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Care for older adults is poorly rated by vast majority
A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that the general public is not very satisfied with health care in the U.S., with fewer than half of those surveys saying it is generally handled well. Only 12% rate it as handled extremely or very well.
Care for older adults ranks even lower. Looking at prescription drug costs, nursing home care quality, and mental health, only 6% at most ranked those services as done very well.
Care access is a major concern, with nearly 80% of those surveyed indicating they are at least moderately concerned about getting access to quality health care when they need it. Minority patients express great concern about health care access, with six in 10 saying they are very or extremely concerned about getting good care, compared to less than half (44%) of Whites. Women (53%) are more concerned than men (42%) on the same issue.
Despite agreement on the health system needing improvement, those surveyed differ on what the solutions are. About two-thirds say it is the federal government’s responsibility for health care coverage, with adults under 50 more likely than those over to hold that view. The overall percentage of people who believe health care is a government responsibility has increased from 62% in 2017.
When it comes to single-payer health that would require Americans to get their health insurance from the government, support comes in around four in 10, while 58% favor a government health insurance plan that anyone can purchase. There is also broad support for assistance paying for long-term care.
Drug prices are always an area of concern, and 80% of those surveyed said they support the federal government negotiating the price of prescription drugs for programs like Medicare.

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The Global Document Management System Market report examines the sector’s key market dynamics. The report provides a comprehensive assessment of the global Document Management System market for the forecasted period. The global Document Management System market report includes various marketing components as well as future trends that are important in the Document Management System industry. The growth of the Document Management System market will be influenced by factors such as drivers, opportunities, challenges, and restraints around the world. Furthermore, the report provides a detailed analysis of the Document Management System market’s implementation in terms of revenue over the forecast period.
𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗲: Atlassian, OpenText Corporation, Xerox Corporation, IBM Corporation, eFileCabinet Inc., SpringCM, Oracle Corporation, Hyland Software Inc., Ricoh USA, Inc., Open Document Management System S.L., Microsoft Corporation, Synergis Technologies, R2 Technologies Limited, and Zoho Corporation.
𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗴𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:

𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀:
» North America: United States, Canada, and Mexico
» South & Central America: Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Others
» Middle East & Africa: Saudi Arabia, UAE, Israel, Turkey, Egypt, South Africa & Rest of MEA.
» Europe: UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, BeNeLux, Russia, NORDIC Nations and Rest of Europe.
» Asia-Pacific: India, China, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Australia and Rest of APAC.
𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗣𝗗𝗙 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗶𝗴𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀: https://www.coherentmarketinsights.com/insight/request-pdf/3115 
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In the Document Management System market analysis, numerous marketing techniques were used, including Porter’s Five Forces Analysis, player positioning analysis, SWOT analysis, market share analysis, and value chain analysis. Porter’s Five Forces analysis examines market dynamics and factors such as the threat of  Document Management System substitutes, new entrants into the Document Management System market, buyer bargaining power, and internal rivalry among Document Management System providers to provide the report’s readers with a detailed view of current market dynamics.
Competitive Outlook:
The Document Management System market report covers topics such as product portfolio, business overview, governance, financials, business strategies, manufacturing locations and production facilities, company sale, recent developments and strategic collaborations & partnerships, new product launch, company segments, and application diversification, and company strength and weakness analysis.
Goals and objectives of the Document Management System Market Study:
• Determining market highlights, as well as important regions and countries participating in market growth, requires an understanding of the opportunities and progress of Document Management System.
• Research the various segments of the Document Management System industry as well as the market dynamics.
• Identify Document Management System segments with high growth potential and assess the market for futuristic segments.
• To examine the most crucial trends in the many categories that help in deciphering and persuading the Document Management System market.
• To confirm the Document Management System market’s regional growth and development.
• Recognize the key stakeholders in the Document Management System industry and the importance of the market leaders’ competitive image.
• Research major plans, objectives, and strategies for the Document Management System market’s growth.
