Happy New Year! Here’s hoping the New Year brings a lot of peace, happiness and prosperity to all of us!
As we move ahead with the New Year, I wanted to share my views on what I think are some of the information management challenges that business will face in 2013…
But document management can make teams more efficient in any department. For e.g. Legal teams can handle creation, review, approval and renewals of agreements and other documents. A large part of the hiring process can be streamlined by using document management in the HR department.
2012 was the year of the tablet PC. Amazon, Google and Microsoft all had interesting launches this year in addition to Apple and Samsung. Businesses must now deal with another device from which information will be accessed. Another device which can be lost or stolen easily just like the smartphones.
Businesses need to work harder to deal with such eventualities. It is not difficult to block access to a device once it is reported lost or stolen. But only having a product with a strong audit trail will tell you what was viewed, modified or deleted till the time access was blocked.
The days of the business user largely using Windows based desktop and notebook PCs is well and truly behind us. Today it would not be uncommon for the user to have a Windows Desktop machine, an Apple MacBook, an iPad tablet and an Android smartphone. The challenge is to make information accessible from all such devices with equal ease without adding IT management or training burden. This means having a uniform method of information access across devices. At ITAZ we will be concentrating on this challenge in 2013.
Documents and information in GLOBODOX can already be accessed via our top notch Windows Desktop Client, our web client for Desktop based web browsers and our lite web client designed to work on mobile web browsers. Our plan is to hugely enhance all three to make them even faster and easier to work with. We want each client to be similar but we want each to exploit the strength of the device being used.