No matter the industry you’re in, your biggest asset today is your information. This information often includes unstructured data as well as miscellaneous documents. These documents are often the basis of most corporate decisions, business evaluations, and transactions of all sorts.
Because documents are your biggest asset, a Document Management System becomes your most essential and critical tool. While many focus on the complexity of the capabilities behind such solutions, others fail to recognize their benefits.
Why is document management important? Below are the top 4 benefits:
1- Maintaining the Security of your Documents
Documents within your company may contain a lot of compromising information, such as confidential business data, or customer information subject to GDPR. Document Management Software allows the protection of documents by issuing authorized access to designated key personnel while tracking actions in audit trails, protecting documents from unsolicited access or leaking. It also protects the documents electronically on the platform, compared to paper-based documents that can be lost or damaged in storage units and unmaintained archives.
2- Enabling Simplified Collaborations
DMS Software can allow access to different documents from different locations from the same platform using blockchain technology. It can access silos and allow third-parties limited access to create, review, and approve documentation to the extent they are provided power. Collaborations are simplified by gaining real-time access to documents, and the ability to track versions and collaborators. It also allows off-site employees and personnel to have the same access to documents, capabilities, and privileges.
3- Improved Classification
DMS Software allows documents to be classified and stored within a central repository. Using a plug-in architecture, you can apply specific compliance rules that allow you to automatically categorize your documents. DMS can reduce the risk of bad filing and loss of documents by moving documents to a new location, creating labeled folders, building a hierarchical system for directories, and indexing documents.
4- Increased Efficiency
Finally, most benefits of a good DMS system can be summed in one word “Efficiency”. DMS Solutions can help companies access documents from anywhere within their corporation or any included third-parties they are collaborating with. Documents can be accessed with swift and precision without the cost of archives, document maintenance, and all the wasted time searching for information, files, or specific data.
If you would like to learn more about Intalio‘s Document Management System, you can register for our next free webinar to be held on September 22, 2021.
