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Digitisation \u2013 the first step to digital transformation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite the expanding diversity of incoming information, many businesses are still largely dependent on paper-based inputs despite attempts to shift to paperless processes, states Emma Isichei, Worldwide Category Director, Capture Solutions at Kodak Alaris<\/em>. Paper is a major hurdle in unlocking the power of documents. Extracting content is laborious and time consuming for staff. Manual extraction of data can result in errors, missing or overlooked information, and slow and inefficient business processes. Plus it puts cost pressure on meeting profitability goals. Transactions that are fully or partially paper-based are also key concerns. Access and document manipulation are particularly difficult to track when they are managed in a manual process.<\/p>\n

Paper is a good place to start thinking about digital transformation, because it is the Achilles heel of most organisations. Paper clogs up processes. Paper creates disruptions to smooth information flows. Digital processes require digital information.<\/p>\n

Digital transformation is crucial. Yet, at the same time organisations often work at different speeds and there still is a lot of work from the pure digitisation perspective. There are many hurdles to take, depending on the industry, company culture, type of customers and more contextual elements. It\u2019s clear: to achieve digital transformation in any area, it\u2019s essential to start with digitisation and scanning to speed up your business and processes. To truly transform the way we conduct business, interact with customers, move to agile working models, get smarter about data and even transform our business models, the digitisation of the information and processes, required to achieve those higher goals, needs to happen \u2013 and continue to be optimised.<\/p>\n

Web capture – addressing challenges, evolutions and emerging realities<\/strong><\/p>\n

Information cannot just be captured. We want to ensure that we make our information work for us within our business systems. The old adage \u2018Garbage In, Garbage Out\u2019 holds true when it comes to data capture. If there is no proper process when it comes to capture, then the data that comes out at the other end will not be intelligible and can possibly result in a wrong business decision being made, which in turn can be detrimental to the business.<\/p>\n

The simple capture, file, sync and share is not enough. We need to be able to capture, index and automatically key data, so the information becomes active for a company and it can be used to drive the business, rather than becoming part of a pool of \u2018dark data\u2019. This is data which the company has but does not really know what it is, so just becomes \u2018dead\u2019. Capture also needs to be able to be done from different locations and sources.<\/p>\n

Many businesses today have shifted their scanning workflows to capture information wherever it enters the business. However, images of these documents are often just digitally archived. No data is extracted and seamlessly inserted directly into the business process.<\/p>\n

Web-based capture, sometimes referred to as cloud capture or thin client capture, is the game changer for capture in the hyper-connected age. The Web knows no limits: capture via a browser, from within a line of business application or using a smartphone \u2013 place, time and device become function of your business, customers, workers and processes instead of limitations to your capture possibilities.<\/p>\n

The benefits of web-based capture<\/strong><\/p>\n