Combining your Fujitsu ScanSnap with a web-hosted, online document storage and collaboration service is like combining your cell phone with email and web browsing – aka, the iPhone.  Allow me to explain.  With a smart phone, you can go anywhere, anytime and not only talk, but now listen to Internet radio, browse the Internet, and send and receive email.  The device allows me to work anywhere and increase my productivity.

Returning to my favorite scanner – the S1500 – it’s small, compact and easy to use.  But I remain geographically tethered to my PC and desk if all I do is scan my essential documents to my workstation or to a local office network.  But alternatively, connect your ScanSnap to NetDocuments, a web-hosted, online document storage and collaboration service, and your documents are now digitally available in the cloud – anywhere, anytime.  View and access the docs from your iPhone.  Securely share with your clients.  Protect your docs from hard drive crashes and natural disasters.  Your ScanSnap becomes an on-ramp to the Internet – to cloud computing.  You now have freedom to work anywhere and communicate regarding your document work.

NetDocuments is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application, a software delivery model where a software vendor develops, hosts and operates the application for use by its customers over the Internet.  The inherent simplicity of SaaS defines the business benefits it delivers – faster time-to-value, lower cost of ownership, better customer service, and removal of on-premise costs associated with hardware and databases to back up and restore.  Web-hosted applications like web meetings, social networks, content management, and email leverage the Internet to distribute, share and exchange information anytime, anywhere.

Simply scan your paper documents to a folder on your PC that NetDocuments watches. NetDocuments opens via a web browser and prompts you to store to a folder of your choice. The document immediately gets full-text indexed and is searchable.  You now go to any Internet-connected device and your documents are accessible, editable and sharable.  They are stored in world-class data centers with 24×7 access, backed up and protected.  You also become regulatory compliant for many industry-specific compliance guidelines.  Watch this demo for more.

With the Internet and email rapidly transforming the way we do business today, the true return on investment for any business can be found in leveraging SaaS-based applications, keeping documents in electronic format and collaborating with a firm’s cross-functional teams of professionals such as corresponding counsel, accountants, partners and your clients.

Leonard Johnson
VP Marketing
NetDocuments