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Intelligent Enterprise Capture: Delivering Real-World Value
March 31, 2011
By Sean Baird, Senior Manager, Product Marketing, EMC Corporation
You may already be familiar with how document capture converts paper into electronic information. But do you know how your capture strategy and technologies measure up to the best practices being leveraged today? In this series, we'll explore the practical applications of — and proven tactics for — document capture in the real world. See how forward-thinking organizations are able to reap the fastest and highest return on their investment in document capture — and learn ways to leverage capture to address your most pressing business challenges.
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•Part 1: Realize Significant New Benefits By Using The Latest Capture Breakthroughs
Organizations have become very aware of the benefits of document capture, from the obvious value of reducing paper management and consumption to eliminating the manual processing steps that add significant cost and slow down businesses. And you're probably well aware that document capture solutions are able to convert paper into electronic images and business data. So what else is there? Isn't document capture a bit passé in an IT strategy that is increasingly focused on how to take advantage of the next wave of computing: the cloud?
The simple answer is that, while document capture is one of the safest and most reliable investments, most organizations are missing significant opportunities to limit the cost of capturing paper, speed the processing documents, and automate the manual tasks that complicate document capture. The reality is that most organizations fail to consider the larger potential savings that document capture can provide, including the ability nearly eliminating manual processing and streamlining business processes that rely upon these paper documents.
Click Here To Download:•Part 2: Go Beyond Archiving: Transforming Your Business Processes With Capture
Departments, organizations, and lines of businesses are usually very aware of the benefits of capturing paper documents — less paper storage costs, better control over archived documents, and reduced manual document processing. While these benefits are good — most companies find that they can generate significant savings by controlling costs to justify their investments — they do not allow companies to realize the significant additional benefits and increased cost savings available by using capture to truly transform their businesses.
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It would be fair to say that information growth within organizations has been, and will likely continue to be nothing less than meteoric. In fact, industry statistics show that the amount of digital content being created in 2010 was 1.2 zettabytes, and by the year 2020 the amount of content will have grown to 35 zettabytes. So where is all this digital content going? In the consumer world, much of the content can be linked to places like YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, and hundreds of other popular social media sites. In the world of business, the content that business users create in both structured and collaborative work environments is often stored on hard drives, network file servers, email, and content management systems. And let's not forget paper, which still remains one of the common formats for exchanging information, driving decisions, and supporting the most critical business processes in many industries.