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Table Of Content:
1. Market Overview
1.1. Market Snapshot
1.2. Global & Segmental Market Estimates & Forecasts, 2018-2028 (USD Billion)
1.2.1. Document Management System Market, by Region, 2018-2028 (USD Billion)
1.2.2. Document Management System Market, by Type, 2018-2028 (USD Billion)
1.2.3. Document Management System Market, by Application, 2018-2028 (USD Billion)
1.2.4. Document Management System Market, by Verticles, 2018-2028 (USD Billion)
1.3. Key Trends
1.4. Estimation Methodology
1.5. Research Assumption
2. COVID-19 Impact
3. Global Market
3.1 Global Document Management System Market by Value
3.2 Global Document Management System Market Forecast by Value
3.3 Global Document Management System Market by Type
3.4 Global Document Management System Market by Application
3.5 Global Document Management System Market by Regions
4. Regional Document Management System Market Analysis
4.1 Asia-Pacific
4.1.1 Asia-Pacific Document Management System Market Value
4.1.2 Asia-Pacific Document Management System Market Value Forecast
4.1.3 Asia-Pacific Document Management System Market Value by Segments
4.1.4 Asia-Pacific Document Management System Market Value
4.1.5 Asia-Pacific Document Management System Market Value Forecast
4.1.6 Asia-Pacific Document Management System Market Value
4.1.7 Asia-Pacific Document Management System Market Value Forecast
4.1.8 Asia-Pacific Document Management System Market Value by Country
4.1.9 China Document Management System Market Value
4.1.10 China Document Management System Market Value Forecast
4.1.11 Japan Document Management System Market Value
4.1.12 Japan Document Management System Market Value Forecast
4.2 Europe
4.2.1 Europe Document Management System Market Value
4.2.2 Europe Document Management System Market Value Forecast
4.2.3 Europe Document Management System Market Value by Segments
4.2.4 Europe Document Management System Market Value
4.2.5 Europe Document Management System Market Value Forecast
4.2.6 Europe Document Management System Market Value
4.2.7 Europe Document Management System Market Value Forecast
4.2.8 Europe Document Management System Market Value by Country
4.2.9 Germany Document Management System Market Value
4.2.10 Germany Document Management System Market Value Forecast
4.2.11 The U.K. Document Management System Market Value
4.2.12 The U.K. Document Management System Market Value Forecast
4.2.13 France Document Management System Market Value
4.2.14 France Document Management System Market Value Forecast
4.3 North America
4.3.1 North America Document Management System Market Value
4.3.2 North America Document Management System Market Value Forecast
4.3.3 North America Document Management System Market Value by Segments
4.3.4 North America Document Management System Market Value
4.3.5 North America Document Management System Market Value Forecast
4.3.6 North America Document Management System Market Value
4.3.7 North America Document Management System Market Value Forecast
4.3.8 North America Document Management System Market Value by Country
4.3.9 The U.S. Document Management System Market Value
4.3.10 The U.S. Document Management System Market Value Forecast
4.3.11 Canada Document Management System Market Value
4.3.12 Canada Document Management System Market Value Forecast
5. Market Dynamics
5.1 Growth Drivers
5.2 Key Trends & Developments
5.3 Challenges
6. Competitive Landscape
6.1 Global Market
6.1.1 Key Players – Revenue Comparison
6.1.2 Key Players – Market Capitalization Comparison
7. Company Profiles
✦ Atlassian
Company Overview
Product Portfolio
Financial Performance
Key Strategies
Recent Developments/Updates
✦ OpenText Corporation
Company Overview
Product Portfolio
Financial Performance
Key Strategies
Recent Developments/Updates
✦ IBM Corporation
Company Overview
Product Portfolio
Financial Performance
Key Strategies
Recent Developments/Updates
✦ Microsoft Corporation
Company Overview
Product Portfolio
Financial Performance
Key Strategies
Recent Developments/Updates
…
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On-premise mailrooms are slow, error prone and require too much labor and valuable real estate – not to mention they simply cannot support today’s ‘new world of work.’
Market research firm IDC has projected that spending on technologies and services that enable digital transformation of businesses will hit $1.97 trillion in 2022. One of the best places for an organization to jumpstart its digital transformation is the mailroom — the main point of entry for documents. On-premise mailrooms are slow, error prone and require too much labor and valuable real estate — not to mention they simply cannot support today’s “new world of work.”
According to IDC, companies lose 20% to 30% in revenue every year due to inefficiencies. An outdated, physical mailroom is one of the most inefficient operational siloes for companies today.
