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Making resolutions for the year ahead is a time-honored tradition. Whether you are a goal-chaser who religiously checks off each resolution, or the one who just likes to follow the tradition, there’s no better time to reflect on the past year and plan for the next....
Empowering a Flexible Workforce
Most people in our industry know Nuix has powerful and scalable tools for solving eDiscovery, investigation, information governance, and other problems. What some may not know if that most of this technology can be run remotely, meaning work can continue and people...
Real-World Information Management Use Case: Four-Eye Review and Approval
At its core, the concept behind the Four Eyes principle is a simple one — it’s simply a matter of getting two different people to approve some type of action before it can be taken. You’ve no doubt heard the old saying of “two heads are better than one.” This is...
Digital Transformation at Scale: 5 Game-Changing Factors
While it’s absolutely true that no two digital transformations are created equally, maybe the most important factor for digital transformation at scale is that it begins and ends as true company-wide efforts. Without a clear understanding of the importance of the...
How Automation in the Workplace Can Help Every Type of Business
Automation in the workplace is when computers perform the types of tasks that would normally require human intervention, thus freeing up the valuable time of living, breathing employees so that they can focus on those matters that truly need them. These days,...
How to find and use work order data
A tale of lost and found work order data No data means working in the dark The maintenance team at Voltalia had a big problem. They were closing over 104,000 work orders every year with no work order data to show for it. The renewable energy producer and service...
5 Things Professional Services Companies Should Look for in an ECM
For professional services companies like consultants, accountants, legal professionals and others, success so often comes down to their ability to forge deeper and longer lasting relationships with their clients than their competitors. Anyone can provide a service —...
From Information Chaos to Intelligent Insights: Making Sense of Data, One Step at a Time!
As a business leader, there is a plethora of information that your organization has to deal with—physical and electronic documents, data generated by multiple business processes, workflows, mobile apps, and various communication channels, including social media, and...
4 Ways to Boost User Adoption of Your Information Management System
Change is certainly tough on any organization — the scope, scale or specific nature of that change doesn’t actually matter. Some changes are major — like with digital transformation initiatives. When an organization decides that they are investing in a new information...
A six-step plan for conquering work order backlog
When maintenance backlog gets out of control The National Parks Service has a serious problem with backlog. And it’s costing everyone. The cost of maintenance backlog at over 400 national parks across the United States was recently billed at $12 billion. That’s 500%...
3 Weak Spots Where Your Information Governance Breaks Down
To say that information governance is critical in the fast-paced digital era that we’re currently living in is probably a little bit of an understatement. Every day, businesses are creating countless volumes of data that contain the insight necessary to guarantee...
The Time to Restore Your Document-centric Processes is Now!
Remember the time when we could touch any document and meet our colleagues freely? With COVID-19, things have changed drastically. We have become physically distant and wary of handling documents. This has affected our decision-making, customer service, and overall...
Four Reasons Maintenance Software Can Suck
There is a scene in the movie Office Space where the three main characters take out their rage on a printer with a baseball bat. The machine is nothing but rubble by the end. It’s an incredibly therapeutic two minutes. Probably because we’ve all been there. We’ve all...
What is a Document Management System? And Why is it Useful?
What is a document management system? Put simply, a document management system is an automated business software solution used to organize, secure, store, capture, digitize, and tag business files. Many document management systems extend beyond basic functionality to...
The 5 Sources of Digital Transformation Failure
At its core, a digital transformation is all about taking the business you have today and helping it evolve into the organization you WANT to be running tomorrow through a newer and more innovative approach to technology. It’s a way to modernize your infrastructure,...
Getting a Bang for Your Buck: How to Optimize Your Low Code Investment
Low code, which emerged onto the technology scene in 2014, has taken the application development market by storm. Enterprises across all industries are rapidly adopting low code solutions, especially following the unprecedented demand for digitization in 2020as a...
Why Metadata is as Important as the Data Itself
The sheer volume of information being created on a daily basis by the average business is staggering. In fact, it’s been estimated that more data has been created in the last two years alone than in the entirety of human history leading up to that point. Contained...
How to Plan and Schedule Work Orders Like the Best Maintenance Teams
What happens when work order plans go wrong The maintenance team at Century Aluminum was fighting an uphill battle from day one. “The philosophy has been, ‘It’s what goes out the door that counts,” said millwright Linda Sibley in this interview with Reliable Plant,...