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Process Used and Survey Demographics
While we appreciate the support of these sponsors, we also greatly value our objectivity and independence as a
non-profit industry association. The results of the survey and the market commentary made in this report are
independent of any bias from the vendor community.
The survey was taken using a web-based tool by 477 individual members of the AIIM community between
November 30th, 2011, and January 3rd, 2012. Invitations to take the survey were sent via e-mail to a selection of
the 65,000 AIIM community members.
Survey demographics can be found in Appendix A. Graphs throughout the report exclude responses from
organizations with less than 10 employees and suppliers of ECM products or services, taking the number of
respondents to 395.




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About AIIM
AIIM (www.aiim.org) has been an advocate and supporter of information professionals for nearly 70 years. The
association mission is to ensure that information professionals understand the current and future challenges of
managing information assets in an era of social, mobile, cloud and big data. Founded in 1943, AIIM builds on a




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strong heritage of research and member service. Today, AIIM is a global, non-profit organization that provides




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independent research, education and certification programs to information professionals. AIIM represents the entire
information management community, with programs and content for practitioners, technology suppliers, integrators
and consultants.



About the Author
Doug Miles is head of the AIIM Market Intelligence Division. He has over 25 years experience of working with users
and vendors across a broad spectrum of IT applications. He was an early pioneer of document management
systems for business and engineering applications, and has produced many AIIM survey reports on issues and
drivers for Capture, ECM, Email Management, Records Management, SharePoint and Social Business. Doug has
also worked closely with other enterprise-level IT systems such as ERP BI and CRM. Doug has an MSc in
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Communications Engineering and is a member of the IET in the UK.




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Table of Contents
 About the Research:                                                          Scanning and Performance:




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 About the Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1                 Scanning and Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . 16




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 Process Used, Survey Demographics . . . . . . . . 1                          Global Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
 About AIIM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2     Spending Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
 About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
                                                                              Conclusion and Recommendations:
 Introduction:                                                                Conclusion and Recommendations . . . . 20
 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4         Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
 Key Findings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
                                                                              Appendix 1 - Survey Demographics:
 Keeping Paper Out of the Business:                                           Survey Demographics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
 Keeping Paper Out of the Business . . . . . 5                                Survey Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21




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 Paper Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5          Organizational Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
 Adoption of Scanning and Capture . . . . . . . . . . 6                       Geography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
 Incoming Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6               Industry Sector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
 Invoices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7   Job Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
 Forms Distribution and Scanning Costs . . . . . . . 7
                                                                              Appendix 2 - Overall Comments:
 Drivers and ROI for Capture:                                                 Appendix 2 - Overall Comments . . . . . . . 23
 Drivers and ROI for Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
 Document Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8             Underwritten in part by:
 Customer Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9              ABBYY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
 Scanning and Capture ROI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9                 EMC Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
                                                                              IBM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
 Digital Mailrooms:                                                           Kofax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
 Digital Mailrooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10               Swiss Post Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
 Digital Mailroom ROI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12            AIIM Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
 Outsourcing/DPOI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12


 Mobile Capture:
 Mobile Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
 Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
 Signatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
 Mobile Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15




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Introduction
Since the invention of the typewriter, offices have been drowning in paper. Painstakingly typed letters with barely
readable carbon copies filled desks and cabinets until the arrival of computers and photocopiers. But they just made
things so much worse. Thankfully, in the email, internet and socially connected world of today, the paper letter is at last




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falling away. But the favourite tool of administrators the world over has always been the form. We use it to collect data,
to carry signatures, to drive the business process, and to provide an auditable record of the outcome. As we shall see,




