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Learning about the origin of filing cabinet software can help us to understand it in its contemporary context. John Mancini, the president of the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), is one of the world’s leading experts on information management: AIIM recently declared eFileCabinet user Chris Beebe as its paperless office hero for its <a href="http://www.aiim.org/wpfd">World Paper Free Day</a> event.
Mancini notes that the information landscape is comprised of five stages leading up to the development of Enterprise Content Management, document management software, and filing cabinet software as we know these information management mediums today:
1. The Paper-Based Information Era
Mancini maintains that this model was used before the 1950s and was, in large part, the method by which western civilization depicted and documented information in general for most its existence.
2. The Micrographics Era
Mancini asserts that micrographics emerged after the paper-based epoch—emphasizing the photography of paper documents, reducing them in form to microfilm or microfiche. This was arguably the first crucial step toward digitizing information in mass.
Documenting and recording emerged, but paper remained the primary intersection of “organizational processes, information, and people.”
3. The Electronic Records Production (ERP) Era
From the 1960s through the 1980s, the concept of automation was brought to light by leading tech pioneers and innovators. Despite this newfound innovation, paper still held supremacy over the business process. Mancini notes that these solutions, were discussed among and sold only to C-level executives, and were highly expensive and complex. Today, <a href="http://www.efilecabinet.com/paperless-office-infonomics/">filing cabinet software accomplishes a similar feat</a>, but is far more intuitive.
4. The Workflow Era
This is when documentation specialists emerged—and it forced people to look at information management not as something one merely does but as something one also understands–this is particularly true given the volume of information that proliferated during this time. Network area localization spawned this final section leading to our present era: the era where highly sophisticated information management methods were made available via filing cabinet software.
5. The Era of Information Management Sophistication
Mancini declares that beginning in the early 2000s, with the advent of the internet, filing cabinet software emerged to organizations’ benefit. However, it changed drastically throughout this era—beginning as a cluster of simple imaging technologies, with <a href="http://www.efilecabinet.com/the-differences-between-ecm-and-dms/">enterprise content management (ECM)</a> serving as an umbrella nomenclature for anything involving enterprise information management.
Within the past 5 years, however, ECM has become more so a verb (something you do) and less so a noun (something you buy), according to Mancini. As a similar technology, filing cabinet software beholds the same distinction.
For in its verb form, it is largely responsible for de-manual-laboring the organization. Despite blue collar environments being associated with manual labor and the many ills coming with it, relying on paper and disheveled, unstructured information imparts just as many if not more ills (including manual labor within the office) than typical manual labor environments.
With emphasis on visible processes and quantifiable bottom lines, many executives and administrators fail to identify the costliness of hidden processes within an organization—relying on shared drives and/or paper, which is a vessel for immensely multifaceted costs.
Document management technology, however, reduces the manual labor in the organizational process, putting traditionally manualized office processes into the automated, digital, and highly secure and compliance-adherent workflow, collaboration, and storage platforms inherent to the scope of filing cabinet software.
Most organizations relying on paper and traditional information storage processes never realize how inefficient these processes are until they purchase solutions to overthrow them. The time spent handling, sending, locating, and retrieving documents in physical form significantly detracts from the process and cost efficiency. Although this occurs independent of administrators’ consciousness, it is no less detrimental than organizational problems of which administrators are aware and determined to solve.
These demarcations throughout the historical development of enterprise technologies elucidates the difference between cloud storage and more sophisticated solutions: these two very different technologies that are oftentimes confused for the following reasons.
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<li>Unlike filing cabinet software, cloud storage does not offer workflow, collaboration, enterprise-grade storage capacity, automated deletion, indexing, multi-tiered security features to simplify compliance, all-encompassing role-based user permissions, content lifecycle management, and software integration capabilities</li>
<li>Additionally, the difference between these two technologies and cloud storage is the difference between a digital secretary and a digital filing cabinet—filing cabinet software being the secretary with the ability to handle, manipulate, and alter information on command.</li>
<li>As the enterprise tech era is brought to its fruition and peak growth, information technology will not reach consumerization. Once fully implemented into the <a href="http://giic.org/">organizational infrastructure</a> worldwide, it will no longer be common for consumers to have better technology in the home than they do in the office.</li>
<li>With wearables, mobile phone applications, and consumer-grade software at the helm of software innovation, organizations are asking how they can keep up with the rate of innovation consumers have access to outside of the office, and use of filing cabinet software is one of the many possible answers to this ever-important question.</li>
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Filing Cabinet Software: Its Role in Information Management's History

