5 Reasons to Go Paperless Part I

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How Will Going Paperless Benefit Me? I have written several posts about having a paperless office. I am going to give you some reasons why you should do it and some tools to help you accomplish it. Let's look at the reasons: You will be able to access records faster and service your clients better. A recent Price Waterhouse study required a paralegal to find 20 documents out of 20,000 … [Read more...]

Paperless Home Office

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What About the Little Guy? Most of the articles that I have published talk about the professional business such as accounting and law or the retail or franchise industries like the car wash and pizza place.  But what about the sales rep or the stay at home mom that run a business from home! It is very easy for a one person show to get bogged down with a lot of papers and files. Something That … [Read more...]

Save Money By Renting a Document Retention System

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Rent Don't Buy In my last post I mentioned that I would comment on renting as opposed to buying a Document Retention System as a way for smaller businesses to take advantage of the many benefits of going paperless. CNG Online CNG-ONLINE offers an alternative way for businesses to benefit from CNG-SAFE’s powerful document management software and work-flow without the overhead incurred by … [Read more...]

Document Retention and Compliance and Security Part II

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Focus on Customized Security Customer demand for security and top-notch ability to mitigate risk has set the tone for regulators, which sets the tone for you. It varies by industry, but the overall tone is that regulators are looking for security of information, information shared only with authorized people, no unauthorized access. Once you prove that you go to great lengths to secure … [Read more...]

Electronic Document Retention and Legal and Customer Compliance Part I

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Procedure Consistency, Security, Risk-Mitigation, User-Friendly, Quick Access Are All Critical Compliance. The word itself screams more work, headaches, ever-changing laws that you will never catch up with. Plus, with mistrust of corporate behavior at an all time high, more regulations are sure to be coming. To make matters worse, compliance means a lot more than legal rules. In this buyer's … [Read more...]

Paperless Office and NitroPDF

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One of the most used file extensions in the paperless environment is the PDF file.  This file can be read by every computer that downloads the free PDF reader programs that are available. But what if you want to be able to add, edit or make notations on this file format?  The cost of the popular software program that is available starts at $299 for the basic program.  This program can be costly … [Read more...]

Paperless Office Helps Many Industries Part III

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Personal Injury Attorneys is an industry that seems to be perfectly suited to a well designed Electronic Document Management  Program. Keeping up and staying ahead of the process is an important part of any business, but a misplaced document or inaccessible file in a personal injury law firm could mean an innocent victim loses their case. Anidjar & Levine P.A. of Ft. Lauderdale, FL … [Read more...]

Paperless Office Helps Many Industries Part II

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Last week I discussed how Cabinet NG helped the pizza industry go paperless, this week I am going to look at the Car Wash and Lube Industry. An Albany, New York car wash and lube company has eighteen locations in the Capital District and Hudson Valley. The company purchased CNG-Safe a full fledged document retrieval system so that the company doesn't have to store paper documents anymore. They … [Read more...]

Paperless Office Helps Many Different Industries

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For the most part I have been discussing how the paperless office has been used by the medical profession.  But what about other industries? I am going to write about several different businesses to see how going paperless has helped them. The Problem The first of this series is going to look at a pizza franchise and how going paperless has helped them. A southeastern pizza franchise was … [Read more...]

Software Solutions for a Paperless Office Part II

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A few days  ago, I introduced a summary post discussing paperless office solutions. Matt Silverman has written a follow up piece to his initial article for OPEN Forum which includes “5 More Simple Ways Your Small Biz Can Go Paperless”. Matt's latest five picks for paper saving services include: ShoeBoxed CloudContacts Freshbooks Earth Class Mail Zumbox Business owners … [Read more...]

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