Points of Pain and Pleasure

By Tim Nissen

These realities chronicle the myth of the ‘paperless office.’ They’ll also help you to initiate the electronic document management software discussion with your clients.

These points prove your consumables business will be booming, bolstered as people keep their files electronically and print them over and over…

Coopers & Lybrand note that office activities include:

• Making 9 copies of an electronically saved document

• Spending $20 on labor for filing each paper document

• Spending $120 searching for every misfiled paper document

• Losing 1 out of 20 paper documents

• Spending $250 on document recreation.

According to Ernst & Young, electronic document management can:

• Triple document processing capacity

• Reduce staff time/resources by 50%

• Provide immediate access to decision-critical data

• Reduce document storage space by 80%

• Provide fail-safe, secure document management.

Gartner identifies:

 •Information is doubling every 2.5 years

• Pages per employee is increasing at 10% per year

• Organizations are now maintaining 30 times more data than in 1999.

DocuLex assesses:

•The most pain is felt when needed information isn’t available when and where it’s needed. Pleasure is derived by having ‘Instant Document Access’ whenever and wherever through Web-enabled electronic document management and the ability to print them over and over…u