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<a href="http://www.kentico.com/?utm_source=press_release&amp;utm_medium=link&amp;utm_campaign=pr_g2crowd_Q12016" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kentico Software</a>, makers of an all-in-one CMS, E-commerce, and Online Marketing platform, today announced Kentico 10. The company’s flagship product features a long list of functional improvements all focused on getting digital marketing jobs done faster and more efficiently. It is by far the company’s most enterprise-ready solution to date.
<blockquote>“We see ourselves as being a very different kind of WCM vendor,” said Karol Jarkovsky, Kentico’s Director of Product. “Our view is that it’s not about how many features you can cram into a product, but rather understanding how digital marketers work and building a platform that’s easy for them to use and enables them to get jobs done faster.” He continues, “The last thing we want to do is bog marketers down with flashy but seldom used capabilities. We have, to the contrary, been removing lesser-used features and streamlining our software code for the past several years. The result is that Kentico 10 is a very clean, very elegant solution that’s ready for today’s business enterprise.”</blockquote>
KENTICO 10 FEATURES &amp; CAPABILITIES
Productivity
<ul>
<li>Kentico has spent months observing the way that digital marketers work and built much of what it has learned into Kentico 10. For example, more agile campaign management has been achieved by featuring a single unified control panel from which marketers can design, deploy, and evaluate digital marketing campaigns.</li>
<li>Responsive Images Management – In order to deliver a superior customer experience, personalized content must be delivered through multiple channels including phones, tablets, and a growing list of mobile devices. That means that images need to be resized and rendered in numerous resolutions, color profiles, layouts, and viewports. With Kentico 10, the company has introduced responsive image management. After some initial setup, that means you upload images just once and the system automatically adjusts them for various media.</li>
</ul>
Context
<ul>
<li>With Kentico 10, you can gain insights into activities of your customer base across multiple web properties, enabling cross-site lead scoring and contextual marketing projects. Complete view of visitor interactions across all brands is now supported.</li>
<li>With the Campaign Journey, we allow marketers to track interactions of visitors with the brand during the sequence of steps in the journey. Flexible campaigns allow marketers to change attributes of the running campaign without concluding the campaign or losing any of the data already collected.</li>
<li>The abundance of data makes it difficult for marketers to make sense of it all. During the development of Kentico 10, the company explored different ways to better glean and share insights to both Kentico and non-Kentico users. That’s important because often you are not the only one interested in the data. That’s why Kentico is leveraging its strategic relationship with Microsoft and offering advanced Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities through the Power BI Email Marketing dashboard. This ensures that everyone has access to the same channel intelligence.</li>
</ul>
Performance &amp; Scalability
<ul>
<li>Users will notice a dramatic 50% faster page load and response time of the Kentico environment. This means faster development of digital marketing campaigns and faster deployment of websites. This should be of particular appeal to digital marketing agencies, freeing them to take on more work within the same hours. The bottom line is that with Kentico 10, users will get more jobs done in less time.</li>
<li>Kentico 10 features a tenfold improvement in scalability, supporting over 100 million contacts and over 1 billion marketing activities. This new scale of work, in addition to built-in web farm support, makes Kentico enterprise-ready, and a much more viable option for Global Fortune 500 corporations.</li>
</ul>
Technology
<ul>
<li>Full Implementation of MVC – The <a href="http://asp.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ASP.NET</a> Model View Controller (MVC) is the fastest growing developer framework, helping companies to build better performing, more scalable websites. That’s why it was introduced in the last version of the product and is fully implemented in Kentico 10 in both the E-commerce and Online Marketing areas. That means total separation of concerns for all kinds of projects. By using the coupled REST API, Kentico 10 can be used in a variety of use cases as a content repository with the content consumed not only through traditional delivery channels, but also in native mobile apps, and by smart devices and machines to extend the pool of use cases.</li>
<li>Full Deployment of Continuous Integration – One of the challenges that digital agencies face is that every developer has their own instance of the development installation and their own instance of the development base – in effect, their own isolated environment. At the end of the day, they need to share that functionality with the rest of the team. Continuous Integration – the tool that makes this possible – is fully deployed and supports all object types in Kentico 10, enabling you to quickly and easily move objects between environments.</li>
</ul>
Ready for the Enterprise
<blockquote>“With the introduction of Kentico 10, the expansion of our service offerings, and our recent entry into the Gartner Magic Quadrant for WCM, we expect that more Global Fortune 500 companies will take a serious look at Kentico,” commented Founder and CEO Petr Palas. “We have been anticipating that day, and have been working hard to make our products and our business enterprise ready.”</blockquote>
Learn more at <a href="http://www.kentico.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.kentico.com/</a>

