Implementing ECM into Your Information Governance Strategy
Enterprise Content Management, or ECM, serves a clear purpose. Using technology, it helps various kinds of organizations store, access and use their information and electronic assets in new ways – ways...
View ArticleHow Close Are We To The Paperless Office?
The Paperless Office is coming! I still remember the episode of “The Jetsons” where young Elroy Jetson, sitting in school and not paying attention to his teacher, was watching an episode of “The...
View ArticleRooting Out ROT: The Wisdom of Eliminating Unnecessary Assets
Think for a moment about all of the files that clog up your home computer. No matter how much memory your system has, there are sure to be a few programs and stray files that you saved at one time but...
View ArticleHow an ECM System Can Enhance Your EHR STAT!
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems are designed to make it easier to collect, share, use and properly dispose of an organization’s information. Because these systems gather all this data in...
View ArticleCut Paper Before it Cuts You
“A clean, well-lighted place” is more than the name of a great Ernest Hemingway short story. It’s a phrase that can also be used to describe the perfect office space. For a long time, one of the...
View ArticleDoing The Right Thing The Right Way
In other places on our website, you can read about things like invoice processing, cloud-based solutions and document management. You can learn about the many ways our solutions help with accounts...
View ArticleHelping Employees Get a Taste of ECM: Elephants Taste like Chicken
First, a disclaimer. We are in no way suggesting with the above title that we support the killing of elephants – majestic creatures that they are – for the purpose of eating them. We don’t support the...
View ArticleThe Relentless March of Technology
The writer in me loves old typewriters. In fact, I have a poster here at my desk that shows a visual compendium of them. There’s a Crandell New Model from 1885, a Mignon 4 from 1924, a Hermes 3000 from...
View ArticleThe Evolution Revolution: ECM Trends and the Maturity of the Market
One of the things ECM aficionados talk about quite often is ECM’s ability to give workers more time to pursue value-added tasks. These enthusiasts are always delightfully vague about what those tasks...
View ArticleThe Right Technology and Temperament Can Take You Far
Can it really have been 20 years ago? I can still remember the first time I hooked up our family’s new computer to the Internet for the first time. It was October, 1996. The PC was only a month old,...
View ArticleECM Innovations Can Change the Game
Have you ever received one of those catalogs in the mail that seem to offer the kitschiest things? That’s pronounced “KITCH-ee-ist”, as in kinda tacky. It was in one of those catalogs that I first saw...
View ArticleCognitive Capture: The Next Step in the Evolution of ECM
In the 1982 movie “Blade Runner,” Daryl Hannah and Rutger Hauer play sentient androids that rebel against their human creators. The movie takes place in 2019 Los Angeles. At some point during the...
View ArticleThe Profundity in Project Management
Various organization experts have said that when creating a “To Do List,” it can be inspirational to add two or three items to the list that you do automatically anyway. For instance, you might add...
View ArticleRemember the People Behind the Programs
Many of you will have already seen the above video. It shows us one more example of why “texting while walking” is ten times more difficult than walking and chewing gum at the same time. We all know...
View ArticleInformation Governance and the Watchful Eye
I’m going to go out on a limb here – albeit not too far – and say that most of us wouldn’t like knowing that our manager, supervisor or boss spent the day literally looking over our shoulders. As nice...
View ArticleThe Mechanics of Digital Conversion
As you may have noticed from some of my posts, I am a movie buff. Movies are visual storytelling, after all, and as a writer I’m drawn to narratives. I was only five when my dad took me to see “Jaws,”...
View ArticleSetting the Records Straight: The Benefits of Box Storage
We’ve been telling you for years that here at Patterson Pope, we love stuff. We help our clients solve their stuff problems. Unlike the stuff George Carlin referred to in his famous – and somewhat...
View ArticleFinding the Way Forward in Accounts Payable Processing
The best products and companies are the ones that arise out of a customer need or desire. That may seem like an obvious thought. How then does one explain the existence of products like the ones...
View ArticleUnder the Hood: Recognizing the Value of OCR
As a “words guy,” I always did my darndest (sure, it’s a word) to avoid science in school. I’ve always been kind of proud to tell people that I managed to get through all of high school and college...
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