Every organization has a document management system. Most of them stink – robbing the business of time, space and money. Evil. But necessary. Many still stuff paper in an ever growing farm of filing cabinets. Others use their individual email software to house and organize things electronically. Still others are saving their documents into folders […]
It’s a beautiful summer day, and you have a quick half hour before you can escape to the golf course. Then, your client calls, searching for a copy of an important document. Naturally your boss is on vacation. You need to track down her latest, approved version of the frequently revised “Project X Timeline.” The […]
The $25,000 4-Drawer File Cabinet There are more than 4 trillion paper documents in the U.S. alone, according to a recent report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Most are still stored in standard file cabinets. We’re guessing some of these 4 trillion documents are yours. That’s why we’d like to share a simple breakdown of what that […]
Did you ever need to track different versions – or revisions – of a document? You are not alone… This is really common in engineering settings with drawings and work instructions. Its also critical for ISO-certified companies that need to ensure that each revision of a document or work instruction is tracked adequately, and that […]
Protecting the original from the office’s notorious “oopsie” over-writer How many times have you lost something valuable because someone else has overwritten one of your documents. Maybe you’ve done this on occasion yourself. An innocent edit, then a click of the save button and poof – its too late to go back. There is a really […]
Once you move your documents to digital, how do you staple them together. It used to be so easy with paper! Dash DDX Document Management Viewer has the answer…
COOL STUFF YOU CAN DO WITH DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE: Hacks from Dash The fact is, many people don’t even know there’s such a thing as document management software. Even people who do– gulp, including the people who USE our document management software–don’t know some of the amazingly things they can do with it. We know […]
Each four-drawer file cabinet holds an average of 10,000 to 12,000 documents, takes up to 9 square feet of floor space and costs $1,500 per year to maintain. – Paperless Project
If might seem like PDF’s are all the same. That’s their evil plan! You’re supposed to think that. But, the PDF specification is pretty broad and allows for some pretty radical differences in the way they are constructed. It’s a great framework for developers wishing to create software to consistently display documents across many platforms. […]
A PDF describes a file format. It’s not Adobe, or Acrobat – though Adobe, and it’s Acrobat product, are huge players in the PDF world. Typically, its file name has a suffix of “pdf”. What is PDF good for? PDF stands for “Portable Document Format”. It is an open standard embraced by the International Standards […]