DigitalDrawer from AscendoSoft http://www.digitaldrawer.net Secure, On-Premise Document Management Software Fri, 30 Jan 2015 23:59:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 AscendoSoft Celebrates Five-Year Anniversary http://www.digitaldrawer.net/ascendosoft-celebrates-five-year-anniversary/ http://www.digitaldrawer.net/ascendosoft-celebrates-five-year-anniversary/#comments Thu, 16 Oct 2014 22:56:48 +0000 http://www.digitaldrawer.net/?p=5282 AscendoSoft Celebrates Five-Year Anniversary Release date: October 16, 2014 Redmond, WA – AscendoSoft Inc., a leading provider of software solutions and services, is celebrating their fifth anniversary this month.  AscendoSoft was founded in October 2009 by three experienced software experts and has steadily grown to almost 100 customers covering a wide range of industries. “We [...]

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Release date: October 16, 2014

Redmond, WA – AscendoSoft Inc., a leading provider of software solutions and services, is celebrating their fifth anniversary this month.  AscendoSoft was founded in October 2009 by three experienced software experts and has steadily grown to almost 100 customers covering a wide range of industries.

“We are very proud to celebrate five years in business and we are looking forward to many more successful years.  Despite starting in a difficult economic climate, we were able to fight through those early years and establish a healthy business where revenue has increased every year.  We started with a vision of providing software and services to various vertical markets and have delivered on that vision and more.  The other two co-founders and I have stuck to our primary goals, yet we have remained flexible and branched out when new opportunities made sense for our long term growth.” said Brian Miller, AscendoSoft Co-Founder and COO.

“Looking back on the days prior to starting the business, we were confident that we would be able to successfully market our solutions, grow a customer base, and provide first-class service.  The blend of the founders’ software skills and experience has been an important component of our success.” stated Jim Holck, AscendoSoft Chief Sales Officer.  “In addition to our own solutions, we acquired DigitalDrawer in early 2013 and have steadily grown its revenue stream.  This acquisition has allowed us to branch out to a wide range of clients and extended our partner network.”

“We have developed solutions that have gained significant acceptance and it’s great to see our customer base growing.” said Alex Givens, Chief Technology Officer of AscendoSoft Inc.  “When we started, we established integrity, service, and value as our core principles.  Our commitment to these principles has brought us several referrals from existing customers and helped grow our customer base.  Our development and professional services teams have always focused on adding value to our customers, while managing the relationship from a long-term perspective.”

 About AscendoSoft Inc. – AscendoSoft specializes in providing software solutions and professional services to customers of all sizes including vertical markets, such as financials, education, utilities, healthcare, retail, etc. AscendoSoft offers a variety of software solutions including Document Management, Address Cleansing, and Automation Utilities. The Professional Services team provides Business and IT consulting, focusing on Automic/UC4.  Sample customers include Canandaigua National Bank, Marvin’s Stores, BECU, First Tech Federal Credit Union, Boeing Sikorsky, ESCO, AllSouth Federal Credit Union, NV Energy, and Truliant Federal Credit Union.

For more information, contact AscendoSoft Inc. at +1-425-749-3850.

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With the recent announcement that two senators, Orrin Hatch of Utah and Edward Markey of Massachusetts, hope to extend protection of personal student details, it’s time to consider how these changes may impact Document Management. The Family Education Rights and Privacy Right Act (FERPA) of 1974 requires that before a publicly-financed school shares personal student data with a third party, the school should obtain permission of the parents.

With the continued growth of IT systems at schools and the reduction of control over data, parents should be aware that their children’s personally identifiable information (PII) and detailed records are potentially available to parties outside of the authorized school district. Such records that can be exposed are grades, test scores, disabilities, memos, etc. Updating FERPA is needed to ensure that parents are guaranteed to be made aware of third parties who have access to this private information.

Many public school districts and private schools use document management solutions to store and organize student records. Some document management solutions store data on school premises, so the data is in the control of employees, while other document management solutions store data in the Cloud. Cloud-based document management systems, by their nature, require that data is stored external to the school IT network, meaning that all student, and potentially employee HR data is in the direct control of one or more third parties. Cloud-based document management software vendors often utilize a third party for storage, so the data may then be exposed to another party.

