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A Ceaseless Legacy Maegaret Hirch
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Editor’s Desk A True Digital Transformation
Digital transformation has been at the top of IT programmes for a number of years now. But the amount of companies gaining its full benefits remains small. 80% of organizations believed digital transformation was “important” or “very important” for their organization. Most organizations feel they still have a ways to go in terms of the maturity of their digital transformation journey. Today, content management in the world of Big Data has increasingly become an obstacle to digital transformation. As the amount and variety of information fluid through organizations has increased, so has the number of content management systems it uses.
Today, Digital Transformation is the Mantra of Success
According to 2018 AIIM’s survey the average number of content systems has grown by 30% in the past five years but the majority of data still remains outside these content management systems, isolated in the form of email systems, file shares and EFSS systems. This situation is a result of the users who actually create most of this information and not seeing direct value in traditional ECM platform; while being asked to execute extra tasks to ensure the platform’s effectiveness. Consequently, they’ve taken it upon themselves to find end solutions to their specific content needs. Apart from the budget, risk and governance concerns of this approach, it has resulted in a situation where it’s impossible for companies to gain full value from their content. Content services platforms and applications are the real solution. From a content services viewpoint, the digital transformation of a company has two different but interrelated components: The digital business and the digital
workspace. The providers of content services platforms have been focused on delivering content in a way that meets the needs of both elements. So, in this edition, “The Most Promising Content Services Platform Solution Providers 2020” Insights Success has shortlisted content services platform solution providers which are bringing digital transformation and connecting enterprises with advancement. The cover features Computhink, a compute software company which is transforming business environments with an array of integrated digital business solutions. Its Enterprise Content Management system, Contentverse, alleviates overwhelming information input and related office document processes in a secure environment. Access and interaction from any PC, Laptop, Tablet, or smart phone responds to the near-instant response demand. Customers experience accelerated proficiency with minimal impact to on-going operations. Also, while flipping the pages, don’t forget to go through the articles and CXOs written by our inhouse editorial team and industry experts respectively.
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Rewards & Recognition
How Content Marketing is Driving Small Business Towards Quick Success
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MereSecure An Emblem of Trust and Integrity
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Maegaret Hirch A Ceaseless Legacy
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“Computhink provides highly secure implementation options with multiple choices of secure client access, mission critical application integration, and secure access for a wide range of business environments. No organization in need of a versatile, easy-to-use ECM has to settle for less.”
Never Far from Everything You Need During these uncertain times, companies require alternatives to the traditional office environment. Teams working from home face challenges as they attempt to effectively communicate and share vital content. Colleagues separated by states or even continents need a way to securely access documents, comply with National and International regulations, and manage business processes. Already widely experienced with transforming business environments, Computhink has shown that its Enterprise Content Management solution Contentverse is perfect for remote teams of any size and composition. “The latest version, Contentverse 2020, is the ideal solution for WFH and social distancing. Computhink provides highly secure implementation options with multiple choices of secure client access, mission critical application integration, and customizations for a wide range of configurations. No organization in need of a versatile, easy-to-use ECM has to settle for less,” says Rajesh Ramachandran, the Computhink Vice President of Product Engineering. Rajesh Ramachandran Vice President of Product Engineering
Multiple Deployment Options for Modern Needs Despite its growing adoption, some regulatory requirements seriously restrict and/or prohibit the use of cloud services. Sensitive government and/or customer data often cannot be kept in multitenancy servers. Security measures may require closed networks with no internet access, which makes external hosted environments untenable. On the flip side, there are several verticals that benefit from cloud storage and file management. For some of these industries, web access and/or hosted configurations are ideal, offering flexibility and a different pricing model for their budget. Contentverse can be deployed in hosted, on-premise, and hybrid environments. The hybrid deployment option opens up a wide variety of deployed, hosted and on-premise, server/services, storage, and database options. This gives customers versatility, opening availability to virtually every industry. With Contentverse 2020's new Enterprise Online client, users experience full functionality via a streamlined, responsive interface, no matter from which browser they access it. With the option to leverage SSL encryption for web clients, accessing Contentverse over the internet is more secure than ever.
