Previously I spotlighted why we at Océ Business Services consider an effective records management program to be crucial to organizational success. I also highlighted what qualifies as a records and why maintaining records is so complex. In this column I’d like to share some effective records management considerations. Implementing a records management program that addresses [...]

How Records and Information Management can Work Together and Add Value: Part 1 Managing information in the form of corporate data, documents and records is arguably one of the most crucial activities for any organization and its employees. Organizations depend on information to make critical strategic decisions, serve customers, protect legal rights, and process transactions. [...]

Previously I spotlighted how we at Océ Business Services define Business Process Imaging, including the potential improvements it can provide and key elements of a BPI solution. In this column I’d like to share some recent findings of an industry analyst survey we sponsored.  First let me emphasize a key point. Those companies that manage [...]

I’ve previously written about how organizations are leveraging the power of business process imaging (BPI). In this and my next column, I’d like to provide a bit more detail on how we at Océ Business Services define BPI; the potential improvements it can provide; key elements of a BPI solution, and some recent findings of [...]

Business Process Imaging (BPI) focuses on managing front-end paper-to-digital conversion activities that are part of an ongoing business process, such as accounts payable (A/P) processing. These front-end conversion activities range from document intake/preparation, imaging/data entry and OCR repair to transaction setup/coordination activities such as invoice lookup/verification for A/P processing. All of these front-end activities usually [...]

Document imaging can provide a host of business benefits that include lowering costs and improving the ability to meet compliance and audit regulations. Following is an example of how imaging helped streamline operations for the Human Resources (HR) division of a leading technology company.   The HR division was keenly aware that supporting its large [...]

Leveraging Outsourcing to Meet Top Business Goals By Ken Neal, Director, Corporate Communications Océ Business Services   In 2011 and into 2012, enterprises want to cut costs and improve operational efficiency; and they believe that the document management activities included in our latest industry survey report (“The Goal Standard: How Companies Leverage Document Management to [...]

In 2011 and into 2012, enterprises want to cut costs and improve operational efficiency; and they believe that the document management activities included in our latest industry survey report (“The Goal Standard: How Companies Leverage Document Management to Help Meet their Top Business Goals”) can help them reach these goals. These activities include print/copy center [...]

  Document imaging technology can enable companies to achieve a variety of important goals. These include lowering costs and improving the ability to meet industry compliance and audit regulations. Imaging can also help streamline the accounts payable process. To highlight this benefit of imaging, I will highlight an example of how a cosmetics and beauty [...]

The Human Resources (HR) division for a leading technology services provider is keenly aware that supporting its large mobile workforce requires careful documentation. That generally means voluminous amounts of paper. Larger HR departments can have more than 100 different document types. The company brought us in to digitize its HR documents and help meet several [...]