Clutter Management In Just 15 Minutes!

It’s 9am and you have arrived at your desk only to have trouble finding your desk under all the clutter. So you do like we all do you just move it around so you can work. You think to yourself if only I had some free time. Well maybe you do! Have you ever heard the saying, “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time” The same principle works for clutter management. Here is a list of what you need:

1. 15 Minutes
2. Pigheaded Discipline and Determination
3. Storage

Fifteen minutes is all it takes to de-clutter you life. 15 minutes a day that is. Set aside a 15 minute block. Put it in your calendar. Make it a time when you really will have no interruptions. My favorite time is first thing in the morning. That little bit of time turns into roughly 60 hours a year. You could have a clutter free environment in 60 hours, right. Plus when your clutter is organized you save time by getting to what you need when you need it faster. Less time used more time gained.

“Pigheaded Discipline and Determination” is one of my mantras. I learned this in Chet Homes book “The Ultimate Sales Machine” The premise is to not let anything get in your way and stick to your plan. Make a little note and put it somewhere you will see it every day. Move it around so that it doesn’t become background.

Storage is an essential part of this process. As you organize you need a place to put everything. In old times we filed thing using folders and cabinets. Many an administrative assistant had their own way of filing which sometimes lead to panic when they were out of the office. Storing documents, images, emails on computers has revolutionized business. When stored properly using tags or OCR the documents become easily searchable. Storing them in the cloud (internet) means you don’t need to be in your office to retrieve vital information.

Are you ready to rid yourself of the clutter that has taken over your desk? call us at 1-800-528-5005 (U.S. & Canada), 1-603-570-4317 (outside of U.S. and Canada) or visit us on the Web at www.treenosoftware.com

Global Content Management Made Easy for Insurance Brokers and Agencies

Insurance brokers and agencies need an easy-to-use yet powerful system that enables them to access, manage, and share critical documents across a broad range of functions, departments and locations. It’s more than a competitive advantage—it’s a mandate for survival.

A typical agency processes over 30,000 physical documents each year including policy applications, coverage confirmation letters, renewal notices, policy terms, dec pages and claims documentation. Plus, virtually every state government mandates that all insurance transaction records be maintained for up to seven years, while archives need to be kept for offers of additional coverage for long periods to guard against E&O liability. The majority of this information is handled and stored through inefficient, manual processes due to the notion that an automated system is costly, disruptive to existing workflow processes, and difficult to use.

Introducing TreenoGCM™

TreenoGCM is an easy-to-use and extremely powerful, integrated document, content and workflow management system that enables insurance brokers and agencies to easily capture, organize, and share any type of digital or paper-based document within a secure, central repository. System deployment is effortless, document retrieval is instant, integration with existing line of business applications is seamless, and the Treeno system can scale to support as few or as many users as your agency requires. Treeno empowers your agency to reduce costs, simplify compliance and enhance overall client satisfaction through streamlined operations and improved efficiency.

Transform your organization without disruption

Deploying and operating a content management system should be as simple and effortless as using familiar applications while existing workflow processes remain intact. TreenoGCM’s powerful and robust feature set, in conjunction with integrated collaboration and process management capabilities will enable your agency to improve operational efficiency and productivity without changing the way your employees do business.

Simplify regulatory compliance

Reduce the audit preparation process from weeks of tedious work down to hours
using Treeno’s powerful system.

Insurance brokers/agencies are constantly under the gun when it comes to staying current with regulatory compliance processes. Though requirements and procedures vary by country and audit type, the first steps towards ensuring compliance with the myriad of regulations governing the insurance industry including HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), are control and visibility. The demand is for a system that will integrate with existing business processes for tracking and managing digital and paper-based content across all enterprise wide systems—in real-time.

TreenoGCM simplifies the regulatory compliance process for Insurance brokers/agencies by capturing, organizing, and sharing necessary and appropriate documents in a centralized, secure repository, while automated business process management capabilities streamline information access and reporting.

Ensure document integrity and security

The ability to track and control customer sensitive information is absolutely paramount for insurance brokers and agencies. TreenoGCM stores all of your information in a highly secure repository and includes comprehensive audit trail capabilities such as task date/time stamp, task originator/description, and related document activities such as who worked on/reviewed the document. Treeno customers can virtually eliminate any possibility that documents stored in their system will be altered without detection, ensuring undisputed authenticity of records. And, integrated notification capabilities inform users when relevant content within the repository is updated. Disaster recovery is also greatly improved, as items previously managed via fax, mail, and other paper means are now stored in the Treeno repository. With TreenoGCM, documents of all types can be backed up in a secure fashion and are protected from theft, accidental loss, or destruction.