While the updates to FERPA do not directly target cloud-based document management solutions, school districts that store their data “in the cloud” should make plans to institute new procedures to comply with the upcoming changes. The proposed changes to FERPA will be costly to these school districts. School districts that are considering or currently evaluating cloud-based document management solutions should also be concerned about the time, effort, and cost of notifying parents.

See here for draft legislation specifics from Edward Markey’s official site.

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]]> http://www.digitaldrawer.net/potential-changes-ferpa/feed/ 0 DigitalDrawer Webinar – March 19th at 11am PT http://www.digitaldrawer.net/digitaldrawer-webinar-2014-03-19/ http://www.digitaldrawer.net/digitaldrawer-webinar-2014-03-19/#comments Wed, 12 Mar 2014 21:12:08 +0000 http://www.digitaldrawer.net/?p=4851 Secure Student Records in an Electronic File Cabinet AscendoSoft, the developer of DigitalDrawer based in Redmond, WA, invites you to join a brief 30-minute webinar on March 19th to learn how schools have secured and organized their paper student records in a digital filing cabinet system. Your institution can benefit from on-premise, Windows-based electronic filing [...]

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AscendoSoft, the developer of DigitalDrawer based in Redmond, WA, invites you to join a brief 30-minute webinar on March 19th to learn how schools have secured and organized their paper student records in a digital filing cabinet system.

Your institution can benefit from on-premise, Windows-based electronic filing software like DigitalDrawer, from AscendoSoft. It will allow your school to scan all student records and store them in an easily-searchable, organized filing system. You can quickly respond to transcript requests as well as instantly access permanent records and other information on any student.

See a live product demonstration showing how to capture, organize, and manage student records (and other documents) in DigitalDrawer.

  • Date/Time: March 19th, 2014 (11am PT)
  • Duration: 30 minutes
  • Host: Jim Holck of AscendoSoft Inc.

Email: webinar@ascendosoft.com to register

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]]> http://www.digitaldrawer.net/digitaldrawer-webinar-2014-03-19/feed/ 0 AscendoSoft Launches New DigitalDrawer Website http://www.digitaldrawer.net/ascendosoft-launches-new-digitaldrawer-website/ http://www.digitaldrawer.net/ascendosoft-launches-new-digitaldrawer-website/#comments Tue, 11 Feb 2014 18:35:28 +0000 http://www.digitaldrawer.net/?p=4805   AscendoSoft Launches New DigitalDrawer Website AscendoSoft launches next generation www.digitaldrawer.net website Release Date: February 11, 2014 Redmond, WA – AscendoSoft Inc., a leading provider of software and services in the document management, data quality, data privacy, and application automation markets, announced the launch of their next generation website – www.digitaldrawer.net. AscendoSoft collaborated with Studio [...]

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AscendoSoft Launches New DigitalDrawer Website

AscendoSoft launches next generation www.digitaldrawer.net website

Release Date: February 11, 2014

Redmond, WA – AscendoSoft Inc., a leading provider of software and services in the document management, data quality, data privacy, and application automation markets, announced the launch of their next generation website – www.digitaldrawer.net.

AscendoSoft collaborated with Studio 9, web design and search engine optimization (SEO) experts, to provide a modern website design that provides an improved user experience.  The new site offers a consistent look and feel, whether it is accessed through PC, Mac, tablet, or phone.  The fresh design coupled with an extensive SEO project offers AscendoSoft a foundation to grow its DigitalDrawer business.  Adding new content is now much easier than with the previous site.

AscendoSoft COO, Brian Miller said “The new website provides a progressive new image for our DigitalDrawer product and will ensure that visitors stay longer to browse and determine if DigitalDrawer is a good fit for their company. It also ensures that our marketing team can easily enhance and extend the site.  As a result of this website redesign & SEO project, we expect to see increased traffic and longer visits.”

