Canada working on measures in response to U.S. inflation act -finance minister – Yahoo Canada Finance
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(Reuters) – Canada Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Wednesday the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act impacts Canada and that Ottawa was working on new measures to respond to the legislation.
"You will see some of that (new measures) in the fall economic statement and you'll see further action in the budget in the spring," Freeland told reporters in Windsor, Ontario.
"This is a far reaching piece of legislation with a lot of different consequences for Canada and we are really, really focused on it," she said.
(Reporting by Ismail Shakil in Ottawa; Editing by Chris Reese)
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Nwosu: Robust Records Strategy Will Create Paper-lite Economy – THISDAY Newspapers
Chief Executive Officer, Secured Records Management Solutions, Dr. Sam Nwosu, speaks on the need for organisations to embrace robust records management strategy in order to reduce operational costs and loss of valuable records. Emma Okonji presents the excerpts:
Secured Records recently launched its second document archiving warehouse in Abuja. What informed the second launch?
As the foremost provider of end-to-end document management services in Nigeria, Abuja off-site document warehouse is positioned to improve our operations and extend our service footprint outside Lagos. As a growing company, we needed to extend the archiving services in regions other than Lagos, and Abuja was the best choice for the second warehouse, considering the high demand and need for the service. With a thriving clientele in Abuja, it became necessary for the federal capital territory to enjoy the excellent archiving service that we offer elsewhere. We are confident this will address the physical archiving needs of our clients as well as open the doors for potential clients.
Like our Lagos document warehouse, the Abuja Physical archiving facility has all essential world-class features to ensure confidentiality, safety, security, and document preservation. All physical documents are systematically and methodically stored in archival boxes and placed on storage racks with external labels, QR-codes for easy identification and retrieval. Our document warehouses come with the following features: climate controlled system, state-of-the-art racking system built to international standard, color-coded (QR codes) for secured and easy identification of client boxes, automated and customised inventory software, fire suppression system, alarm system for anti-burglary and theft, live CCTV surveillance, strict access to only authorised agents, and managed by experiences personnel.
Through the expansion, we strive to reinforce our commitment to offering comprehensive range of services including digital archiving, data warehousing, workforce automation, and customised software development.
With two document archiving warehouses in Lagos and Abuja, how will you describe the demand for document archiving in Nigeria. Is there likely going to be a third warehouse from Secured Records anytime soon?
Several factors drive the demand for document archiving in Nigeria when taking a holistic market review. This suggests that even after complete digitalisation, organisations are still saddled with the responsibility of keeping their physical documents throughout the retention period. The big question is: where should they keep those documents to ensure proper preservation as well as safety and security. Organisations are also actively seeking ways to reduce the time and cost of managing documents efficiently and effectively. In summary, these factors can influence the existence of a business, ensuring business continuity.
In today’s digital world, there is a shift in operations, especially post-covid, when many companies are adjusting to the new management reality in a world controlled by technology, among other reasons. Digital archiving has become increasingly popular for managing documents and increasing turnaround time. Despite the new reality, physical document archiving still has a healthy market: identifying what type of organiations still work with physical documents, why they do so, how they currently manage the process, and their location will help us understand how these organisations use documents today. We have visited clients with a heap of bags containing legacy documents occupying dedicated and sometimes, expensive workspaces.
Various organizations maintain these print records for different reasons, and according to regulations, organisations operating in diverse sectors are to retain certain documents for a particular period. Financial institutions, law firms, oil and gas companies, pension managers, and schools are a few examples.
Google search trends for relevant document archiving keywords over the past five years suggest that companies from Lagos, Abuja, and Port Harcourt are constantly looking for document archiving services.
Secured Records is open to launching more document warehouses in areas where we are able to determine high levels of demand, in line with our mission to be the foremost provider of end-to-end document management and secured software solutions in Africa.
The world is going digital in line with global digital transformation. How will you advise organisations that still practice paper-based documentation?
For organisations that still practice paper-based documentation, we typically share two views: Firstly is to help them understand the time and secondly, the monetary cost of managing a paper-based documentation system.
According to Gartner research, companies spend as much as three per cent of their revenue on paper. Included here is the cost of procuring the paper, before you get to the cost of printing and filing documents. Beyond this point, an organisation will deal with the logistic costs of managing the documents, including moving, storing, and disposing of documents, at the end of their retention periods.
With the retrieval or tracking of documents being a major challenge in most public and private sector organisations, we suggest the deployment of an Electronic Content Management (ECM) for managing documents in digital format and simplifying the document flow process to ensuring that documents are easy to retrieve, and tracked in a manner that ensures integrity, confidentiality, and authenticity.
Quite often we hear news of organisations experiencing calamities, ranging from floods and fires to hard drive crashes, which destroy their records with disastrous consequences for their business operations. The reality is that many organisations assume they will never experience such disaster, so never develop a plan for protecting one of their most valuable assets: records.
However, disasters do happen, and forward-thinking organisations are now actively putting in place a robust records management strategy to significantly reduce the impact, in terms of loss of valuable records and attendant costs.
To mitigate potential losses due to human errors, the necessity for automated workflow needs not be over-emphasised. With proper records management practice, an organisation can work from anywhere, realise significant cost reduction in running operations, improve response time, achieve accuracy, enhance productivity, and attain operational efficiency.
For organisations that have sensitive supply chains, where there are many moving parts interacting with one another, resilience and agility are necessary to adapt to changes on the fly. Physical document archiving is ideal when managing legacy records, that is, documents that are not consulted on a daily basis, but need to be preserved due to retention policies. For instance, the Nigerian court system still works with physical documents. Financial Auditors still tend to work with physical copies of relevant records so in cases like these, it become necessary to store physical documents in safe and secured facilities.