Straightforward Purchasing Options While companies make operational concessions, the one thing no one wants to compromise on is document control while endeavoring to resolve the use and processing of physical documents. Computhink offers customers implementations that can be tailored to users roles, with named seats, concurrent seats, or a combination of both. For institutions with document access for multiple users at single workstations or for semi-public access of remote workstations, this flexibility is invaluable. Some software service providers will talk customers into seats they don't need. A diverse license offering ensures that the system deployed fits the customer's unique specifications. Many are turning to cloud access and SaaS in order to reach their documents from home. The SaaS model is not always sustainable, and it does not give users ownership of the product they are using. Computhink offers purchasing options, plain and simple. Customers can buy the software outright or choose extended payment terms, owning Contentverse from the point of sale and continuing ownership after they have completed payments. Cloud options are available, so that no business has to compromise when it comes to their use case and best fit.
E-Learning for Remote Teams As organizations recover from turnover earlier in the year, onboarding comes back with a vengeance. Companies scramble to get their new hires caught up on company procedures and the employee handbook, but what about learning the software that they use? There is no one-size-fits-all for this problem. In addition to options for in-person training, Computhink offers customers access to the Contentverse Knowledge Center (CKC), an online learning platform / portal for end users and administrators to learn how to manage Contentverse and use its core features. The CKC provides various pathways made up of video courses and interactive assessments – customers get a hands-on, in-depth education. Depending on the modules selected, user level, and company needs, customers can tailor their CKC experience to suit their setup.
Secure Access from Afar So many organizations have suffered from the tighter bandwidth resultant of downsizing and reduced budgets. Without the personnel or guidance, dealing with data breaches starts to seem almost impossible. A company that wants to protect its information needs to invest in the right content management. Contentverse's user permissions govern who in the company sees what files, and a single dedicated security manager can limit the breadth of administrative oversight to restrict access. With Contentverse 2020's Content Sentinel, users can give controlled access of select documents to those outside of the system, allowing for sharing while maintaining absolute security. With so many companies sharing files remotely, even to local partners and among digitally connected teams, Content Sentinel is the answer for safeguarding content.
Content Services and Contentverse Computhink's ECM Contentverse is built to fit the remote requirements of any organization. Offering a wide range of Content Service Platform options, the Computhink team will continue to adapt to customer needs and offer certainty in these uncertain times. With Contentverse 2020, you're never far from everything you need.
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ocuments lost can sometimes lead to war because the devil is in the detail and the detail is in a document. The world’s most enduring mysteries come about when important details are either not documented or the documents are lost. Not documenting can have many reasons including a sheer sense of urgency leading to the inability to document facts in time. Losing documents too can have as many reasons, inadvertently or by plain ignorance. Or worse, the lack of foresight. In the world we live in, all it takes to bring down the biggest, brightest and the best, is a lost document, digital or otherwise, with the most known examples coming from the world of business and entrepreneurship. Against this backdrop, and to give industries all the information needed, right at their fingertips, even on the go, Digitech Systems of Greenwood Village, CO came about in the year 1997. HK Bain, its CEO joined them a while later in 2000. Driven by Purpose From the very beginning, if there was one thing Bain ever wanted of Digitech Systems solutions, it was to
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make the process of locating documents and information less stressful and more cost-effective. It then goes to their credit that they have managed to address both these conditions by keeping things easy, simple and quite affordable. In fact, they have gone so far ahead on this path that digitization of paper-based files and documents does not appear to be the Holy Grail any longer. It is the ability to get the right information to the clients’ needs at the right time. “Digitech Systems provides software and services that give companies the ability to get any document, anywhere, anytime,” says Bain. Content Management, according to Bain, remains incomplete where important business information cannot automatically be extracted; and source documents linked to an automated process, something that remains Digitech Systems’ forte. One of their most-admired of USPs is that their products need only days or, at best, hours to set up and operate – a far cry from the weeks or months that others take. They also remain the only company that offers a fully-integrated suite of information management services
that can be deployed either on the cloud or on premise, including process automation, document capture, and forms processing which allow users to work with just one vendor to meet all their document management needs. All these have resulted in triple-digit ROI figures and full project payback in less than a year for their clients! Redefining Benchmarks Bain, the CEO, attributes Digitech Systems’ success to the way its products are structured with a full suite of information management products that can be deployed either in the cloud or on a company’s own network. In addition to industry standards like collaboration, version control, and security, their product suite also offers fully integrated records retention, process automation, document capture, and AI-driven forms processing. Their product suite today includes the following components: ImageSilo®: Secure storage and access to data on the cloud Ÿ PaperVision® Enterprise: Secure storage and retrieval of information on user premise Ÿ PaperVision® Enterprise Ÿ
