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Using Document Locator to Protect Profit, Reduce Risk

Tocci Building Corporation faced some common information challenges inherent in the complex building process. Among these were two issues of immediate concern: how to improve the control and management of job costs to recoup time and materials expenditures, and how to ease the complicated process of locating documents for legal...

Tags: ColumbiaSoft, Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance

Case studies 2008-04-01

Document Locator Solves HITT's Intranet Collaboration Problem

Established in 1937, HITT Contracting Inc. has been an innovator in the construction industry. HITT wanted to leverage its existing technology in solving organizational problem, and the Company intranet seemed to offer a possible solution. On paper it looked like a good idea: just update the intranet site so that...

Tags: Collaboration, Intranet Site, Intranet, ColumbiaSoft, Document Locator, Document Management, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Case studies 2007-11-01

Document Locator Helps BMA Improve Collaboration, Manage Project Files

BMA's projects are team-based, so team members need to share information to collaborate effectively on projects. Also, the nature of the business means that sometimes new team members are brought in midway through a project, or team members are changed. The system BMA was using - folders on a shared...

Tags: Team, Collaboration, Team Member, ColumbiaSoft, BMA, Team Management, File Servers, Management, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2007-11-01

Document Locator Improves Project Collaboration at James G. Davis Construction Corporation

Of late, DAVIS found itself looking for a way to improve the management of project-related content for its larger projects, those involving more than just a few people. Their old system of using a combination of Windows folders, Outlook .pst files, and FTP sites to store project files wasn't keeping...

Tags: Collaboration, ColumbiaSoft, Document Locator, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, Operating Systems, Software, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Enterprise Software

Case studies 2007-09-01

Aventine Renewable Energy Uses Document Management to Automate Financial Processes, Increase Efficiency, and Meet Sarbanes-Oxley Requirements

For several years Aventine had been generating PDF invoices via their Oracle ERP system and filing them daily in a single file folder. Having 200,000+ invoices filed only by date, Aventine had a significant document management problem. To retrieve a specific invoice, someone had to manually search through file folders,...

Tags: Financial, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Invoice, ColumbiaSoft, Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance

Case studies 2007-05-08

Document Management System Has Burns & McDonnell Engineering Collaborating Across the Enterprise and Beyond

Burns & McDonnell knew that real-time collaboration was critical to continued success, but found existing processes and tools becoming increasingly inefficient. The company needed a very flexible collaboration solution to support their business diversity. The solution needed to securely manage every type of document in the organization, automate document workflow...

Tags: Solution, ColumbiaSoft, Document Management System, Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Collaboration, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance

Case studies 2007-04-01

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City Boosts Information Access, Productivity, With Document Management Software

The City of Sherwood, Oregon, located 20 miles southwest of Portland, is one of the fastest-growing cities in the state. The city needed a more efficient way to store documents. They needed a flexible, cost-effective, and highly usable way to store documents online. They didn't want to go through the...

Tags: City, Microsoft Access, Portland, Oregon, Microsoft Corp., Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Office Suites, Data Management

Case studies 2007-03-01

City Boosts Information Access, Productivity With Document Management Software

The City of Sherwood had a "Typical" information storage system, which meant that it was almost impossible for one person to find documents stored by someone else. In response, the city adopted the Document Locator solution from Microsoft Gold Certified Partner ColumbiaSoft. The solution utilizes Microsoft SQL Server 2005 relational...

Tags: City, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Corp., Databases, Document Management, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting

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