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Tech Expert Q&A – Marketing & QR Codes

Question: We generate invoices every month, and would like to use these mailings to feature other products we sell that would benefit existing clients. Is there a cost-effective way to enhance our invoices to market clients this way? Answer: MOM sells software that can do exactly what you are asking about. MOM’s OfficeFlow Output applications can create personalized advertisements on services and products not yet purchased by the customer!  By using information contained in the [...]

Tech Expert Q&A – Mobile Workforce

Question:  Our company is very interested in using smartphones and tablets for doing work in the field. However, we don't know how we can print from these devices?   Answer:  Smartphones and tablets are very portable devices, and solve many problems for mobile workforce users. However, until recently it was difficult to print from these devices. MOM's Mobile Solution Team has several great solutions that work with the wide variety of tablet and smartphone operating [...]

Tech Expert Q&A – Why Managed Print Services?

Question: We recently received some literature in the mail about a service where someone else takes care of our printers. Our IT staff is already swamped with projects. What can you tell me about this service? Answer: Managed Print Services or MPS is one of the fastest growing part's of MOM's business today. The Wall Street Journal reported that document imaging is often a company's largest uncontrolled expense. Many organizations are overwhelmed with the number of IT projects [...]

Tech Expert Q&A – The Cloud

Question: As the IT Director for a regional manufacturing company, I have been looking for a document management solution that is hosted off-site so all of my other manufacturing facilities can easily access the system. This would enable my business to have better access to our documents, and a better disaster recovery system. What is your experience? Answer: Great topic. The time is right to start thinking about moving more of your applications to the Internet, or "the [...]

Tech Expert Q&A – Document Management

Question: What is document management and why would a company need it? Answer: Document management applications allow your business to aggregate all of your paper documents into a database driven application so you can quickly search and retrieve the data contained within your business documents. Document management is the first step towards improving your internal business processes. Once you obtain these new software tools, you can begin the process of streamlining, changing, and improving the productivity [...]

Tech Expert Q&A – Managed Print Services

Question:   I work for a company that is interested in managing the cost of printing. As business picks up, our printing volume is increasing. In addition, we would like to allocate the costs of printing by department and possibly setup budgets for each person in order to help control costs. What do you suggest?   Answer:   This is an area of concern for all businesses and organizations. The first thing I would recommend is [...]

Our first blog entry…

January is coming to a close and 2012 is off and rolling. Here at Modern Office Methods (MOM) we're always looking for news ways to get the word out about what's going on in the office technology industry. We've most recently done this through the Tech Expert Q&A section of the Cincinnati Business Courier. We hope that a blog with similar information will appeal to the masses just as much as the Q&A's we post in [...]