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WorkFlow: Streamlining of business processes PaperVision® Capture: Automating the process of information capturing PaperVision® Forms Magic technology: Classifying and extracting information with their patented artificial intelligence (AI) systems PaperVision.com: Easy and effective information management on the cloud PaperVision® ScanPro: Fast and easy uploading of documents to the cloud PaperFlowTM: Initiating instant document scanning PaperVision® Enterprise Report Management: Converting print streams to electronic reports
Jamie Bsales, Director of Solutions Analysis, Keypoint Intelligence-Buyers Lab says, “Just when we thought the PaperVision platform couldn’t get any better, Digitech Systems has raised the bar again!” With the devil in the detail being taken care of, and documents safely stored, businesses have every reason to charge full steam ahead. Results then speak for themselves! Ÿ
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Cooperative Educational Services: In response to the Covid 19 pandemic, Digitech Systems’ solutions enabled them to work remotely overnight and helped them keep $5-8 million per week worth of goods moving between organizations. Real Property Management Vancouver: Digitech Systems enabled their conversion to a fully electronic property owner setup Seafood Producers Cooperative: Digitech Systems’ solutions have helped them save $891,000 annually Woodstock Hospital: Digitech Systems’ solutions gave them a 258% ROI on a three-month project payback timeline, helping them win a 2020 ROI Award from analysts at Nucleus Research Amherst Label: Using Digitech Systems’ solutions, they have saved up to $269,520 annually
Voyaging towards Excellence Digitech Systems as an organization is not simply about information digitization, documentation and solutions. They go beyond to include the much-valued ability to understand the client and their latter’s needs and suggest products likewise. In doing so, the Company is today an acknowledged values-first organization that remains a rewarding place to work for its employees, and an organization that values its customers and their needs. This is reflected in the high standards of its products with the entire line-up having received Platinum ratings from product testers at Buyers Lab. Equally valued remain their exemplary interpersonal relations, be it within the organization, with clients or with the world at large. Reinforcing their values, they proudly display and discuss the same in their offices, on their website and even in their promotional and marketing materials. It remains quite prominent in their corporate vision too which is: “We desire to create for all stakeholders a safe, prosperous, wildly successful, value-based organization by offering affordable electronic document management solutions giving customers the ability to get any document, anywhere, anytime.®” In times to come, information may become so ubiquitous that it mimics the air around us, something always felt but seldom seen, and whose loss could be lifethreatening. It would then be left to the likes of Digitech Systems to help capture, process, decode, store and supply information and data in ways that would add meaning while making things easy for businesses.
Rebecca Wettemann, Principle Analyst at Valoir says, “PaperVision.com beats low-end cloud content sharing applications on functionality and competes well with high-end ECM solutions at a higher price point.”
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ewards and recognition at the workplace keep the employees going. They need to know that they are valued and appreciated for their work. The employers will be the highly benefited party by doing so. It is important for companies to keep pace with the current trends in Human Resource to keep the employees satisfied. Keeping the employees engaged is a task that every company should consider.
can make their day. The big things as well, bring them a great sense of pride, not only for themselves but for working with the company. A significant reward for a particular employee can bring more happiness than one can imagine. Efforts Matter too
It is crucial for business growth that the employees remain engaged. According to a report by the Harvard Business Review, recognition for high performers was the key driver for employee engagement. Apart from the rewards to the business, the individuals also feel respected when they are recognized. They feel they are important to the company, and to keep that impression they perform even better than before. There are several benefits that a solid recognition program can bring to a business.
There are times when employees work hard day and night to complete their tasks or targets. Their tasks might not be big or might not lead to the end to a project, but their efforts need to be appreciated. Without hard work and efforts from each member of the team, a project cannot be completed. At times, even after so many efforts by everyone, the project can end up in drains. Success should not be the only eligibility criteria for rewards and recognition. By rewarding the efforts of employees it might even improve the company culture.
Top Driver for Engagement
Recognition from Peers
Companies that have a recognition program in place tend to keep their employees engaged. Employee recognition overwhelmingly shows positive effects on the overall employee experience. This keeps the employees motivated and the urge to do more is active. The old traditional ways of recognition like giving out watches, coffee mugs, etc. is still in picture but in a smaller quantity. The modern ways of recognition are seen as appreciation mails or letters, token of appreciation, bonus, etc.
Every project or work needs more than one person to be complete. The employees work in teams and get things done. These people are the ones who work together on a daily basis and are the best judges. The peers should be given an opportunity to nominate each other for rewards. This way there is always a healthy competition going on, and this keeps them on their feet all the time. Peer recognitions mean a lot more than direct employer recognitions as there are emotions attached here. From all of this we can only conclude that all companies, small, medium and big, should have rewards and recognition program. Such things not only motivate them to perform well and give their best, it also gives them an objective to reach. The culture and environment of the workplace proves to be healthy with such schemes in place.
