For fans of quick videos, our design team recently updated the Document Locator introduction movie. It’s just a document management snack. You can check it out on our document management YouTube channel and our Facebook as well.

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Part 5 – A Viable Solution
Realizing the benefits of effectively organizing and indexing documents is only the tip of the iceberg when you consider the possibilities provided by a fully-featured document management system.  I have witnessed how companies have successfully refocused their employees from performing unproductive roles like constantly searching lost documents into roles that [...]

Part 4 – Productivity with Document Management
Document management systems are designed to provide organizations with the tools necessary to capture and leverage their electronic content.  Modern document management systems will at minimum incorporate traditional indexing and searching functionality.  More advanced document management systems include integration with Microsoft Windows 7, workflow routing, digital signatures, records retention [...]

Part 3 – Managing the Output
The increase in performance in Windows 7 matched with new computer hardware provides unprecedented power to the end user.  At no point in history have ordinary users been empowered with the tools to produce the quantity and quality data that Windows 7 and Microsoft Office provides.  It’s commonplace for modern [...]

Electronic document management systems are not unlike other enterprise software applications in that they can sometimes face hurdles when first gaining acceptance. Best to tackle this challenge quick.
One of the practical recommendations we advise customers when rolling out document management is to communicate the “what’s in it for me” message.
First, listen and ask people what they would [...]

Part 2 – Examining the Hype
Windows Vista’s lack-luster commercial adoption coupled with a relentless onslaught of clever marketing by arch rival Apple compelled Microsoft to get Windows 7 right.
The invention of Microsoft Windows came about to provide users access to applications and configuration options that were once only available from the command prompt. With the [...]

The release of the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system will positively transform how employees interact with and utilize technology in their organization.  To learn more about Windows 7 and its impact on business, I invite you to read through our multi-part blog outlining the future of business computing.   
Part 1
Corporate Adoption
Technology workers across America are certainly [...]

 
Every year ColumbiaSoft, like so many corporations, is eager to extend a cheerful holiday “best wishes” to customers and friends. It’s a way of showing our gratitude and appreciation, and just staying in touch.
But being a developer of electronic document management software, it just doesn’t fit our style to send paper cards the old fashioned [...]

There are about as many ways to calculate ROI on a document management system as there are ways to use the software in various aspects of daily business. But for Shannon Puaokalani at Pacific Northwest Collections, the cost-justification turned out to be a simple equation.
“Before using Document Locator, each person in the department spent approximately [...]

One of the unexpected “surprises” we hear from people all the time when they go paperless and scan the contents of their filing cabinets into a document management system is that they can suddenly find all sorts of files they thought were lost.
Filing cabinets are notoriously bad when it comes to document storage. They are [...]