The buzzword “millenial” is becoming outdated as we move on to the latest scapegoat demographic, but what hasn’t become outdated is digital technology. And having a clear understanding of digital technology isn’t an ageist meme anymore, anyone can grasp the principles of tech in an office setting. If you came of age in the 1990sRead more

It’s a question for the renaissance, for the industrial revolution, for the age of computers, and now for the internet era. Perhaps an age-old question but one that is sparked by technological revolutions and paradigm shifts. How can I speed up my business processes? If you search online, the answers aren’t readily available, even ifRead more

Before content management became a broader term encompassing Business Process Management, Document Management, OCR capture, and other technologies, the implicit meaning of “content management” was what has become known as WCM today. Web Content Management. CMS used to be just a platform for monitoring and controlling your front-facing website content. Now, as content management takesRead more

“We need software that organizes our files.” “We need to be able to quickly search and find what we are looking for while keeping them in order.” “We need something to send files between departments for processing and approval.” If you’re reading this article, you are probably looking for something that meets the all theseRead more

Ahh, April, May, and June—here comes spring, Easter, warm weather, longer days, sunshine. And Q2! How exciting, right?…Right?? Actually, Q2 has a reputation for feeling a bit slow. It lacks the exciting “fresh new start” atmosphere of Q1, the detailed planning that goes into Q3, and the hurried sense of urgency of Q4. But theRead more

When employees within your company hit that “save” button, where do their files go? In the old days, when technology was seen as a productivity tool, the only path for that document might have been to the user’s hard drive. Data and information stayed private and quite vulnerable to loss, theft, and equipment failure. Now,Read more

For many years, companies first realized they needed document management when legal and financial officers ran down the hall yelling, “Wait, don’t throw that away!” That’s because businesses across so many industries were experiencing an environment of increased regulatory, legal and internal quality and compliance. The mantra became “save everything,” and employees began filling upRead more

Here’s a fact that may surprise you (or may not, depending on your familiarity with various financial management platforms): in the small business space, Quickbooks has close to 80% market share. We love us some Quickbooks — who doesn’t? — but some small businesses, as well as emerging enterprise ones, don’t realize that other optionsRead more

Before I came to Computhink, I was working a freelance gig with a digital marketing agency. The marketing agency was using Google Drive for enterprise content management, or ECM. We’ve written before how solutions such as Drive, Dropbox, and Box aren’t really enterprise content management, but for right now, let’s pretend they’re trying to be.Read more

When I was growing up, one thing I noticed about offices in film and on television was that paper files were EVERYWHERE. Stacks of them. Piles of them. Those poor characters were quite literally drowning in manila. And the unsightliness of those teetering towers traveled well beyond their Hollywood representation. My father’s insurance office, forRead more