Nearly 20 years ago, the “seers” in our industry proclaimed that within about 10 years, all paper documents will be eliminated.  Yet we are increasingly drowning in paperwork and wasting more time than ever searching for that one piece of paper when we need it.

Today, there are numerous cost effective document management systems that integrate with GP.  At the same time, the cost of disk space to store these electronic documents has decreased dramatically.  We now talk in terms of “gigabytes” where 20 years ago we spoke of “megabytes” of data.

At CriticalEdge, we have implemented one of these many solutions in-house.  When I need to view a Verizon contract, I go to the GP vendor record and open the attachment.  If I need to look at a vendor invoice, I open it through the Transaction by Vendor Inquiry.

Let me know what impediments are in the way of your implementing a document management solution?