Tech Thursday: 5 Critical Reasons To Remove Metadata From Your Documents (And Automate The Process!)
In the course of work or play, everybody who creates, saves and shares documents also ends up creating metadata. And almost everybody is oblivious to this phenomenon or the problems it can create. But what is metadata? Metadata can be anything from comments, timestamps, tracked changes, revision marks or document properties. It can also consist of […]
Tech Thursday: Spring Clean Your Legal Technology!
In most Indian households, Diwali is a time for ‘spring cleaning’. The few weeks leading up to the festival of lights are typically filled with a cleaning frenzy. From cupboards and shelves to kitchen cabinets and showcases – nothing is safe from a broom, mop, cleaning liquid or an over-enthusiastic lord or lady of the […]
Tech Thursday: 4 Reasons Why TEB Billing Is The Best Billing Management Software For Small Businesses
Billing and invoicing can be a painful, time-consuming activity for small businesses, especially if done using old-school methods like spreadsheets and manual reconciliation. If you own or manage a small business and are aiming for growth, you need technology, specifically technology that streamlines your billing processes and ensures data accuracy with easy reconciliation. Do you […]
Tech Thursday: How to Get Great OCR Results (Even From Poor-quality Image-based Documents!)
Every organisation that has jumped on the ‘green’ bandwagon wants to go paperless. Despite this worthy goal, true ‘paperlessness’ is almost impossible to achieve. In every company in every country around the world, millions of documents are printed, faxed, scanned, re-printed, re-scanned…and the story goes on and on. Most of us are drowning in paper […]
Tech Thursday: Do You Know What’s Hidden In Your Word Documents? And Why Should You Care?
Anybody who uses a computer in the course of work or play has used Microsoft Word (or one of its open source variants) at some point. But have you ever wondered what makes up a Word document? How does a document get created? What elements does a Word document contain (whether you know it or […]
Tech Thursday: Let Workshare Secure be your EMAIL GENIE
Have you ever sent the wrong email to the right person? Or the right email to the wrong person? Of course you have. We all have. Email-related mistakes are part and parcel of the digital professional life. Some of these mistakes can be laughed off as funny ‘bloopers’. But some of these bloopers can turn into massive catastrophes. A lost deal, an angry […]
Tech Thursday: The Best New Year’s Resolution You Can Make For YOUR Small Businesses
Almost everybody makes New Year resolutions. I will lose weight. I will read more. I will spend more time with my family. These statements sound great on paper (and in our heads), but whether we stick to them or not is a completely different story! By the time February rolls around, even the most sincere […]
Tech Thursday: Keeping Up with Content Changes with Workshare Compare
In the digital world, everywhere you turn, you will hear the words ‘Content is king’. But have you ever heard the words ‘Content is a pain’? Well, it can be! Or at least, changes to content can! When content changes, it can have implications for people and businesses – and not all of them good. Changed content […]
Tech Thursday: How Law Firms Can Deliver Better, Faster and Cheaper Service Through Technology
In the pre-2008 world, General Counsel (GC) at many firms enjoyed a cosy ‘you scratch my back, I scratch yours’ kind of relationship with their law firms. Scrumptious ‘business’ lunches, leisurely ‘meetings’ at golf courses – these were all part of the ‘relationship-building’ exercise. Then 2008 arrived and with it came the crash – of […]
Tech Thursday: The Expanding Role of a CIO in Leading Tech Transformations
Until a few years ago, most Chief Information Officers (CIO) in organisations around the world have had a functional role rather than a strategic one. However, with increasing focus on digitisation in general and digital-led transformation in particular, this mindset is rapidly changing. CIOs are now expected to move beyond their traditional responsibility to simply manage […]