At issue? The inordinate number of documents arriving in paper form. Companies — large and small — have business-essential mail streams coming through the U.S. Postal Service in physical form that have to be captured, data extracted and then married with electronic counterparts. Manual mailroom workflows turn this process into a logistical nightmare — even with a dedicated administrative staff responsible for opening, copying, scanning, sending and/or uploading documents to various other systems.
How a company approaches processing and managing information from the mailroom has a direct impact on core business operations in every department. Invoices, contracts, purchase orders, client communications and expense reports are just a few examples of the myriad of business documents received in volume each day.
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Physical mailrooms create numerous problems.
The traditional mail-delivery process begins with a staff member opening the correspondence, logging it and determining who gets it internally. Then, it’s often hand-delivered to the appropriate party, who then reads it and either files it away or scans a copy to share by email or, even worse, makes multiple hard copies to distribute internally.
Companies that rely on these cumbersome methods can quickly find themselves mired in mounting document piles and workflow bottlenecks trying to process all this information manually.
The manual handling of mail creates an environment ripe for human errors to creep in. From internal routing mistakes and inaccurate data entry to scanning exceptions and misfiling, errors can be numerous — and, if uncaught, can often result in negative operational impacts downstream.
The exchange of information today comes in from more sources than ever before — customers, prospects, suppliers and colleagues — across multiple communication channels and in a number of different formats, each requiring its own process for handling.
A digital mailroom can help companies overcome these challenges and begin to transition their operations to include more data-centric workflows that have become a necessity in today’s digital business world.
A digital mailroom combines document capture and management with automated workflow technology to digitize the secure inbound and outbound delivery of mail, resulting in a positive impact across the entire organization. Organizations with little or no previous experience with mailroom automation are often reticent about embarking on what may seem like another daunting IT project. However, there are a number of fundamental things that business leaders should understand about implementing a digital mailroom and benefits they should come to expect.
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While interest in digital mailrooms has certainly been accelerated by the new world of work, misperceptions exist that might hinder companies from taking action. Below are four debunked digital mailroom myths:
Organizations can realize a number of benefits across the enterprise from automating their mail workflows.
Boosted productivity
Having the ability to process both inbound and outbound mail in a matter of seconds, then quickly upload the information to other corporate systems enhances productivity immensely.
More accountability
The ability to attach “a timer” to every piece of mail that comes in helps improve accountability across the organization. In addition to knowing when a mail piece is received, opened and placed in someone’s queue to be processed, organizations can gain insight into how long it took someone to process his or her mail — this week, this month, this year— compared to others in the office.
Deeper visibility
Digital mailroom solutions have the ability to provide extra visibility into what’s going on with both inbound and outbound mail through a number of customizable dashboards and reports. Organizations can gain real-time insight into how many pieces of mail are being processed, the different document types, the number of pages and where a document may be in a workflow.
Reinforced compliance
This type of automation creates a detailed audit trail for every single piece of inbound mail. All inbound mail, whether email, fax, U.S. Postal Service or overnight mail comes into a common-capture platform. Mail is processed in the same manner, in an encrypted format, every single time. The encrypted documents go through the workflow and are uploaded to corporate systems — creating a new level of security as all information is processed, housed and shared in a compliant fashion (for example, meeting PCI certifications, SOC 2 certifications, etc.).
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If you’re looking for an alternative office suite, there are several choices to be found. Jack Wallen offers his five favorites that aren’t Office 365 or Google Workspace.
When you think of office suites, most likely two platforms come to mind: Office 365 and Google Workspaces. Both of those offerings offer outstanding features, stability, a user-friendly interface, and (at least with Google) free tools for users.
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But those aren’t the only options; in fact, there are a number of office suites that are ready to serve you well. Some of those tools are cloud-based and some are installed locally, but all of them can get the job done. And you might be surprised to find out that most of them can stand toe-to-toe with the de facto standards.
Let’s take a look at five alternative office suites that aren’t built by either Microsoft or Google.
Zoho has been around for quite some time, slowly building a vast repository of tools to offer business users and individuals alike. The number of tools offered by Zoho is staggering, which might be a bit overwhelming to some. Just navigating around the Zoho ecosystem can get a bit confusing.
