As a document management software provider we write a lot about the benefits of the paperless office, the paperless process – I posted a blog last week, Going paperless – from the individual to the business and the previous week wrote about Storing documents – legal requirements and how to solve the paper-mountain issue. The benefits of converting paper documents
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Last week I decided to open a new gym membership.”No problem,” they said, “just bring some proof of identity – driving licence and a utility bill will do.” So, no problem, I thought, until looking through my filing cabinet I realised I didn’t have a utility bill – not a physical piece of paper I could actually pick up and
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Having to deal with mountains of paper documents can be one of the biggest problems facing an organisation. Paper documents are expensive to process, can be misplaced or lost, and further down the line issues arise concerning storage. A number of types of document have a storage life defined by law – many of those found in Finance are an
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A priority of the European Union’s A Digital Agenda for Europe – one of the EU’s Europe 2020’s flagship initiatives – is to encourage the move to e-invoicing. Why? Well, according to the EU, paperless processing is good for the world and adoption of electronic processing helps promote competitive economic activity. In fact the EU goes so far as to
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Companies who choose not to automate their travel and expense (T & E) processing could not only be missing out on potential savings but also losing the opportunity to cut down on travel and expense claim fraud – so says a PayStream Advisors‘ survey. Recent research from the financial process market authority shows that 36 percent of companies in the US
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In a recent report on European payment trends, the business information provider Dun and Bradstreet reveals that payment performance in the UK has improved over the past year – and identifies the increasing move to e-invoicing as a possible factor behind this change. This news comes as a welcome reversal of the trend that has been dogging British business for
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Documation is proud to announce the company’s support for the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, a charity set up in 2006 to help conserve the bumblebee population and their habitats in the UK. The dramatic decline in the number of bees in the country and the potentially disastrous effect on the ecology that could result has recently hit the headlines: last month
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A new report from PayStream Advisors, Electronic Invoice Adoption Benchmark Report, publishes the results of a survey of over 300 Accounts Payable (AP) and Procurement professionals. There are some interesting statistics – including the fact that e-invoicing is definitely on the rise. But this comes as no surprise, as more and more organisations are starting to realise the benefits of
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Spring is finally here – and usually that means it’s time for a ‘spring clean’, not only at home but in the office too. But even just thinking about clearing out the office can be daunting, not least due to the hundreds of papers that will need sorting – documents such as invoices, receipts, credit card statements, expense forms and
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We are pleased to announce that one of our key customer’s has upgraded to the latest version of our Enable platform – Enable 3.11. Enable is our core document management platform; it is a powerful modular solution designed and built by us specifically to automate document intensive business processes. For over 11 years the northern based integrated transport authority has
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