The Datamax Thinking Blog

If you’re burdened by tedious paperwork and business processes that lag, leveraging human resources automation via content management can give you the resources to get back to the humans you’re serving every day.

Anyone in Human Resources can expand on the many HR-related challenges today: Attracting top talent, change management, new-hire training, managing diversity, equity, and inclusion, employee engagement, and retention, to name a few.

If everyday printing functionality is frustrating, or if controlling costs is cumbersome, print management is a viable solution for both higher education and K-12 environments.

As an administrator, do you often feel like your school has overspent on print?

Among the many core objectives of any K-12 district or higher education institution, one dual component of most schools’ goals is to maximize the student experience while minimizing wasteful spending, at all “costs.”

The point is this: Purchasing a copier for the first time (and the proceeding times) can be a daunting task. We're here to help you avoid venturing down the copier procurement process with your proverbial shoes untied. 

We're all prone to a few rookie mistakes now and again.

Take Baltimore Orioles rookie outfielder Colton Cowser earlier this season. After teammate and veteran reliever Kimbrel's milestone, record-tying save to end the game, Colton caught the final out and promptly fired the ball into the fountains beyond the outfield wall at Kauffman Stadium. Sheepishly, he was forced to find a ballpark employee to help retrieve the ball from the bottom of the fountain so he could return it to Kimbrel.

Cloud-based faxing provides a security, efficient, and scalable solution that modernizes an organization’s communication processes.

Fax isn’t dead. It’s just reinventing itself.

According to cloud-based fax service provider eGoldFax, the wholesale move from traditional faxing to cloud-based services is tremendous. Recent reports, they suggest, predict that faxing services are growing at 11 percent per year and look to be a 5.6 billion dollar market worldwide by 2028.

Your organization’s security – including print security – should have its own well-defined persona because, frankly, procedures, solutions, and strategies are great but people are complicated.

We can all agree that as we peek ahead into 2024, cyber security was, is, and will remain a huge priority for businesses today. But are you and your employees all on the same page on how we get there? That's an entirely different question.

A proficient IT administrator derives satisfaction from automating tasks to enhance productivity, responsiveness ... and positivity.

IT staff fatigue is a real thing. It’s an issue often explored in  Nexthink's Pulse Report. Back in May 2020, we learned that 43% of IT leaders cited increasing support tickets as their biggest challenge since the start of the pandemic. “Since then,” reads the report, “70% of tech leaders we polled said their ticket and call volume continue to spike, with a majority of those reporting increases up to 50%."

As you begin to meet with a potential provider, there are warning signs to look out for, which we will share below. 

It's always s best practice to try on a pair of shoes before purchasing. After all, the right fit will never hurt your feet.

For schools and their print environment, it’s about managing print behavior and costs in order to maximize their allotted budget. Print Management can help with that.

Schools are unique animals when it comes to printing.

So many users. So many types of devices. So many types of documents, all of which are essential to classroom functionality. On top of that, the classroom (and technology therein) is changing rapidly. Whether education is conducted on-site, remotely, or in a combination of both, the technology utilized should seamlessly integrate with different educational applications and offer cost-effective features, enabling schools to make the most of their resources.

Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) is an all-in-one cloud communications platform that brings your organization a business phone system, chat, video conferencing, business texting, file sharing and storage, and much more. 

Is your business phone system putting your business on hold?

Your customers need to reach you... no matter what. Your colleagues are seeking new ways to collaborate and communicate, whether in the office, out in the field, or working from home.  Has your legacy analog phone system served you well? Perhaps it has. But have you done any due diligence on the potential advantages of modernizing your business communications with a move to the cloud?

PaperCut Hive is a fully hosted Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that allows cloud-first organizations of any size, regardless of their printer brands, to easily enable and manage printing with just an internet connection.

For organizations looking to best utilize technology to support their everyday business, cloud adoption continues to be all the buzz in 2023. A few statistics from Zippia that support such a claim:

• 94% of enterprises use cloud services.
• 67% of enterprise infrastructure is now cloud-based.
• 92% of businesses have a multi-cloud strategy in place or in the works.