Document management to minimize impacts of business disasters.

Businesses continuity planning increases in importance as businesses of all sizes must recover from disasters more quickly today that in the past to meet customer demands. With the average 3 drawer filing cabinet holding 18,000 sheets of paper, significant amounts of critical business information is in jeopardy when digital document storage and back-up systems are not in place.

What is a disaster?

Businesses should be aware that many hazards they face today could results in a disaster to operations and information. Disasters born out of natural occurring events like tornadoes, floods and hurricanes spring to mind for most people. But consider the impact of widespread illness or pandemics, human-caused events such as acts of violence by people and acts of terrorism and technology-related failures or system malfunctions.

What documents are critical to digital storage & back-up?

Critical documents may be described as those vital to your organization’s survival and to the continuation of business operations.

1. Sensitive to downtime
2. Fulfill legal or financial compliance
3. Key to maintaining market share and reputation
4. Safeguard an irreplaceable asset

Examples of such documents are invoices, contracts, customer records, patient data, audit documentation, research reports, intellectual property and more. Conducting an analysis to identify critical business functions can help identify the critical business documents.

What are consequences of losing document information?

• Lost Revenue
• Delayed Revenue
• Increased Expenses (recreating documents, overtime, outsourcing, etc.)
• Regulatory Fines
• Decrease in Customer Satisfaction
• Loss of Customers
• Loss of New Business

What is document management?

Document management systems allow businesses to scan, store and manage document information digitally so that the information is accessible from any device anywhere.