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 [...]

Moving a company headquarters office from one location can trigger discussions on all manner of topics, from how close one department is located to another, to how much of that expensive real estate is allocated to document storage. 
Fortunately for us, the latter discussion over document storage space will not be an issue when we make [...]

I noticed today that ARMA – the national association of Records Managers and independent authority on all things records management related, was getting some attention on their Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles (GARP). I thought that readers here might be interested as well. For anyone developing policy, putting together a new operational plan, or just interested [...]

It’s common among companies in many different types of industries to have their own particular processes that are unique to their line of business. For instance, construction and engineering companies contend with “change orders“.
In an upcoming 20-minute webinar, solution engineer Dave Howell will be presenting a way to control and document the process in an [...]

It’s been analyzed by people who measure such things, and research has shown that over a document’s lifetime the cost of handling, storing and shipping a single paper document can easily reach up to $30.
The number may seem surprising until you think about all the possible costs that can be associated with handling paper.
Most obvious [...]

A quick note to welcome Spectrum IT Services into our referral network of Solution Advisors.
Spectrum IT Services is a division of long-time Document Locator customer Spectrum CPA Group.With Spectrum’s IT division now offering outsourced IT services direct to customers, and having knowledge and expertise of the document management system from internal installations, joining the Solution Advisor network [...]

Our engineering team here at ColumbiaSoft met one-on-one with Microsoft’s top software, database, and network engineers at the Mountain View Technology Center recently in an architecture design summit.  This laid out the groundwork for a co-authored roadmap for the next generation of the Document Locator document management system.
The timing coincided perfectly with our efforts underway [...]

Studies have shown that the average office worker uses as much as 10,000 sheets of paper a year. Where does all that paper go? It’s thrown away, filed away, shuffled among co-workers, and shipped around in slow, costly, delivery processes.  So, going paperless has some real advantages, and here is just a few examples…
First, it eliminates hard [...]