As we kick off another year, we reach that time where millions of New Year’s resolutions are being made – and inevitably broken. But there’s one resolution we can all make that is dead simple to keep, and that is the resolution to scan and protect our critical documents and our precious memories.

As any ScanSnap owner knows, digitizing your documents and photos has never been easier. And thanks to ScanSnap’s integration with today’s leading Cloud service providers, they have added yet another level of ease and protection by enabling scanning directly to the Cloud. This functionality addresses two key trends in 2012 – digitizing your critical information, and ensuring that you always have access to your files via the Cloud.

If you are a business, then you likely already know how important it is to digitize your data. InformationWeek noted “Digitizing the Enterprise” as one of their “Top CIO Issues for 2011”, and that trend will continue even stronger in 2012 as the need to have digital copies to ALL of your organization’s data becomes critical. And as more businesses realize the utility and productivity gains of having anytime access to all of this digitized data on any computer or mobile device, enterprise use of the Cloud is skyrocketing.

Thus, the marriage of scanning technology and the Cloud makes perfect sense. While having digital backups of all of your documents is reason enough to scan, why not enjoy the added benefits of being able to access those digital documents from any device you happen to have in your hands?

The same goes for personal, non-business use. With the combination of ScanSnap and Cloud services like SugarSync, you can easily scan all of your important personal documents and photos directly to the SugarSync Cloud, thus backing up your files/photos and giving you access to them on any computer or mobile device.  Some popular uses that we hear from our customers include:

• Easy Tax Preparation – By scanning all personal tax documents into the Cloud, you can easily share all of your records in digital format with your CPA/tax preparer.
• Preserving and Sharing Your Precious Memories – By scanning all of your personal and family photos to the Cloud you can ensure that your precious memories are preserved and backed up, while also giving you the ability to access and share those photos with people from any device.
• Making Sense of Medical Records – By scanning your personal medical records to the Cloud, you ensure that this information is backed up and easily shareable with your physicians. Never worry about having to frantically look for a medical document in an emergency again.
• Simplify Your Household Filing System – If organization is one of your goals for 2012, one of the best ways is to go paperless. By scanning and backing up your file cabinets of paper documents, you can both thin out the amount of physical documents you need to keep while also ensuring that you can access those documents even when you’re not at home.

Whether you’re using ScanSnap for business or personal use, utilizing the added functionality of ScanSnap’s Cloud integration can help simplify your life and make you more productive. If you’re not already using the Cloud, you can get 5GB of free space here, so that you can start taking full advantage of scanning to the Cloud today.

Robb Henshaw
Director of Corporate Communications
SugarSync