6 Features Your Document Management System Must Have

A document management system (DMS) should – first and foremost – manage your documents. But a genuinely valuable DMS will do so much more. In this rapidly evolving world of technology, businesses need to be as agile as possible in order to keep up with the competition, and in order to meet the demands of their customers and clients. So, what features should a stellar document management software have? 1. Powerful Search Functionality There’s not much point digitizing your filing system if it just makes it harder to find documents. In fact, a DMS should – almost by definition – decrease the time wasted retrieving information. eFileCabinet utilizes a powerful search function that can find any document from any device very, very quickly. Plus, the search tool extends to words within documents, so you can find a file even if you forgot what you named it. 2. File Versioning Accidentally overwriting files with older versions is easily done. With file versioning, you can keep a dra
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Paperless Office Software: How eFileCabinet Simplifies Office Life

When paper was invented by the Chinese back in 105 AD, the possibilities seemed endless. Today, paper is still used by companies across the world to physically archive important information, personal data, records, accounts, and so forth. For so long, it all seemed like a great idea. But as we advance further into the digital age, it’s clear that brands everywhere are beginning to feel the drawbacks of a paper-filled office more than ever before. 90 percent of the world’s data has been produced within the past 2 years, and a dependence on paper to document this data has resulted in a backlog of unmanageable, paper-based information. Resultantly, the adoption of document management software has soared. eFileCabinet for example, has helped over 10,000 businesses and more than 160,000 users worldwide to make the switch. But just how does a DMS like eFileCabinet simplify life in the office? More Space Just how much office space does your organization lend to filing cabinets and shelvi
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Watch Karlynn Live on QVC Tonight!

I m very proud and pleased to announce that Karlynn will be live on QVC this evening on the In the Kitchen with David portion of the David Venable show! This is a huge opportunity and Karlynn is very excited to have been given this amazing opportunity which she recently announced on her Facebook page: For those [ ] The post Watch Karlynn Live on QVC Tonight! appeared first on The Kitchen Magpie.
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5 Reasons Why You Need Document Management Software

Document management software does exactly what it says on the tin; it manages your documents. But when you opt for a DMS (Document Management Software) that goes above and beyond just standard file management, you’ll find that it can fulfill a wider range of needs than your company currently has. Here’s precisely why you need a DMS. 1. Physical Filing Is A Pain First things first, in the year 2016, should companies really be tasking their employees with hours upon hours worth of physical filing tasks? Not only is paper filing inefficient in terms of time and organization, it’s also a colossal waste of physical space. With a DMS, those physical files can be stored securely in digital format, freeing up that cramped filing room for extra office or leisure space. How it Happens: Watch How a Non-profit Organization Benefits from a DMS 2. Your Data is Sensitive If your company deals with sensitive data, the act of paper filing becomes more complicated. Not only do files have to be ph
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The eFileCabinet App: A Mobile Document Management System

Now that we have all been introduced to the storing, searching, and sharing capabilities of eFileCabinet, it’s time to check out just how useful this DMS can be outside the office. Ranked as the top mobile document management software by Business News Daily, eFileCabinet boasts a native iOS and Android app that enables individual users to access their accounts – and therefore their data – from absolutely anywhere with an internet connection. Not only is this app ideal for companies that regularly send out employees for client meetings, it’s also convenient for entrepreneurs who are constantly on the move, but need unobstructed and secure access to their vital documents. Here’s an introductory video of the eFileCabinet app for you to get started. The Benefits of the eFileCabinet App The access of eFileCabinet through the mobile app is simple and quick. After your first time logging in to the app, you are prompted to choose a 4-digit pin, enabling even easier access in the fut
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How to Make Slowcooker or Crockpot Dumplings

So here s a question for you all today: Did you know that you can make dumplings in your slowcooker or crockpot? I didn t until about 6 years ago myself and let me tell you, it changed my meal planning life! How amazing is it in the winter to come home to a hot crockpot full [ ] The post How to Make Slowcooker or Crockpot Dumplings appeared first on The Kitchen Magpie.
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eFileCabinet: DMS in the Cloud or On-Premise