Insurance organizations rely on TreenoGCM to:

• Simplify enterprise wide access to critical documents
• Improve operational efficiency with minimal disruption
• Improve information security
• Track document task date/time stamp, task originator/description
• Reduce demand for physical space
• Ease the burden of regulatory compliance
• Increase sales and improve customer service quality
• Insurance brokers and agencies around the world are enhancing customer service quality and improving productivity with TreenoGCM. To learn more about how

Treeno can help your organization, call us at 1-800-528-5005 (U.S. & Canada),
1-603-570-4317 (outside of U.S. and Canada) or visit us on the Web at
www.treenosoftware.com

The Filing Cabinets Were At Maximum Capacity

Law firms of all sizes and practice specialties are all too familiar with the seemingly endless piles of paperwork generated by a single act of litigation or contract generation, and Mesmer and Deleault was no exception. “The filing cabinets were at maximum capacity,” recalls Phil Decker, a partner at Mesmer & Deleault specializing in patent law. “What’s more, we had an outdated method in place that made keeping track of information very slow and tedious. That slowed us down every time a client, attorney or patent agent would call.” Decker says he was faced with two options: find an appropriate document management solution to remediate the space constraints and improve workflow, or invest in renting an off-site storage space. Though he was strongly in favor of a document management solution, Decker says he had difficulty finding a solution that would dovetail with the firm’s existing software and processes. “I talked to all of the major document management companies, “he says. “ Most of the vendor solutions I saw were too labor intensive for what we needed. They also required too much change on our part. And their up-front investment made it a budget issue. We also wanted a solution that would unite multiple offices—even our homes if we wanted—and could address the multiple platform environment we had going with PC’s and Macs.”

Decker chose Treeno Software after viewing a demonstration of the product at an MIT Enterprise Forum. “The TreenoGCM (Global Content Manager) met all of our needs in a document management, content and business process management solution, and we didn’t have to give anything up to deploy it,” he says. The straightforward, user-friendly interface of TreenoGCM made it easy for Decker to convince his fellow partners to adopt it as their practice-wide system of choice. “It required minimal training and the benefits were immediately apparent, from the elimination of lost documents to a highly secure, searchable repository of organized files that we could share seamlessly across multiple offices and with multiple partners.” Decker says that the most time consuming part of the deployment process was entering the existing, paper-based data into the TreenoGCM repository. “The actual installation of the software and system was almost instantaneous,” he says. “scanning historical documents into the system once it was installed was less labor intensive than moving file cabinets to a storage facility.” He added that new clients to the firm are instantly entered into the TreenoGCM system, making them traceable within minutes. Decker says he is most pleased about TreenoGCM’s ease of use and interoperability with virtually any line-of-business application, including programs his firm relies on to generate and track court docket numbers, findings and pleas. “The legal field is so focused on tracking, monitoring and accountability, especially when it comes to filing documents on behalf of our clients,” he says. “With Treeno, we could still use our existing applications without delay.”

Since instituting TreenoGCM as its document management solution, Mesmer & Deleault has saved countless person-hours that were once devoted to filing, copying, faxing and scanning paper documents. The firm also has noted a marked increase in customer satisfaction. “Complete client files are always at our fingertips,” he says. “And we don’t waste our clients’ time by putting them on hold to find a file, or taking down information and calling them back with it later. We’ve become a much more responsive, service oriented firm.”

The firm has also streamlined its relationships with international partners. Because they file patent applications frequently—often with companies located in countries where the postal service is less than reliable—Decker says that the remote access offered by TreenoGCM has been an essential tool. “I rely on Treeno to help me better serve my international clients,” he says. “One patent attorney we deal with on a regular basis is located in Lebanon. I can literally pull up a file while talking to him on the phone and deliver it electronically. Prior to Treeno I would have to fax it, which was not as reliable, or send it via courier and hope for the best.”

The Legal Community relies on TreenoGCM to:

• Increase billable hours and improve client service quality


• Streamline the process of retrieving and distributing essential information


• Provide simultaneous access to client information


• Improve operational efficiency with minimal disruption


• Improve information security and document integrity


• Enable productivity tracking and accountability, ensuring turnaround requirements are always met


• Streamline compliance driven documentation requirements


• Simplify enterprise wide access to critical documents


• Reduce paper, paper storage, photocopying, and faxing costs

Law firms around the world are improving client service quality and increasing billable hours with TreenoGCM. To learn more about how Treeno can help your firm, call us at 1-800-528-5005 or visit us on the Web at www.treenosoftware.com

Outlook Email Drag and Drop to the Treeno Integrator Tool

Treeno allows a user to store email documents within a folder. An example of this is when a user will store all emails specific to a client or vendor to the folder within Treeno. When storing an email at the client level as an email document type, the user will be able to have each email automatically tagged by the mailed to, mailed from, subject, date, cc, and bcc with a fillable field(s) for further description. When searching within a folder, Treeno offers a powerful filtering and sorting tool to expedite the retrieval process.


The benefit of storing emails at a central repository is to reduce the siloed business content and mitigate the risk of missing information. It also reduces overhead associated with moving, backing up and storing multiple versions of the same email in multiple accounts. Treeno can mitigate risk, reduce overhead associated with the forwarding of information as well as reduce your email storage overhead.


How to bring an email into Treeno by dragging and dropping to the Treeno Integrator Tool:


1. User will drag the highlighted email to the index button on the Treeno Integration Tool





When Treeno has integrated to a line of business application the integrated folder will automatically be retrieved. User can either drop to the integrated folder or choose another cabinet and folder. Selected folder is highlighted. User can search for an existing or create a new folder if needed.