Increase in Productivity The employees feel valued when their work is recognized. This leads to increase in productivity. When they are unhappy about their workplace or working conditions, they tend to waste time and not work whole-heartedly. Workplace recognition also curbs the wastage of resources and increases the productivity of the business. The feeling of being noticed and supported is a driving factor for everyone. A Merry Workplace Happy employees make a happy workplace, and a happy workplace brings out happier results. Appreciating the small things that employees do brings a smile on their face and
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ontent is key in our business development because every administrative document has his specific processes, legislations, archiving needs,” says Bram Lerouge. Bram is the CEO at Doccle and responsible for result driven and customer oriented in obtaining the objectives through collaboration and mutual respect.
Doccle is the largest and most innovative digital administration platform in Belgium and more than 2 million Belgians now receive, process and store documents on it. Below are the highlights of the interview conducted between Insights Success and Bram Lerouge: What led to the inception of the company? Doccle was created to solve a very generic problem for individuals (consumers, independents, small company leaders) : provide a secure content platform, easy to use, to handle the whole of your personal or professional administrative interaction with your suppliers for the exchange of important personal documents like payslips, invoices, tax documents, contracts to sign, insurance documents, …. In a time where we are used to connect and interact with friends through facebook, with professional relations through Linkedin, there was no easy solution to interact with the 40 to 50 suppliers everyone has a relation with. Describe the company and its extensive content services which address all the needs of its customers. Doccle is the only multisided platform in Europe for the exchange of important information in the context of our users’ personal
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administration. For our supplier community we are a technology platform they can connect to, to integrate all types of administrative technology in their own portals and distribution channels: payment technology for invoices, electronic signatures for contracts, legal archiving, Sepa Direct Debit activation, electronic registered mail. In short every technology to support an active administrative relationship with their clients. For our second community of individual users, we provide mobile apps and online solutions for the whole of their administration: paying invoices, signing documents, a personal archive for all your important documents. As a content service provider company, what contribution the company has made in assisting its clients for achieving measurable goals? Doccle has become the largest multisided platform in Belgium in less than 6 years. We have 2 million users, which is about 41% of all households that have created a digital connection with their suppliers. Our supplier community has grown to more than 10.000 companies using
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“All your personal information in paper archives will be brought to live by Doccle through the digital relationships you create with your suppliers.�
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our platform with marketshares of above 80% in HR&payroll, Social security for independents, utility companies like water distribution companies, healthcare with m u t u a l i t i e s a n d h o s p i t a l s , Te l e c o m , Government. For suppliers we reduce late payments of invoices with 50%, increase traffic to their portals by 17%, increase the NPS with 10-15% and reduce churn of customers. How does the company’s content service differ from the other companies’ services? The main difference is not the individual technologies like payments, signing, but the fact that we provide one technology platform with open API’s that combines all the necessary technologies to support an innovative administration with the exchange of administrative data and documents. We are unique in the creation of an ecosystem where individual clients connect to their suppliers once and from then on, all administrative content is put directly in the personal administration vault of the users. Our solution is patented because it does not require any addressing information to invite companies clients to connect.
What is your vision for the company? And what would be the best roadmap for getting there? It is our ambition to become one of the largest platforms in Europe. We believe that simplicity and high growth should be possible without jeopardizing privacy aspects by selling data or pollution of personal administration with commercial campaigns. Administration is to be organized as a connected network : we bring the simplicity of social network concepts to your administration The documents in your administration will disappear and become information. Augmentation this information is key to create an administration that is not only simpler, but also proactive and intelligent We believe that simplicity will become a commodity, and trust and privacy by design will become a differentiator. The Doccle platform will become a “Trusted” platform where the one version of the truth about a user is archived, but also shareable with others only after explicit user consent. We have a unique business model with a community of organizations that benefit from growth and a community of users. Technologies that will facilitate this evolution will be new interaction paradigms like chat and video calls, AI technologies to enrich personal information into an intelligent personal archive that assist our users in tasks they need to perform before they even knew that needed to be done. A true Do It For Me platform where consent based automation will drive your personal onboarding and administrative interactions with suppliers.