At Secured Records, we advise customers to digitize document backlogs, implement electronic content management for retrieval of digitized records, automation of repetitive manual processes to facilitate where from anywhere program, and store physical paper documents in a safe and secured facility for preservation and ease of retrieval when needed.
As technology develops faster than imagined, do you see Nigeria becoming a paper-lite nation anytime soon?
There are various factors to be considered when looking at becoming a paperless or paper-lite nation, and all centred on the peculiarities of the country.
Let’s start by looking at the public sector with most Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) still heavily reliant on paper-based operations. Courts for example, still depend on physical documentation records to operate. Businesses in other states still need to send hard copy documents to government organisations in Abuja and or their state counterparts.
In a lot of cases, there exists some internal resistance to change, combined with exogenous factors, which historically have frustrated such efforts in the past.
There are also concerns that paperless architecture may lead to load-shading, meaning that people may lose their jobs. I frown at this particular concern because similar arguments were put forward during the first and second industrial revolutions, where people were concerned about the potential job losses due to industrialization. Admittedly, jobs were lost, but many more lucrative jobs were created. Let us remember that people are still needed to scan documents and push them to the electronic records management platform, which serves as a repository and automation engine.
Notwithstanding these obstacles, so many government officials have demonstrated propensity to digitally transform their organisations. For us, it all started in 2019 when the Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, Dr. Zaynab Ahmed commissioned a pilot to test the viability of our electronic records management (ERM) as a starting point to achieving paperless-paper-lite ministry. She has since extended the program to include digitization of millions of records, deployment of electronic records management platform, mapping and automation of several manual processes, and tracking of all inbound and outbound documents. At the middle of COVID-19 pandemic, the Head of Service of the Federation, Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan, sent a circular to all MDAs to digitize and automate their processes to ensuring business continuity, operational efficiency, and productivity of the federal civil service. Others include the DG, Budget Office of the Federation, Comptroller-General of Nigerian Immigration Service, DG, NOSDRA, MD, Development Bank of Nigeria, ES, PTAD, Chairman of EFCC, and DG, Tetfund.
Today all manual processes at the Head of Service headquarters have been digitally mapped and are being automated. So I remain optimistic that with increasing interest and momentum from Heads of MDAs, more release of funds by the federal government, and a boost from the private sector industry captains like AIG Foundation, Nigeria will someday soon achieve Paper-lite workplace operations, and perhaps, reach paperless communications in a few years.
There is no doubt that the private sector is ahead of the public sector in adopting digital transformation. The pace was accelerated by the devastating impact of COVID-10 as many organisations were forced to lock down operations and not able to work from anywhere outside the corridors of their offices. I am aware that many private sector organizations are making efforts to transition to digital platforms, but several others are still heavily dependent on paper forms for their day-to-day operations. That said, I am optimistic about a paperless Nigeria.
In terms of capacity, how long will it take Secured Records to complete archiving of organisation’s document?
Good question. The answer to this question depends of several variables including the volume, the nature, and the retrieval mechanism. For digital archiving, we are capable of converting, indexing, classifying, and uploading of over 250,000 pages of documents per day, provided the customer provides adequate space. We come prepared with our staff, scanners, laptops, and all necessary equipment to complete the process. For the provision of electronic content management software, it could take just a few days. The process mapping and automation may take a few days to a few months depending on the number of manual processes to be mapped and automated. For physical archiving (off-site document storage), the implementation timeline once again depends on the complexity of sorting, data capturing, file planning, proximity from customer site to our warehouse, and the number of boxes to be stored.
I can unequivocally say that we are favourably disposed in providing end-to-end document management solutions – be it in digital imagery or physical configurations, and we have the capacity to scale up to meet the desired archival needs of our existing and potential customers.
Aside from creating more workspace, what are the other benefits of physical and digital document archiving?
Both digital and physical archiving, provide easy way to track, retrieve, and, manage documents, as well as ensuring documents retention compliance. This reduces the burden associated with time-wasting tasks of searching and retrieval, especially when working with tight deadlines.
Specifically, the following benefits are associated with physical archiving: (also known as off-site records management): safeguarding of documents from the risk of fire, flood, and destructive pests, spending minutes instead of hours or days in locating documents, protecting confidential documents from unauthorized access, ensuring business continuity as a backup to digital documentation, stands as the ultimate source of truth when digital information stored becomes questionable, and finally, ensuring document retention compliance.
For digital archiving, the benefits include: hedging against destructive incidents such as fire and flood, reduction in time and efforts in locating documents, reduction in cost of paper and all related paper-based filing, increase in productivity as a result of elimination of time-wasting efforts, and of course, enabling people to work from anywhere outside their primary places of work.
In the case of a fire outbreak, what is the best technology to store and retrieve physical and digital documents?
For physical documents, storing records in a controlled environment that is equipped with fire detection and suppression technology is the most ideal way to suppress and terminate a fire. What makes it a controlled environment is the fact that there are no electric circuits in the records management center, and this helps minimize the risk of electrical-induced fire outbreaks. The facility is equipped with FM200 fire suppression system, which automatically releases Co2 to put out the fire when smoke is detected or during fire outbreaks. Smoke detectors and nozzles are strategically positioned across the warehouse. There are thunder arrestors on the roof of the warehouse as a further measure against first incidents. Furthermore, CCTV is hooked to an inverter, which gets its power source from sola panelsr. The CCYV is monitored remotely and with security guards mounted 24×7, any incident of fire outbreak, which is highly unlikely, will be detected and quenched immediately.
