One of the most often heard objections from tax & accounting professionals to formal document management services is their fear of being “locked in”, and not being able to to migrate to a different solution because their data is being “held hostage” in some vendor’s “proprietary format”. [BTW – remember that PDF is a proprietary format!!] Let me set the record straight: in my experience I have found NO case of this being true. Thomson Reuters FileCabinet CS stores data using Microsoft “BLOB” storage --- and while it IS “proprietary, the system provides a quick and easy way to export all of your firm’s data to PDF format. The other leading product often accused of “locking in” customers is Intuit’s DMS. Yes, their storage scheme IS propietory, it is so for security (think passords, etc.) purposes. NOT to “lock you in”. Yesterday I spoke with Bill Whitson, Intuit’s DMS “guru” and he demonstrated for me how quick and easy it would be to “escape” Intuit’s DMS if you should so desire. I caught Bill on tape and have shared that below.
So – what does this mean? It means I’ve just eliminated one more objection to “becoming paperless”. The profession is a bit over 1/2 way there. Are you on the right side?
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Actually, PDF is NOT a proprietary format. According to Wikipedia:
"Originally a proprietary format, PDF was officially released as an open standard on July 1, 2008, and published by the International Organization for Standardization as ISO/IEC 32000-1:2008"
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