Coleman Data Solutions Blog
Data Solutions – Building Relationships
Coleman Data Solutions provides quality work to customers with data processing needs. Recently, the quality reputation of Data Solutions provided the opportunity to take on an additional challenge with a new customer. Ohio’s Bureau of Worker’s Compensation had...
Data Solutions Work Featured
The worked performed by Coleman Data Solutions' employees with disabilities who digitize documents for U.S. Customs and Border Patrol was featured in a recent article—click here to learn more!
Accessing the Value of Microfilm and Microfiche
We live in an age when technology evolves quickly. Just a few generations have passed since the breakthrough technology of space-saving microfilm and microfiche enabled us to store old newspapers, reports and files. Microfilm, Microfiche and Record Retention – and...
Case Study – Terracon
Industry Terracon is an employee-owned consulting engineering firm specializing in environmental, facilities, geotechnical and materials services. Business Size Terracon employs more than 5,000 workers in over 150 offices in all 50 states nationwide – also...
Case Study – Appen
Industry AI and Information Technology & Services. Appen collects and labels images, text, speech, audio, video, and other data used to build and continuously improve the world’s most innovative artificial intelligence systems.Business Size Over 700 employees in...
Case Study – SIRUM
Industry SIRUM is a nonprofit social technology and logistics enterprise that drives the future of healthcare by connecting people with surplus medications.Business Size SIRUM is a small nonprofit working with many different companies in the highly-regulated...
Document Imaging, Destruction, Management & More
What If All Those Crates of Old Files Just Disappeared - But The Data Was Just A Mouse Click Away? Why do we keep all these old files around? One reason is that everybody is busy enough without having the added (thankless) task of digging through boxes of information...
Case Study – Ohio Farm Bureau
Industry Agriculture Business Size Grassroots membership organization that has about 140,000 members in Ohio representing its agricultural food and farms industries.Challenge The nonprofit Summit County Farm Bureau (SCFB) planned a move to a new facility....
Case Study – Kermit
Industry Kermit equips supply chain managers, surgeons and executives with real-time data on implantable medical device transactions, offering unprecedented visibility that saves hospitals millions of dollars.Business Details Kermit is healthcare's first cloud-based...
Social Enterprise Business
Coleman's mission is to help improve the lives of people we serve. This includes providing career opportunities for individuals with disabilities. That's one reason why we operate Coleman Data Solutions (CDS). Approximately 75% of the CDS workforce has a documented...
Scott Wiley Joins Coleman Data Solutions
On November 25, 2019, Coleman Data Solutions (CDS) welcomed Scott Wiley as only its second chief officer in more than thirty years. Coleman Data Solutions, a certified state-use nonprofit organization located in Akron provides cost-effective and compliant data...
What to Look for in a Document Imaging Company?
Whether one is considering back file conversion of older paper documents to digital formats, or day forward conversion for newly created ones, there are various considerations to take into account when choosing a document imaging company. The first thing to look at is...
Content Management Integration
To achieve content management integration, it is sometimes necessary to add one or more pieces by way of customization. This may range from data entry services, to document imaging, up to a complete document management solution. Content management is, after all, the...
Advantages of Double Key Data Entry & Verification
Double key verification is the second keying of data by a different human operator than the first, for the purpose of ensuring the highest rate of accuracy. The benefits of going this route all relate to quality of the output. Firstly, consider the fact that all data...
Offsite Document Storage – The Electronic Option
The evolution of storage solutions started with offsite document storage of hard copy records – due to space considerations. Over time, hard copies would outgrow the internal space to house them. Solutions such as third party offsite storage companies and even rental...
Business Process Services
What are business process services? Business processes are just tasks related to achieving service or product goals. This is the most basic, general definition. Organizations are most likely interested in one or more of the main three categories of business processes,...
Data Entry Speed and Accuracy Measures
They go hand in hand, but not in the way most people think. As counter intuitive as it may seem, data entry keyers that type at a much higher than average rate, also tend to have the lowest error rate. This goes against the conventional wisdom that more speed leads to...
What are the Benefits of Going Paperless?
The benefits of going paperless involve much more than the obvious cost savings from spending less on paper and ink. Storage related products (filing cabinets/bankers boxes) and space also are at a premium. For example, electronic documents can be easily backed up in...