Kentico 10 Features Dramatic Advances in Speed and Usability

The company has been around for four years, and what started as a university project by the founders Gustav Degerman and Hamid Abouei today has nearly half a million users in 150 countries. The founders are now hoping to reach students around the world, with a new campaign which means that schools can register with Portfoliobox and offer their students the Portfoliobox pro account for free.
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<li>We know that a large part of our users today are students. This way we are hoping to reach even more of them, and hopefully give them a way to start establishing themselves online before they graduate. Portfoliobox is a great tool for marketing yourself as a creative professional, said Hamid Abouei.</li>
<li>We have also noticed that there is a great demand for a student solution. Even before we officially launched the project we had interest from both schools and students. We were contacted by someone at an Art School in the US the day after we held a seminar at a school in Stockholm – he had already heard that we were launching the campaign and wanted in, which is amazing, says Gustav Degerman.</li>
</ul>
Schools participate free of charge in the campaign, which will offer all students at registered schools the Portfoliobox pro account. Alumni are also able to use the service at a discounted price for the first year, it is all part of helping students establish themselves on the competitive creative market.
Read more at: <a href="http://www.portfoliobox.net" target="_blank">www.portfoliobox.net</a> or <a href="http://www.portfoliobox.net/students" target="_blank">http://www.portfoliobox.net/students</a>

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Fugue, Inc., announced today the immediate availability of the free version of its flagship cloud orchestration product, Fugue. Fugue simplifies common challenges enterprises face when operating in the cloud and mitigates the need for deep domain expertise required to manage massive infrastructure complexity and ensure regulatory compliance. Unlike existing cloud management tools, Fugue provides DevOps engineers with the ability to program and orchestrate the full lifecycle of their entire Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure service stack across compute, network and storage in a systematic and scalable manner. To access the free version of Fugue, visit <a href="http://www.fugue.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.fugue.co</a>.
<blockquote>
“The free version of Fugue is a fast and frictionless entry point for developers and cloud engineers to begin to easily experience the true benefits of the cloud,” said Fugue Co-founder and CEO Josh Stella. “It is meant to add immediate value to individuals who provision, maintain, operate and terminate cloud environments on a routine basis.” 
</blockquote>
The free version of Fugue is ideal for development, testing, and staging environments, and for those just getting started with the cloud. A single user can provision and orchestrate multiple cloud environments in an AWS account and Fugue actively manages infrastructure state and corrects for configuration drift. Free Fugue comes with email support and online documentation. There is an option to increase the level of support at-cost.
“There is broad agreement that the future of IT is cloud computing—Fugue is right in the middle of that future,” said Peter Christy, Research Director with 451 Research. Fugue is currently working with Fortune 100 customers to bring advanced cloud operations capabilities in the areas of team collaboration and next-generation enforcement of regulatory compliance and custom policies to market in early 2017.
“The free version of Fugue provides an elegantly designed way to explore achieving what we all seek: a high-confidence, codified, and orchestrated infrastructure,” said Rob Daly, CEO of Stelligent, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner. “Fugue and Stelligent share the same aims for our customers: We want them to be able to increase the speed of innovation delivery, eliminate infrastructure maintenance burdens and ensure enterprise IT standards are continuously met.”
Fugue works with today’s workloads and DevOps toolchains and significantly simplifies a wide range of cloud-native use cases, including immutable infrastructure, container-based and serverless cloud services, microservices and blue/green deployments. 
Fugue consists of three primary components: The Fugue Conductor, a cloud-side system for provisioning and continuously enforcing cloud infrastructure; the Fugue CLI for sending commands to the Conductor; and Ludwig, a compiled, type-safe domain-specific language for composing and validating cloud infrastructure-as-code. Fugue ships with a standard library which includes simple abstractions for declaring a wide variety of cloud infrastructure service configurations. 
Fugue is a Silver Sponsor at the AWS re:Invent conference from November 28 to December 2, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. At the conference, the Fugue team will be demonstrating how Fugue can be used to solve today’s toughest operational challenges in the cloud. To learn more, visit Fugue at booth #918 on the expo floor, or visit<a href="http://www.fugue.co/reinvent-your-cloud" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.fugue.co/reinvent-your-cloud</a>.
About Fugue
Fugue is an innovative system for orchestrating and enforcing cloud infrastructure that radically simplifies cloud operations. Teams can use Fugue to declare the desired state of cloud infrastructure and policies in a collaborative, human-friendly programming language and to automate the provisioning, management and teardown of complex cloud environments and continuously enforce infrastructure state and policy compliance. Fugue has eight patents granted and sixteen pending. The company is privately held and headquartered in Maryland, with investments by New Enterprise Associates, Core Capital Partners and the Maryland Venture Fund. To learn more about the company, visit <a href="https://fugue.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://fugue.co/</a>.