If you’ve used either Google Workspace or Office 365, Zoho Workplace will be surprisingly familiar. The default app displayed on the workplace.zoho.com URL is mail, but from the menu button (upper right corner) you can access links for Meeting, Writer, Sheet, Show, Notebook, Cliq, Connect, Bookings and more. In fact, a bit of exploration will reveal Zoho has an app for just about everything. Pricing for Zoho Workplace includes the Standard account at $3/month/user for 30GB mail storage (per user) and 10GB WorkDrive storage (per user) and the Profesional account at $6/month/user for 100GB mail and 100GB WorkDrive storage.
Nextcloud is my on-premise cloud platform of choice. Not only is it open source, but it’s also incredibly flexible, reliable and secure. Nextcloud also includes integration with a full-blown office suite that can easily serve your needs. You’ll find tools for documents, spreadsheets, presentations, file management and sharing, video and audio chat, and more. Even better, if there’s not a tool installed by default, you can head over to the Nextcloud App Store and install even more tools to help you get your jobs done.
What I like most about Nextcloud (besides everything already mentioned here), is that I can install it locally on my own server so data is never shared outside my LAN. So, if the idea of storing your important documents on a third-party server rubs you the wrong way, Nextcloud is a fantastic option. Nextcloud is free to download and use.
The ONLYOFFICE Document Server can be a bit tricky to get up and running (thanks to Docker, that’s considerably easier), but the effort is worth it. Once up and running, you’ll find a well-designed user-interface that gives you access to tools for documents, spreadsheets, project management, CRM, mail, contacts and more. ONLYOFFICE also allows you to share and collaborate with your documents and offers 100% compatibility with docx, xlsx and pptx. And, like Nextcloud, you’ll be storing all of your documents on your own server, so you can retain control over who sees what.
One thing to keep in mind, however, the best route to deploying the ONLYOFFICE Document Server is via Docker, so you’ll need to have a bit of knowledge with that container runtime engine to get this platform up and running. The learning curve might well be worth it. Deploying ONLYOFFICE via Docker is free.

Apple’s iCloud allows users to access the iWork suite of tools, which includes Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Photos, iCloud Drive, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Reminders and more. If you’ve never experienced the power of Pages, you’re missing out. This outstanding word processor bests a lot of the competition in features and UI, even though it does have a slightly higher learning curve. But once you get beyond that curve, you’ll find Pages to be an absolutely rock-solid tool for documents.
Even better, Pages offers the ability to import/export to the docx format, so you won’t miss out on collaborating with your colleagues who use Office 365. Each of the other tools found on iCloud also stands up to the competition. The only caveat is that the iCloud layout could use a bit of work. Instead of having one interface that integrates all of the tools, you have to open each tool individually from the icloud.com site (as though you were working on a mobile device). Despite that one downfall, iCloud is very much a viable option and is free to use for anyone who’s purchased an Apple laptop or desktop.

This is the only option on the list that isn’t based in the cloud. Softmaker Office is a traditional office suite that offers some of the best MS document format compatibility. Available for Linux, macOS and Windows, Softmaker Office includes documents, spreadsheets, presentations and offers PDF creation (including archival PDFs), version management, research tools, customizable UI, quick access toolbar, dark mode, touchscreen mode, tabbed windows, templates, and much more.
Softmaker Office is not open-source and does have an associated price. You can either subscribe to SoftMaker Office NX Universal for $4.99/month or NX Home for $29.99/month or purchase SoftMaker Office 2021 for $79.95.
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Filevine, a startup offering a software-as-a-service product for legal case management, today announced that it closed a $108 million series D round led by StepStone Group with participation from Golub Capital and existing investors Signal Peak Ventures and Meritech Capital.
CEO Ryan Anderson said that the proceeds will be put toward pursuing new market opportunities, specifically in the nonprofit, insurance, and public sectors, and “further evolv[ing] the [Filevine platform] to meet changing legal demands.”
The large tranche is a sign of the strength of the legal tech market, whose growth accelerated as the pandemic led to record demand for legal services and a shortage of qualified talent. For example, according to a report published by the American Bar Association, nearly 10% of lawyers now use some form of AI-based legal tech. In 2021, Gartner predicted that legal tech budgets would increase threefold through 2025 “as general counsel face unprecedented pressure both in terms of managing legal workload and driving efficiency in their departments.”
