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The downside(s) of shared drives and paper documents
A recent survey by Search Your Cloud revealed that one-third of US and UK workers spend 5-25 minutes searching each time they look for an important document and it took up to 8 searches to find the correct document they were looking for. I imagine you can think of at...
The fear of new software
In the past, software rollouts were things that were done very infrequently. Staff would get word of a software change through a memo and then a painful and drawn out process would occur most likely including a great deal of downtime and IT staff losing at least one...
June 2016 New Release Notification
We're happy to announce the newest DocBoss release hitting your system over the next two weeks. This release focuses on change orders, transmittals and search. Key items in this release: Managing the effect of change orders on auto-generated registers Auto-numbering...
Build it versus buy it: The cost of a document control system
Why are you making the considerable investment in a document control system? There appears to be a direct relationship between the return an organization can expect from the system and the imagination and creativity of those who developed it. If the intent was to make...
Is paper documentation about to disappear?
While converting your documents to an electronic format is more cost effective, more efficient and more environmentally friendly, is it possible that in a few years time it'll be the only acceptable way to provide documentation to your customers? AIIM (Association for...
Do you experience these 5 document control mistakes?
Using the wrong document version. Using a document that is not actually in the document control program. Revision errors. Mistakes arising from using external documents. Failing to confirm who is authorized to make changes to documentation. According to AIB...
Doing document control better
Advice is something that can be easily found online for virtually anything you can think of. Whether the advice being offered is useful or not is another question. I recently came across an article offering 3 tips to do document control better that in theory sounded...
10 benefits of cloud computing
Last week we referred to a great article that highlighted the incredible growth of cloud-based applications such as Salesforce and Netflix and in particular, how cloud computing has become so pervasive that many people don't even know how many apps they use in their...
3 Factors More Important Than Price When Choosing Document Control Software
While price is obviously a concern when selecting software to help you with your document control work, it shouldn't be the only factor and it certainly isn't the most important one when you look at the whole picture. How much time and effort (ie. money) do you and...
Document Control Specialist salary and career resources
Back in March we referred to the very detailed 2016 document control salary survey from Consepsys that they produce annually. While the survey provides a great deal of information regarding document control salaries from around the world, we've come across another...
Document Control vs Document Management vs Content Management
Document control often gets mixed up with document management and content management in terms of what it actually refers to. More specifically, document control applications often get confused with applications that address the other two, where users believe that a...
The growth and advantages of cloud computing
Are you debating whether or not a cloud-based application has a place in your company? Some companies have a rule against using cloud-based apps - they prefer having servers at their premises - and while they may have a legitimate reason for doing so, it appears to be...
10th Biennial Valve World Conference & Exhibition
The 10th Biennial Valve World Conference & Exhibition takes place in Dusseldorf, Germany from Nov 29-Dec 1, 2017. When last held in 2014, the conference drew 12,500 visitors and 664 exhibitors in the following categories: Measuring, control and regulating...
How do you improve document control processes?
There are plenty of ways to improve how you do document control. You can spend a great deal of time "improving" a process by making what you currently do less manual - ie. your Microsoft Excel usage - but at the end of the day you're still doing things manually and...
The movement to electronic documentation
The best way to manage and control information is electronically. We have reached the age of the paperless office and shop floor. This quote doesn't come from 2016 but from an article published at Quality Progress.com back in 2003. Author Mikel E. Janitz covers a...
If You Still Use Excel For Your Document Control Work…
Has Excel Reached the End of its Run? This is the title of a recent article posted on the Business 2 Community website by author Quentin Poiraud where he discusses Excel's 30+ year history and how it may no longer be suitable for all the tasks that corporations often...
Flare Gas Recovery Systems Projections To 2020
In December 2014, Future Markets Insights published a report entitled Flare Gas Recovery System Market: Global Industry Analysis and Opportunity Assessment 2014-2020 which discussed the expected growth during this time period for the global flare gas recovery systems...
Handling increased document customization and workload
One of the things many document controllers tell us is that the customization of documentation work is increasing and that customers are becoming more stringent in terms of how they want their documents received. In some cases, it's simply the increasing document...
How did 2015 documentation trend predictions turn out?
At the end of each year, it's easy to find lists of predictions for the upcoming year regarding various trends in business and technology. Axero Solutions produces Intranet software for small to medium-sized businesses and released an interesting article last year...
Who Takes Care of Backing Up Your Documents?
One of the distinguishing features of DocBoss is its security and related backup feature that enables our customers to be assured that their documentation is protected and stored safely. Instead of wondering if your IT staff are properly backing up your data and...
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