For digital documents, Cloud-based technology such as ECM/EDMS will be more than enough to keep digital documents safe from fires. Unlike physical hard disk drives, once documents are uploaded into the cloud, they can be accessed from another location with the document owner’s credentials even if the office space where the digital document originates from is destroyed by fire. This is further strengthened by the provision of a disaster recovery site, which mirror data and provide backups and redundancies in case of a disaster.
Nigeria is entering into election year in 2023. How will you advise leaders to leverage technology in governance?
Embracing technology in governance will help improve accountability, productivity, efficiency, and transparency in all government operation, including in the conducts of elections.
The Electoral Act, signed into law by the president on February 25, 2022, will bring about significant changes to the Electoral Act that will affect the electoral process, specifically the use of technology and technology-enabled processes that will improve efficiency and transparency. Though I am not a lawyer, but I remember reading about some innovative sections of the Act that support the use of card readers, electronic voter authentication, and maintaining records in electronic and manual formats, as well as any other voter authentication technology deployed by INEC for conducting a transparent, effective, credible, and fair election.
Through these provisions, the commission can automate tasks using technology-enabled tools such as advanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for typed records and Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) for hand-written records for classification and characterisation, process automation using an Electronic Document Management System (EDMS), and data processing tools such as database management, optical scanning, and geographic information systems.
Elections can be conducted using technology in several ways, one of these ways is using electronic technology (E-Voting) to cast or count votes. E-voting has many advantages, including increasing participation among the youths and making elections more accessible to people with disabilities. As part of our ongoing commitment to the country’s continued progress, we are at the forefront of an end-to-end technology-driven service offerings. To restore trust in the election process and reduce turnaround times, the government must strictly adhere to the provisions of the Act.
The federal government is insisting that all MDAs must be Digitized. What is your take on this?
We believe this is a welcome development and a move in the right direction. We’ are happy to be a part of this transformative and game-changing initiative, and we believe this will be a catalyst to improve the operational efficiency of our MDAs. Already, there are early benefits for some MDAs we have worked with to digitize their processes. These benefits include improved manpower efficiency, improved accountability, improved transparency and communication. Information security is not left out as there are layers of access control to manage the digitized documents or electronic assets as we sometimes call them.
We have worked with some ministries in the past to digitize their document assets. This move is also environmentally friendly and in line with global climate protection policies.
Can you list some of your solutions and how robust are they in protecting organization’s documents?
In terms of document management, our bespoke warehouse management solution, which is focused on managing documents at our offsite records management facility was designed to assist clients in tracking their documents and retrieve them with ease.
Its features include an inventory tracker, an approval workflow for retrieving documents, and an archive reporting system.
The software assists in protecting the documents of organisations in the context of only approved individuals who can access the software to see what documents are stored in our facility and make retrievals, and even then, they would require approvals before documents can be retrieved.
Secured Records engineering team will continue releasing updates on the software, which are focused on expanding its functionality and benefits as well as security improvements. We also have several new products currently in development that we are excited about and we will be announcing more on this soon to the general public.
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What Is Microsoft SharePoint? 4 Features and Benefits of Using It – MUO – MakeUseOf
Microsoft SharePoint is a collaboration and file management tool that helps your professional and personal productivity. Here’s what you need to know!
A Microsoft 365 subscription gives you access to many productivity tools. The most intuitive, intelligent, and customizable one is SharePoint. A staggering 190 million people in more than 200,000 organizations of different sizes use SharePoint.
SharePoint can easily save time by eliminating the need for multiple tasks and project management apps. Eventually, you can invest more time to grow your professional career, freelance clients, or side hustles.
SharePoint is an online content management tool. It enables you to store files in the cloud for sharing and collaborative work. It can help you create sites and subsites to declutter tasks from different teams or individuals.
SharePoint allows you to create an intranet where you, your collaborators, and freelance clients securely work on a file or document. A centralized admin will control accesses so that each user can seamlessly open, edit, and save files.
SharePoint has many advanced functionalities that help you or your team in managing professional and personal works. The followings are some of the most frequently-used actions:
SharePoint works as a safe haven for all creative files such as app codes, graphic designs, audio clips, videos, website articles, invoices, etc. SharePoint offers other tools like data analysis, website templates, knowledge base templates, and project management workflows.
Therefore, its scope of use ranges from an individual content creator to large businesses. Many freelance professionals or small groups of creative individuals use SharePoint in different stages of software, mobile app, website, or content development projects.
The web-based SharePoint tool that comes with Microsoft 365 subscription is a robust yet simple productivity tool. The widely-used features that make it one of the best task and project management tools are:
SharePoint is a highly flexible and scalable platform for collaboration with internal or external resources. A central admin user can assign different levels of access permission to individual users of team sites.
You and your team can work on a single file in a real-time scenario without facing any latency. Therefore, many creative developers and content creators prefer SharePoint for teaming up for any project.
A significant function of SharePoint collaboration is to keep flowing decluttered information throughout the sites and subsites. It helps individuals stay updated about the project without going through multiple emails, missed chats, video calls, etc.
Content management is a big challenge for any individual or group of professionals that want to deliver better productivity. SharePoint enables you to get past this challenge without going through complex programming.
Content managers can easily take care of multiple projects simultaneously on SharePoint. Publishing or updating website contents like events, news, blogs, presentation stacks, image carousels, etc., made easy with SharePoint.
You don’t have to start every content management project from scratch. There are ready-to-use professional templates that you can use. Apart from the content, you’re in total control of its versions. SharePoint creates and saves multiple versions of the file on which you or your team works upon.
When in need, you can recall any previous versions or fix any files system errors from SharePoint. You don’t need to depend on any third-party tools to backup, restore, or fix files.
