Everyone these days is trying to automate as much as they can. It saves time and effort and streamlines work processes, freeing you and your team to work on problems that need real human ingenuity.

But many small- and medium-sized nonprofits still think affordable automation solutions are out of their reach, technically and fiscally — that advanced automation is only for big players.

According to IBM, an unfathomable 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are now being created every day. But data is about more than size. The powerful insights it contains can only be grasped if you know how to store and access it. With advanced automation brought into the mix, you can gain massive value from big data.

These days, metrics are everything. All things can be quantified, optimized and improved. How are you analyzing the success of your digital work environment? What metrics are you collecting?

Here are some of the best practices and metrics to make sure your workplace and workforce are efficient and successful.

From processing paperwork to approving requests, businesses often deal with extremely tedious work every day. Such tasks also tend to be done manually, which can be detrimental to productivity and profitability. The best way for companies to fix these issues is to understand back-end processes and automate them accordingly.

The cloud is an obvious choice for businesses looking to cut costs, increase efficiency, and enable workforce mobility. But while opting for cloud solutions is an easy decision for companies to make, they’re not all built the same. Cloud solutions have differing deployment models, service offerings, features, and security controls.

Paperwork is by far everyone’s least favorite task. Yet, most businesses have to deal with it on a daily basis. Printing out forms, filling them in, making copies, and typing up the information back into the computer is extremely tedious work. Moreover, when printouts are lost, reprint costs stack up and processes slow down.

Recent years have heralded an unprecedented growth in cloud technologies that businesses are capitalizing on to improve information management, reduce costs, boost security, and foster a collaborative working environment. PaperSaveCloud provides the same feature set as the on-premises version, albeit with some significant advantages, such as a lower total cost of ownership and better collaboration features.

Many businesses struggle to stay on top of accounts payable (AP) tasks. Not only do accounting departments have to deal with an influx of invoices on a daily basis, but there are also plenty of issues that slow down productivity, including paper-centric processes and convoluted approval workflows.

The business world is changing and as the digital age continues to transform the way we work, the pace of business, connectivity, and communication is increasing at a rapid rate. Thankfully, your company needn’t be left behind.

PaperSave offers tools to bring your organization up to speed while providing ample benefits.

A company’s back office refers to the departments responsible for providing internal support and administrative services, which include IT support, accounting, record maintenance, and compliance management.

Although back office personnel do not interact with customers or bring in new revenue, their roles are integral to the success of the company.