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Keep your finger on the pulse of Intelligent Information Management with industry news, trends, and best practices.
Accounting and Finance | Automation | Paperless Office
Everybody is now talking about the need for a digital transformation. Companies need to improve digital engagement and corporate productivity to serve better click-to-brick customers and millennials entering the workplace, expecting online services, and almost instant gratification.
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Management had a chat and the robots start next week: Do you… Fortify the office to defend against the Robot Uprising–You won’t go down without a fight, right? Repress your inner cave-dweller, and find a way to leverage this new tool to more effectively manage digital documents throughout their lifecycle and delegate manual tasks? If you chose A: Best of luck! If you chose B: You are lightyears ahead of the people choosing A— feel good about that. You are also absolutely right:
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Accounting and Finance | Automation
If there was ever an industry in need of automation, it would be the mortgage lending industry. This industry is plagued by time-consuming and error-prone, paper and labor-intensive processes, front-end systems that do not communicate efficiently with back-end systems, and third-parties that are often not integrated into the process electronically. These problems are exacerbated by the huge volume of loans that are generated each year (nearly 5 million new consumer mortgages alone). Content management is a key enabling technology in solving these problems.
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Accounting and Finance | Automation
According to the American Productivity and Quality Center, an amazing 74% of organizations are currently engaged in a finance process improvement initiative. Why are they doing this? And how does this tie to broader Digital Transformation initiatives?
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Accounting and Finance | Automation
This is the second of three posts on the theme -- CFOs and Finance Directors: Neglected Players in the Drive for Digital Transformation. The first post was here. The core point of the three posts is the financial process automation creates a value stream in two directions. It is a proven source of cost reduction for companies looking for marginal but sustaining competitive advantage, something that Finance Directors can use to "manage up" in their organizations in making a case for resources to drive financial process automation, which is the focus of this post. Financial process automation also creates the foundation for sound analytics and business intelligence, a priority of great concern to the C-Suite, which will be the focus of the third post.
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Automation | Document Management | Human Resources
It is the best of times and the worst of times for HR professionals. Many organizations have reaped enormous benefits from more effectively managing the unstructured information association with core Human Resources processes. That’s the good news. The bad news is that MOST organizations have not yet moved down the path of HR automation, creating massive inefficiencies and risks in their hiring, retaining, employee servicing, and firing practices.
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