The Importance of Disaster Recovery Planning by Adrian Martin
Picture the scene, its Monday morning and you’ve traversed the morning rush hour and arrived at the office only to find a disaster zone. Over the weekend the office has experienced a fire that has all but destroyed the premises. IT, key documents, plant and machinery – gone – what are you going... Identify any external risks For example if a business partner (perhaps a key supplier?) suffers a disaster what is the impact on your business and how would you mitigate it? ... Develop some computer failure procedures to manage your key business activity when IT is unavailable – make sure that...

Is There Any Future For The Open Document Format? by Gavin Peters
For those people out there who have not heard of the Open Document format (ODF), please allow me to try and explain it in layman's terms. The ODF is an attempt to produce an Open format that all office documents could save to, a universal standard that all office packages can use. ... Why, because it means that you are not locked in to any one company's product, at the moment if you save to a .doc format you need Microsoft Word to read your document and make any changes to it. ... If this is successful you should be able to write a document with one word processing package, open it up with...

Accounts Payable: A Powerful Document Management and Workflow Solution by David Coxell
Accounts payable is just one area of office management where problems arise because of the sheer complexity of transactions, and the vast amount of paperwork that is generated. A disproportionate amount of time and administrative resources is consumed just getting invoices approved for payment. ... TokOpen is a powerful document management and workflow software solution that goes far beyond conventional document capture and storage. ... TokOpen brings together powerful and efficient document management, with easy-to-use, Web-based access.

SearchInform 3.0 by Alena Siameshka
A solution to the problem of fuzziness of information content (using only one relevant document instead of a dozen of its duplicates or similar documents from other sources). An information system may contain documents containing varying information from different sources. ... A situation when one employee comments on one document and another comments on another document and so on and so forth. ... The range of company’s products is quite large and encompasses from mass production of single user-oriented products to ready business solutions to be integrated into corporate systems.

Benefits of Automating Software Processes by Marcus Tettmar
Perhaps the most obvious reason for automating software is to speed up a process and remove mundane, repetitive manual tasks. Software automation therefore saves time and resources, which equates to cost savings. Examples of this abound. But in this article I’d like to talk about some other good... By documenting a process the business is ensuring that someone else can carry it out should the usual task owner be unavailable. ... Automation scripts are the ultimate way to document a process. ... Businesses need to document all their manual processes so that other people can carry out the task.

Bar Codes Faxing Improve Business Document WorkFlow by Chris Norwood
Reliably integrating important electronic and paper documents received by fax such as invoices, expense reports, purchase orders, employment applications, claims and legal contracts into the daily business workflow is a common challenge. These documents are critical to many revenue related... Incorporating bar code faxing into an organization will improve the business document workflow and mission critical data access to the following departments in your organization: Human Resource Departments Accounts Payable Accounts Receivables Sales Marketing Legal Departments Production...

Need of Document Management System (DMS) by Dr. Vikas V. Gupta
Document Management or Enterprise Information Management is perhaps one of the most important of the enterprise solutions that will provide a solution to the various requirements of SOX. Several sections of SOX have a direct bearing on the manner in which the digital documents/records of the... Since an IT system is a business process frozen in a particular software and hardware implementation, it proves that the particular business process is being consciously and diligently adhered to. ... The company needs to make policies about the following aspects of documents: Creation Approvals...

Service Management Software by Jason Gluckman
Before any organization is set up, all pertinent details must be carefully planned out. Construction management is a complex and complicated job. Yet, with service management software, the tough job of handling every little thing is made easier and more organized. ... Every business employs the facets of payroll, document scanning, document imaging and a lot more. ... Each of the variables involved in carrying out of a construction project or any other business venture ought to be fairly weighed and considered from all angles.

Why Every Company Needs A Fax Server by Chris Norwood
Every day more and more businesses of all sizes and types are developing or refining their strategy to transmit, store and retrieve their business documents electronically. And while the majority of all electronic document transmission is primarily conducted via email, or downloaded from the... Once a document has been transmitted by fax, information about the fax transmission is recorded during the process, including date/time of transaction, duration and total # of pages. ... If the information on the fax properly addressed to a particular recipient or addresses an immediate business...

Enterprise Architecture by Patrick Spencer
Historically, little thought has been given to creating or maintaining strategic architectures for business enterprises. As the competitive landscape continues to put pressure on organizations to be more efficient, the process of implementing unified Enterprise Architecture will become an... Organizing Business Processes and Informational Systems: Once organized, an architect will assess the alignment of business processes to informational systems. ... Simply put, an architect translates the information that is transferring from process to applications and vice versa.