Everyone is being bombarded with news regarding the housing melt-down and the associated ‘credit crisis’ affecting Wall Street. The question facing many businesses across the country is: “How will a worsening economy impact our business?” The exact answer to that question requires a crystal ball and keen understanding of economics. Having said that, there are things you can to focus...
Have you built a large skyscraper, power plant, or piece of transportation infrastructure lately? Where I just returned from was a gathering of professionals who do just that, and more. And, as they are quick to mention... building big things requires a big amount of "paperwork" and work processes. From the moment an idea is born to the day its...
Document management is a term that pre-dates the digital era. There was time... long, long ago, when the term was more relevant to filing cabinets, routing file folders, off-site document warehouses, and other relics of a paper-driven world. Ask someone today what they think of when they hear the word "document management" and it almost always brings to mind the...
Time and time again, we are approached by prospective customers who want nothing more than to escape the shackles of their existing system and find a better document management system. They're frustrated with their legacy system’s functionality, interface design, and the "customer-no-service". Having experienced the drawbacks of their existing systems, they are easily attracted to one with a user-oriented design,...
Today, following just a few weeks on the heels of our release of the latest version of document management software and the announcement that it would support new email compliance technology, ColumbiaSoft announced the launch of an entirely new product called Email Archive. Email Archive is designed to help companies that are concerned with the ever-increasing importance of email compliance and...
Investing in document management can help your company meet the challenges of today and tomorrow as the following story illustrates. One of ColumbiaSoft’s real estate investment customers recently expanded their use of Document Locator to meet additional compliance regulations. The customer originally deployed document management to provide their Real Estate Development group with the tools to track and manage engineering contracts...
The recent solvency and credit crisis resulting in $85B in government secured loans at AIG has affected valuations on Wall Street, brought skepticism to Main Street, and threatened to undermine the insurability of tens of thousands of AIG’s customers. For one AIG-insured Document Locator customer, however, the debacle raised immediate concerns that the fallout could leave them in violation of...
The road to true collaboration with your business partners begins with developing an exceptional system of internal controls. For document intensive organizations, those controls are implemented using a robust document management system. When selecting a document management system for your organization, you will want to research systems that support collaboration as well as metadata indexing, workflow routing, fast searching, document...
So here's a recent success story worth a mention: A manufacturing company that implemented Document Locator into their Quality department received a higher return on investment than they anticipated. The process resulted in the company receiving accreditation for selling their manufactured products into a lucrative new market. The primary business driver for purchasing document management was to strengthen document control activities...
Congratulations to ColumbiaSoft Corporation and its visionary founder, Richard Day, on this the company’s 10th anniversary! ColumbiaSoft was founded on September 9, 1998 by Day, former owner and president of PED Manufacturing, one of the nation's leading producers of orthopedic prosthetics. Day’s vision: to create a new breed of document management that included enterprise-level functionality and performance at a price...
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