions, and they recently announced that DocuVantage is among the 20 most promising providers.

Check out the full article to find out why they think DocuVantage is revolutionizing the way to move and manage documents.

Last week, we discussed the history of and current trends in Document Management and Enterprise Content Management (ECM). A great deal of your ability to manage and leverage information assets more effectively hinges on integrating Mobile, Analytics, Cloud, and Collaborative (MACC) technologies. Subsequently, however, you may need to become a digital enterprise.

When the folks over at CMSWire attended Amplexor’s Future of Document Management event, they ended up gathering some of the industry’s key people together in the same room. Their perspectives are valuable to anyone looking to keep up with today’s IT advancements, namely in workflow:

We live in an era of constant disruption, especially in the world of technology. In other words, as soon as something new comes along, something newer immediately comes along to take its place. When the standard is set, something else resets it soon after.

When we think we’ve achieved what we want, something else comes along to show us things we didn’t even know we needed. This cycle has always been at work, but never before has progress moved at such a fast pace. It’s come to the point where we often don’t know where to draw the line between progressive and superfluous.

Data management, document management, and business process automation have undergone a particularly exponential upward swing. With advancements moving at the pace they do now, we can more accurately predict the trajectory of electronic content management (ECM).

If you’re wondering why we’re using that term instead of “document management”, per usual, it’s because is actually what DMS has become. And before DMS, the handling of data and information was something else. Here’s a glimpse into the past, present, and future of DMS/ECM, and what your organization should be prepared for as a result.

You’ve probably been through this at least once: a company spends a lot of energy telling you about all the benefits its services offer, and you convert to a customer.

Then you come across a technical error, or you have a question, or you need access to some important info.

But when you contact them, they make you wait, they run through a script, they make you wait some more, they refer you to a bunch of different places and they come back with just enough of an answer to calm you down until the problem inevitably rears its head again.

As the old adage goes, “There are two rules for success in life—Rule 1: Don't tell people everything you know. Rule 2: …” However, I know that document management isn’t as simple as some people would assume it is, and I’d be doing you a disservice if I didn’t pass along the knowledge to get a consistent system up and running. And consistency is key to an effective document management system. Consider this a miniature document management consultation.