The 4 Big Advantages of Going to a Paperless Office

May 12, 2012 By Cloud9 Editor 2 Comments

Green Paperless Cloud Computing

Antiquated paper documents, prehistoric faxes, and other outdated ‘physical’ modes of correspondence are rapidly becoming obsolete in the 21st century. Many Web-based services can help you reduce or even eliminate unnecessary, clumsy and ecologically unfriendly handling of paper, but is making the transition to a paperless office worth the challenge? Very possibly YES!*

*Source: Catalyst Enterprise Solutions

Here are four key benefits of going to a paperless office -

From Kathryn Hawkins at Intuit Small Business -

1. Going to a paperless office improves efficiency.

It can be time-consuming and tedious to sift through months or years of documents stored in filing cabinets to find the information you need. By going digital, you can reduce errors and retrieve data faster. Maintaining searchable electronic records also makes it easier for employees to respond to customer requests, from the office or remote locations…

The Security & Ethics of Law Office Cloud Services

May 9, 2012 By Cloud9 Editor 4 Comments

Ethics of Law Practice Cloud Services

The transition from local desktop and local server-based operations to cloud computing and software as a service is possibly the greatest shift in technology to occur in the past two decades.

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Law Practice Cloud Security & Ethics

While the advantages afforded by law practice cloud services are many, several issues arise relating to the relative security of the newer cloud-based systems versus traditional, on-premises setups. In a law firm context, the use of Saas (software-as-a-service) cloud computing raises ethics issues around storing confidential client data on a system the attorney may not own or otherwise control.

Best Accounting Firm Taglines

May 4, 2012 By Cloud9 Editor Leave a Comment

“Every company hopes to create an advertising tagline for their product or service that stands the test of time, but Philadelphia’s N.W. Ayer & Son was behind one that may last, well, forever. Frances Gerety, a copywriter for the now-defunct agency, coined “A Diamond is Forever” in 1948 for Johannesburg, South Africa, diamond company DeBeers,” Forbes

Here are favorite slogans from the accounting profession, as selected by Accounting Today -

: The P-word gets alliterative at BlumShapiro, but without losing its business edge. Staff may have impassioned words about their work, but they still measure them in percentages. You want that in an accountant. CLICK FOR MORE

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