Comments on: Why Organizations Are Moving Fax to Email (Part 1)

By: Peter Drake

Peter Drake — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:54:18 +0000

I agree with Judith.

You cannot disregard fax altogether, lest you choose your suppliers and vendors on whether or not they prefer to communicate with you via email only. And you can’t also force your way of doing things with your vendors or customers unless, of course, you’re some large, snobbish corporation who can afford to alienate a company and force them to comply with how you do things.

So, I say, that service is amazing. It’s just a matter of seeing if it does what it says it does. I’d surely like to try.

This way, too, we can go paperless (or save paper), and reduce cost and save the environment.

By: Judith Meiers

Judith Meiers — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:29:16 +0000

You stress a very important point here: an organization’s choice of a communication channel is not solely its own but it is strongly influenced by what it partners use. You can stick to fax but if there is nobody to send it to, this technology becomes useless. Still, I don’t think faxes belong completely to the past and that we must ditch them as old technology.

By: Gordon Maynard

Gordon Maynard — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:41:31 +0000

I’ve long felt that faxes were dinosaurs, kept alive by, like you said, industries that required them for compliance purposes. Being able to go fax-to-email, however, especially as a PDF or TIF really basically fills the need of a networked scanner, and is a pretty intuitive way to send documents. Once you get creative about adapting its uses, fax machines are still viable in today’s business world.