SharePoint has a range of functionalities that you can leverage for task and project management. The most evident function is that the tool functions as centralized storage for all project-related documents and deliverable files.
You can also customize the SharePoint sites in many ways. These tailor-made sites could serve you as a daily planner, weekly task scheduler, and FAQs for tasks. Furthermore, for project documentation and performance review purposes, you can activate time logging features as mentioned below:
SharePoint also enables you to create a workflow to streamline tasks like task handover, sign-off project deliverables, approvals, presenting a demo, and client feedback.
SharePoint integrates with most Microsoft 365 apps to offer you a seamless user interface for project management. SharePoint works as a central repository of your project data, whereas other Microsoft 365 apps make it easy for you to manage tasks and resources.
You can sync SharePoint with tools like To-Do, Tasks, Planner, and Project Online for specialized approaches. You can generate reports to present project insights to your freelance clients.
SharePoint syncs with your Outlook and Calendar profile to organize tasks and schedules so that you can prioritize your work. Similarly, publish your SharePoint team sites in the Teams app to access contacts, files, tasks, etc., from Teams.
SharePoint also has the ability to integrate PowerPoint, Video, Stream, OneDrive to preview files and documents within the SharePoint sites or subsites. You save time by avoiding mundane tasks like downloading files from SharePoint to make PowerPoint slides.
SharePoint offers many benefits when comparing with any other productivity tool for project or content management. Some of its advantages are:
You may already be paying for it through Microsoft 365 subscription. Avoid unnecessary spending on apps and tools by using SharePoint as the primary productivity tool for professional or personal needs.
Governments and big organizations trust the SharePoint ecosystem with their sensitive data. So, you can store your creative work on SharePoint for collaborative work without any fear of intellectual property theft.
The scalability of the tool allows you to budget your cost towards productivity tools. If you see an inflow of too many projects from different clients, you can change the subscription to accommodate more resources and projects. When projects ease off, you can switch to low-paid plans.
A higher level of flexibility and multipurpose utility means that you can keep using SharePoint as the chief productivity tool while you keep changing your roles or creative skills. You can use a template when one project ends, and you need to start another one. You can minimize the budget by avoiding multiple app purchases.
SharePoint’s features make it an elaborate project management tool rather than a simple cloud solution for file sharing and storage. By using SharePoint and other Microsoft 365 apps to manage your professional or personal tasks, you create a domino effect of ever-increasing productivity.
Tamal is a freelance writer at MakeUseOf. After gaining substantial experience in technology, finance, and business processes in his previous job in an IT consulting company, he adopted writing as a full-time profession 3 years ago. While not writing about productivity and the latest tech news, he loves to play Splinter Cell and binge-watch Netflix/ Prime Video.
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Neat Adds Financial Management Capabilities – CPAPracticeAdvisor.com
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The Neat Company, a provider of small business bookkeeping automation and document management, has added new capabilities to its financial management platform. Neat now gives small business owners even more options with respect to exporting their …
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The Neat Company, a provider of small business bookkeeping automation and document management, has added new capabilities to its financial management platform. Neat now gives small business owners even more options with respect to exporting their financial data, and more capabilities available through its mobile app.
Since its initial launch in 2021, Neat’s all-in-one financial management platform continues to reimagine how small business bookkeeping is accomplished and enables small business owners – with years doing their own bookkeeping or with no accounting expertise at all – to quickly and confidently manage their books and keep business finances in order. The all-encompassing Neat platform helps small business owners simplify the process of organizing and automating their small business bookkeeping, invoicing, and document management.
“When I was a small business owner, I saw firsthand how bookkeeping can seem like a distraction, and learned that traditional small business accounting software can feel overwhelming while homegrown spreadsheets were both limiting and time-consuming,” explains Garrett Baird, President & CEO of The Neat Company. “Neat recognized that, too, and has condensed and clarified the bookkeeping process into an uncomplicated and easy-to-use all-in-one platform designed specifically for small businesses.”
With these latest enhancements, The Neat Company continues to simplify small business bookkeeping by making Neat even more user-friendly, intuitive, and versatile. “Our new enhancements give business owners without advanced accounting knowledge the ability to manage their books wherever they are and get back to the work of growing their businesses instead of struggling with record-keeping and complex interfaces,” Baird added.
Key new capabilities added to Neat include:
These Neat enhancements are in support of The Neat Company’s mission to deliver a holistic, all-in-one financial management software experience for its customers. The new enhancements are just some examples of what the product team works to develop and refine every day.
Neat is priced at $288 for an annual subscription ($24/month) or $29 month to month with a 30-day money back guarantee. Try Neat for free for 15 days at www.neat.com.
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Microsoft SharePoint – TechTarget
Microsoft SharePoint is a document management and collaboration platform that helps a company manage archives, documents, reports and other content that is vital to its business processes. SharePoint’s enterprise content management capabilities are helpful to organizations in all industries and in any department within an organization.
SharePoint is configured using a web browser. It provides most of its capabilities via a web user interface (UI) and web applications. SharePoint is used to manipulate content and site structure, create and delete sites, enable and disable product features, configure basic workflows and manage analytics.
SharePoint 2019 is the latest version of the application. SharePoint is part of the Office 365 suite, where it is known as SharePoint Online. Microsoft also offers an on-premises version for organizations that prefer to keep their data in-house for compliance or security reasons.
Notable features in SharePoint include:
SharePoint 2016 was focused on traditional document management. With SharePoint 2019, Microsoft eliminated some collaboration, social media and enterprise search functions that are now included in Office 365. Those functions include the following:
Microsoft is focusing much of its development roadmap on SharePoint Online. However, it will continue to release on-premises versions because customers may have compliance requirements that require maintaining certain data on premises or because they cannot migrate all their data to the cloud.
