Electronic Document Management: Benefits of Having One for Your Office- By Wendy W James

Opting for an electronic document management in your workplace may not be something that you are considering right now, but it will creep in sooner or later. After all, if you have unfilled cabinets and file drawers, why bother getting an electronic storage solution this early?

Even if you haven't filled up your cabinets and file drawers in your office, there is a good chance that you will be using them and filling them up with paperwork that you cannot afford losing in no time. For the majority of businesses today, it is important that all transactions are documented on paper for tracking purposes.

Even as early as day 1 into your business, you should consider having an electronic document management. What are the benefits of having an electronic solution to document storage?

First, it reduces your need for physical and actual storage. Drawers, file cabinets and safes are examples of commercial property that can cost quite a sum of money, which you spend on anyway, since there is no other way to store and organize your important documents. Also, these can compete with your physical space in the office, thus sacrificing the movement of your employees and the position of workstations if you happen to have a very small space. Also, in the event that a fire or flooding strikes, drawers, file cabinets and safes filled with important paperwork are at the risk of being damaged and lost.

An electronic document management can address these risks. Once you scan documents, import to it to your allotted space in the cloud, there is no point in keeping the actual paperwork as a backup since you already have a copy in a more secure location.

Second, it reduces the cost of buying drawers, file cabinets and safes. You can dedicate your allowance for those items for other things that are far more important and are more income-generating for your business. It can also help reduce the cost of buying paper, since you can immediately process important aspects of your business that needs to be documented on a word processor. There is no need to print and file everything neatly into folders. The document you are finished processing can immediately go straight to your electronic folder.

Third, it helps in the easy organization and retrieval of your documents. You do not need to go through mounds and mounds of paperwork in your office cabinets and drawers. You do not have to deal with the dust that comes to storing ancient paperwork that is still relevant to your business up to the present.

With an electronic document management, saving, filing, organizing and retrieval is easy to do. In most instances, the documents you save electronically can be easily accessed by using the search and find function. The amount of time it would require you to go to your office file cabinets and look for the document you need one by one will only be a couple of seconds if your files are stored in an electronic folder.
These days, with most office activities processed using a computer, it naturally follows that there ought to be a way for documents to be scanned, saved, stored and accessed electronically.

DigitalDrawer by AscendoSoft is designed to allow any business in any industry to securely manage all of its records electronically, saving the company thousands of dollars each year. DigitalDrawer stores scanned files along with the company's working documents such as Microsoft Word documents and Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, utilizing DigitalDrawer's complete version control technology.

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