Beginner’s Guide to Business Process Automation [6 Simple Tips]

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When many people think about business process automation (BPA) strategies, the things that come to mind are highly involved and expensive changes. Indeed, some automation methods require substantial time and financial commitments to succeed. But the good news is that you can also start small with your business automation methods and build gradually from there. 

Here are six straightforward ways to begin embracing automation in your business.

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Introducing The New & Improved Able2Extract 14.2! [Exclusive Build]

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As all of our long time users know, we’ve been releasing exclusive builds each year as a way of seeing what you’ll find in the next major version upgrade. Well, the time has come yet again, and we just released Able2Extract 14.2 today!

These builds are always exclusive and are only available to our Software Advantage Plan (SAP) subscribers before it hits Able2Extract 15.0. So, if you haven’t signed up for our SAP program yet, but are looking for a reason, this may just be it.

Here’s what you have to look forward to in the latest Able2Extract 14.2.

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What Users Can Learn About EULAs From Adobe

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In a controversial move last month, Adobe announced a warning that any Creative Cloud subscribers using older versions of the apps is liable to get sued by third parties.

According to news stories, the reason seems to be due to legal issues between Adobe and Dolby Labs. In short, there are claims that Adobe included Dolby technology in software and subscription packages without paying the appropriate royalties. As a result, Adobe’s users are no longer licensed to use the infringing software.

This incident underscores some major points about users, software apps, and End User License Agreements (EULAs) that connect them, which deserve some attention.

As a software user, it’s important to think about what it means to your usage and ownership of the tools you use.

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How A PDF Suite Can Help Your Startup Run Smoothly

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There are a number of things we all wish we could do better. When you’re a one-person team who’s trying to launch a startup, you need all the help you can get to be more efficient, more effective and do things better.

To that end, you can’t underestimate the value of a good, well-oiled, well-organized document management system. In addition to personality and grit, the tools you have at your disposal that will determine how well you can accomplish the multiple day to day digital document tasks.

Tools can fill those gaps as you start scaling up, and, as a bonus, those same tools can even help your future employees establish an official workflow. Though you may not think it, just having a tool like a desktop PDF converter can help kick start your digital document system into gear after its all mapped out.

Here’s how a professional PDF suite like Able2Extract can help a budding startup run more smoothly.

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6 Use Cases Where Converting PDF to Excel Could Save You Hours

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PDF documents are among the most widely used types of files, but they have shortcomings too. Converting a PDF to an Excel spreadsheet instead could save you time and help you avoid pitfalls that could make your productivity plummet.

Here are six ways you can keep your productivity going by performing a PDF-to-Excel conversion.

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