Enterprise DocumentManagementSymposium
October 5th – 6th 2010Niagara 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 ofSitrof Technologies, Inc.
We are living in exponential times…
How big is the digital universe?
ExabyteFrom 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
ExabyteFrom 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)
Return on Investment Model
Daily Labor Costs – No DMS Example Time Cost
What is the average hourly salary? $15How many people handle documents? 7How many times does each person retrieve a document daily? 10
How long does it take to retrieve a paper document? (minutes) 3 210 $52.50
How many new documents are generated a day? 20
How long does it take to file a paper document? (minutes) 3 60 $15
How many paper copies are generated per day? 60 .05 $3
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 DMSExample Time Cost
How much do you spend for off-site storage monthly? $100
How many filing cabinets (12 sqft/cabinet - $15/year/sqft) 10 120 $150
How much do you spend on filing supplies per month? $50 $50
• Monthly costs for maintenance– $200
Cost Per Year
Implementation cost for a 20 User DMS
CostSoftware (20 Named Users) $5,000Server with 200 GB of storage $5,000Scanners (3 mid range scanners at $500 each) $1,500Training and Setup $8,000
• Total DMS System Cost in 1st Year– $19,500
Daily Labor Costs – with DMS Example Time Cost
What is the average hourly salary? $15How many people handle documents? 7How many times does each person retrieve a document daily? 10
How long does it take to retrieve a paper document? (minutes) .5(3) 35 $8.75
How many new documents are generated a day? 10(20)
How long does it take to file a paper document? (minutes) .5(3) 5 $1.25
How many paper copies are generated per day? 0(60) .05 $0
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
Cost Per Year
Return (ROI)
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