Overcoming the Document
Tracking Challenge
“Where did it go? It was here yesterday. Wait. Here it is. But it looks
a lot like the draft I just sent my team members
yesterday. I don’t remember when this change was made.
Who made this change? Why is document tracking so
difficult?”
We have all seen it before. Desk space is being
invaded by papers and drafts of rather important
information that is in a rather unidentifiable order.
When it comes to information, businesses know that time
is money. Businesses do not want to spend money for
hours spent on manual document tracking, which is why
most business are searching out document tracking
software that keeps all of your drafts, reports, and
other important informational documents in order.
Document tracking software has literally rescued
business from drowning in an innavigable sea of
documents.
So, what is document tracking and how do I find the
right software to make it happen? You can start by
searching “document tracking” on a search engine, and
you will find about 167 million pages indexed on
document tracking. The good news is that information and
products to get your business started on effective
document tracking is available. The bad news is that all
of that information can be difficult to sift through in
order to find the document tracking software that fits
your business needs.
Document Tracking
Whether your business specializes in potato chips or
automobiles, your business will have departments and
teams that work together with management, investors, and
clients to produce reports on the market, the budget,
the product, the sales, or other important information,
and document tracking is the glue that keeps a report
together. These reports are meant to bring all parties
on to the same page with respect to how the company is
running and needs to run.
As these teams and departments compile information
and develop reports and presentations, several drafts
are sent back and forth between parties and that is when
document tracking gets sticky. The desktop, outlook, and
the hard drive could very quickly get filled with
numerous drafts under numerous titles, leaving you with
more questions than answers. Who? What? When? Where? And
how? Repeat through your mind as you look over this
complex collection of documents. Whether manual or
electronic filing has been your method, electronic
document tracking can answer all of your document
tacking questions.
Let’s begin by chiseling down your 167 million
choices by examining software that will meet your
businesses document tracking needs.
Digital Thread
As you search through the torrent of document
tracking software available today you will notice a
technology which propels some document tracking software
ahead of the rest. This technology is called Digital
Thread. Document tracking with Digital Thread means that
any document can be tracked through its various edits by
a tag in the metadata of the document. As the drafts of
the document are sent back and forth, you will always be
informed as to the who’s, what’s, when’s, where’s, and
how’s of the document and its changes.
Digital Signature
The Digital Thread has successfully overcome the
challenge of document tracking, and now Digital
Signature comes into play by displaying in your outlook
or whenever you open a document, the who’s, what’s,
when’s, where’s, and how’s of the document and its
drafts. Document tracking enables you to know exactly
what you are looking for right when you open the
document.
Version History
Often times a visual map or a family tree of your
document simplifies the document tracking process.
Version history puts all of the document tracking pieces
together in a genealogy of drafts, which describes the
who’s, what’s, when’s, where’s, and how’s of the
document tracking process.
Joe Miller is specialist in
online advertising. For more information on
document tracking, please visit
NextPage.com.
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