Fugue Launches Free Product for Cloud Infrastructure Orchestration and Enforcement

If you’re reading this article, you already know about the <a href="/wordpress-is-a-cms-whether-you-like-it-or-not/">benefits of WordPress</a> and how popular this CMS is. Now you want to make money on the platform. The good news? It isn’t so hard. With the help of a WordPress developer and a few plugins, you can make money on WordPress in no time. Whether you want to run an ecommerce shop or a subscription-based content platform, you will need to create a WordPress membership site to set up a payment system and allow users to have membership profiles that let them access content or purchasing abilities.So what steps are involved in setting up a membership site, and what plugins do you need to use? Check out the guide below. We’ve got you covered.1. Choose the right hosting.The first step to creating a WordPress membership site is ensuring that your website can <a href="/8-wordpress-security-tips-to-help-you-secure-your-wordpress-site/">securely handle</a> payments. To do that, you need a WordPress host that offers an SSL certificate. Luckily, there are numerous WordPress host options to choose from. <a href="/products/wp-engine">WP Engine</a> is one of the most popular options. It’s pricey, but reliable and fast. If you’re on a budget, you could try HostGator or Bluehost, both of which offer SSL certificates as well. Do your research and find what hosting platform best fits your needs because each option has their own strengths and weaknesses. Once you establish what host you will use, you’re ready to move onto the next step.2. Install a membership plugin.Okay, this one is a bit obvious, but it’s crucial to creating a membership site. You’ll need to install a plugin that allows you to distinguish between visitors and members. Like with hosting platforms, there are numerous <a target="_blank" href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=membership">membership WordPress plugins</a>, so do some research and find out what fits your needs. Once you install the plugin, you’ll need to create a new user group. Go to the admin page, click Users/Roles, and then click “add new.” What you call this new group is up to you, “member” or “subscriber” perhaps, and make sure that their role capability is set to “read” and nothing more. Once you’ve established this new class, you will now be able to distinguish between different types of visitors on your site and restrict certain content or actions to your “member” class.3. Create sign-up and payment forms.WordPress isn’t known for its ability to create aesthetic fields, so you’ll need to install another plugin here. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?B=812809&amp;U=407830&amp;M=63061&amp;urllink=">Ninja Forms</a> is a popular and robust choice that uses a drag-and-drop tool to create customizable forms for user registration, payments, etc. If you need a more robust user experience, you can try <a target="_blank" href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/profile-builder/">Profile Builder</a>, a plugin that lets members edit their own profile/account information once they’ve created their account as well as customize your email campaigns for that extra personal touch. In many cases, you may even need both of these features (as Profile Builder doesn’t handle payment forms). Remember if you want to build your list of members, it needs to be easy for them to sign up, and that requires forms that are easy to fill out.4. Add forums and comment sections.If you’re creating a membership area of your site, allowing members to comment on your content or even review the products you’re selling is a nice way to create a greater sense of community around your WordPress site. <a target="_blank" href="https://bbpress.org/">bbPress</a> is a simple plugin that creates forums and allows members to communicate with each other over your content. <a target="_blank" href="https://buddypress.org/">BuddyPress</a> is a more robust option that allows members to directly message each other and form their own messaging groups, if the intent of your membership site is to provoke heavy member interaction. These plugins aren’t necessary to creating a membership site, but it’s features like these that convert consumers in the first place. Give them the whole package and make sure that your members have everything they want.5. Create a customized menu.If you are creating a members-only section of your website, then you’ll need a menu that reflects different navigation for members and for visitors. The plugin <a target="_blank" href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/nav-menu-roles/">Nav Menu Roles</a> allows you to add new tabs to your menu with ease, creating a streamlined navigation experience for whatever site you want to create. The plugin lets you set what menu users see, based on their profile behavior. For example, logged out users can see a “login” and “register” tab in the main menu, and logged in users could instead view tabs such as “profile” and “membership home page.” If you want to include a members area as well as a general content area for visitors, it’s important that you update the structure of your website and its navigation, so that none of these new pages get lost in the mix or your members have a hard time finding what they’re looking for.Have you created a WordPress membership site before? Share your advice and experience with us in a comment below!

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<a href="http://www.grayton-watches.com/" target="_blank">Grayton</a> introduces the Origin Mechanical watch: a classic self-winding timepiece with open-heart design plus a smart strap for activity tracking, phone notifications, music control and more.
Technology evolves but style is timeless 
As boutique watch makers, Grayton understands that there is no substitute for a beautifully designed and handcrafted automatic watch. The Origin Mechanical watch represents the perfect marriage of sophistication and smarts – the natural evolution of Intelligent Timepieces for a connected world.
Origin was designed to deliver the best of watchmaking and technology – a mechanical watch with a classic design and embedded electronics hidden in its leather strap that add convenient smart features.
The heart of the matter 
The Origin is finely crafted to exacting standards in a brushed 316L stainless steel case with polished accents. The open-heart dial and see-through back cover puts Origin’s intricate selfwinding mechanism on display, and keeps Origin infinitely wound. Its Japanese movement has 26,100 beats per hour and 24 jewels for superior timekeeping accuracy and a power reserve of 41 hours between wearings.
Activity tracking in the strap 
What makes Origin special, among other things, is the independent strap which instantly adds smart features. Designed to perfectly complement the Origin, the strap is refined, comfortable and slim. The smart strap is virtually indistinguishable from the best traditional leather straps of other fine watchmakers.
<blockquote>
“Fitness trackers are popular because they are affordable and offer useful functions. But they feel cheap, are often uncomfortable and become obsolete quickly. We are living in a new era where timepieces meet fashion and technology and there is no turning back! Origin is the first Mechanical watch that has connected features built directly into a classic leather smart strap. Now, people don’t have to choose between beauty and convenience” Sébastien Druvent, Product Marketing Advisor.
</blockquote>
Intelligent convenience every day 
This revolutionary watch connects to a smartphone for the most convenient features such as calendar reminder, alarms, phone notifications and more. The built-in battery allows up to 10 days of autonomy between charges. It’s ideal for receiving notification alerts in the office or recording workout fitness data at the gym. The Origin and the accompanying Grayton app are compatible with both iPhone and Android phones.
Make any watch smart 
For people that already have a watch that they love, the Grayton smart strap is interchangeable with standard watch straps to easily add fitness and intelligence to any watch from Daniel Wellington® to Patek Philippe®.
A watch ahead of its time
Grayton has raised the bar on what a classic watch can do. With Origin, fashion, technology and convenience coexist perfectly in a stunning timepiece for any occasion.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/origin_by_grayton_collection1130x0-is.jpg" />
Availability 
Origin is in pre-production for a commercial release in May 2017 on <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/at/origin-watch" target="_blank">www.indiegogo.com/at/origin-watch</a>
Origin will be exclusively available for pre-sale on Indiegogo.com beginning November 28st, 2016. Wholesale packages for distributors and retailers will be available during the campaign.

