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March 21: International Day of Forests

Through its extensive and comprehensive approach, the legal industry often necessitates copious mountains of paper usage. Due to various acts and bylaws focused on record retention, legal professional quickly find themselves surrounded by this paper.

Document Management Solutions for the Concrete Industry

Struggling with managing and retrieving your delivery tickets? Octacom can help. Octacom’s Electronic Document Management Solutions for the Concrete Industry leverages our secure document processing, intelligent data capture processes, and software to bring your delivery tickets to your fingertips from any device. With Octacom’s Portal, you can efficiently upload, access, search and generate analytics on […]

Optimizing Electronic Health Records to Deliver Better Care

Everything is being converted to digital under the new EHR systems from x-ray images, post-operative reports, prescription histories and more!

Document Scanning Services for Human Resource Files

Employees are a company’s greatest asset and that’s why protecting and managing their records is vital to their long-term success. Tasks such as hiring, conducting performance reviews and providing safety awareness are just some key responsibilities of employers and/or their Human Resources departments. Documenting all this information can be a paper-intensive process, thus making it […]

New Year’s Resolution: Digitize your AP Documents

The beginning of a new year is the perfect time to review your company’s processes and see how they can be made more efficient. One of the best places to start is by reviewing your accounts payable processes. The accounts payable department is essential to keep your company running smoothly. In today’s business world, improving AP […]

The Benefits of Document Scanning and Document Management for Auto Dealerships

Auto dealerships generate hundreds of paper documents every day including but not limited to loan forms, leasing agreements and sales contracts. They also have to maintain for a period of 6 years the records of each sale, lease, consignment contract, Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) and copies of Safety Standards Certificates. Keeping these documents in the […]

5 Benefits of Document Management for the Real Estate Industry

The real estate industry involves huge quantities of signed paper documents. Many of these documents must be stored for several years at a time, due to laws that real estate agencies must follow. As a result, there is a significant risk of human error and documents can be misfiled or lost. Staying organized, finding documents […]

November 9, 2017 is World Paper Free Day!

For Octacom, EVERY DAY is World Paper Free Day! However, while we know the importance of transitioning from paper processes to electronic, many individuals and businesses still aren’t sold on the idea. On November 9th join in the campaign to raise awareness and help reduce the amount of paper generated inside and out of the […]

Engineering: The Benefits of Digitizing Large Format Documents

In industries such as engineering, architecture, construction and manufacturing, large-format paper drawings and documents are commonplace. Their large size makes them more vulnerable to being damaged when handled and they also take up a lot of valuable office space, as well as being hard to copy and share. Once digitized and indexed, oversized documents are […]

Proof of Delivery and Waybill Scanning and Software: Automate Your Proof of Delivery Process

What if you could speed up many of the time-consuming tasks related to your proof of delivery process? Normally, paper proof of delivery documents have to be handled by several people before being scanned and saved in a system. During this time-consuming process, documents can get damaged or lost causing slow customer invoicing and making […]

Document Scanning for Children’s Aid Societies

Through Children’s Aid Societies, Ontario is working to help children across the province gain a stronger sense of family and community. Children continue to suffer from abuse and neglect, and it is the community’s responsibility to ensure the safety and support they need. In order for the Children’s Aid Societies to achieve this, case files, […]

Go Paperless with eStatements

Are you still sending paper statements to your clients? Paper-based companies are struggling to keep up with the new digital age. Traditional statements require a constant supply of paper, printing material, postage, staff to print, fold and mail paper statements monthly and also require arrangements with a postal or shipping service. eStatements are identical electronic […]

The Benefits of an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) System

Patient medical records are the backbone of providing top quality medical services. They are necessary to provide medical practitioners with a detailed background of a patient, enabling them to give the appropriate advice and treatment. The retention of these critical documents is encompassed in the Public Hospitals Act (PHA) – Regulation 965 – Section 20(3) […]