With all the buzz surrounding Artificial Intelligence (AI), like new, practical applications and continually emerging use cases, it’s important to recognize the profound impact it’s making on digital transformation. Recent advancements in Document AI and OCR technology have revolutionized our ability to interact with digital content. This technology offers a significantly higher level of accuracy, all while reducing the costs typically associated with traditional OCR-based solutions. The Soon-Antiquated Templated Approach For many years, the challenge of converting images into useful informat ..read more

Information is the lifeblood of countless business decisions. Still, as organizations scale and information accumulates, it can become challenging to manage, leading to bottlenecks, security concerns, collaboration issues, and other costly inefficiencies. Ensuring information flows freely throughout your business is essential for productive processes, but implementing a system to facilitate this flow takes time, resources, and, ultimately, investments. Below is an excerpt from Square 9’s Enterprise Content Management (ECM) guide detailing what ECM is, how it differs from document management ..read more

Running a successful farm relies on informed decisions; like all organizations, those decisions are fueled by information. Whether maintaining regulatory compliance, managing contracts, or ensuring smooth financial operations, agriculture requires a controlled but accessible flow of data that, when bottlenecked by manual processes, can lead to disorganization, sour vendor relationships, legal penalties, and lengthy, inefficient processes. Intelligent information management solutions eliminate these bottlenecks and free data for a more agile, easy-to-work-with, compliant, and efficient agricul ..read more

School districts are undergoing a transformative shift, investing heavily in records management, primarily through student information systems, the market for which is expected to grow by 12.4% between 2019 and 2029. These systems help manage the day-to-day documents produced in the classroom, but for cumulative records such as grade reports, health records for individual student needs, and supplemental records that ensure students are receiving proper accommodations, student information systems cannot provide necessary protections such as FERPA and HIPAA compliance. These systems also cannot ..read more

Hectic audits, inefficient back-office processes, and difficult-to-fulfill customer requests are all familiar challenges for Manufacturing plants, most of which stem from information management challenges. As a manufacturer, how do you ensure convenient yet secure access to this information for more streamlined operations? Intelligent information management for manufacturing takes advantage of ECM, OCR, web forms, and workflow automation to facilitate the flow of information within your plant for simplified audits, enhanced customer service, and more efficient processes. Here’s how: Enhanced ..read more

From their early days as a rudimentary form of data collection to their evolution into a cornerstone of nearly all interactive online interfaces, web forms have certainly seen their share of innovation. As organizations continue moving closer to entirely paperless environments where the flow of information begins and ends digitally, web forms have become preferred for generating documents and capturing valuable business information without touching a pen or printer. Using web forms allows organizations to complete processes more efficiently and with less confusion by taking advantage of interf ..read more

The human resources landscape has been continuously changing for several years now, and HR professionals continue to find themselves balancing the need for creative, big-picture solutions with the ever-present daily needs of their organizations. With drastic shifts in the employee value proposition, difficulties acquiring top talent, and a workforce that continues to need re-engagement, it can be difficult to find time to field questions from other departments, manage the onboarding of new employees, and ensure that your department adheres to mandated regulatory compliance standards. Intellig ..read more

Accounts payable departments ensure that vendors are paid on time and that the goods received by your organization live up to the standards agreed upon. But with frequent approval bottlenecks, lost and misplaced invoices, and monotonous keystrokes spent entering data into your financial system, clear signs become evident that an automated accounts payable solution is now needed. AP automation software can drastically reduce the amount of time spent on time-consuming tasks such as invoice processing and data entry while providing clear, organized access to documents and information through clo ..read more

Your Accounts Receivable department works hard to ensure customers pay for the goods and services they purchase from you in a timely manner, but in many cases, operational inefficiencies make this more of an ideal than a consistent reality. In fact, according to a recent study by The Philadelphia Inquirer, 93% of businesses experience late payments for their services, and according to the 2022 Atrius Payment Practices Barometer covered by Forbes, 47% of credit sales are paid late. These late payments can drastically affect your business’s revenue streams, hindering your organization’s plans ..read more

Paper invoices and manual accounts payable processes result in a soul-crushing, profit-sapping productivity drain that smothers innovation and damages your bottom line. But by taking advantage of accounts payable automation, challenges such as invoice matching, invoice routing, data entry, and lost time can be overcome with ease, leading to reduced costs, increased productivity, and more time for the mission-centric aspects of your organization. Below are two excerpts from our expert guide for accounts payable automation. For more information on developing your automation strategy a ..read more