We’re kicking off another featured week here on CMS Critic, and this time, we’re joined by one of the world’s most popular document management systems; eFileCabinet. In a market full of big players like Google and Microsoft, eFileCabinet has cornered a delectable slice of the DMS market by securing 160,000 customers. Their success comes down to a number of features that make document management easy for all business types. But perhaps most interestingly, eFileCabinet leverages the power of being both in the cloud and on-premise, giving brands the option to choose between the two solutions for maximum flexibility and diverse deployment options. But before we delve into eFileCabinet fully, let’s refresh our memories regarding document management systems for just a second. What is a Document Management System? Well, long story short, it’s a software that manages your documents. Instead of a company storing all their files in physical cabinets and storage rooms, a document manag
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phpFox Review - Is This The Right Software For Your Social Network?

phpFox is one of the most popular social networking software on the market but is the latest iteration of the software worth using for your social network? In this phpFox review, we'll let you know. With pricing ranging from $299 - $599, phpFox is definitely not a cheap investment so you'll want to make sure it's 100% the right tool for you before you get started. Fortunately, there's a demo you can use to mess around with the software. The drawback, however, is that the demo does not allow you into the AdminCP (the back end of phpFox) to see what it's like to administer the software, something I find a bit odd. Luckily, I was given a test account so I could write this review, so let's take a look and see what the admin interface looks like. Once logged in, you'll be presented with the menu for a logged in user (top right) where you can select the small gear icon to enter the AdminCP. Once you've entered the admin interface, you'll be greeted with the following screen: From here, you
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How to Make a Red Wine Sangria

So the summer of 2016 was the summer that I learned how to make a red wine sangria. I m not sure why it took me so long but hey, so many cocktails, so little time.  
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Weebly 4 is out and brings lots of changes to the popular website builder

Weebly has announced the 4th release of their popular website builder. Some of the highlights of this release include reimagined headers, video backgrounds, specialized layouts, even more templates and tons more. Here's a quick video showcasing some of the new things in Weebly 4: From an eCommerce perspective, Weebly 4 brings some new changes such as: Reimagined customizable eCommerce storefront allows you to drag and drop products and categories anywhere on your site to drive sales. The automatic tax calculator saves time with one-click tax rates for the entire US, guidance for international rates, plus provides the ability to set taxes by region, price, or manually. Get the best real-time shipping rates across carriers to save you and your customers money. Drive new sales with site-branded, digital gift cards and custom coupon codes. There are also some interesting marketing based additions such as: Unprecedented level of integration between your site, store, and email marketing. Ju
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The Geography of Fintech: Which Locales Need it Most?

The financial sector has long been a gallant emblem of promise and lucrativeness for Americans, and this perception remains undaunted by increasingly stringent regulations and auditing challenges to which the industry’s been subjected in recent years. However, if the public and those who work within the financial services sector wish to continually rely on this industry as the backbone of America, professionals within the industry must adapt to Financial technology — and quickly. Otherwise, it will become difficult for areas with fewer people and resources to keep pace with the suburban and urban competition of this industry. Geography & Technology Although there is very rarely a singular or even two-fold cause for anything, research suggests that the financial services sector is heavily impacted by two things: geography, and technology—particularly within the United States. Accounting Principles released an article last month covering a state-by-state analysis of where financia
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Gartner DWS 2016: How It Went Down

It may have been a typically grey London morning, but the Park Plaza Hotel in the heart of England's capital was looking elegant as I made my way to the entrance. I was ready for the first day of Gartner DWS 2016. Once inside, I was directed to the registration room where I was able to sign in and print my own pass. An attendant remarked that I was the first member of the press to arrive – which only intensified my resentment for my early morning alarm. But hey, I was on time for Gartner’s opening keynote, which to its credit, made it all seem worth it. Gartner's Debra Logan delivered the keynote to a room brimming with attendees. She entertainingly hopped between topics like customer engagement, leadership, and risk taking in the world of business. It was an intruguing presentation with lots of imagery, perfect as an appetizer for the two days ahead. Spotlight on Social Colloboration The rest of the two-day event had a big focus on social collaboration in the workplace. The spons
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Mautic Raises $5M to Fund Open Source Marketing Automation Project

