So What Do I Do With All My Old Paper:
A digital image system is not an all or nothing
proposition. Such systems are modular and can implemented in
phases.
Even where fully implemented, a business will typically have a substantial archive of paper
documents, and may have uneven
new paper
in-flows with peak periodic volumes beyond the
capacity of a realistic imaging system. Other businesses may
have special preservation requirements for
paper documents.
An appropriate Enterprise Content Management (EMC) solution will consider your
archival and future paper situation and, therefore, may
include digital image outsourcing to service bureaus, high speed
scanners in house, and traditional paper storage on an
interim or long-term basis.
We can help you evaluate these alternatives by
comparing the costs and other factors of ongoing paper storage and retrieval
costs with the costs and other factors of mass-image capture,
storage and preservation. The fundamental payback analysis here would determine how long
it would take you to recover the one-time bulk archive imaging costs in
paper storage and retrieval charges.
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