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each of those functions can be readily carried out in all-electronic formats, but until recently, the paper form has been
somewhat stubborn in its hold on even the most modern offices.
The best way to remove paper from business processes is to head it off before it gets into the building. A digital
mailroom – in-house or outsourced - transforms incoming mail into electronic format and routes it automatically to the
correct process department. At the same time, recognition software can capture data from the form and link it to the
enterprise processing system. Communications from customers, citizens, suppliers and partners can arrive at the
business through other channels - email, fax, web or social. This needs to be fed in a uniform way through the capture
system and then routed to the appropriate process alongside the scanned paper documents. Capturing content
before it gets into the building makes it immediately accessible, kicks off the process early, minimizes hand data-entry,
and provides complete flexibility for who does the processing, and where. And if we can directly capture data via web
forms, or with mobile devices, we can finally eliminate the paper form completely.
In this report, we look at the success of paper-elimination projects, where and why paper is still leaking into the
business, the features and success of scanning and capture investments, forward plans for document process




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outsourcing (DPO), and the potential impact of mobile devices.


Key Findings
I There is less paper floating around the office – especially in the biggest organizations. The consumption of
  paper and the number of photocopies is decreasing in 35% of organizations, whereas it is increasing in 32%. In the
  largest organizations, the net proportion of respondents posting a decrease is 15%.
I Electronic-only filing would halve the storage space needed for paper in 5 years. The average proportion of
  office space taken up by paper is now 15.3%, and it would drop to 7.4% with an all-electronic filing policy, a saving
  of nearly 8% in overall office costs.
I On average, 45% of documents that are scanned are 100% “born digital” – just as they came from the printer.
  And many of the rest would be all-digital if not for the added signatures.
I 77% of invoices that arrive as PDF attachments get printed. 31% of faxed invoices get printed and scanned
  back in. On average, 30% of invoices arrive as PDF attachments, and 15% as faxes.
I 41% of organizations in the survey are using some form of digital-mailroom, either as a centralized operation
  or distributed at branch offices. 4% are outsourced.
I 20% of organizations scan half or more of their inbound mail at or before entry. A further 20% are more likely to
  scan at the point-of-process, and 29% scan-to-archive after the process.
I Improved sharability and searchability is the biggest driver for investment in scanning and capture. Followed
  by improved productivity and reduced storage space.
I On average, respondents using scanning and capture consider that it improves the speed of response to
  customers, suppliers, citizens or staff by 6-times or more. 70% estimate an improvement of at least 3-times, and
  nearly a third (29%) see an improvement of 10-times or more.
I 42% of users have achieved a payback period of 12 months or less from their scanning and capture
  investments. 57% are posting a payback of 18-months or less.
I A net of 13% of respondents plan to increase their use of bureaus or document process outsource (DPO),
  particularly in Europe (net 21%). But only a net of 1% will be increasing their offshore activities.
I 38% of respondents have employees equipped to use portable devices to capture documents or forms
  when not at their desks. Over 14% are using portable scanners for forms and supporting documents. 6% are
  using smartphones or tablets, including 4% who use OCR to capture data at the device.
I Over half of those using portable devices capture signatures, either by scanning (30%), stylus (11%) or using a
  digital signature app (21%).
I Speed of data availability and keeping paper out of the process are given as the biggest advantages of
  mobile capture, followed by better data accuracy and fewer lost or incomplete forms.
I 12% of respondents are committed to a strategy of cloud deployment of capture – rising to 20% of the
  largest organizations. 18% overall have firmly decided against it and 39% are waiting for a company decision on
  cloud in general (27%), or capture specifically (12%).
I Spending predictions indicate a considerable increase in spend on capture software, including mobile
  capture and as a front-end to SharePoint. A net of 23% of responding organizations indicate increased spend for
  the next 12 months. Spend on scanners is set to be stable, while spend on outsourcing is set to decrease.


© 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals                                                               4
Keeping Paper Out of the Business
Paper Volumes
Overall, the consumption of paper and the number of photocopies is increasing in 32% of the organizations surveyed




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and decreasing in 35% - a net of 3% of organizations seeing a decrease. This is a small improvement on the 2009
survey result where the situation was more balanced. However, when we look at Figure 1, we can see that small and




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mid-sized organizations are making little progress, whereas a net of 15% of the largest organizations are seeing a
decrease - a complete reversal of the 2009 result. This is likely to be based on wider use of scanning and capture in
larger organizations, increasing mobility and hot-desking, as well as more stringent enforcement of Green IT policies.


