Often times, many companies don’t know how much duplicate data, contracts, or files they really have until it’s too late. However, de-duplication technology provides a more robust solution, identifying possible duplicates before it becomes an issue. Many companies default to company-specific nomenclature for file naming and with document dating to help people understand with information is current. This can cause frustration for everyone, not to mention set the dominos up to fall in accurate reporting. If any part of your company is customer-facing, or involves customer service, at one point or another your representatives have encountered duplicate information, which has negatively impacted your customer’s experience. The first step to solving the problem is understanding how it impacts your business operations, and then moving on to finding a solution. While this number may not seem substantial, in fact is has a great impact on day to day company earnings and productivity.

In the healthcare industry, we can expect up to 10% of information to be duplicate, and that number goes much higher in other sectors. This problem of duplicate data often gets out of control before a company knows it’s a significant problem, leaving a lasting effect on the business going forward. Often because of human error, information is replicated multiple times into a repository, without ever checking to see if that information already exists. Duplicate information is a growing pain that all companies face and one time or another.

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