Mautic, the open source marketing automation software vendor, has successfully closed a $5 million A Round, led by G20 Ventures and Underscore.VC. A big win for the growing cloud-based marketing company. Earlier in 2016, Mautic announced $600,000 in seed funding from the same two investors mentioned above. This new round of investment has come following Mautic's significant traction with its customers and open source community. A Closer Look at Mautic The Mautic open source project has enjoyed a healthy level of growth throughout 2016. The statistics speak for themselves: More than 50,000 downloads of the open source version More than 20,000 additional companies using the free hosted version Thousands of contributing developers around the world Translated into 24 different languages Launched dozens of new features in 2016 alone due to the vibrant community Those features include things like SMS campaigns, contact management, segmentation, multi-channel marketing, built-in reports, and
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eZ Systems partners with Platform.sh to accelerate development of content- rich websites and applications

In their mission to help enterprises build stronger performing applications at speed and scale, eZ Systems and Platform.sh announce today a new partnership that offers developers an accelerated path to build content-rich websites and web applications with eZ’s open source content management system, eZ Platform, and its premium edition, eZ Enterprise. By taking advantage of Platform.sh’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), eZ now allows developers to build, test, and deploy new features faster and more frequently, which in turn reduces costs, time, and risk for the business. Whether it’s ecommerce, news and media sites, multi-channel applications or connected devices (the Internet of Things), users expect seamless, engaging digital experiences. This puts pressure on the C- suite, developers, marketers and editors to deliver new features quickly and on quality to meet users’ heightened expectations. eZ’s choice to integrate Platform.sh’s PaaS into eZ’s content management system
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CMS Critic to Attend eZ Conference 2016: Beyond The Web

eZ Systems, the open source CMS vendor, is hosting their latest conference – called, eZ Conference 2016: Beyond the Web – in the centre of Paris on October 5th and 6th. And CMS Critic will be there. The conference promises to bring together experts in digital strategy, marketing, and engineering to exchange ideas on how to deliver remarkable digital experiences. The venue is the lovely Châteauform' City Le Cnit in Paris, minutes away from L'arc de Triomphe. eZ Conference 2016: Who's Speaking? The eZ Conference will host more than 20 distinguished speakers, including business and technology leaders, digital transformation specialists, marketers, and software developers. The speakers that make up the two-day agenda include the likes of Paul Boag, an industry leader in user experience and digital strategy; Yann Gourvennec, CEO and Founder of the digital marketing agency Visionary Marketing; Mark Brincat, Chief Technology Officer of The Economist; and Dietmar Schantin, Founder of the
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Surreal CMS Now Offers Demo Websites

Surreal CMS is a platform that integrates with existing websites to bring you inline editing and other content management functionality. It has been designed for web designers with clients who wish to modify their websites quickly and easily. Until now, there was no way to demo Surreal CMS without hooking it up to an existing website. But that just changed. As of today, you can test the features of Surreal CMS on a demo website before you commit to bringing it to your own web property. That’s not to say the integration process was ever too bad, though. The addition of some simple code into your website’s header does the trick. However, this update certainly makes things easier for prospective users. An Intro to Surreal CMS Manage all your websites and clients from one account. Surreal CMS connects to your websites using FTP, SFTP, or Amazon S3. You can then give clients access to specific pages or page areas, allowing them to edit their content inline. It's pretty sleek. Surreal C
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My Children’s Summer Odes to Buzzing Gardens

Did you know that I come from a long line of beekeepers? One may wonder why I m so very passionate about bees and their place in our world, but when you learn that I am the first generation in a LONG time that hasn t kept bees (as my Dad likes to remind all three of us [ ] The post My Children s Summer Odes to Buzzing Gardens appeared first on The Kitchen Magpie.
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7 Ways Wix Nails Search Engine Optimization

