Whether personal or in business, a person can get frustrated looking for a document through files with no system. When one system such as the alphabetic filing system is used for all documents, the ...

She doesn't stand with her sabre in hand, on guard at the door to the world of electronic documents, but she provides a human element in document security. As a document control clerk, she works with ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

Managing medical documentation is a complex challenge for health system laboratories, which must maintain document control in order to protect patient privacy, standardize testing procedures and ...

If information is power, document control officers, or DCOs, open and close the door to the powerhouse. They work with other specialists to operate information systems that move information to the ...

As we move further into the digital age, paperless systems are becoming a more appealing way to deal with document management and storage. Instead of physical filing systems and cabinets taking up ...

People should no longer have to append their initials to a document's file name or use other naming conventions to track document versions and collaborate. Unfortunately, this method still happens.

Businesses have never had to manage as much data as they do today. From invoices and contracts to reports and emails, companies handle an overwhelming volume of information every day. Keeping those ...

Split your metadata from your files, and suddenly your sluggish document system becomes fast, scalable and surprisingly cheap to run. When I was tasked with modernizing our enterprise document ...

Imagine for a moment that you are the CEO of a cutting-edge medical device manufacturing firm. You have just gotten your product to market after years of R&D, regulatory submissions, etc. Within ...