Although we've blogged about document imaging and disaster recovery before, the topic deserves repeated looks because of how incredibly important it is:
Business owners who maintain hard copy files, and do not scan those documents and save them to another location, are quite literally risking the survival of their business should disaster strike.
Document imaging can save your bacon if your office gets hit by a fire, flood, or burglary incident. Could your business survive without those documents? Think about it even though it's unpleasant to even bring up the thought, because this is a serious matter.
There are a variety of reasons to work with a document imaging service provider, but the "insurance policy" aspect is perhaps the most powerful. In some cases, such as with financial or legal documents, document scanning helps business owners comply with actual laws about handling certain documents.
However, business decision-makers should not need a law to tell them that document protection in the event of a document-destroying disaster is as important as important gets.
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Sunday, November 23, 2008
When Disaster Strikes, Document Imaging Survives?
In the course of scouring the Internet, one runs upon some good things. If you missed it, check out this wonderful story in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution the other day.
It is about a pastor and a business man striving to reform and revitalize a tough neighborhood in northwest Atlanta, where a beloved 92-year old grandmother had recently been shot and killed by the police.
The business man owns a document imaging company in Atlanta. His name is Mr. Gordon, he donates money to his case, and he had this to say:
“There’s so many good people who’ve lived a lifetime here that go to sleep afraid at night. We don’t believe people should live in that kind of fear.”
Though the connection may seem tenuous, one can surmise that Mr. Gordon's ability to relate to and connect with this community could have something to do with his status as the owner of a document imaging company.
How so?
Because the strength of document imaging is in its interest in combating disaster. Or not necessarily disaster itself, but the loss that comes with it.
All those papers--wills, memos, letters--disappeared. Into nothing, a hurricane, a tsunami...
A neighborhood at war.
No easy task, to outlast those, but document imaging keeps some of those losses. Sent out over email, maintained on backup Internet-connected databases, scoured by searchers of relevance, the images of documents can escape disaster--and live to tell about it.
It is about a pastor and a business man striving to reform and revitalize a tough neighborhood in northwest Atlanta, where a beloved 92-year old grandmother had recently been shot and killed by the police.
The business man owns a document imaging company in Atlanta. His name is Mr. Gordon, he donates money to his case, and he had this to say:
“There’s so many good people who’ve lived a lifetime here that go to sleep afraid at night. We don’t believe people should live in that kind of fear.”
Though the connection may seem tenuous, one can surmise that Mr. Gordon's ability to relate to and connect with this community could have something to do with his status as the owner of a document imaging company.
How so?
Because the strength of document imaging is in its interest in combating disaster. Or not necessarily disaster itself, but the loss that comes with it.
All those papers--wills, memos, letters--disappeared. Into nothing, a hurricane, a tsunami...
A neighborhood at war.
No easy task, to outlast those, but document imaging keeps some of those losses. Sent out over email, maintained on backup Internet-connected databases, scoured by searchers of relevance, the images of documents can escape disaster--and live to tell about it.
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