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A Document Management System is the Modern Filing Cabinet
Do you realize how much paper you use each year? Do you realize how much paper you have stored in your office? Do you realize that none of that is necessary? Today, digital filing systems as a part of a document management strategy can keep you from wasting your business’ resources on paper, filing, and printing. Here’s how:
Introducing a Document Management System
What if a file cabinet could:
- Independently sort out and organize the files it contains
- Work with your other business solutions to put these files to their proper use, on a variety of devices
- Simplify collaborative processes
- Assist you in your business continuity preparations
- Pull the files you are looking for via a simple search interface
- Protect the files you have stored in it, while ensuring you remain compliant to industry-based regulations
- Enable secure access for your remote workers
All that is possible by integrating a Document Management System into your business’ IT infrastructure. Not only can you get all your documents from almost anywhere at any time, you can cut down the substantial costs associated with file storage and retrieval.
A cloud-hosted DMS can cut document retrieval time and storage costs, dramatically. It’s also a massive benefit for those workers who need access to paper documents, but work outside of your business. Remote work is more prevalent today than ever before and giving your staff the ability to have anytime, anywhere access to any file they need can be very beneficial for your workers, your customers, and your bottom line.
If you would like to learn more about how a comprehensive document management system can help your business cut costs and give you remote access to files that you could only access by going to your office before, call the IT experts at Directive today at 607.433.2200.