One of the most terrifying crises an enterprise will face is the hacking of their data or the hostile takeover of their servers, a practice carried out with malicious code known as ransomware.  Production coming to a halt is the smallest worry of these situations - costs to repair, replace, and reformat drives can be extensive and even then is no guarantee that all data will be recovered.  And, in some industries there are serious legal and business consequences in response to breaches of customer data.  But what about cloud data storage?  That offsite data can be the most vulnerable.

In late 2016 PaperFree joined forces with Avnet, a global leader in electronics fulfillment, to offer the full line of Dell EMC storage products to its customers.  This move not only expands PaperFree's product portfolio; it enables clients to take advantage of purpose built hardware to power their systems.  This means that enterprises can easily do away with dusty old servers and switch to streamlined, fast, and manageable platforms with the help of a trusted and proven provider.

Currently, Dell EMC offers a variety of storage solutions from large to small:

In a recent blog post Rohit Ghai, Dell EMC's President of the Enterprise Content Division, reflected on the successes of Dell EMC in the past year.  2016 has been a year of great change for the company with mergers, new products, and numerous events catered to partners and customers.  Mr. Ghai's post reads:

In a recent piece written by Brant Clark, Product Marketing Director of Mobile Products and Solutions at Kofax, the changes that an increasingly mobile workforce have brought about are explored.  Smartphones are in nearly every hand and access to wifi and cloud-based technologies is easier than ever.  Research is showing that mobile workers are growing in numbers and that trend is expected to continue - increasing from 96.2 million in 2015 to 105.4 million mobile workers in 2020.

Dell EMC, a worldwide leader in information capture and management technology and PaperFree partner, has been making recent strides in their product offerings and has announced a lineup of new high performance computing (HPC) products designed for integration into the cloud.  These advances into software, systems, and customer results serve to make high performance computing available for enterprises of all sizes, all while improving the technology and ultimately making it more easily available.

Kofax, a partner of PaperFree Corporation, made the following product announcements on November 21, 2016:

Major Update to Kofax E-signature Family of Products

Many businesses and schools have taken advantage of the comprehensive tools available in Microsoft 365, and the introduction of Microsoft Teams to the suite expands this functionality even further.  Microsoft Teams is designed to improve communication within an enterprise by "bringing people, conversations, and content together" - including video and voice communications as well as threaded conversations organized by user-created topics and tabs.

Gartner has released its most recent Magic Quadrant report on the state of the Enterprise Content Management industry.  In it they have found:

• By 2018, 50% of enterprises will manage their content using a hybrid content architecture.

• By 2018, more than 20% of the enterprise content management solution sales will address multiorganization "ecosystem" content.

• By 2018, enterprise file synchronization and sharing will be a standard capability of enterprise content management and collaboration offerings.

Dell EMC, a leader in enterprise content management solutions, has announced Suite, a unique product suite within EMC Documentum for Life Science for enterprises who operate in both the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.  Suite provides clinical, regulatory, and design history file/device master record document features to fully enhance the lifecycle of products from design to manufacturing.  Not only is it compliant with industry regulations, its use is efficient and includes quality control features that greatly assist in product trials.

OpenText has announced Fax2Mail for Healthcare, a cloud-based data capture solution within the OpenText EIM portfolio that has been specifically built for healthcare workflows and to improve patient care.  Operating on a fax-based platform, Fax2Mail addresses the ongoing paper burden faced by healthcare providers by centralizing and standardizing all forms of document exchange.  By standardizing paper and digital data and integrating with existing clinical workflows, Fax2Mail digitizes the entire patient record process.