Whether it’s the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) or Sarbanes Oxley, companies from medical devices manufacturers to financial services shops are struggling to stay abreast of compliance requirements thanks to a continuously evolving regulatory landscape. Document management software, oftentimes referred to as enterprise content management (ECM) software, can be a highly effective toolRead more

What company isn’t under pressure to optimize business processes to become more efficient? Who isn’t struggling with how to manage an increasingly eclectic and burgeoning reservoir of information assets? And what about the challenge of staying current with evolving compliance requirements when any misstep can open the door to legal issues? Not to mention otherRead more

“The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows stealing the information protected, under normal conditions, by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure the Internet. SSL/TLS provides communication security and privacy over the Internet for applications such as web, email, instant messaging (IM) and some virtual privateRead more

The advantages of the cloud are rich as a software delivery model, but the core functionality of many cloud platforms is still pretty anemic when compared to their on-premise counterparts—a deficiency that’s readily apparent in the area of enterprise document management software. Consumer-oriented cloud file sharing services such as Dropbox, Box, and even Google DriveRead more

Many of us have gotten comfortable eliminating paper from our personal lives. We keep a digital calendar, have replaced the old address book with a contacts list on our smart phone, even have PDF copies of our bank statements filed away on our laptops instead of piling up in a drawer. Yet while individuals haveRead more

There’s no doubt that augmenting, or in some cases, replacing, physical filing cabinets with an enterprise document management system can deliver a ton of benefit from an efficiency standpoint. But in order to wring the most out of document management, organizations should take the next step and automate document-centric business processes with the goal towardsRead more

Formalizing a document retention policy is a key piece of any enterprise content management (ECM) roll out, yet putting those policies into practice is where many organizations trip up in terms of effective deployment. A document retention schedule helps support an organization’s overall effort to manage its intellectual property while also serving as an aidRead more

Enterprise document management software is all about faster access to the content and knowledge that can facilitate better decision-making and make workers more productive. But in many cases, document management software is so hard to use and files so difficult to find that business users do an end run around the system, exacerbating the problemsRead more

Formalizing a document retention policy is a key piece of any enterprise content management (ECM) roll out, yet putting those policies into practice is where many organizations trip up in terms of effective deployment. A document retention schedule helps support an organization’s overall effort to manage its intellectual property while also serving as an aidRead more

It’s the rare organization that hasn’t taken some form of cloud-based software for a spin. Salesforce.com, the CRM company largely credited as the poster child for Software as a Service (SaaS), is a mainstream player in the enterprise today and dozens of other applications, from human resource tools to collaboration platforms, have made the leapRead more