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Capture and Imaging

Take the First Step to Digital Transformation

With a little more than three months left of 2018, many businesses are focusing on what goals they want to achieve in the New Year. While some have talked of digital transformation, there is still an alarming number of workplaces that have yet to embrace digitizing paper documents and processing digital documents fully.

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Capture and Imaging  |  Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

Digital Leaders Tackle Information Chaos at Its Origins

In a recent AIIM Industry Watch survey - State of Intelligent Information Management: Getting Ahead of the Digital Transformation Curve - I asked this question: “Agree or Disagree: Digitizing and standardizing business inputs is one of the key bottlenecks for Digital Transformation.” The results are clear: Information chaos needs to be tackled at its origins.

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14 Steps to a Successful ECM Implementation

Making an ECM implementation successful requires planning and attention to detail. The best way to create the right solution is to identify organizational goals and priorities. Learn how to manage a successful implementation in our free guide.

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Capture and Imaging  |  Process Improvement

Going down the Rabbit Hole

When I was a young child, in an era when school papers had to be researched in libraries with card catalogs and shelves upon shelves of books, my father had the bright idea to purchase a complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica. Now, we lived on a tight budget, and my mother wasn’t too thrilled with this splurge when a perfectly good library was so close to home. Dad wouldn’t hear of it! “Our girls need the best education we can offer,” so of course, mom relented.

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Capture and Imaging  |  Information Security

3 Challenges Created by an Ad Hoc Approach to Information Capture

We need to update the way we handle data and documents. Scanning and information capture lead a curious double life. On one hand, it seems like we’ve been doing scanning and capture forever, at least within larger companies. Scanning and capture are stable, mature technologies with a well-documented ROI. On the other hand, they are still somewhat new when it comes to adoption by many smaller and mid sized organizations.

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Automation  |  Capture and Imaging

Document Capture Automation Tools Improve the Way You Work with Data

Your business deals with documents on a constant basis. Without technology in place, organizing the different types of files and contact points for written communication can be intense. You might have paper contracts, email and attachments, faxes, and web forms all integral to the same client or customer file. This is where capture automation becomes effective in streamlining your productivity and organizational ability.

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Business Process Management (BPM)  |  Capture and Imaging  |  Paperless Office

How to Overcome the Key Obstacles to Your Capture and Workflow Project

In a recent AIIM survey, we asked organizations a simple question: “In the following processes, is the volume of paper increasing or decreasing?” The answers might surprise you.

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