“As more and more prospects look for solutions from their smart phones and tablets, we recognized that we had to redesign our website to enable those users.  Our previous DigitalDrawer website was somewhat limiting and we were unable to support this new generation of browsers.” chimes in Jim Holck, Chief Sales Officer at AscendoSoft.  “Ultimately the new website will generate additional DigitalDrawer sales activity and revenue.”

DigitalDrawer is electronic file cabinet software that helps small and medium sized businesses realize the benefits of secure, on-premise document management.  DigitalDrawer allows customers to scan, secure, store, organize, and easily retrieve documents, saving thousands of dollars each year. DigitalDrawer benefits include increased productivity, improved security, elimination of the risk of losing paper records, and compliance with government regulations.

About AscendoSoft Inc. – AscendoSoft specializes in providing software solutions and professional services to customers of all sizes including vertical markets, such as financials, higher education, utilities, healthcare, retail, etc.  AscendoSoft offers a variety of software solutions including Document Management, Address Cleansing, Data Masking, and Automation Utilities. The Professional Services team provides Business and IT consulting. Sample customers include Canandaigua National Bank, Marvin’s Stores, BECU, First Tech Federal Credit Union, Boeing Sikorsky, ESCO, AllSouth Federal Credit Union, NV Energy, and Truliant Federal Credit Union.

For more information, contact AscendoSoft Inc. at +1-425-749-3850.

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]]> http://www.digitaldrawer.net/ascendosoft-launches-new-digitaldrawer-website/feed/ 1 The End of XP and Document Management http://www.digitaldrawer.net/the-end-of-xp-and-document-management/ http://www.digitaldrawer.net/the-end-of-xp-and-document-management/#comments Fri, 13 Sep 2013 23:59:56 +0000 http://digitaldrawer.net/?p=4136 In less than a year, Microsoft will no longer support Windows XP, so what does this mean for your business?  Not having support means that your company’s PCs could be susceptible to attack.  As you analyze and test mission critical applications, now is the time to consider your document management system.  If you simply save [...]

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]]> In less than a year, Microsoft will no longer support Windows XP, so what does this mean for your business?  Not having support means that your company’s PCs could be susceptible to attack.  As you analyze and test mission critical applications, now is the time to consider your document management system.  If you simply save documents on hard drives and servers, those unsecured and unencrypted documents are highly vulnerable.
Odds are you are in the process of migrating to a more modern operating system, so now is an ideal time to implement electronic document management systems (EDMS).  DigitalDrawer from AscendoSoft is the EDMS that stores, organizes, and manages documents and provides fast, security controlled access to these documents throughout your company.

DigitalDrawer is user-friendly, easily customizable and can be rapidly deployed.  So, whether you are a current user in the process of updating and modernizing your IT systems or just currently thinking about an EDMS, DigitalDrawer is a secure, cost-effective solution.

 

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]]> http://www.digitaldrawer.net/the-end-of-xp-and-document-management/feed/ 1 Top Three Reasons for Electronic Document Management http://www.digitaldrawer.net/top-three-reasons-for-electronic-document-management/ http://www.digitaldrawer.net/top-three-reasons-for-electronic-document-management/#comments Wed, 17 Jul 2013 00:04:19 +0000 http://digitaldrawer.net/?p=4138 Document management has been a source of frustration throughout history from the earliest cave drawings to entire rooms dedicated to paper file cabinets to electronic document management systems (EDMS), of which some of the earliest date back to the 1980s.  From that point on, the evolution of EDMS has continued at an amazing pace and [...]

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]]> Document management has been a source of frustration throughout history from the earliest cave drawings to entire rooms dedicated to paper file cabinets to electronic document management systems (EDMS), of which some of the earliest date back to the 1980s.  From that point on, the evolution of EDMS has continued at an amazing pace and businesses ranging from the florist down the street to large multinational enterprises have implemented these systems with highly positive results.  Below are the top three reasons for implementing EDMS in your business.

