Document Management

Document Management Systems efficiently store, index and retrieve documents in an electronic format. Document Management Systems are intended to manage electronic images: faxes, scanned documents and other electronic documents. Any document you need can be stored in a Document Management System.

What's the Benefit to Your Business?

There are many benefits to moving your paper-based information to electronically based information and having a proper management system for your currently electronic data. These are the top five benefits of a document management system.

Efficient and Productive

By moving to a qualified document management system, business processes as simple as storage and retrieval of information can be improved. Your office efficiency can be significantly enhanced with the ability to retrieve a document with the click of a mouse. If you have business processes that need to be automated, an electronic document management system can provide that capability.

Regulatory Compliance

Whether you are concerned with maintaining compliance with client privacy regulations such as HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and FACTA (Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act) or you are concerned with complying with regulations that control how you manage your information such as SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley Act), an electronic document management system can provide audit trails, version control, and access control to ensure you are in compliance.

Risk Management

Any IT professional will agree that a strong disaster recovery plan is very important to ensuring your network information is secure from disasters such as fire, flood, or other business stopping events. Paper-based information is more vulnerable to natural disasters than electronic information. An electronic document management system creates a strong disaster recovery plan for your paper-based information as well as your electronic information.

Better Customer Service

Your customers expect information related to their account to be available at your customer service team’s fingertips. Having all the information available and ready to email or fax right from your desktop allows your customer service representatives to demonstrate the highest levels of customer service.

Cost Reduction

Traditional document management strategies can account for as much as 3% of a company’s annual revenue. That can mean up to $300,000 in annual document management costs for a $10 million company. Creating operational efficiencies as well as space and time savings by electronically managing your documents can realize a positive effect on your bottom line.

Image Technologies has partnered with these industry-leading document management companies:

The DocuWare 5 document management system is state-of-the-art software for integrated document management. It can automatically process any type of document regardless of its source, with internal control procedures that help you meet audit and compliance requirements.

In addition, there are other technologies associated with document management. To learn about the various technologies, please go here.

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