Nowadays, the average small or medium sized business owner will know about the importance of SEO (search engine optimization) even before they begin building their website. Website builders like Wix are of course ideal for such businesses, and thanks to the platform’s global success, they have had the luxury of honing their SEO features alongside their innovative page building functionality. In fact, Wix offers up seven simple ways to nail your website’s SEO campaign: 1. Blogging That’s right, blogging is still the most important ingredient in an SEO campaign – and Wix has it covered. With Wix, you can add a blog to your website with ease, just like any other page element. Then, you can begin publishing blog posts that will contribute towards to quality of your website’s search engine optimization through keywords and social sharing. Learn more about the benefits of blogging with Wix. 2. Page Meta Tags Meta tags aren’t visible to your website visitors, but they are visible
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Marketo Unveils Account Based Marketing Features

Account Based Marketing (ABM) is the new acronym on the block – Marketo just made sure of it. The world renowned marketing automation software has fully embraced ABM, which essentially allows marketers to target specific accounts, and specific decision makers within those accounts. It's basically personalization, except better. Here's how it works: Marketo ABM: A Summary Marketo ABM empowers marketing and sales teams with the right tools to target and engage specific accounts in more relevant and personalized ways. More specifically, it allows marketing teams to: Target the accounts that matter: By leveraging account and lead-level scoring, marketers can easily target the right accounts and the right people within those accounts with personalized campaigns. Deeply engage accounts and key decision-makers across channels: This includes working through channels likes email, web, ads, events, social, and mobile; use rich customer behaviors captured in Marketo's Audience Hub to deliver h
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CMS Critic to Attend Gartner DWS 2016

We love attending a good conference, so when Liferay – the renowned digital experience platform – invited us to join them as their guests at Gartner DWS 2016, we couldn't say yes fast enough. Traditionally, the Gartner DWS (Digital Workplace Summit) is a conference that brings together analysts and brands in posession of vast experience in the world of business software. Basically, if you're looking for software experts, you'll find them at Gartner's conferences. The Gartner DWS 2016 will be a two day conference, kicking off on September 21st and ending on the 22nd. The venue is set to be the prestigious Park Plaza Westminster hotel located in the heart of London – which just happens to be my home city. Why Attend Gartner DWS 2016? As mentioned previously, the CMS Critic team has always traveled far and wide to attend business software events, but I'm particularly excited about attending Gartner DWS 2016. Why? Because I'll get to: Expand my knowledge of emerging technologies in
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Sendy Review - Cheap Email Marketing for the Masses

If you are in the market for an inexpensive, yet powerful email marketing platform for your business (or multiple brands) then you are in luck. In this Sendy review, we'll provide you with all of the details about this low cost alternative. Email Marketing platforms such as AWeber, Constant Contact and others are great solutions but they can end up getting costly as your subscriber count increases. Fortunately, there are alternative solutions out there. In our case here at CMS Critic, we found that as our subscribers grew, we were creeping up on over $100 / month for a traditional cloud based email marketing platform. We decided to explore alternatives and ended up landing on a great self hosted email marketing solution called Sendy. What makes Sendy great is that not only is it hosted on our own servers (and btw requires very little overhead) as well as using Amazon SES in order to send out the emails. The good thing here is that Amazon SES is extremely inexpensive and highly reliabl
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django CMS 3.4 Released With Long Term Support

django CMS 3.4 is here, and it's the first release of the free and open source CMS that comes with long-term support (LTS). In my django CMS review which I published a few months back, I remarked that: "There's no doubt about it, Django CMS is an excellent platform for projects large and small. It's simple enough for anybody to approach, although its true potential will need to be unlocked by a developer familiar with Python." Matteo Larghi, the CXO of django CMS, gave CMS Critic an exclusive comment as he and the rest of the django CMS team released version 3.4, saying that, "this is a historic date since it's the first Long-Term Support version." django CMS 3.4: What's New? The video above does a good job of explaining the new features that can be found within django CMS 3.4, but here are the highlights: An Improved editing experience: The Edit page view now displays complex content better. We've removed some extraneous markup and made some fundamental changes to the editing model t
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