Going Paperless

FreshBusinessThinking.com has an excellent article running on their website covering the progression of digital document management, the likelihood of a truly paperless office and why so many business owners may be hesitant to convert to electronic document storage. In a nutshell, the concept of digital storage was pushed too hard too early, and many businesses had bad experience trying to hop on the band wagon. However, the technologies used by EDM Centers like the one GRM offers are above and beyond those initially introduced. They're effective, efficient and more affordable than ever.

From FreshBusinessThinking:

All of this document production and storage is occurring in a time when almost everything we generate comes from a digital system, eg. word processing, accounting systems, digital copiers, etc. – and most of these documents are already stored in digital file format on the system that created them originally (Word files, spreadsheets, photographs, accounting systems, etc). Yet there is still a great reluctance to take the final step and commit these paper files into a concise digital filing system and reduce the amount of environmentally damaging paper consumed, as well as reducing the expense committed to vast amounts of wasted space given over to document storage. Much of the resistance to change stems from old and somewhat flawed technology being made available before it’s limitations were determined.