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Join the Enterprise Document Management Symposium on October 5th – 6th, 2010, in Niagara Falls, Canada to discover how to find ROI in document management. Bryan Reynolds, Managing Partner of Sitrof Technologies, will share insights on common and unique places to seek savings when implementing ECM solutions. Explore the exponential growth of the digital universe and learn about electronic document management systems (EDMS) that streamline document storage, provide comprehensive customer/vendor views, and enhance office productivity. Dive into the current business landscape where technology drives efficiency, and understand the importance of ROI in project evaluations. Delve into the Return on Investment model and compare daily labor costs with and without a DMS. Follow us for more insights at Sitrof Insights Blog. Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your business efficiency and savings!
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Enterprise Document Management Symposium October 5th – 6th 2010 Niagara Falls, Canada
Finding ROI in Document Management Learn about common and not so common places to look for savings when installing ECM. By: Bryan Reynolds, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Sitrof Technologies, Inc.
How big is the digital universe? Exabyte From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia An exabyte (derived from the SI prefix exa-) is a unit of information or computer storage equal to one quintillion bytes (short scale). The unit symbol for the exabyte is EB. When used with byte multiples, the unit indicates a power of 1000. 1 EB = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes 1 billion gigabytes 1 million terabytes
Electronic document management system (EDMS) • Provide a method for storing all relevant documents about a your customer or vendor • Allows office staff to gain a total view of the customer or vendor • Allows integration into point software solutions that each department uses • Enables significant gains in productivity and efficiency
Current Business Landscape • Technology has helped many businesses over the last 10-15 years become more efficient. • Predicted as early as 1975 that the “paperless office had arrived” • Paperwork necessary to run a business has increased a great deal since 1975 • ROI for any project is important
What is ROI? • Return on Investment • The amount of time it takes to get the value of the dollars spent on a project or item back • Example: • if truck is purchased for a shipping company and it cost $50,000 and each month a profit of $10,000 can be tied to the truck, then your ROI is 5 months ($50,000/$10,000)
Daily, Monthly and Annual Cost • Daily total costs for a paper based system • $70.50 • Monthly total costs for a paper based system (20 working days/month) • $1,410
Additional Costs – No DMS • Monthly costs for maintenance • $200
Implementation cost for a 20 User DMS • Total DMS System Cost in 1st Year • $19,500
Daily, Monthly and Annual Cost • Daily total costs for a DMS system • $10.00 • Monthly total costs for a DMS system (20 working days/month) • $200 • Annual software maintenance contract (20% of software purchase) • $720
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