Document Management

Corporations, large and small, are drowning in a sea of paper. This is likely to increase due to government bureaucracy both in the UK and abroad.

Take the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (The Public Company Accounting and Investor Protection Act of 2002) which according to estimates by Brian Moher of Accountancy Age Magazine (Nov 18,2004) Sarbox is predicted to cost UK Corporates £120m implementing stringent rules on internal controls under section 404 of the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act.. Link to Article


Business drivers remain the same...

  • - 1. Enhance efficiencies in the workplace, by reducing time and costs and increase productivity.
  • - 2. Pressure to improve cycle times, reduce costs and find more effective ways of doing business.
  • - 3. Competitive pressure to find new market niches and increasingly sophisticated competition.
  • - 4. Reduce operating costs and obtaining more from less resource.
  • - 5. Improve information management and daily "business flow" or "workflow" of documents.

    basic could help with more than just these common scenarios:

  • - Documents mislaid / filed incorrectly making future attempts to find it impossible...
  • - Wasted time trying to find documents in filing cabinets...
  • - Expensive real-estate tied up with stacks or cabinets....of dead paper!
  • - Low quality workspace due to mountains of dust ridden documents.
  • - Disaster: Flood, Fire or these days,Terrrorism interrupting business flow... insurance can hardly cover crucial documents or the relationships therein.

    Electronic Document Management can transform the efficiency of your business, bringing significant time saving through document workflow, space saving with faster retrieval and improved security benefits across your entire network.

    Typically the biggest obstacles to increased productivity and information provision are paper glut and "paper time" (the time to find and read many documents of varying relevance) and the application of information in meaningful ways.

    Document management solutions can be expensive, hard to use and difficult to learn. Small and large companies are re-focusing on systems that are easy to implement and deliver rapid benefits, particularly in ROI (Return on Investment).

    Document Management, including document scanning and distribution capabilities to key personnel can allow information to be scanned, commented, indexed, stored effectively and hence accessed or distributed throughout your company. Document Management can also foster collaboration and knowledge sharing, helping people to work together or simply know what has happened, particularly where companies are working over distributed locations, or in global teams.

    basic can work with you to create document or knowledge networks, improve workflow and allow instant information access anytime, anywhere, or according to security rules that you might define. We work with a variety of application providers and in fact, have partnered with key scanner manufacturers to allow our own dynamic document management tools to seriously improve information flow through the organisation.


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