Grayton announces the launch of Origin: the	 First Mechanical Smart	Watch that connects to your phone for smart features.

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Solodev, winners of our “Best Cloud CMS” award are pleased to announce that their platform has been completely re-architected for the AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cloud. As such, Solodev customers fully benefit from this incredibly secure, redundant, highly available environment. Customers now have immediate access to Solodev and can spin up new instances of the platform in a fraction of the time at a fraction of the cost, deploying business critical websites in minutes rather than weeks.
When told of their recent win of <a href="/awards/">Best Cloud CMS</a>, Solodev Founder and CTO, Shawn Moore had this to say:
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“We’re honored to have won the people's choice award for Best Cloud CMS. We know there are a lot of strong competitors in our market and our team worked extremely hard to build our state of the art cloud offering.” 
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Solodev will be attending the popular <a href="https://reinvent.awsevents.com/">AWS re:Invent 2016</a> conference next week to showcase their newly optimized platform so be sure to swing by their booth and touch base to learn more about their excellent cloud based offering.
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“Solodev has made huge strides in their efforts to advance their cloud platform and for customers who are looking for a solid, stable and reliable cloud based CMS for their business, Solodev is an excellent option to consider.” said Mike Johnston, founder of CMS Critic.
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Document management systems are a mainstay for business everywhere and sometimes finding the right one can be a bit of a challenge. As such, I've decided to share with you my list of the top 5 document management systems, based on my experience.
These are listed in no particular order but rather as they come to mind. They are all equally excellent choices and I'd recommend exploring each before making a selection as your needs should be what determines the choice you make.
<h2>LogicalDOC</h2>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/logicaldoc.jpg" />
LogicalDOC are the <a href="/awards/">recent winners</a> of our 2016 CMS Critic Awards – People's Choice for Best Document Management System. LogicalDOC is an easy to use, intuitive document management system that offers a wide breadth of features worth investigating.
Learn more at <a href="https://www.logicaldoc.com/" target="_blank">https://www.logicaldoc.com/</a>
<h2>eFileCabinet</h2>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/efilecabinet-review-31137x0-is.png" />
When it comes to ease of use and beauty, nothing beats out eFileCabinet's document management system. It has perhaps one of the most intuitive interfaces I've ever seen and has been designed to function just like a filing cabinet, making it incredibly easy to adapt to for those who are not as apt with technology.
Learn more at <a href="http://www.efilecabinet.com/" target="_blank">http://www.efilecabinet.com/</a>
<h2>M-Files</h2>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/mfiles1478x0-is.jpg" />M-Files enterprise information management (EIM) solutions transform how businesses manage, secure and share information with a unique metadata-driven approach that organizes and processes document and other content based on what it is, rather than where it is.
Learn more at <a href="https://www.m-files.com/" target="_blank">https://www.m-files.com/</a>
<h2>Ademero Content Central</h2>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/unnamed.png" />
Content Central gives organizations like yours quick and easy access to your information. The all-in-one, browser-based document management system provides what matters most to you: Access, Speed, Process Automation, and Security.
Learn more at <a href="https://www.ademero.com/" target="_blank">https://www.ademero.com/</a>
<h2>Dokmee</h2>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/dokmee_6.png" />
Dokmee is a secure, easy to use document management system designed for a variety of purposes including document capture and storage, search and retrieval, and file sharing. It adapts to any business model by maximizing accessibility and functionality in repositories of all sizes and has a user friendly interface available in 19 languages.
Learn more at <a href="https://www.dokmee.com/" target="_blank">https://www.dokmee.com/</a>
Do you agree or disagree with this list? Let us know in the comments below. Be sure to share your favorites as well and perhaps I will expand this list to include them.