Other features that were removed from the SharePoint 2016 server include the following:
The following features were deprecated or removed in SharePoint Server 2019:
SharePoint 2019 includes architectural deployment models that were introduced with SharePoint 2016 as part of Microsoft’s move to make SharePoint a cloud-first offering. Microsoft said with SharePoint 2019, it aimed to improve many of the cloud-first technologies introduced in 2016.
For example, SharePoint 2013 and previous editions relied on service deployments to patch problem servers. SharePoint 2016 had MinRole, a streamlined topology that has a server in a SharePoint farm that runs an explicit set of services based on its role and has no other services turned on. This enables more flexibility, easy fixes and quick updates to each server resulting in faster and more reliable service. SharePoint uses the MinRole farm topology in SharePoint Server 2019 and Online.
At their core, SharePoint’s architectural deployment models are largely the same as when they were introduced in 2016. There are four architectural models for SharePoint 2019.
SharePoint Online. SharePoint is delivered using a software-as-a-service subscription model. Microsoft provides updates automatically, but customers are responsible for SharePoint management.
SharePoint on premises. Customers maintain control over all the planning, deployments, maintenance and customizations of their SharePoint environments within their own data centers.
SharePoint has existed in one form or another since 2001. It has grown to more than 200 million users within 250,000 organizations. There have been nine SharePoint versions released since 2001, with SharePoint 2010 Enterprise being the first enterprise-based offering.
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 was launched in 2010 with close integration with Microsoft Office and Active Directory. The benefits of SharePoint 2010 included the ability to quickly develop and build websites without programming knowledge. Such websites could be used to manage collaboration tools such as document libraries, discussion boards, shared task lists, shared calendars, blogs, wikis and surveys.
SharePoint 2013 was released as a collaboration platform for customized webpages in November 2012.
The initial release of SharePoint 2013 offered a simplified user experience, as well as new enterprise social media capabilities. Those features expanded upon previously offered capabilities for website management, including shared calendars, blogs, wikis, surveys, document libraries and shared task lists.
SharePoint 2013 also launched with a community forum for users to communicate with each other and categorize discussions. It included a microblogging capability and enhanced search capabilities, as well as e-discovery functionality, claims-based authentication and mobile support. The BI tools in SharePoint 2013 enabled users to organize goals and processes and create customizable data models, reports and dashboards.
SharePoint Server 2016 has the same code as SharePoint Online. As a result, on-premises customers have the same support and performance capabilities for their SharePoint server farms thanks to a few architecture changes.
SharePoint 2019 is the latest version. It brings more cloud-based features to the SharePoint Server and hybrid architecture types of the application.
While Microsoft SharePoint is a market leader in document collaboration and management, many other cloud-based competitors have entered the market, including Box, Dropbox and Google Drive. Beyond document management, the collaboration software industry has grown, with new players gaining traction, including Salesforce Slack and Chatter and Aurea Jive.
In response, in 2017, Microsoft released its own collaboration tool, Teams, to complement SharePoint 2016. Teams is still used in conjunction with SharePoint today. Vendors such as Sitecore, Atlassian Confluence and WordPress all compete with SharePoint in the web content management market.
SharePoint integrates with a number of different collaboration tools. However, some businesses may find alternatives more useful, especially for easier migration to the cloud. Learn 7 alternatives to Microsoft SharePoint.
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For many NHS trusts, electronic document management systems are a way to free up space and help improve patient pathways, but are there more benefits to be explored? Andrea Downey investigates.
For years digital leaders in the NHS have been pushing towards a paperless healthcare system, with electronic document management systems (EDMS) playing a big role in managing medical records and other vital documents.
According to data from Digital Health Intelligence, while 155 NHS organisations have a system installed, there are still 73 which do not.
For many, the push to go paperless has felt like an uphill battle and while we may not be over the hill just yet, the role of the EDMS has become more than just a space-saving way to store documents.
As with most healthcare technology, the Covid-19 pandemic forced the digital maturity of the NHS into the spotlight. As a result, many suppliers are now looking beyond simply storing medical records electronically and towards using EDMS to modernise electronic patient records (EPRs) and data utilisation.
Slow and steady wins the race?
While the Digital Health Intelligence special report on EDMS in 2020 and 2021 highlighted a clear hunger for digital transformation, there hasn’t been as much movement in this area as expected.
In July 2021 NHS Shared Business Services launched a framework for document storage, records management and integrated solutions which covers both paper storage, digitisation and EDMS.
There are 17 suppliers on the framework, which NHS organisations can directly award a contract too, or hold a competition with to see which supplier is best suited to their needs.
However, the purpose of EDMS largely remains the same as it was originally designed for: electronically storing patient information. But it has far greater potential, according to Vijay Magon, managing director of CCube.
“The EPR is still viewed as a kind of ‘holy grail’ for both the NHS and its IT suppliers, but what we have to remember is that legacy records are almost entirely based on paper – so the paper-based processes in the NHS contribute to most of the inefficiencies,” he says.
“In recent years, creation of new patient information is largely electronic. If we aren’t able to marry up the two, then there is a high risk of a clinician looking at, and potentially making decisions, based on an incomplete record.
“Trusts are now looking at ways to deliver a single record to a clinician or administrator, with absolute confidence that they are viewing 100% of the available information on that patient.”
Paperlite to patient care
For Mike Seel, innovation lead at IMMJ Systems, EDMS not only helps a trust cut back on its paper use – an often expensive use of resources – but also allows staff to focus more on patient care.
“In truth, these systems are excellent at gathering structured data and ensuring that from the moment they are implemented, they can help an organisation to cut down on their paper creation dramatically,” he says.
