• More information has been produced in the last 30 years than in the previous 5,000.
• 90% of information is in manila folders.
• 4 trillion documents are stored in US files.
• Paper files are doubling every 3.5 years.
• The average business document is copied 19 times.
• Over 81 billion sheets of paper are copied each month.
   

How much time is spent filing paper?

• Filing a document costs 25-30 cents per sheet.
• 3 – 7.5% of and organization's documents are lost or misfiled.
• 6.5% to 7.4% of an executives time is spent looking for documents.
• Clerical staff spends 20-30% of their time looking for documents.
• $120.00 in labor is spent finding a misfiled document. $250.00 in labor is spent recreating a lost document
• Counting lost & misfiled documents, average cost shoots to $20.00/document.
   

Advantages of digital filing?

• Save space.
• Significantly reduce search time for filed documents.
• Eliminate mis-filing documents.
• Eliminate losing documents.
• Prevent document deterioration.
• Improve document change process.
• Eliminate file room searching.
• Retrieve, view, & print documents using existing PC hardware.
• Make searching more reliable.
• Add search capability on several fields.
• Eliminate or reduce copy machine usage.
• Eliminate or reduce usage of film printers and recorders.
• Distribute documents more effectively by utilizing the WEB, WAN and LAN.
• Reduce shipping costs dramatically.