How to Add a CMS to an Existing Website Quickly and Easily

PDFFiller is an online PDF form filler and editor that has been on the market since 2006. It allows you to not only fill out PDF documents, sign them and send them out but also to host them on your own website complete with the ability for people to do the same. Today, I'm going to share with you my PDFFiller Review.
I first came across PDFFiller when they reached out to me to ask if I was interested in taking a look at their software. Being a long time Docusign user, I was eager to check out an alternative and see if it met my needs. I'm glad I did. PDFFiller is significantly easier to use and felt far faster in my time using the software. For the purposes of this PDFFiller review, I've used a W8 form from the IRS (something I often have to fill out being Canadian and working with US companies).
When you first log into PDFFiller, you'll be greeted with this screen:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/pdf-fillter-review-1.png" />
To add a document, simply click on the Add New Form button.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/pdf-fillter-review-2.png" />Now upload your document to PDFFiller and it will instantly be available for you to fill out.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/pdf-fillter-review-31398x0-is.png" />Now that you've uploaded your PDF document, just click in the fields and fill out the information required. It's as easy as clicking and typing.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/pdf-fillter-review-4.png" />Once you've filled out the form, it's time to move to the signature stage. Adding a signature is incredibly easy, you can type one out, draw it with your mouse, use a touch screen device (if you have one), capture a signature or upload one.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/pdf-fillter-review-5.png" />In my case, I chose to draw one with my mouse, which I find is as close as I can get to real life. In this instance, I'm using a fake name so I'll just sign the document as “Joe”.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/pdf-fillter-review-6.png" />That's all there is to the signing and filling out process. Pretty simply isn't it? Let's take a quick look at a few other slick features you get with PDFFiller. Adding a watermark to documents is always handy and doing so simply requires you clicking on the watermark tab on the right side of the screen and creating yours.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/pdf-fillter-review-71398x0-is.png" />This is incredibly handy for those of us who want to show people how a form should be completed but don't want it to be re-used somewhere else. Adding in a SAMPLE or VOID watermark is useful.
Adding even more features, PDFFiller also allows you to spell check your document. Of course, it can only spell check the information you've typed out but it's a great feature to make sure you haven't made any mistakes on your form. To enable it, simply flick the switch as shown below.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/pdf-fillter-review-8.png" />Once you've finished with your document, it's time to send it off. You have a slew of options such as printing it, saving it as Word or PDF, emailing, faxing, SMS and more.

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There you have it, as you can see, it's a very easy to use piece of software and incredibly handy for busy professionals who don't have printers with them on the road. Last but not least, they have one feature I can see people using on their websites that is incredibly handy, the ability to share a document that can be filled out and signed by visitors to your website. Check out the video below to see how it works:
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Simply <a href="https://www.pdffiller.com" target="_blank">sign up for an account with PDFFiller</a> and you'll be well on your way to signing contracts, PDFs and more. They also have handy iOS and Android apps that are just as easy to use.

