The Anspach Effort, a medical device manufacturer of high-speed power tools used in neurosurgery, spinal, and ENT surgery, recently deployed document control software and it turns out they are already seeing the value: A marked improvement in their ability to manage quality, engineering and manufacturing records while at the same time reducing costs. The gains were clearly demonstrated during a recent FDA audit. 

Bruce Hays, Vice President of Operations at Anspach said, “I’ve been very pleased with our implementation and the support we’ve received from the team at ColumbiaSoft.  The ROI to date has far exceeded our expectations.”

A new case study highlighting the details the Anspach story can be found online at: http://www.documentlocator.com/resources/casestudies/anspach.htm

Truth and accuracy in document control is the message that ColumbiaSoft’s Quality Superhero will be bringing to world’s largest gathering of biotechnology leaders in Washington D.C. at the Bio International conference.

Although he’s more a concept than a real caped comic-book character, Quality Superhero does illustrate ways firms in the highly-regulated biotech and pharmaceutical industries can improve quality management with effective document control. ColumbiaSoft will present its expertise in booth 2259. If you are heading to the event, please stop by.

Building a list, and checking it twice… many business professionals these days are realizing that finding ways to manage information more cost-effectively is a top priority for the new year.

Nephila Capital is one-step ahead; they’ve already scratched this from their list of to-do’s and possible new year’s resolutions. Using document management software, they have improved on everything from publishing content for customers with greater speed and fewer resources, to paperless processing of invoices and accounting files, to better management of contracts and agreements, and more.

A new document management case study highlights their success, and you can read all about it here: http://www.documentlocator.com/resources/casestudies/nephila.htm

Today marks the release of ColumbiaSoft Document Locator v6.  Version 6.0 enhances many of Document Locator’s greatest document management features including seamless integration into Microsoft Windows Explorer and Microsoft Office while expanding into new areas including business process management and real-time reporting analytics for all of ColumbiaSoft’s customers.  We are excited to see how our customers can transform and automate their business operations leveraging the workflow and dashboard style reporting now included with Document Locator.

Document Locator’s business process management components are in use today at a number of enterprises as well as government entities helping drive efficiencies and enforcing compliance.  Solutions built using ColumbiaSoft’s workflow automation include accounts payable processing, ISO/FDA continuous improvement processes, vendor submittals for AEC firms, routing mail to remote workers, expense reports, vacation request processing, and more.  These implementations were all designed around improving productivity, efficiency, and traceability enabling companies to focus on their core business operations.  In Document Locator v6 the workflow module is integrated as base production functionality providing enterprise level business process automation to all of our customers.

The reporting components added in Document Locator are entirely new and based on Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services.  Users can select from a variety of canned reports included with the upgrade package in addition to being able to produce custom reports using Microsoft’s easy-to-use WYSIWYG report generation tools (Report Builder 3.0).  Reports can be launched securely inside of Document Locator’s Windows Integrated client or from within Document Locator’s internet application WebTools.  The reports provide users unlimited real-time access to critical business information displayed in graphical and roll-up style dashboard reports.  Reports are available for records management statistics, user activity, workflow automation, SQL Server configuration, as well any business specific reports that our customers can dream up.

Document Locator v6 continues the tradition of providing well-designed, easy-to-use document management and business process automation software.  We are excited about this current release and look forward to helping companies transition to a more organized and automated organization that can easily report against their critical business operations. For more information click here.