 Ease of File Management
All businesses, large or small, obviously deal with paper and electronic documents on a day-to-day basis.  How much time is wasted making copies and trying to lay your hands on “that one document” you have been searching for all day?  Sure, Windows could be used to manage files, but with an EDMS, documents can be easily located through either a keyword or a full-document text search placing any document you wish to retrieve at your fingertips anytime.
Reduction of Physical File Space
How much space in your business is dedicated to a hard copy filing system?  How many times has a document been misfiled?  How many times has a document been filed and never reviewed again?  This is space you could reclaim to use in any number of ways, for instance, new equipment could be added without the need for obtaining larger premises.  There are, of course, documents that need to be retained in paper form for legal reasons, but an EDMS can drastically reduce the amount of file storage in any office.
Security
Every organization has security requirements and it seems that on a daily basis there are reports of security breaches.  Physical files in an office may be under lock and key, but are they really secure?  Many EDMS have built in security.  DigitalDrawer from AscendoSoft maximizes security by using 128-bit AES encryption ensuring documents are not readable except through DigitalDrawer.  Other security aspects include: Role-based security, permission-based access and audit trail of user access, encrypted file names, and the ability to redact or hide personal information if necessary.
When an EDMS is implemented, it is important that it is rapidly deployed, user-friendly and cost-effective.  Once fully integrated and accessible across departments the workflow is streamlined and your ROI is significantly increased.

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]]> http://www.digitaldrawer.net/top-three-reasons-for-electronic-document-management/feed/ 0 Improve HIPAA Compliance with DigitalDrawer http://www.digitaldrawer.net/improve-hipaa-compliance-with-digitaldrawer/ http://www.digitaldrawer.net/improve-hipaa-compliance-with-digitaldrawer/#comments Tue, 02 Jul 2013 00:06:09 +0000 http://digitaldrawer.net/?p=4140 The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 was implemented to protect individuals’ protected health information (PHI), and has since been modified over the years, most recently in January 2013, to strengthen the privacy and security protections established under the act.  This includes anyone who collects or has access to PHI. Employers, are you [...]

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]]> The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 was implemented to protect individuals’ protected health information (PHI), and has since been modified over the years, most recently in January 2013, to strengthen the privacy and security protections established under the act.  This includes anyone who collects or has access to PHI.
Employers, are you listening?  Because this includes you.  Stiff civil and criminal penalties will result in the event of non-compliance.
DigitalDrawer is the Electronic Document Management (EDM) solution from AscendoSoft which allows you to store, organize, and manage your business documents (including your employees’ PHI).  HIPAA compliance will be significantly enhanced with the following features:
Maximized Security with Uninterrupted Workflow
Role-based security is critical in any EDM system and is essential to HIPAA compliance.  DigitalDrawer allows your organization to group similar users to ensure access to specific documents is controlled.  For instance, an administrative group may be able to add digital or scanned documents and another user with permissions may perform additional work with those documents such as indexing, annotation, and redaction all without interruption of the workflow stream.  DigitalDrawer administrators are also able to track all user activity which allows for unauthorized access detection.
File Encryption
HIPAA security standards require that measures be taken to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive information that is transmitted over a network whether it be internal or public.  Each document filed in DigitalDrawer has a unique name which ensures they are not traceable to personal information.  Additionally, all documents stored in DigitalDrawer use the AES 128-bit encryption (the Advanced Encryption Standard which has been adopted by the U.S. Government and is now used worldwide).  This ensures data is taken from its readable form and encrypted to make it unreadable except to DigitalDrawer users with access.
Redact Sensitive Information
Sensitive information can be easily blacked-out or redacted to secure PHI before emailing, printing or exporting.
Improved File Management
The newly effective changes in HIPAA give individuals the right to have their provider restrict disclosure of certain PHI documents.  DigitalDrawer organizes and manages documents for easy selection and retrieval.
Disaster Recovery
Backup and restore capabilities within DigitalDrawer allow your organization to further safeguard PHI in the event of a systems failure.  Automated backups not only provide peace of mind, but also ensure continued security and access of information.
DigitalDrawer from AscendoSoft is user-friendly, cost-effective and can be rapidly deployed which will get your organization up and running with improved HIPAA compliance in no time.

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