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Drupal has long been a solid CMS to use for business and today we are providing you with a list of 10 great Drupal business themes you can choose from when developing your business website.<h3>Foxin – Responsive Business Drupal 8 Theme</h3>Foxin is a modern and professional business Drupal theme with fully responsive design.The theme has its own super powerful theme control panel with lots of useful options and tools to manage your site: Block builder, customize, slider, etc. Foxin is built with Gavias Block Builder, the amazing drag and drop builder allows you build professional blocks in just a few simple clicks. In addition, with over 19 widgets integrated, building content is never easier.Features include:<ul><li>Compatible with Drupal 8.x</li><li>7 Homepages Demo</li><li>Drag &amp; Drop Block Builder</li><li>18+ widget types included by default</li><li>Custom type: Article, Portfolio, Gallery, Testimonial</li><li>Post Format: Image, Gallery, Video, Audio</li><li>Portfolio Format: Image, Gallery, Video</li><li>6 Color Schemes &amp; Unlimited color skin</li><li>Customization – customize(color, background…)</li><li>Fully responsive design</li><li>Powerful Grid system</li><li>Boxed style and Full width style</li><li>Powered by HTML5/CSS3/Bootstrap</li><li>Valid XHTML and CSS markup</li><li>Fast &amp; Friendly support</li><li>Support CSS Development</li><li>Well organized &amp; documented</li><li>And more…</li></ul>Grab it here: <a target="_blank" href="https://themeforest.net/item/foxin-responsive-business-wordpress-theme/20203550">Foxin Theme</a><h3>Consultant – Multipurpose Corporate Drupal 8 Template</h3><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/drupal_business_theme_-_2.png" />Consultant is a Drupal 8 template that can be used for meetings, consultants and much more. Well designed with a visually stunning design, Consultant offers everything you need to create a powerful and responsive Drupal 8 business website.Features include:<ul><li>Compatible with Drupal 8.2.x &amp; 8.1.x &amp; 8.0.x</li><li>Demo install and exist Drupal installation</li><li>Drag and drop layout.</li><li>4 Unique Home Layouts</li><li>Unlimited theme colors via theme settings.</li><li>Boxed &amp; wide versions</li><li>Fully Responsive with Bootstrap 3.</li><li>Over 580 icons with Font Awesome 4.</li><li>Power shortcodes.</li><li>Premium modules</li><li>Parallax supports</li><li>HTML5 / CSS3.</li><li>Video background.</li><li>RTL direction support.</li><li>Google Fonts</li><li>Sticky Menu</li><li>And many more…</li></ul>Grab it here: <a target="_blank" href="https://themeforest.net/search/consulting">Consultant theme</a><h3>The8 – Corporate, Business Drupal Commerce Theme</h3><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/drupal_business_theme_-_3.png" />The8 is a great looking theme that is suitable for a wide variety of websites. It's fresh and clean design complete with flat graphics and copious white space make it stand out. It's great for corporate/business websites, creative agencies, personal portfolios, online shops, blogs and many other business websites.Features include:<ul><li>Unique and Clean design</li><li>Unlimited color variations</li><li>Easy color management</li><li>Wide and boxed layouts</li><li>Fully responsive</li><li>Retina ready</li><li>Huge Layout Options</li><li>Multiple widgets</li><li>Simple multi-gallery</li><li>Revolution Slider included</li><li>Working (PHP) Contact Form</li><li>FontAwesome icons included</li><li>Google Fonts included</li><li>Ipad and Iphone friendly</li><li>Touch sensitive</li><li>Coded with SEO in Mind</li><li>HTML5 &amp; CSS3 Validated</li><li>Well documented code</li><li>Extensive Documentation</li><li>And much more…</li></ul>Grab it here: <a target="_blank" href="https://themeforest.net/item/the8-corporate-business-wordpress-theme/13443893?ref=pxcr">The8 Theme</a><h3>Tico – Responsive Business Drupal 8 Theme</h3><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/drupal_business_theme_-_4.png" />Tico is a modern, responsive business theme for Drupal that sports a unique look, tons of features and is a drag and drop builder to help you create the perfect looking design for your business website. With over 19 widgets integrated, building content has never been easier.Features include:<ul><li>Compatible with Drupal 8.2.x</li><li>5 Homepages Demo</li><li>Drag &amp; Drop Block Builder</li><li>25+ widget types included by default</li><li>Custom type: Article, Portfolio, Gallery, Testimonial, Team</li><li>Post Format: Image, Gallery, Video, Audio</li><li>Portfolio Format: Image, Gallery, Video</li><li>6 Color Schemes &amp; Unlimited color skin</li><li>Fully responsive design</li><li>Powerful Grid system</li><li>Boxed style and Full width style</li><li>Powered by HTML5/CSS3/Bootstrap</li><li>Valid XHTML and CSS markup</li><li>Fast &amp; Friendly support1224</li><li>Support CSS Development</li><li>Well organized &amp; documented</li></ul>Grab it here: <a target="_blank" href="https://themeforest.net/item/tico-responsive-business-drupal-8-theme/17424736">Tico Theme</a><h3>Highstand – Responsive MultiPurpose Drupal Theme</h3><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/drupal_business_theme_-_5.jpg" />Highstand is a responsive Drupal theme / CSS3 simple, clean and professional theme. It comes with Pages, Awesome Slideshows and Color Variations. It is easy-to-customize and offers a fully featured design. This theme suitable for Company, Business, Blog and Portfolio websites.Features include:<ul><li>30 Different Home Pages</li><li>4 Different Single Pages</li><li>3 Different Left Menus</li><li>3 Different Right Menus</li><li>30 Different Header Styles</li><li>10 Different Footer Styles</li><li>Tons of Features and Elements</li><li>Responsive HTML5 and CSS3 Template</li><li>Responsive Design</li></ul>Grab it here: <a target="_blank" href="https://themeforest.net/item/highstand-responsive-multipurpose-wordpress-theme/15578570?ref=Datasata">Highstand Theme</a>

