Thanks to the rapid development of digital technologies an accessible environment is being created for effective deal management. This article will consider data room benefits for organizing business collaboration.
Virtual data room: how to manage business documents?
Automating the company’s workflow has long been one of the common tasks facing IT professionals. It is because documents are the most common means of supporting the execution of business processes, providing the fixation and transfer of information from one performer to another. Therefore, the effectiveness of the organization’s business processes is largely determined by the speed and quality of documents passing through the company’s employees.
So, business-critical documents represent a powerful information flow that can be automated with the help of a cloud-based virtual data room (VDR). Thanks to such systems, it is possible to store gigabytes of documents, ensuring the differentiation of rights and the ability to find the desired document in a mass of similar ones.
The functionality of the data room
Thanks to the automation of the document management, the process of developing and registering documents related to business transactions becomes much more manageable:
- Errors in the execution of documents are completely excluded;
- When creating a new document, the necessary details are automatically assigned to it. You can also copy information from the base document and paste it into a new document;
- Documents are registered in the system and stored;
- Document creation can occur automatically at a specified time or manually by the user.
Using the main functionality of the system, you can work with any project documentation. Each document can include several files, for example, multi-sheet drawings or three-dimensional models of assembly products. Documents are considered versioned, and many iterations of this document can be released for each such version. One such version has its attributes, files, signatures, permissions, and more. Following the document type, the system selects a specific type of automation for the operations of formation, modification, review, and data exchange between document files and the information data model in the system.
The main benefits of the software
After the introduction of the data room solution, the company gets the following benefits:
- organizing contacts
Contact management with VDR allows you to aggregate information about customers, suppliers, and other business members in one place. VDR will enable you to combine multi-channel contact information from social networks, email, LinkedIn, business cards, etc.;
- better performance
The data room allows you to automate tasks such as registering calls and activity of potential customers, generating reports, and creating deals. The less time your employees spend on administrative work; the more time they get to work directly with potential clients;
- increased cooperation
The sales manager can track the interaction between buyers and sellers, and the account manager can see other patterns and report them to the sales department. Salespeople on the same team can learn more about each other’s best practices. VDR improves the collaboration and efficiency of sales professionals;
- a greater understanding of all processes
VDR provides an accurate picture of employee performance, including team-wide conversion rates, average deal size, and deal speed. A better understanding of sales processes at all stages will improve their quality and efficiency.
- automation
Automating repetitive tasks can save you a lot of time. Therefore, when choosing a VDR, you should look for a system with the functions of automating data entry, generating reports and emails to customers, and updating information fields.
- safety
The software provides reliable data storage. It is possible to use additional security measures to prevent outsiders from accessing the documentation. The product supports the use of electronic digital signatures to protect documents.