Give a detailed description of the featured person’s influence over the company and the industry. I was working for a large HR & payroll provider when Doccle was created as a spinoff based on Corporate venture capital. As the initial creator of the idea, together with a group of innovative intrapreneurs of the first organizations in our ecosystem, I focused that roadmap and the developments onto the idea of a connected platform that digitizes client supplier relationships. Describe in detail about the work culture and the values that drive the company. Our company has a culture where hard work is combined with an open and agile work culture where there is room for informal events with our team. Our values are about being extremely privacy focused given the confidentiality of the information, but also being innovative and creative in realizing high growth and network effects through mobile solutions with great UX and high simplicity.
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How CONTENT MARKETING is Driving Small BUSINESSES Towards Quick SUCCESS
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ontent marketing is a strategic marketing approach focused on creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent matter, be it written, photographed or video-graphed to attract and retain a clearly differentiated audience which with consistent efforts drives profitable customer relations. To illustrate this point, take the example of a toothpaste maker. After telling the world all there is about THEIR tooth-paste (and probably boring everyone to death with their teeth falling out!), there may still not be much sale. Why? Because everyone’s doing the same thing, which is to try and sell stuff. What is it that they need to do to stay relevant and promote their sales? They need to market the right content i.e., information that may be relevant to user which is also in line with the product being sold by the content creator, and create a life-long connect. Till now, Content Marketing was the forte of big companies which had the wherewithal including content itself, in addition to dedicated teams to put forth their points succinctly. With the world going digital and the net getting things firmly in its grasp, the thing about getting the right information isn’t really an issue any longer. Anyone with the right broadband connection has accesses to a sea of content we today call the internet. So how does content marketing drive small business towards quick success? To understand this better, we need to be aware of the pluses and minuses of small businesses.
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Pluses include: n Can be incorporated/ started easily n Not a very large product line n Limited specialization n Extreme localization Minuses include: n Can close just as easily as they open n Others with larger product lines can overwhelm them n Difficulty in scaling up due to ownership and product issues From the above, it becomes fairly obvious that for a small business, there isn’t really much of a scope other than content marketing to garner and retain a market share. Pitched before a determined, deep-pocketed adversary, the only way a small business can survive besides grow is by showing valuable content to its customer base. Among other things, content marketing helps in the following ways: - It helps show the creator as an authority with a sense of responsibility and reliability in the field Let’s take the example of a motor mechanic with his/ her/ their own garage. With competition galore, where they can up the ante is by informing patrons about the need for things like timely servicing, types of servicing, types of engine oils and their advantages. They can show pictures of what may go wrong if maintenance isn’t on time and the likes. Doing so consistently while also attaching customers’
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views and testimonials, shall show the marketer as an authority with an immense sense of responsibility and reliability. To increase the responsibility and reliability, one may also include activity where one does not charge (like consultation). - Where the content is contemporary, it can help drive traffic towards one’s business and website The perfect example here could be of a drug store which gives daily information about Covid-19, places to be visited for testing, doctors to be visited who may advise tests, precautions to be taken, latest figures and the likes. Even if the Drugs Stores is fairly small and indistinguishable physically, the content they put online can help them get targeted customers and visitors to their websites and shops. Even if the customer does not buy anything initially, the thing about the shop being reliable with information stays at the back of one’s mind leading to a visit when most needed.
Small businesses in constricted business areas too need high ratings these days to survive. And the best way is to market their wares and services on social media. Besides selling products, those that put across the right content irrespective of forms, gets their intended client’s eyeballs. And the ones getting maximum eyeballs also get high rating on these mediums. Put together what it means is that by placing the right content at the right place at the right time, one gets high rating on search engines which itself translates into extra visibility, and business. In the end, it’s about a businesses’ choice. Some like to talk about things other than business. Others seem to think that doing so is pointless as long as the products sell and there are no complaints. What the latter don’t seem to understand is that there are a million like them who don’t care to differentiate. In time, it’s the one who is most recognized due to the right content who shall stand out- irrespective of size, and survive, if not grow. As for the other, they get treated like generics which get dispensed without batting an eye.
- Contemporary content brings brand recall, and brings more customers Some of the leading small businesses remain in the limelight because they have kept in touch with clients with timely information, be it about products or things surrounding them. Take for example food. Food everywhere in the world has stories behind it and a certain way of cooking it. Now imagine a seller of such foods who sends his clients recipes and tells them about all he new gadgets and kitchen appliances which can help make their lives easier, and also of ways to use them correctly. It’s not without reasons that everyone would want them to be their client! Size then does not matter. Timely service does! Adding to one’s feeling of remaining customer friendly is the internet which helps one do so with speed and efficiency. - Contemporary content gives high rating on every forum
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rior to the pandemic, the need for secure information transmissions and avoidance of data leakage, ransomware attacks, and phishing, all lead to the creation of better tools to replace insecure methods of email and fax.
