What's Different

New Business Environment

Over the past several years, the convergence of new technology trends, workforce dynamics and a shift in the business climate has occurred – placing new pressures on sustainable business results and creating a new world of work, called Work 2.0, that is reverberating throughout the global economy.

Changing Business Trends
Changing Work Trends
Changing Technology Trends

As the needs of today’s business change, EMail and todays document management can no longer support the way work is conducted today. A comparison of traditional systems and LASTOS.

Business Trends

Over the past several years, the pace of business has accelerated and become more complex. The adoption of the Internet has blurred corporate boundaries and the ubiquity of cheap broadband has driven down transaction costs to near-zero, significantly altering customers and workers mobility and expectations about time, service and availability. At the same time, increased regulatory scrutiny has created a new business climate of corporate governance and transparency.

Work Trends

A metamorphosis of the workforce has occurred, necessitating a dramatic shift for businesses. Today, people have become an organizations’ biggest asset, reflecting a shift in the way business creates value. Competitive advantage resides in a firm’s ability to manage and refresh a global labor pool of documents or information in differnet locations, genertated by differnet cultures and generations to achieve specific business outcomes.

Technology Trends

The adoption of new technologies and standards is catalyzing the metamorphosis of work. The adoption of Web 2.0 and SOA has created new business models and work patterns, while cheap broadband continues to drive down transaction costs and provide easy access to specialized workers all over the world. At the same time, customers are asking for software to be delivered as a service and are leaving behind the old rigid models of ERP and DMS.

LASTOS is really making a leap on several fronts at once – technologies used, applications architecture, and a complete rethinking of documents logictics and management that’s focused on achieving business outcomes.

-Oliver Schmidt, CEO