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How metadata can streamline business functions to maximise employees’ time

Did you know employees spend almost 20% of their time every week trying to find information and documents? As the amount of data continues to grow, finding folders, documents, images or other files becomes much more time consuming.

A streamlined document management solution (DMS) that incorporates metadata means files can be found easily and quickly, no matter where they are stored.

Check out how metadata can help combat these inefficiencies.

Five business processes you should have automated by now

No one enjoys doing manual, repetitive tasks day in and day out, with little opportunity to contribute creatively to the business. The invention of automated processes to take on this administrative burden has come as a welcome relief to people who crave more variety and less tedium in their working day. Automation

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7 Reasons Why Your Business Needs Document Management

In theory, managing documents in digital form should be saving your business time and money. However, if your staff are still wasting time searching for, saving or emailing documents, then it might be time to explore in the benefits of a document management solution.

Nasir Khan shares 7 key reasons why you should consider adopting a Document Management Solution that goes beyond your network folders.

How digital workflows help with meeting Chain of Responsibility (CoR) requirements

Did you know that the ‘Chain of Responsibility’ laws places responsibility on all members of the supply chain from company directors to dispatchers, as well as loaders and drivers?

In other words, if your company was involved in any part of a vehicle load that causes an accident or injury you could be liable.

Adopting digital processes can help ensure safety and compliance. Protect your company with automation, including load approval & progression workflows, photo capture and autoated non-compliance notifications, to reduce risk.

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How to Tackle Process Improvement

Continuing to find new ways to deliver better efficiencies, visibility and productivity is an important element to growth and innovation.

But with so many varied processes, departments and requirements within a company, knowing where to start Process Improvement can become an overwhelming concept.

Check out what Nasir Khan has to say with 5 key tips to help you navigate your journey to a successful process improvement.

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The role of document management solutions in keeping your data healthy

Like humans, your data needs regular health checks. Data continues to grow exponentially and, in this era of digitalisation, it is apparent that organisations need to review their data and the plans they have in place to manage, secure, and analyse that data so that it delivers maximum value. A document management solution can play a key role in helping to keep that data healthy.

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Why IIM is the best way to access and share documents securely from anywhere

Document management solutions, with intelligent information management (IIM) lets an organisation manage its data more effectively. Added IIM offers new capabilities that help to create a more productive and cooperative organisation.

Find out how it helps maintain higher levels of security while improving document accessibility, and ultimately helps you spend less time and money on finding and managing documents.

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How to find, manage, and process documents with ease

In theory, managing documents in digital form instead of paper form should be saving your business time and money. However, if your staff members are still wasting time looking for, saving or emailing documents around, chasing approvals, and struggling to remember which is the latest version, then it might be time to invest in a robust document management solution.

Boost RTO compliance and maintain funding with DMS

Is paper based record keeping putting your Registered Training Organisation funding at risk?

Proving student enrollments and attendance are legitimate is critical  for RTO’s to maintain government funding.

Digitised that student records and documents helps ensure your RTO is audit ready and compliant, and that you’re able to quickly and easily locate relevant information. It also allows staff to electronically access, track and update information while ensuring document security.

Check out the Educator for more.

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Breezing through an Audit

Tired of worrying about the significant ramifications of failing an audit? Even with the right information available, the process of retrieving relevant files is often a manual, hugely time-consuming and labour-intensive task that’s prone to human error. With the right information management solutions in place, an audit could be no more onerous than any other business activity.

Read what Matthew Coad has to say about how Document Management Solutions can take the stress, time and hassle out of audits – keeping your business compliant, digitally.

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How partnering with M-Files helps Upstream deliver better solutions for you

Upstream and M-Files offer expertise and solution for document management and information access.

Upstream’s partnership with M-Files helps us create new, and streamline existing, business processes across all aspects of a business including accounts payable, human resources and proof of delivery. In turn, this helps you improve document management and information access in these areas for a better, more efficient user experience while at the same time increasing compliance.