2. When the user adds the email document type, the file will automatically be populated by the mailed to, mailed from, Subject, date, cc, bcc.





3. User fills in the definable field(s) if appropriate and clicks the above add button to add the document with the folder





4. The user will click on the check-in button and the file will be automatically copied into the desired folder.





Treeno Outlook Check-in
Users can check in a single email or multiple emails into an email cabinet where they can be saved automatically by the mailed to, mailed from, subject, cc, and bcc. User definable fields can also be added. When bringing in multiple emails at the same time, the user definable field will be populated across all copies automatically.


1. The user selects the email or emails


2. User selects the email cabinet


3. User identifies descriptive field if appropriate


4. Treeno automatically populates the grayed in values


5. User selects check- to automatically copy or move the email





Email stored in email cabinet by the description field(s), mailed to, mailed from, subject, date, cc, and bcc.


User can query on any of these values to retrieve the copy of the email file.



To learn more about how Treeno can help your organization, call us at 1-800-528-5005 (U.S. & Canada), 1-603-570-4317 (outside of U.S. and Canada) or visit us on the Web at http://www.treenosoftware.com/
951 Islington Street Portsmouth, NH 03801 800.528.5005
solutions@treenosoftware.com http://www.treenosoftware.com/

Company Saves 95% Of Its Paper Use

The human resources management industry literally generates piles of paper documents on a daily basis, from job applications to 401(k) forms. Employease found that its team of customer service managers was struggling to find the documents they needed, when they needed them. “Our business model just wasn’t scaling well,” recalls Jody Brown, manager, internal systems group for Employease. “With multiple people across multiple teams working on or trying to access the same document, people were losing things or duplicating efforts.” The company needed a powerful yet simple solution to enable search and retrieve actions while tracking, monitoring and securing sensitive information on clients’ employees. “Our BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) group came to me with concerns. Their question was, “How can we take information delivered to us by e-mail, fax, phone and mail and set up a workflow so it all goes to the same place?’” Brown says.
Employease chose Treeno, a Portsmouth, New Hampshire-based software company specializing in easy-to-use yet extremely powerful Content Management (ECM) software solutions that combine integrated document management, business process management, records management, and more in a single easy-to-use application. While many of the ECM software vendors could promise an out-of-the-box solution to ease most of Employease’s pain points, few of the solutions could be customized to fit the company’s existing infrastructure. “Most vendors had similar systems for scanning and faxing, but e-mail was a major challenge for most of the vendors,” Brown says. “And most vendors required that we change our existing infrastructure and workflow processes to support their solutions. They were trying to steer us towards a more static solution.” Brown says that many vendors estimated that with training and physical roll-out time, it would take at least six months for the solution to be up and running. “That just wasn’t an option for us,” Brown explains. “It was important that the solution could be implemented quickly with minimal down time on our servers and our employees. And we didn’t want to spend a lot of time with training. It had to be easy to use.” TreenoGCM provided Employease with all the features they needed to manage faxes, e-mails, images, and paper documents, without having to migrate to a different operating system or CRM software. Plus it could be implemented quickly and didn’t require physically touching every desktop.
Further, Treeno’s engineers added a customized solution that exceeded the company’s expectations in a vendor solution. “The Treeno system did most of what we needed right out of the box,” Brown says. “But they also went that extra mile by developing a custom plug-in specifically for our e-mail routing needs.” In the end, Brown says, Treeno’s cutting-edge technology and customer-centric philosophy were the reasons for Employease’s decision. “They listened to us, to put it simply,” he says.
With TreenoGCM now implemented things began moving quickly. “The integration experience was better than I expected,” Brown says. “From the initial agreement, through the creation of the custom email plug-in piece, to the installation and training, we were fully up and running in weeks versus months. The actual installation period was only about three days.” Brown says the staff at Employease has responded well to the new system. “It’s been an overwhelmingly positive reception with the employees here,” he says. “The process of bringing on new customers has been made much easier, and we’ve made good headway on transferring existing customers over to the new system.” The integration wasn’t the only thing that was fast: Brown says his employees noticed an almost immediate improvement in workflow performance. “I’d say we cut our search and retrieval process time in half almost right away,” he says. In addition to the 50 percent reduction in the time it takes customer service managers to search for documents, he also noticed a staggering 95 percent reduction in the use of paper. “Our central office once was the home of a huge set of filing cabinets,” he says. “Not only was it inefficient, but the only thing securing it was an old fashioned padlock. With TreenoGCM, we don’t need those giant file cabinets and the information in those files is much more secure.”

To learn more about how Treeno can help your organization, call us at 1-800-528-5005 (U.S. & Canada), 1-603-570-4317 (outside of U.S. and Canada) or visit us on the Web at http://www.treenosoftware.com/
951 Islington Street Portsmouth, NH 03801 800.528.5005
solutions@treenosoftware.com http://www.treenosoftware.com/