“The move to cloud computing has allowed the EDMS to be hosted on public, private and hybrid cloud solutions and the need for on-premise infrastructure has been removed. This allows healthcare organisations to get back to doing what they do best, treating patients and not worrying about how many servers are needed for storage of the records.”
The company is currently seeing an increase in the number of integrations they’re asked to manage, including HL7 and FHIR messages, patient administration (PAS) and EPR structured demographics, different document feeds from results systems and transcription systems, Seel explains.
Steve Burton, clinical systems sales director at Civica, agrees that EDMS have a role to play in delivering safe care. He says the systems have always been designed to support going paperless, but as they’ve evolved, they’ve delivered a number of other benefits.
“An EDMS enables clinicians to deliver more effective care to patients, powering a single clinical view at the point of care, by accessing patient records electronically, delivering a quicker, safer and more cost-effective service,” he says.
“They are key to the delivery of a paperless NHS and enables a hospital trust to remove paper records entirely, in line with the NHS long term plan and Wachter review.”
A traditional example
In January this year the Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust’s opthamology department went live with IMMJ Systems Mediviewer EDMS. It has now been rolled out to 10 clinical specialities in a bid to digitise patient records.
The system allows the hospital to scan, index and archive paper medical records, and access them through a user interface.
MediViewer has also been integrated with the Hillingdon Care Record, for a robust view of patient health records, and will also be integrated with the trust’s new Cerner EPR when it goes live later this year.
Early feedback from the trust has been positive. Brinda Chetty, lead nurse for digital implementation said the technology is easy to use and its speed means the response time is almost instantaneous. Other consultants were pleased with the customisable navigation and search options available.
While projects like this are promising, the EDMS landscape across the NHS still has some way to go. Discussion with suppliers of the technology suggest the health system has barely begun to unlock the potential of these systems.
A UK-first integration
CCube Solutions recently became the first supplier in the UK to successfully integrate and embed its electronic document and records management system (EDRM) with Cerner’s Millennium EPR.
Some 80million scanned legacy patient records were integrated with the EPR at Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, meaning the trust’s 3,800 staff have immediate access to patient notes contained in CCube’s EDRM through the Millennium system.
The trust has been using CCube’s EDRM for more than 10 years with the system evolving from being the centre of how scanned records were kept to being a key part of the EPR.
CIO at the trust Craig York said at the time: “It’s important for us to have a secure and reliable records system where there’s no room for clinical staff to get into patient safety issues.”
Harnessing the power of data
A key capability of EDMS that is yet to be fully unlocked is supporting research capabilities. The resource of patient information they provide has the potential to be immeasurable in future health research – using anonymised patient data, of course.
Civica’s Burton explains they can be used to mine data to observe clinical outcomes, hence providing researchers with a greater understanding of disease and how to treat it.
“An EDMS can support the mining of unstructured patient data to identify clinical outcomes across a large cross section of patients, over an extended time. This can be integrated into the research and clinical trial processes where the NHS work with pharmaceutical companies,” he says.
While IMMJ’s Seel notes the time-savings that can be made using EDMS for research rather than accessing physical records in a medial record library.
“Now, with the power of optical character recognition and being able to search for specific conditions, diagnosis, drugs that were given to a patient decades ago…researchers have more intelligent data to utilise in their studies and trials,” he adds.
“As the technology progresses, expect to see more powerful search engines become available across all of the data held within the EDM repository, meaning that the power of the data can be harnessed in more efficient ways, such as natural language processing.”
Predictions for the future
The future of EDMS is looking bright, if you ask Seel. He says that as the systems evolve, they’re likely to help trusts make proactive decision about healthcare.
Both Seel and Burton see EDMS playing a role in integrated care systems (ICS), particularly around supporting population health.
“Over the next few years as EDMS begin harvesting data from their documents, we expect to see an uptake in integrations with Business Intelligence tools. This will provide healthcare systems with the data they need to make more pro-active decisions,” Seel says.
“We expect most major systems to adopt an ICS-wide strategy and being able to provide their information to all organisations with the wider healthcare system of a specific geography.”
Burton adds: “There will be a greater use of an EDMS across an ICS and to support digital pathways of care in conjunction with a trust’s EPR.”
But there is caution too, perhaps an all too familiar caution for those working with tech in the NHS. There isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to technology, trusts must ensure they are choosing a future-proof solution that meets its specific needs.
“Realising adoption of an EDMS is a challenge. Many organisations have attempted to digitise and implement a system but have not succeeded past the first speciality,” Seel explains.
“Ultimately a piece of technology is only as good as the process by which it digitises, the team that implements it and change managers that transform the services to set end users up for success.
“Providing adequate resources, not just for the supplier, but also from the organisation is the only way to ensure adoption and realise the cash releasing benefits that are strived for.”
CCube’s Magon has a much simpler message for trust’s not currently investing in EDMS – why isn’t everyone doing it?
“It has been done, is being done, and is saving the NHS millions each year,” he says.
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Shinydocs, Encircle, Proto receive cumulative $7.5 million from FedDev Ontario – BetaKit – Canadian Startup News
The Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) has announced a cumulative investment of $7.5 million CAD into three tech companies based in Kitchener-Waterloo.
FedDev Ontario claims to have invested over $745 million in more than 300 technology projects across southern Ontario, creating nearly 20,000 jobs.
From this funding, Shinydocs secured $4 million, Encircle received $2.1 million, and Proto Research got $1.4 million (all numbers CAD). According to FedDev Ontario, this investment will help these companies enhance their technologies and increase sales, with an expectation that it will lead to the creation of 75 jobs across the Kitchener-Waterloo region.
