The NHS is extremely reliant on paper, with hundreds of thousands of paper documents created and manually processed every day. Documents such as patient records and supplier invoices take a very long time to process and file; time which NHS staff could spend doing more strategic tasks. According to the NHS Commissioning Board’s head of informatics Tim Kelsey, the NHS may
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Definition: “The process of capturing value, knowledge and understanding of corporate information, using IT systems, in order to maintain, re-use and re-deploy that knowledge” (Document Management Avenue). Knowledge management aims to capture all the knowledge in an organisation, from paper documents, web information, electronic reports, employee knowledge or knowledge gained from informal meetings and discussions. Content or document management systems
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Following on from our previous post “Document, Content, Knowledge: Part 1, Document Management“, here we’ll look at content management. Definition: “a set of tasks and processes for managing content explicitly targeted for publication on the Web throughout its life from creation to archive” (Ovum). Content management solutions are essentially an extension of document management that includes managing web content. Some vendors
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Information is every organisation’s most valuable asset and managing this information is essential. The amount of data and information within an organisation is growing dramatically. Efficient management of information can result in better customer service, improved internal communication, better decision making and enhanced productivity. Information management systems provide the foundations to turn corporate data into intelligent, shared information by providing
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Following on from last week’s blog post (Invoice Processing: Top 20 Ways To Reduce Costs and Streamline The Accounts Payable Department…Part 1), here are the next 10 ways you can reduce your costs and streamline your AP department through the use of an invoice processing solution: 11. Help negotiate higher supplier discounts. Invoice management helps you to process invoices within
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Documation’s invoice processing software (IMS) is a solution designed specifically for the finance department to reduce the time and costs associated with invoice processing. It is incredible that in this day and age one of the most vital business documents, the invoice, is still handled as paper. Processing paper invoices is a costly, time consuming and repetitive task. Not only
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Documation are proud to be working with Brighton & Sussex University Hospital (BSUH). From early 2011, BSUH will be using Documation’s Enable Invoice Management Solution (IMS) to process up to 200,000 supplier invoices per annum. Steve Pittaway, Documation Commercial Manager worked closely with BSUH’s Finance Department to close the deal, and commented; “We are delighted to have cemented this relationship
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Read the following statistics, do any of these sound familiar? Managers spend 25% of their time looking for information, Over 40% of managers use incorrect information at least weekly Typically three individual sources are required to find information on competitors, customers, projects or other departments (source, Datamonitor 2007) The truth is that the majority of business information and data
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Our previous post outlined the first five benefits of a paperless office. We saw how problems such as document retrieval, document security and audit trails are all issues that can be removed or managed using document management solutions. Read on for the next five benefits in this top ten list: 1. Business Development Automating some of the more menial
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Each year, a typical business use printer emits 456 kgs of carbon dioxide. Taking into consideration that a tree typically absorbs 13kg of CO2 per year, this means that an unbelievable 35 trees are needed to offset just one office printer’s emissions. Picture the volume of financial documents coming into your organisation… now think how often they get photocopied.
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