    Figure 1: Would you say that the consumption of paper and/or number of photocopies in your organization is? (N=391)

                                     0%      5%      10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40%

              Increasing rapidly

         Increasing somewhat                                                                     10-500 emps




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                                                                                                 500-5,000 emps
                            Stable
                                                                                                 5,000+ emps
        Decreasing somewhat

             Decreasing rapidly



Storage Savings
There is a considerable variation in the proportion of office space currently taken up by storage of paper documents from
2% to 35% or more. However, most of our respondents estimate that the adoption of an electronic-only filing culture
would reduce the space needed dramatically. The average space taken up now is 15.3%, and this would be more than
halved to an average of 7.4%. If this is directly reflected in office running costs, it represents a saving of nearly 8%.


Figure 2: How much of your office space would you say is currently used for storing paper documents? What do you think that
           figure would be in 5 years’ time if you could change the culture to one of electronic-only filing? (N=387)


                                Now                                                        5 Years’ Time
                   0%      5%      10% 15% 20%                                       0%       10%      20%       30%

 35% or more                                                          35% or more
 30% of space                                                         30% of space
 25% of space                                                         25% of space
 20% of space                                                         20% of space
 15% of space                                                         15% of space
 10% of space                                                         10% of space
7.5% of space                                                        7.5% of space
  5% of space                                                          5% of space
  2% of space                                                          2% of space
  1% of space                                                          1% of space



© 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals                                                               5
Adoption of Scanning and Capture
Even within the AIIM community, more than a third do not use scanning and capture as a routine part of the process,
and only 37% actively capture data from scanned documents and forms in order to facilitate routing, or to feed the
process itself.




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                   Figure 3: How would you describe the level of image capture maturity in your business unit
                                         (across in-house and outsource)? (N=395)

                                                             0%   5%   10%      15%     20%      25%     30%

                  We only scan things occasionally

  We use scanners for office tasks, but not as a
      coordinated input to process or archive

   We scan documents as image only, primarily
                                 for archive




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   We scan documents and forms, and capture
    text for rou ng or indexing to the archive

    We scan documents and forms and capture
                         data to the process


Of those documents that are scanned, our respondents considered that on average, 45% are born completely digital
– ie, just as they came out of the printer. Many more would be completely digital if not for the handwritten addition of
a signature. Of course, many of these documents are originated outside of the business and mailed by physical post.


Scan-to-archive is still much more prevalent than scan-to-process. Only half of those organizations who capture text
and data from scanned forms and documents actually link it into the process, as opposed to using it for routing
through the process or indexing for archive.


Incoming Documents
Dealing with paper as it enters the business – or even before it enters if using DPO – will maximize the potential
savings from sorting, routing, delivering and disposing of paper. As we can see in Figure 4 below, 20% of
organizations have made good progress here, scanning half or more of their incoming mail on entry, with a further
25% scanning within the process department. The most interesting finding is that significant numbers of
organizations are only scanning for post-process archive. Whilst they may be making savings in records storage
space and improving subsequent searchability, they are not improving the efficiency of the process, nor raising the
transparency of in-process documentation. Of course, the logistics of post-process scanning are somewhat different
in that time lag is less likely to be critical, and it may be easier to outsource.


                    Figure 4: What proportion of incoming documents to your organizational unit do you scan
                                      (not including brochures, junk mail, etc.)? (N=362)


                                         % orgs third or more      % orgs half or more            Average of all mail

 On Entry                                             25%                    20%                          20.9%

 At point of process                                  25%                    20%                          21.8%

 Post-process                                         40%                    29%                          29.7%




© 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals                                                            6
Invoices
 Although many of the larger companies are pressing to have all-electronic billing and payment systems, we are still a
 long way from this ideal. Many businesses are at least trying to save on postage costs by sending invoices as PDF
 files, or as faxes. However, this does not generally result in a reduction of paper within the receiving business. In total,
 77% of respondents are likely to print at least one copy of a PDF invoice, and 16% admit to printing it out and then




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 scanning it in for capture, as do 31% receiving a faxed invoice.




