Over the years, document management systems have evolved to the point where they've become a major contributing factor to the productivity of your organization... or they can be, under the best possible circumstances. So how do you lean into the strengths that make these solutions so powerful, taking advantage of those "best circumstances" at every opportunity? By making seven little changes to your approach that add up to a big, big difference before you know it.

M-Files is launching a new online user community on March 15. In the weeks prior to launch, it's a good time to take a step back and consider online user communities in general. What do they do? What needs do they serve? And why are they so important for SaaS success? It used to be that technology adoption was viewed as a relatively simple transaction — with a clear start and end. Decide what software you need. Buy it. Learn how to use it. Done.

Does it take way too long for your organization to adopt an ECM system? You are not alone. Many organizations face humongous implementation projects with the added complication of data migration before they can actually realize real benefits from their ECM investment. Any software solution only brings value if end users embrace it and adapt it to their daily routines. And the users will be happy to adapt only when the solution is easy to learn and use.

It’s truly difficult to put into numbers just how enormous the change represented by COVID-19 has been to us all. Seemingly overnight, the ongoing pandemic (that we’re still firmly in the middle of) changed the way we work, the way we communicate, the way we collaborate and so much more.

If you had to make a list of all the things that are critical for small business compliance, the successful management of source documents would be right at the top. This is especially true for accounting firms, in particular, who are dealing with massive volumes of documents — like bills, invoices, receipts, and anything else related to countless transactions on a daily basis.

One of the most important things that business leaders need to realize is that outdated technology – especially a document management solution – isn’t just frustrating. It can literally be costing an organization money in more ways than one. In this article, we’ll discuss four benefits of a document management system.

According to Nitro, workers spend an average of 50% of their time creating and preparing documents. Yet, document issues account for more than 21% of daily productivity loss. Businesses depend on information — documents, files, data, content… everything. It is the lifeblood of just about every organization. The past few years have seen a reckoning for companies in how they capture, store, structure, and disseminate information within the organization.

Thanks to the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic, more and more businesses find themselves in urgent need of a digital transformation to stay afloat. This includes both organizations who were previously interested in the idea but who didn’t think it would happen quite so quickly, along with those who never really gave it much thought at all.

2020 was a year of unprecedented challenge for the whole world — when what we thought of as normal did not exist anymore. Everyone had to adjust to new ways of working and a business community that was suddenly closing its doors after a long period of increasing global movement. In M-Files, we face the same challenge of suddenly moving to home offices across the globe. For us, it was quite straightforward though, as M-Files is designed to enable remote work from anywhere.

In March of 2020, during the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic, employees in just about every industry suddenly found themselves working remotely indefinitely. Telecommuting had long been seen as the future of work, but few could have predicted that this “brave new world” would have come along quite as soon as it did.