EDM Benefits

Electronic Document Management assists organizations looking to:

•	Broaden market outreach
•	Streamline cost of doing business
•	Effectively manage business content
•	Enable better B2B and B2C communications
•	Protect valuable data and ensure business continuity

Content is growing 400% a year, and most of it is not managed. Poor document management leads to lost documents, duplicated data and wasted time. In fact, several failed projects and resource bottlenecks are ramifications of inefficient management of corporate information. Consider the following statistics:

•	A typical, knowledgeable worker spends anywhere from 15 to 35% of their time looking for information. – AIIM
•	After investing strategically in content management, enterprises usually can save at least half of the time and money now spent on non-automated document management. – Gartner

Document mis-management costs big time! It is estimated that 25% of enterprise paper documents are misplaced and will never be located resulting in a direct hit to the bottom-line and customer/vendor relationships.

So why scan/index your documents?

Quality Control - Avoidance of human errors in paper documentation storage, filing, research, and retrieval.

Time Efficiencies - Electronically enabled sorting, grouping, search, and retrieval of documents reduces FTE needs from hours to minutes.

Cost Efficiencies - Significantly reduces office space needs for paper storage; minimizes overhead for document management and retrieval.

Risk Prevention - Enables data back-up and retrieval for audits and/or disaster recovery.

Standardization - Conversion to standard file formats, integration with industry standard database software.

Convenience - Readily available electronic documents and data hosting allow secure web-based global access to documents.

Flexibility - Any company can choose to gradually outsource document management activities; services can be performed on-site.

Security - Secure treatment provided for confidential documentation.