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By Robert Mario on Aug 31, 2011 |Technology
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In the age of globalization, many businesses are spread globally. Multi-national companies can function more successfully if there is a digital repository that can retrieve, share, manage, edit and archive important documents. In fact most organizations today have realized the importance of online document management system, the most effective way of capturing, sharing and storing documents. About 80% of all corporate information is in the form of documents, so companies that still believe in handling documents in the traditional way are at high risk of losing important business information and incurring heavy losses. There is more than just one reason why you shouldn’t depend on the traditional way of managing documents.
The traditional way of storing paper documents is in filing cabinets or in filing rooms. Retrieving such documents can be difficult if the person in charge of the file cabinet is away. Moreover there’s the risk of losing valuable documents or repetitive copying of the same document. But with cloud based document management system, documents can be retrieved anywhere and by anybody who has been given access, as long as there’s an Internet connection. You can access company documents on your computer, laptop or any mobile device.
Duplication is another major problem of handling documents in the form of paper. More than two files may be created for one individual for maintaining public records which is unnecessary wastage of paper, occupancy of space and squander of money of course. However, with the indexing system of paper filing, the scope of duplication is nil.
The traditional way of filing documents can be quite inconvenient and tedious as it involves the process of cross-referencing with different people which may result in filing of the same document again and again, differently. With online document management system documents are filed easily without any scope of repetition.
Online document management provides convenient yet controlled access to information. Documents are available to retrieve whenever and wherever it needs to be, but only those who have been granted permission can retrieve them. It comes with airtight security and an audit trial which keeps track of all the visitors and any changes made by them to the documents.
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