Fighting climate change has undoubtedly become, and rightly so, one of the major drivers of people's behavior in recent years. At the same time, the importance of sustainability to business has grown too. Whilst companies have to a large extent realized their responsibility on sustainability, the ability to find ways to become ever more environmentally healthy remains a challenge.

Regardless of the type of organization you're running or even the industry that you're operating in, all businesses are at their best when they are equal parts organized and efficient. This is why your business processes are ultimately one of the most important parts of your operation on a daily basis — they help empower sustainability, encourage growth, and make it easier to unlock new levels of efficiency, all at the exact same time.

Anyone who has ever worked in an office can tell you that filing cabinets are incredibly common. Some have them placed strategically throughout the office, others have them in entire rooms dedicated to records management. But regardless, they're a necessary part of doing business that leaders in nearly every industry can attest to. ... or are they?

One of the most important things to understand about the data that your business is creating is that you're talking about so much more than just a collection of files sitting on a hard drive somewhere. Contained within that data is the context and insight you need to not only understand how far your organization has come, but also to better predict where it might be headed.

For years, businesses have been leveraging technology to automate a lot of those important yet time consuming administrative tasks that take too much of an employee's focus away from more important matters. AP management software, for example, can be used to automate everything from invoice receipt and management to electronic payments, reporting and analytics, supplier management and more.

Over the past few years, content services have fallen into one of two different categories: transactional or collaborative. Transactional content, as the name suggests, directly relates to the case management content that businesses are working with on a daily basis. Collaborative content, on the other hand, has to do with all of those project-related documents that people are tracking to actively do their jobs.

Risk managers are facing possibly their biggest challenge in these pandemics hit times. Increasing regulatory pressures, complex demand from remote worker management, aligned with previously unseen volumes of data. This perfect storm of circumstances is driven by the complexity and demands of risk management, each with their own unique compliance and regulatory challenges. Across all sectors, radical transformation is required to address increasing internal and external challenges.

At M-Files, our goal is to provide knowledge workers with the connected content and intelligent automation they need to empower a smarter way to work. However, we wouldn’t be who we are today without our amazing customers.