Document Imaging Going Mobile, and Quick

Jarad Carleton of research firm Frost & Sullivan recently released a substantial and insightful white paper on the topic of "distributed capture," one of the most important aspects of document imaging now, and only growing more important by the year.

Carleton starts his paper, promisingly, with the hard-headed business realization that simply buying new stuff is not what smart businesses do. Rather, they harness their existing technology and then integrate the new stuff into a system that includes old stuff.

Distributed capture, though, is about much more than making old machines work with new machines. It's about people being able to work remotely as effectively as if they were working in the office.

Currently, working remotely is popular and entirely possible--unless you work with paper-based processes, such as those that require signatures. In real estate, for example, couriers are still common, transporting documents from the office to the client and back again.

The same goes for insurance, and the same goes for accounting.

But this reliance on paper is slowly changing. Carleton does a brilliant job of describing how and why, and how and why you may want to consider taking document imaging with you everwhere you go.