Document Management - Anywhere

Our newest offering at Printer Connection is not a printer at all.

Our PCI Solutions joint venture is seeking and presenting tools for today's market for the life of the information bound up in the legacy of the path of documents.

Or, as I wanted to say on a phone call with a vendor yesterday - "Huh? What did you just say?"

In plain words, folks are not printing nearly as much now as they did in the past, and they would like to print even less. Why? The customer preference statistics are clear with all the mobile devices (pocket computers/portals), ubiquitous email and web-enabled avenues for communication - and it's cheaper to send an email with a PDF or a web-address than a bill or statement in a letter.

Part of the promise of 'electrifying' the document is good electronic filing, recovery and re-use. Part of the solution needs to be in saving it and finding it later.

Welcome Fortis and FortisBlue from Westbrook Technologies to the product lineup available from Printer Connection and PCI Solutions.

Fortis is a powerful enterprise content management software solution that electronically captures, stores, and organizes documents, data, images, etc., thus enabling immediate and reliable access to critical information whenever and wherever it's needed. Fortis promotes efficient knowledge sharing by allowing easy retrieval, editing, annotating, and distribution of documents. Quickly obtain the decision-making information you need and provide superior service to clients, customers, and partners.

FortisBlue is a browser-based content management software solution that captures, archives, searches, annotates, retrieves and safeguards paper and electronic documents and data. It is accessible from the Internet or an intranet making it an affordable solution, of particular value for first-time users of content management.

Our blog has covered PlanetPress and PP Capture in previous entries. FortisBlue integrates with PlanetPress Capture and allows significantly powerful management of all PP documents with thin-client or mobile network of all authorized document access.

We are excited to add this strong technology to our growing list of "Print Less and Print Better" offerings.... ok, I'll say it since everyone else does --- SOLUTIONS.

For more information, contact Warren Neeley at wneeley@pciprinters.com or 817-939-5614.

Would you rather have prints or e-docs?

Don Dew, ADF Solutions Manager at InfoPrint wrote in the InfoPrint ADF Savings blog:

I returned home from work last night to find a letter from the State of New York, where I lived 3 years ago, stating I was “selected for review for possible audit.” Yay. Now I need to dig out old returns, brokerage statements, info about the house we sold, and most likely jump through hoops to see if I can prove to them why they should get another couple of bucks out of me.

That’s a lot of personal info. With spyware, keyloggers, viruses, and hackers – why would I want that on my computer? It screams “steal my identity”! An alternative is to save everything to a secure USB drive, and access it independent of the Internet when you want to file or review highly sensitive personal information.

I work in an IT world for a living. The last thing I want to do when I get home is be "Director of MIS" at the house. How well are all my systems backed up, firewalls, virus scanners, redundant systems, photos, purchased iTunes safe (and on and on)?

Sure. Makes sense. Simply put it on a USB thumbdrive and save it. And don't misplace it. And don't let the kids use it for that oh-so-critical file that just-has-to-be-moved right now.

Anyone still have VHS tapes around? Did you ever tape over them for another show? Do you have them all labeled and cataloged and easy to find? Did you capture miles of presents being opened on the kid's tapes, and why do we ever tape what was in the presents?

How easy is it now to find important 'things', and how are you going to manage the really important e-files that much better?

If I handle my bank and investment documents like my iTunes and photos, I'm in trouble.