Advice, Assistance & Services
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Bureau Services: Suppliers of COM, document scanning,
film scanning, forms processing, microfilm production and duplication, optical character
recognition, reformatting, repair & maintenance services and
micrographic consumables. Suppliers are listed both alphabetically and geographically.
Independent Consultants: Advisors not tied to any one supplier and thus free to
provide impartial advice on analysis, preparation, re-engineering of
business processes, system specifications and the selection of suitable vendors
once the true needs of the client have been identified. Even in the larger
consultancies there is a trend towards specialisation in one or more horizontal
or vertical fields.
Repair & Maintenance Services:
Companies offering services for the repair of equipment on demand or planned
maintenance facilities.
Software Resellers & System Integrators: Many advisors specialise in the design, implementation and supply of
systems based on a limited number of software products. They do not claim to
be completely impartial, although their services can be invaluable once the
appropriate software has been identified. Many have sales agencies for the
products in which they specialise. Many bureaux have developed
proprietary software or act as agents for popular systems and they too can assist
with integration.
Storage Facilities: Storage facilities, which
once just provided data vaults for the long term retention of large
quantities of paper, now offer a wide range of services. These include high
security protection for magnetic, optical and film media. Most suppliers
offer 24 hour access to documents in store with return via fax or the web.
Some operate electronic warehouses, converting paper input to digital data
which they store on their premises and handling retrieval requests on-line
or via the web. Most also offer services for the certified destruction of
documents as and when required.
