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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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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

4 Information Capture Challenges to Prepare for the Era of AI and Move to the Next Level

In a recent AIIM survey, we investigated the question of what information capture “leadership” looks like in user organizations. What does information capture look like in leading organizations that want to position this competency not only as a source of immediate competitive advantage, but also as a long-term competency critical to the coming era of machine learning?

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Capture and Imaging  |  Paperless Office

11 Things You Need to Know about Uncontrolled Information

The reality for many organizations is that uncontrolled information – and especially paper -- still has a stranglehold on day-to-day activities. Many tasks requiring review and approval still require physical interactions with paper-based information. There is clearly room and opportunity for business organizations to maximize their information use and value as well as lower operating costs by removing paper from their business processes.

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Capture and Imaging  |  Process Improvement

Scan to Email Is Not the Right Way to Digitize Your Business

An increasing number of organizations are digitizing their business processes to improve productivity and reduce costs and the risk of human error. Often organizations start by scanning to email where a person scans a document that is sent into their personal email inbox and is then manually delivered to the final destination. This is extremely bad for businesses, and replacing scan to email should be a key part of any organization’s digitization strategy.

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Capture and Imaging

5 Ways to Use Intelligent Capture to Get All Those Chaotic Incoming Documents under Control

In this era of big data, what do we do with all of the exploding data coming into your organization? First of all, you need to digitize it. you need to get it in a way that it's usable, accessible, available. So, we have to digitize it. Now we've shifted our thinking away from scanning and toward intelligent capture. We need to capture more information and intelligently route it to accelerate the availability of that information to the knowledge workers who need it.

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