Founded in 2013 by CEO Jason Cassidy, Shinydocs offers a digital information management software that automates the process of finding and identifying files, media content, and documents within an organization’s repositories.
Shinydocs said that receiving this investment from FedDev Ontario, which was made through the Jobs and Growth Fund, will be used to bolster its digital storage solution that helps users find key information and protect against cybersecurity breaches.
Working towards this goal, Shinydocs claims that it has completed 33 of the 40 hires it planned to make to support its human resources, marketing, product, sales, customer support, as well as research and development departments.
Led by CEO Paul Donald, Encircle provides digital tools for the property insurance industry. Its mobile app was designed for field technicians to easily document a restoration job using one platform, allowing users to upload photos, videos, sketches, notes, and signatures.
FedDev Ontario’s contribution, which was also made through the Jobs and Growth fund, will help the company to improve its claims software allowing adjusters to monitor multiple claims in real-time, according to Encircle. To do this, Encircle said it plans to expand its presence in key export markets and create 20 jobs.
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SaaS company Proto develops multilingual chatbots powered by artificial intelligence to serve clients in the financial, government, energy, health, and gaming sectors. The technology is deployed in over 13 countries, including Cambodia, Ghana, India, Mexico, Nigeria, the Philippines, Rwanda, Uganda, and Vietnam. Proto claims that it has served around 2,250 companies.
Proto raised $5.6 million in Series A financing in July led by Mucker Capital with participation from current shareholder Yolo Investments. BetaKit reached out to confirm whether the FedDev investment was part of the Series A round and Proto declined to provide comment. Proto previously told BetaKit that there were no additional investors in the Series A funding besides Mucker Capital and Yolo Investments.
“This contribution from FedDev Ontario, together with Proto’s recent $5.6 million capital raise, will enable us to accelerate our machine learning and revenue expansion capabilities in multiple emerging markets at once,” said Proto CEO Curtis Matlock in the press release.
In addition to its head office in Canada, Proto has offices in Panama City, London (United Kingdom), Kigali, and Taipei.
Since 2015, FedDev Ontario claims to have invested over $745 million in more than 300 technology projects across southern Ontario, creating nearly 20,000 jobs. In terms of Kitchener-Waterloo investments, this includes $10 million for the Waterloo Accelerator Centre to launch the Venture Studio Innovation Program. Last year, FedDev Ontario committed $10 million towards the creation of a new University of Waterloo and Western University-based healthtech innovation hub.
In 2020, FedDev Ontario invested nearly $30 million into eight Waterloo Region-based companies, including Axonify, Onward Manufacturing Company, Dejero Labs, Intellijoint Surgical, and Ssimwave, which was recently acquired by IMAX in a deal worth $28.3 million.
Featured image from Encircle’s website.
Charlize Alcaraz is a journalism student at Ryerson University and a staff writer for BetaKit. Follow her on Twitter @charlizealcaraz
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The 17 Best Food Manufacturing ERP Solutions – Solutions Review
The editors at Solutions Review have compiled the following list to spotlight some of the best food manufacturing ERP solutions for companies of all sizes to consider.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions are closely related to the manufacturing and distribution industries. While there are different solutions for both verticals, sometimes you need a solution tailor-made to a specific use case or industry. For example, a food manufacturing company requires an ERP solution with industry-specific capabilities that not every platform can accommodate.
To help, the editors at Solutions Review have compiled a list to spotlight some of the best food manufacturing ERP software solutions in the marketplace. These solutions can help companies of various sizes satisfy customers, increase profitability, maintain quality control, remain compliant in a changing market, manage inventory levels across the food and beverage supply chain, and more. The list is organized in alphabetical order.
Description: Acumatica provides cloud and browser-based business management software for small and mid-sized businesses across industries. The company’s manufacturing ERP solution can support discrete and batch-process manufacturing methodologies. These, include make-to-order (MTO), engineer-to-order (ETO), make-to-stock (MTS), and configure-to-order (CTO). Food manufacturing companies can use Acumatica’s ERP solution to eliminate manual reconciliation processes, provide decision-makers with accurate financial reporting, streamline operations, utilize interconnected data transparency, and more.
Description: Aptean provides industry-specific software for specialized manufacturers and distributors across 20 markets worldwide. The company has an extensive collection of food manufacturing ERP solutions that can be tailored to specific industry verticals, including bakeries, beverages, fresh produce, frozen foods, pre-packaged food, spices, poultry, seafood, and more. Aptean’s food manufacturing product suite includes ERP, enterprise asset management (EAM), business intelligence, product lifecycle management (PLM), overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), electronic data interchange (EDI), transportation management (TMS), and customer relationship management (CRM).
Description: Aquilon Software provides ERP software for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), focusing on manufacturers and distributors in North America. Its on-premises and cloud-based ERP systems offer small and midsize food manufacturers a complete set of financial management modules, real-time inventory management, lot tracking, order management, traceability, recipe management, bill of materials, and other capabilities. These can help users improve competitiveness, maximize process visibility, increase agility, maintain accurate costs, and retain clients.
Description: BatchMaster Software is a developer and implementer of process manufacturing solutions. With BatchMaster’s Food Manufacturing ERP software, companies can meet and manage requirements across production, inventory, quality, cost, BRC/SQF lot traceability, product development, planning, FDA compliance, warehousing, and scheduling. BatchMaster can also be added to a company’s existing financial software, including platforms like Sage 100, Sage 300, Microsoft Dynamics GP, QuickBooks, and SAP Business One.
