Enterprise Data Management

Improve Performance with Better Enterprise Data Management

Information is at the heart of business today. It’s difficult to think of any business practice or operation that doesn’t rely extensively on data and documents. In this reality, one would expect businesses to place the highest priority on superior information management systems.

Yet for many organizations, poor enterprise data management practices are hindering productivity and creating significant costs in time and money. Employees are often unable to find the documents they need and may spend hours each day in fruitless searches or re-creating documents that have been lost. Emailing documents back and forth as attachments inevitably creates headaches with version control. And even the most basic document workflow of getting a document reviewed, approved and signed can take far too long.

M-Files can help. As a next-generation intelligent information management platform, M-Files makes it easy for users to find, access and share documents while also automating document workflows and keeping information secured and controlled.

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The Obstacles to Effective Data Management

When choosing a document management or enterprise content management (ECM) system, organizations must focus on solutions that can address the critical challenges to enterprise data management.

Locating Documents

As the sheer volume of content in an organization rises exponentially, finding the right document quickly can be a challenge. Many knowledge workers spend up to 30% of their day searching for the right information. An effective enterprise data management system must put any document at a worker’s fingertips within seconds.

Managing Versions

Too often, workers spend extra time poring over emails and through file folders to determine which version of a document is most up to date. A superior enterprise data management solution should allow workers to always know that the document they are looking at is the most recent version.

Storing Files

On average, organizations use four different repositories to store and manage documents and other content. To make matters even more difficult, nearly 70% of workers report they store and manage documents out of their email inboxes. This only adds to the difficulty of locating files quickly and easily. To improve enterprise data management, organizations need a solution that can make storing files – as well as finding and retrieving them – as simple as possible.

Tracking Workflow

Document workflow often requires multiple parties to review, approve or sign off on a document, and this process can be time-consuming to track and manage. An effective data management system should automate as many routine tasks as possible to accelerate workflows while reducing human error and ensuring compliance.

Using Mobile Devices

A growing number of employees are either working remotely or from home. Providing these workers with access to documents on their mobile devices is critical to ensuring that business processes continue at pace.

Support for Digital Transformation

By providing an easy way to digitize documents, M-Files enables your transition to a paperless document management system that can help to achieve significant cost savings, accelerate document workflows, and provide workers with anywhere, anytime access to every document they need.

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M-Files: Intelligent Enterprise Data Management

The M-Files platform offers intelligent solutions that solve the challenges of enterprise data management. In contrast to traditional file management or records management technology, M-Files doesn’t require documents to be migrated to a central depository. Instead, M-Files’ AI-powered technology crawls existing repositories, systems and platforms to identify and analyze documents, tagging them with metadata that makes them easy to find in seconds.

By creating connections to documents rather than moving them to a central location, M-Files effectively breaks down information silos to deliver an in-context experience for accessing and leveraging content in any system or repository. Files and documents can remain wherever they currently live – in network folders, SharePoint, ECM systems, CRM platforms or other business systems and archives.

This unique approach – managing files based on what a document is rather than where it is located – means that workers no longer need to remember where something was stored. They can simply type in a few words about what they’re looking for into the M-Files search bar and get connected to their documents in seconds. Metadata in every document identifies information about what the document contains, who created it, who needs to see it next and other important and relevant information. Consequently, M-Files can provide a full picture of all the documents related to any topic – for example, all documents for a given project, all correspondence with the customer or all contracts expiring this month.

How M-Files Gives You Control of Your Data

In addition to providing faster, easier access to your information, M-Files enterprise document management gives you greater control over your documents as well.

Know Your Data

M-Files lets you discover business-critical data in legacy archives so you can manage it properly.

Simplify Compliance

M-Files automates the storage, use, retention, and destruction of files in adherence with company policies, industry standards, and regulatory compliance requirements.

Keep Data Safe

M-Files’ dynamic permissions let you govern user and access rights automatically while encryption provides enterprise-level security.

Enhance Risk Management

With a better understanding of the information in your possession, you can manage risk more effectively and secure business-critical data.

Reduce Human Error

AI-powered processes tag every document with as many metadata fields as necessary – without the spelling errors and mistakes that human users often commit.

Enhance Efficiency with Workflow Automation

M-Files workflow automation capabilities put an end to error-prone manual processes while improving efficiency and freeing workers to focus on more high-value tasks. Using a file’s metadata, M-Files guides documents through workflows, routing the file to the right people in the right order and ensuring that tasks are completed correctly and on time.

M-Files automatically contacts individuals and issues follow-ups when action is required on a document. The document’s metadata is updated as it moves through the workflow. M-Files enables process managers to view the progress on each step, allowing them to take action to eliminate performance bottlenecks that cost time and money.

The M-Files Workflow engine makes it easy to customize workflows for documents, employees and projects to suit the needs of an organization.

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How M-Files Enables Efficiency for Your Business

Faster Search

What you need, when you need it. That is the way M-Files works. Fast, easy, and intuitive.

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Familiarity

You can use your favorite daily tools, such as MS Teams or Salesforce to manage your documents.

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Easy Collaboration

Share content securely, and co-author documents simultaneously — wherever you work.

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Streamlined Daily Work

Let M-Files suggest tags for your documents and add workflows for faster processing.

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