One of technology’s greatest benefits is that it enables collaboration across different computers, offices, countries, or continents. However, sometimes that accessibility can be a bad thing: When you don’t want others to make changes to your documents, you might want …
While tortoises have a reputation for longevity, the bowhead whale can live nearly twice as long: 200 years or more. Not to be outdone, the ocean quahog, a type of clam, is said to live over 500 years. On the …
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Enterprise content management (ECM) is a broad category for all the activities of managing the lifecycle of the “content” that flows through your organization. This content comes in many different shapes and sizes: consumer data, contracts, logos, emails, ads, and …
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Document management is a challenge for every organization, but despite the headache, it’s an important part of conducting business. A document management system is a strategy for collecting, storing, organizing, and retrieving documents vital to accounting firms, car washes, and …
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JPG, PDF, XLS, GIF, DOC, PPT, EXE, WAV, PNG … The canon of file formats grows larger every day. Staying familiar with the most popular file formats and what makes them useful can be intimidating, but mastering the ins and …
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Secure, customizable, and universally compatible—PDFs are the industry standard file format. PDFs can be a few sentences of plain text or hundreds of pages of photos, animated gifs, and even videos, so compressing PDFs isn’t a luxury. It’s an essential …
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“Paper thin” is the de facto way to describe something so thin it’s practically non-existent. How thin is paper, though? If an average ream of paper is about 2 inches thick, then each of its 500 sheets is only 0.004 …
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A process flow document can help eliminate confusion, create consistency, and provide a roadmap for unknown territory. To create these essential tools, you first should know when to use a process flow document, what components they contain, and how you …
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Shocking but unsurprising: the average office worker spends upwards of a quarter of their time simply looking for documents. And that’s just documents that are correctly filed—each misfiled document costs companies an average of $120 in labor just to find …
Document management may not be the most glamorous part of business, but it is an essential and fundamental practice for any enterprise. Whether you have two employees or two thousand, your business uses documents. While some businesses elect to manage …
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