Description: Deacom, an ECI Software Solution, is an ERP platform for growing distribution and process manufacturing businesses. Its solution can be tailored to meet the needs of batch process manufacturers across verticals in the food and beverage industries, including consumer packaged goods, dairy, beer, wine, meat, snacks, and more. Platform capabilities include lot control, traceability tools, formulation management to scale batch sizes, nutrition fact label customization, quality control, customer shipment reports, built-in point-of-sale, intercompany inventory transfers, and direct store deliveries.
Description: DELMIAworks provides manufacturing and ERP software systems for repetitive, process, and discrete manufacturing industries. With the DELMIAWorks ERP and MES software, food manufacturers across the produce, frozen entreés, canned goods, and beverage verticals can reduce costs, automate industry audits, improve inventory management, track resource availability, and ensure customer delivery dates. Specific functionalities include two-way lot traceability, quick recall identification, shelf-life tracking, private labeling, compliance reporting, quality assurance, seasonal demand forecasting, and more.
Description: ERPNext is an open-source DIY ERP solution for companies across the education, healthcare, manufacturing, nonprofit, agriculture, services, and distribution industries. The company’s open-source, modern ERP solution for food manufacturers is outfitted with real-time inventory management functionalities, production analytics reports, item management, bill of material (BOM) capabilities, quality inspection templates, material resource planning (MRP), subcontracting features, shop management, and more.
Description: Genius ERP is an end-to-end manufacturing ERP solution for planning, executing, measuring, and improving high-variable production processes for SMEs. The company offers a suite of capabilities for food and bakery equipment manufacturing, including project planning, lean inventory, real-time reporting, employee performance tracking, billing management, labor cost tracking, material management, bills of materials, and more. Genius ERP can connect every part of a business with an easy-to-use centralized system that lets users easily share information across their company.
Description: JustFood, from Aptean, is a cloud-based ERP software built to help food manufacturers and distributors streamline operational efficiencies, manage business growth, and improve food safety. The platform runs on the Microsoft Cloud platform and provides users in the office, shop floor, or on the road with the capabilities necessary to build their business. Those capabilities include traceability tools, quality control, inventory tracking, production scheduling, batch management, forecasting, product development, real-time reporting, purchasing management, equipment performance monitoring, and more.
Description: Katana’s manufacturing ERP platform is easy to implement, offers its users an extensive collection of integrations, and comes equipped with features designed to meet the needs of manufacturers. Its platform can be easily tailored to the needs of food and beverage companies, as it includes a suite of manufacturing features. These include real-time master planning, total shop floor control, live inventory management, end-to-end traceability, production planning, omnichannel order management, custom workflows via API, accurate costing features, and more.
Description: MRPeasy is a cloud-based material requirements planning (MRP) and ERP system designed to meet the needs of small manufacturers in markets like 3D printing, biotechnology, automotive, chemical, aerospace, composites, electronics, food, agriculture, engineering, and industrial equipment. The platform offers various features tailored to the food and beverage industry, including production planning, CRM, accounting, purchasing, inventory management, stock movements, real-time shop floor reporting, and business performance tracking tools.
Description: NetSuite is a global provider of services for over 20 industries that need help growing, scaling, and adapting to industry changes. The company offers a “complete” solution built for the food and beverage industry to help companies of all sizes manage supply chains, streamline sales cycles, and more. Features include planning and scheduling tools, product data management, CRM, production control, quality management, warehouse management systems (WMS), shop floor control, order management, and supply chain management.
Description: Plex Systems offers a smart manufacturing platform to help process and discrete manufacturers connect, track, analyze, and automate every aspect of their organization to drive business transformation. Food and beverage manufacturers can use Plex’s cloud-based manufacturing execution system (MES) and ERP features to control their company processes. Capabilities include document management, plant performance monitoring, supply chain planning, quality management, real-time electronic data interchange (EDI), traceability, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), inventory management, and tools for maintaining compliance.
Description: ProcessPro is a mid-market ERP software provider working with companies in the process manufacturing industry. The company’s Food ERP solution combines manufacturing, financials, sales, inventory, and reporting functionalities in one integrated system catered to the needs of food and beverage manufacturers. Other capabilities include reliable lot tracking, batch sizing, R&D functionalities, quality control, real-time inventory management, recipe management system, financial management, and compliance tools.
Description: QAD provides “next-generation” manufacturing and supply chain management solutions and cloud-based ERP software for global companies across industries. Its food and beverage offerings encompass ERP, supply chain, manufacturing, quality control, and transportation management capabilities and can help users respond to disruptions and streamline processes. Other features include global trade management, integrated supplier management, process documentation, supply chain planning, food safety compliance, and more.
Description: Sage is a technology provider offering cloud business management solutions for worldwide small and medium-sized businesses in professional services, wholesale distribution, construction, manufacturing, nonprofit, and food and beverage. The Sage X3 ERP solution can be tailored to the food and beverage industry and help users remain competitive and compliant with built-in recipe management, quality control, inventory management, lot tracking, and regulatory compliance capabilities.
Description: SYSPRO is a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) software provider for companies of all sizes in the manufacturing and distribution markets. SYSPRO’s Food ERP software provides food and beverage manufacturers with a suite of features, including forecasting tools, traceability, supplier management, purchase control, automated customer returns, compliance assurance, and more. The company can also act as an advisor to clients, offering various support services to clients.
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Quality Management Software Market 2022-2027 | Growth, Size, Shares, Revenue, Types, Applications, Key Players, Top Countries, Growing Factors, Key Dynamics, Emerging Technologies – GlobeNewswire
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5 Global Quality Management Software Sales Volume, Revenue, Price Trend by Type
6 Global Quality Management Software Market Analysis by Application
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8 Quality Management Software Market Upstream and Downstream Analysis
9 Players Profiles
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