But some corners of the legal field remain reluctant to adopt new technologies due to strict standards for confidentiality and security and a lack of domain expertise. This frustrated Anderson, a former litigator, whose own struggles with legal tech tools led him to co-found Filevine in 2014 alongside Jim Blake and Nathan Morris.
“The solutions on the market were point solutions focused mostly on defined processes. Nothing captured the actual work of the lawyer, which is, at its core, communication and the exchange of information with many stakeholders,” Anderson told TechCrunch via email. “[I] built Filevine alongside co-founders to fill this void in the enterprise
software-as-a-service market.”
Filevine provides software designed to help with specific legal workflows, including document management, billing and timekeeping, e-signatures, and lead management. Attorneys can use the platform to assign tasks, upload files or images, and communicate with clients from a centralized workspace.
“Traditionally, legal work is perceived as jobs to be done. Many of the players in legal tech have been focused on how to scale lawyers, how to scale corporate counsel teams, and so on. Filevine looks at legal work differently — we look at jobs to be done and the intersection points of legal work consumption,” Anderson said. “These intersection points are where the real breakdowns occur with errors, bottlenecks, back and forth, delays. Filevine is focused on scaling legal professionals’ day-to-day and scaling the consumption of legal work that organizations depend on.”
A newly introduced Filevine feature, two-way folder share, allows stakeholders like outside counsel to collaborate on documents without having to rely on third-party services. Outside users have the ability to upload or add additional documents and files into a shared folder, and every shared document or folder link is password-protected.
Filevine also earlier this year released a document verification service through its Vinesign e-signature subsidiary that leverages blockchain technology to confirm details about documents and their signatures. In a separate expansion, Filevine acquired Outlaw, a contract lifecycle management (CLM) startup, for an undisclosed amount, folding the startup’s tools for drafting, reviewing, and approving legal documents into the broader Filevine platform.

Filevine’s report builder tool. Image Credits: Filevine

Filevine’s report builder tool. Image Credits: Filevine
Anderson sees Filevine’s CLM features by way of Outlaw as a key differentiator, noting that Outlaw’s annual recurring revenue (ARR) has grown 400% since the acquisition.
“A contract has a lifecycle that can form as early as a negotiation, all the way through to breach or complete fulfillment. Before, after, and during the life of a contract, so many different things can happen: The contract could be breached, amended, litigated, renegotiated,” Anderson said. “Shifting away from documents and contracts as ‘snapshots in time’ allows legal teams to manage their critical work with the most up-to-date context in every matter.”
In terms of funding, 2021 was a record year for legal tech. Roughly $1.4 billion was invested by venture firms in the first half of the year, or more than in the entirety of 2021. Companies including practice management software developer Clio, CLM suite IronClad, and digital contract management firm Icertis, which achieved unicorn status. (Anderson also sees Juro, NetDocuments, and Needles as competitors.)
Filevine — whose total raised stands at $155 million — has benefited from the boom, notching 198% growth in ARR over the past two years. Anderson expects ARR to reach $100 million next year as the company expands its workforce from 473 employees to 530. Current customers include 2,900 corporate and public organizations with 42,000 users combined, Anderson said, including the Utah County Public Defenders Association.
“Over the past few years, the battle for leadership in the legal enterprise market has been fierce. The venture community is starting to realize what the market was already signaling: There is an increasing need for centralized legal work management,” Anderson continued. “Filevine aims to tear down the silo between the doing of the legal work and the consumption of the legal work. Filevine’s platform serves not only those processing cases, matter, and documents — but critical stakeholders that interface and depend on this work like sales teams, outside counsel, and operations teams.”
Filevine’s future challenge will be convincing holdouts that the platform is worth their investment. A 2021 LawGeex survey found that nearly half of corporate counsel feel that they don’t have the technology they need to succeed and believe that it’s due to their company’s unwillingness to invest in such technology or see the return on investment for it.
Among other hurdles, Filevine will have to convince skeptical organizations that the inner workings of its platform aren’t impenetrable. A poll from Wolters Kluwer found that while half of the lawyers surveyed expect to see a transformational change involving AI, big data, and analytics, only one out of four claims that they understand these technologies. Anderson touts the simplicity of Filevine, but time will tell whether the software is streamlined enough to win over legacy firms with established processes.

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