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A Document management system answers many questions: how do I reduce operating expenses? How do I save money in newfound places for my business? How do I scale back on paper use in my office?
However, the software itself also poses important questions to those who are considering using it. Here eFileCabinet answers many of the most FAQs received from prospective users and new customers alike.
A. Will Software and Strategy Support be an Ongoing, Indefinite Process?
Document management system support will not be an ongoing and indefinite process insomuch as the document management system vendor has a strong support team and product offering. However, irrespective of which document management system a prospective buyer selects, the <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/document-management-system-strategy-and-execution/">strategy for the technology</a> will always be an ongoing process.
Although software and strategy are highly similar in the sense that a software’s features may provide strategic frameworks in and of themselves, from the organizational perspective, the strategy will always require legwork because the industry in which the organization resides will fluctuate, bringing new demands and challenges, and ultimately shaping the way organizations respond to these fluctuations with a document management system.
B. What Will Data and Content Migration Entail?
Most organizations’ qualitative data can be found in its content and vice versa. Thus, data and content may be treated as one and the same, or merely as “information.” DMS vendors will be able to assist buyers in <a href="http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/definition/data-migration">data migration</a> whether it be to an online, cloud-based solution, a hybrid solution, or an on premise(s) solution.
However, some vendors will not sufficiently address post-installation considerations regarding information migration. Essentially, it is common that once a vendor completes the installation and makes the sale, further guidance is not provided to the <a href="http://www.efilecabinet.com/case-studies/">document management system user</a>.
For instance, a particularly common issue post installation is the vendor’s failure to warn organizations against using old storage and data methods (like the shared drive) that the DMS was purchased to supplant. Employees are creatures of habit just as they are outside the office, and will continue relying on overlearned storage tactics, procedures, and protocols unless leadership incentivizes buy-in to the new DMS by removing the technology it was designed to replace.
C. Why Would I choose an Electronic Document Management System over An Electronic Document Management Solution (EDMS)?
Several document management system vendors use the terms document management system and EDMS interchangeably, so confusion regarding the terms is understandable. However, there is a distinct difference between EDMS and a document management system, while still relevant in terminology, is not relevant in practice.
The term emerged to account for enterprise imaging innovations made over 15 years ago near the beginning of the millennium. Akin to DMS, the main purpose of EDM was enabling organizations to rely on less paper, store information digitally, and increase the security of their files (albeit the security enhancement of going paperless alone was marginal).
However, the document management system, as noted earlier, encompasses a greater suite of strategies and software bred to accommodate the needs of larger organizations with multiple branches and a greater volume of information, including more stringent compliance objectives and expectations.
D. Why Would I choose a Document Management System over Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)? 
ERP software is designed to help organizations become data driven, making strategic decisions based on surmised data. Perhaps more akin to DMS than any other technology mentioned in this guide, ERP is better suited for organizations looking to utilize different platforms of the same software in different departments of the organization.
However, a document management system deployment is most useful if deployed organization-wide across all departments—making it a better option for larger organizations wanting to keep all departments informed of each other’s processes and information structures.
Additionally, ERP is designed to account for predetermined information. DMS, however, is robust enough to account for both determined and undetermined information—the latter of these two information types being the most difficult to structuralize into internal processes. Finally, ERP emphasizes delivering solutions in real time: real time being the feature by which technology keeps pace with external processes as they unfold in the environment.
E. Why Would I Choose DMS over Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS)? 
Enterprise File Sync and Share <a href="https://www.sharefile.com/?aid=115878241100&amp;src=google&amp;kw=citrix%20sharefile&amp;gclid=CjwKEAiAr4vBBRCG36e415-_l1wSJAAatjJZZ7ehvPhPYsY9E4tkeRKPcE5ofIEZzdNaqY9_MaakrRoCH8Hw_wcB">(EFSS)</a> is the equivalent of what many call cloud storage today, making it a consumer grade technology unfit for use in an enterprise, no matter how small the enterprise may be.
Although many DMS vendors have all the features of a typical EFSS, the value inherent to a document management system does not reside in its EFSS features. Presently, over half of all organizations worldwide rely on EFSS.
F. Why Would I Choose a Document Management System over Enterprise Content Management (ECM)? 
DMS and ECM are two of the most commonly confused enterprise grade technology solutions. ECM mobilizes documents into self-contained content, reducing the time spent organizing materials and clutter—both of which are prevalent issues across industries.
Essentially, DMS facilitates documents’ capacity to self-manage so workers may tend to the more important aspects of organizational functions: decision making, analysis, and revenue-generating processes.
Although the following statistic varies from vendor to vendor and industry to industry, anywhere from one-fifth to one-fourth of a document management system is Enterprise Content Management in its entirety.
This is in large part because although ECM and DMS are distinctly different, they share a variety of technological features—whereas a DMS entails not just technology, but also the strategies by which organizations can effectively use and manipulate content for any given purpose.
For instance, Infosys, a business technology and consulting firm, notes that one-fifth of ECM is comprised of the following document management features: folder-ing, file visibility, file retrieval and search, workflow features, and automated document deletion and retention.
A document management system, however, primarily utilizes business process management, which is a strategy of melding preexisting IT structures and processes into organizations’ DMS usage.
Concomitantly, ECM involves records management (the legal component of enterprise technology and content), web page content management, and information exchange add-ons with more security features than email provides. However, both high-end ECM and a typical DMS can handle millions of documents.
To read more about <a href="http://www.efilecabinet.com/what-is-a-document-management-system/">what a document management system is</a>, visit eFileCabinet’s website.

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