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Top five reasons your firm needs e-mail and document information management


Johannesburg, 25 Aug 2017

It's a competitive world out there and whether you're a lawyer, architect, engineer or contractor, the need to organise your e-mails and documents is critical. Organised information saves you time, and saving time saves money.

1. Are your e-mails overflowing?

People spend two to three hours a day on e-mail-related activities, consuming 20%-30% of their business day. Firms with document information management systems spend minutes, not hours, with e-mail.

2. Can you find your firm's critical documents?

Six in 10 firms rely on network folders to manage projects, but face inconsistent file structures, accidental deletion, drag-and-drop displacement hindering productivity and negatively impacting utilisation. Firms can proactively manage documents through the entire legal life cycle instead of waiting until the matter is complete to start organising files.

3. How quickly can you find critical documents?

Firms can spend hours, if not days, tracking down critical project information, wasting valuable resources and critical project time. With project information management, firms can find drawings or documents completed yesterday, last week or last year in a matter of minutes.

4. Do your teams struggle to share and manage files internally and externally?

Only 9% of firms have a single enterprise-wide collaboration system. Yet, 75% believe sharing documents is the most important way to improve collaboration.

5. Is your firm's information a liability or an asset?

The average cost of a single misplaced file is more than R1 000. Think of that times the number of files in just a single project. An effective document management strategy could reduce cost by 30% and lower risk by 23%.

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Maria Fernandez-Krawitz
Silversoft
(+27) 11 656 5298
maria@silversoft.co.za