Business professionals in any given work environment are involved in countless processes and interactions every day. Whether there is a form to fill out, documents to prepare, reports to be delivered, data to be entered and forwarded, or meetings to attend, the number of people and steps involved in these processes leaves plenty of room for blunder and frustration. People become discouraged with people rather than recognizing the flaws in the actual process itself.

Imaging Path partners with our clients as they pursue technology solutions that improve the way they do business, in the end keeping employees happy (with each other) and processes in tact. We dive deep into what the goal is of each process through a process-mapping workshop. In a typical workshop, clients discover a clearer look at their current state, issues and needs, a clean sheet redesign, and a custom designed future state. The end result is a comprehensive knowledge of the work environment, providing great insight on what technology to pursue.

It’s not a matter of throwing technology at a client to make it stick. Our goal is to gain an understanding of your broken processes and lead you down a clearer path with the technology that can alleviate your process pains.

The elimination of bottlenecks to ensure smooth cash flow is vital to surviving in today’s environment. Businesses need to quickly gather and sort the incoming data on invoices, remittances, and checks in order to accurately transfer the information into the ERP or Accounting System. However, once in the system, everything still needs to be manually reviewed, matched, reconciled, routed, and approved before payment can be made or cash applied.

With our single AP solution containing advanced scanning, data capture, and storage capabilities, companies can alleviate one of the most painful areas of doing businessthe manual document preparation and data entry found in the accounting department. Accounting Professionals and business regain tight control over the entire process, providing visibility and instant access to invoices and key information, eliminating the change of misplacing, or losing paper, duplicating or overpaying invoices, or making late payments. The result? Companies gain the ability to slash their invoice, remittance, and check processing costs by up to 50% more all while boosting productivity without adding staff. Just imagine: your ideal ROI can be achieved in months, not years.

Therefore, it becomes essential for an HR department and its professionals to easily manage and maintain the internal tasks while have the ability to report, maintain, and continuously monitor to lessen audits and ensure compliance with HIPAA, SOX, EEOC, etc. Our HR solution enables businesses to completely eliminate risk of lost or misplaced files while providing a tight management over every aspect of an employee’s personnel file. Processes such as employee applications, on-boarding paperwork, certifications, and performance reviews can be streamlined with automatic notifications and permissions.

Refocus. While our managed HR system focuses on eliminating paper and streamlining manual processes, your HR professionals can stay up-to date and compliant, refocusing on business development and the pressing issues of minimizing the risk of litigation and lost productivity.

Electronic Forms - with a variety of contained selection lists, field requirements, and embedded calculations can act as the single point of entry eliminating redundant data entry and errors.

Advanced Capture- Through various techniques call OCR (Optical Character Recognition), ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition) and OMR (Optical Mark Recognition) and the extracted information is then interpreted and validated in a highly automated process with no human intervention.

Workflow - From simple rules base routing to advanced integration and development, workflow allows a smooth and seamless flow of information across departments. Redundant data entry, lost or misplaced information, silo systems, and ad hoc processes become a thing of the past.Visibility to the information that runs the business is finally accessible providing the business intelligence needed to strive ahead of the competition.

With Imaging Path’s smart pen technology, these highly valuable forms can be printed once with a specific indicator and signed with a smart pen, allowing the customer or receiving party to keep the original. The signature instantly kicks off a workflow that can send an electronic version to the assigned parties, print at corporate, send to the customer, load into a doc management or ERP system, or preform any task necessary.

The result? Our clients can eliminate all manual and costly processes while having instant visibility into customer and business activities. Some of the main highlights of our solution are:

• Eliminated the shipping of boxes of signed forms from all locations daily
• Reduces scanning (Ultimately, will eliminate scanning)
• Eliminated hand matching of Bills of Lading to invoices
• Eliminated manual filing of forms
• Eliminated the need for costly preprinted forms
• Improved the quality of the archived document significantly
• Eliminate lost or misplaced Bills of Lading

Smartphones, laptops, tablets, and 3G combine to create a technology savvy culture in which consumers have access to more information at any given moment, in any given location than any other time in history. With so many ways to obtain information, companies are starting to realize that traditional mailing and email is getting lost in the noise. Instead of customers having to reach out to their vendors or specialists for an answer, Google becomes their personal representative.

Typically, businesses react by investing precious time, labor, money, and resources for preparation and distribution to satisfy market demands. Mundane tasks such as naming, sorting, printing, shuffling, resorting, renaming, and packaging become a necessary evil to compete. Operation cost sore and profits lower just to stay in the game. Implementing a solution to simplify and optimize the creation, management, and distribution of business documents eliminates the manual labor and costly operations. Variable Data and Customized Direct Marketing (i.e. packets, proposals, invoices, purchase orders, and creative marketing) offer companies a chance to break through the noise and reach those consumers/clients that have become immune to the traditional methods of marketing. Imaging Path partners with our clients to deliver solutions that unlock the potential of untapped information in existing applications or databases to streamline strategies and processes for future needs.

Imaging Path’s cloud printing solution allows the printing from any portable technology with access to Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, offering a single solution for all devices. Imaging Path helps alleviate the pains of print drivers, network connections, and downloads allowing you to continue business as usual (even faster than 4G).

For more information on our Cloud Printing solutions, please contact: Colleen Schmidt | Business Systems Engineer/Architect | 612.230.3419 | cschmidt@imagingpath.com