Every participant company or person has some level of risk to evaluate. MereSecure® has a tool that can help keep track of information via documents to and from clients, customers, consultants, pre-sales contacts, vendors and suppliers.
Pertaining to the same necessity, MereSecure® was established on three principles: trust, honesty, and integrity. The team has built tools to solve challenges in the document exchange cloud space. The company’s flagship cloud-based product, XMS, is a secure document exchange platform which is at the core of anyone needing to handle content in the cloud safely. It allows companies to safely collect and deliver files outside of the organization.
XMS helps users to manage any outside company more efficiently by centralizing documents, uses safe practice system notifications, metrics with dashboards, workflows, and advanced search options. In addition, XMS can be used to transfer documents, spread sheets, and third-party forms to any external participant via a secure invitation.
Exhibiting Excellence For the Founder, Markus Schmucki, the idea was to create a platform that could apply to anyone and not specific to an industry; to offer solutions that offered an easier implementation, training and was simple to use. He wanted to build applications that avoided how things were done currently and instead provided something unique on top of the general concept of familiar applications.
The easy to use platform offers a contact record manager, assignment tracking, unlimited custom fields on all files and history of all critical user actions. It leverages secure methods to send and receive files. There are no comparisons with other tools offered given most are based on classic file folder share techniques. XMS provides a portal platform for anyone to manage their documents and all from a simple secure web browser. Specific and Comprehensive Solutions MereSecure®’s XMS platform, technical professional services, and IT consulting explains what and how the solution will work in a simple to understand comprehensive message. The company thrives on simplicity. Its solutions require less training, users need limited support, and individuals are not intimidated by adding yet another service or product to their to-know list. XMS was built with a mind-set of doing something better for something that has not been designed yet. Following are a few specific distinctions: It is not another file sharing platform like DropBox or Google Drive. The portal offers tailoring with a multi-user permission based desktop login and built in search and workflow.
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A tool that can provide a blindcarbon-copy approach to sending documents to a list of clients who are competitors or a list of consultants who remain private. An attorney, tax preparer, security consultant, banker etc. all able to be isolated from collaboration. A Visionary Markus Schmucki, the Founder, CEO & President has an extensive experience working in the Information Technology (IT) industry. Prior to MereSecure®, Markus served the last fifteen years as the co-founder of a successful FinTech company, working with customers that were Fortune 100 financial companies. His varied roles included VP Engineering, VP Product Development, VP Operations and Professional Services along with acting as the Chief Information Security Officer. He also possesses experience in software engineering design, database design and in a variety of information technology and training roles. It offers custom Meta fields on any type of files that are uploaded to the system and permissions control whether those fields are shown to outside participants or not. A simple invite list of participants allows for 1 to 1,000+ recipients with an easy to use search on name, company, and email domain. It offers options for a bundle of files to be uploaded as a template so users no longer have to respond to the same form or document more than one time. The ability to categorize documents and filter view via permissions to those categories. Financial documents vs. Sales documents can be separated such that invited participants can be elevated with access without any additional settings on the assignments.
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At MereSecure®, Markus applies this experience in making decisions on product design, technology, and infrastructure. He has an overall strategy for the company to build out pragmatic (mere) simple-to-use solutions while building on its professional services offerings. MereSecure®’s XMS product makes it easier and more efficient for questionnaires as forms to be presented and documents to be collected from third parties.
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Promising Trust, Leading with Integrity Aside from the obvious work-life balance ® mantra, MereSecure ’s motto on the logo wall sign at the office states—from the author C.S. Lewis— “Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.” ®
MereSecure is focused on expanding the reach with Information Technology computer related services and, by continuing to educate for the need of encryption based solutions. The company also wants to expand its XMS document exchange platform to different industries ranging from Accounting, Insurance and Mortgage Brokers, Contractors, Banking, Legal and Construction Services and a few others. The company believes that the XMS platform is evidently applicable to a range of types of companies and even consumers. ®
With regards to MereSecure ’s cloudbased document exchange platform, it helps organizations and individuals not rely on insecure email attachments or be limited to think in shapes of folder structures. “We have a simple and affordable solution,” concludes the team at MereSecure® for more information, meresecure.com
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