Business Process Automation: Where and When It Is Most Effective

There are those who will tell you that business process automation (BPA) can be used effectively in virtually any area of business. But, the truth is, like any approach it has its limitations. That’s why we feel it’s important for people to understand when and where BPA is most effective. Great Uses of Business Process Automation While every company’s operations … Read More

Guest Post: 5 Business Trends Supported by Digitizing Documents

Guest Post: 5 Business Trends Supported by Digitizing Documents Note: This guest post was authored by Keith Snyder, Director of Strategic Alliances and Global Sales for PSIGEN Software Inc, a developer of document capture, business process automation, and content management solutions. We thank him for his insights. One of the great things about being involved in the systems and processes … Read More

Guest Post: 6 Reasons Document Digitization is Accelerating

Note: Many thanks to Carol Ann Hartnagle, Vice President of TAB, a leading international records and information management company, for this guest post. The ability to digitize business documents — from HR records to loan applications to transaction receipts — has been available for years. While some companies have taken advantage of this capability to streamline business processes, improve customer … Read More

Time Travel: How Would Your Future Self Describe ECM Implementation?

As you contemplate an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) initiative, it would be great to fast-forward into the future to see how things turn out. That way, if the result isn’t exactly what you’d hoped for, you could make some present-day changes that would lead to a better outcome. While Buddha Logic doesn’t have a time machine to loan you, as … Read More

Is Your Company Too Small for an ECM System? Absolutely Not!

Enterprise Content Management… the “enterprise” in the name makes many people think that it is a concept only for large organizations. And historically, that may have been true. ECM systems were first used by bigger companies that had a tremendous amount of content to manage. However, as we’ve learned at Buddha Logic in our decades of helping clients implement content … Read More

Three Key Challenges Facing Accounts Payable Managers

While the role of accounts payable (AP) manager has never been easy, it certainly was less complicated years ago. There was a time when all that an AP department was focused on was paying outstanding debt without delay. These days the job is a lot more complex. What’s Keeping Accounts Payable Managers Up at Night? AP managers face a whole … Read More

Gartner: Enterprise Content Management is Now Content Services

It’s too early yet to know what effect it will have on our industry, but a recent pronouncement by a Gartner analyst has certainly garnered some attention. He stated — referring to the term not the business practice — that “ECM is now dead (kaput, finite, an ex-market name), at least in how Gartner defines the market. It’s been replaced … Read More

What is Data Capture Automation and Migration?

For some organizations today, the intake of information related to their business is still a very manual process. It may involve manually scanning documents one at a time, saving the digital file, retitling it to fit company naming standards, moving the renamed file to a new location, making note of the new document on a other master document, etc. etc. … Read More

Why Your “Paperless” Initiative Will Succeed When Others Fail

A thoughtfully designed, systematically implemented Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system can provide a wealth of benefits from increased processing speed to decreased error rates to increased client satisfaction. Approached the right way, an ECM project is likely to be very successful and can greatly minimize the amount of paper your organization produces and manages. On the other hand, when ECM … Read More

ECM Implementations: Objections vs. Outcomes

Despite the fact that enterprise content management (ECM) solutions are proven to help organizations increase processing speed, reduce error rates, control costs, and improve client satisfaction, you may still encounter people in your company who are opposed to your ECM initiative. And while their objections might seem on the surface to have some merit, the actual real-world outcomes of ECM … Read More