Overcoming the Document Tracking ChallengeWritten by Joe Miller
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Let’s begin by chiseling down your 167 million choices by examining software that will meet your businesses document tracking needs. Digital Thread As you search through torrent of document tracking software available today you will notice a technology which propels some document tracking software ahead of rest. This technology is called Digital Thread. Document tracking with Digital Thread means that any document can be tracked through its various edits by a tag in metadata of document. As drafts of document are sent back and forth, you will always be informed as to who’s, what’s, when’s, where’s, and how’s of document and its changes. Digital Signature The Digital Thread has successfully overcome challenge of document tracking, and now Digital Signature comes into play by displaying in your outlook or whenever you open a document, who’s, what’s, when’s, where’s, and how’s of document and its drafts. Document tracking enables you to know exactly what you are looking for right when you open document. Version History Often times a visual map or a family tree of your document simplifies document tracking process. Version history puts all of document tracking pieces together in a genealogy of drafts, which describes who’s, what’s, when’s, where’s, and how’s of document tracking process.

Joe Miller is specialist in online advertising. For more information on document tracking, please visit NextPage.com.
| | Workflow Management Software: Businesses are Getting into the FlowWritten by Joe Miller
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These do not have to be challenges. There is a way to whittle down 8 million options available to find one that is easy to use and meets all of your business’s needs. In searching for workflow management software, most businesses are not interested in adding new IT to their technology. They simply want software that will work for them minute it is downloaded. Search for workflow management software that does not require IT. It is easy to use and it is not at all intimidating. It is helpful to use free demo to see exactly how workflow management software helps you to track document workflow and to see if it is what your business is looking for. In addition to simple workflow management software, compatible software is what studies show businesses are looking for. By compatible, I mean that businesses use email to collaborate. That means that attachments are often included. Is there workflow management software able to track documents through email and computer drives? Is there workflow management software able to work with most common office applications? The answer to both questions is yes. New technologies are now available in workflow management software that enables you to track documents and its changes through email, desktops, and hard drives. This technology is called Digital Thread, and it threads document versions together, tracking who’s, what’s, when’s, where’s, and how’s of documents. That information is displayed every time you open up a document version from email or any other drive on your computer through Digital Signature. You always know what you are working on. If you need to see bigger picture or family tree of document versions, Version History compiles and displays a document genealogy for you. Tracking and tracing document steps through workflow management software puts you on solid ground again as you manage ebb and flow of a day at office.

Joe Miller is specialist in online advertising. For more information on workflow management software, please visit NextPage.com.
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