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                      Figure 5: What proportion of your incoming invoices would you say arrive as: (N=363)


                                       % orgs third or more             % orgs half or more    Average of all invoices

  PDF attachments                                  42%                         32%                       30.6%

  Faxes                                            15%                         11%                       15.4%

  EDI/e-billing                                    29%                         20%                       21.7%




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 Around a quarter or respondents are able to feed PDF invoices and fax images directly into a capture and/or
 workflow system. Another fairly common paper-intensive practice with faxes, especially with contracts and application
 forms, is to print the fax, sign it, and feed it back into the scanner or fax machine. Wider adoption of digital signature
 systems would save considerable time here – and given the nature of signature approvals, this is likely to be quite
 senior people’s time.


         Figure 6: How do you mostly deal with invoices and forms that arrive as PDF attachments to emails? (N=358)

                                                        0%         5%   10%   15%    20%      25%    30%      35%      40%

           Print a copy and process as paper

 Print mul ple copies and process as paper
                 Print and then photocopy
        (with or without other documents)

           Print and scan back in for capture

Process on-screen but print an archive copy

          Pass directly to the capture system



 Despite the increasing use of electronic transmission of invoices using PDF or fax, four-fifths of them get printed –
 and all too often, printed and fed back into a scanner.




 Forms Distribution and Scanning Costs
 Before we deal with the savings that can be made from scanning documents and forms prior to processing, we
 should consider the costs involved up to and including the scan process itself.
 All paper forms incur costs of printing, distribution, mailing, collection and sorting, whether they go on to be scanned,
 or are used directly in the process as paper. This cost can only be avoided by direct data entry or e-forms. Our
 respondents report a wide range of cost estimates from 20 cents to tens of dollars per form. The average* reported
 cost per form or document is $3.63 and the median (half more/half less) is $2.00. (*excluding 12 over $20)




 © 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals                                                                7
Those forms and documents that are scanned pre-process will incur preparation costs and QA costs as well as the
actual scan and capture process. We asked our 148 capture users to estimate their costs for this per-document, or
per-form, and the results again ranged from 10 cents to tens of dollars. Here the average* was $2.84, and the
median was $1.50. (*excluding 6 over $20)
Taking these two together and picking the medians, we could say that in general, each paper form costs $3.50 in




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handling costs up until it becomes an image file. Of course, if the form is not scanned and captured, it will also incur




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manual data-entry costs and subsequent physical storage costs. Keying the data at source into a web form or a
mobile device, rather than filling out a paper form, will save all of these costs.



Drivers and ROI for Capture
Document Access
Better searchability and sharability of documents is the leading driver for scanning and capture. In today’s dispersed
organization, the distance to a file cabinet or worse, a colleague’s desk, can be very long and quite disruptive.
Improved process productivity and reduced storage costs are rated as the next strongest drivers, followed by
compliance, and faster response to customers, citizens and staff. Reduced postage, transportation and document
logistics is a stronger driver (22%) for the biggest organizations. Remote access for teleworkers is more important for
smaller organizations (22%) than for larger ones.




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       Figure 7: What would you say are the three biggest drivers for scanning and data capture in your organization?
                                                         (N=370)


                                                            0%    10%   20%    30%      40%       50%      60%

            Improved searchability/sharability of
                           business documents
                    Improved process produc vity

                  Reduced physical storage space

                 Records security and compliance

   Faster response to customers/ci zens/staff

          Improved accuracy and quality of data
                Remote access for teleworking or
                            business con nuity
           Reduced postage/transporta on and
                           document logis cs
         Sustainability/environmental ini a ves

     Flexibility for process change or outsource




Mobilizing documents for access and sharing is a stronger driver than direct savings in process costs.




© 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals                                                            8
Customer Response
Speed of response to customers or citizens is a very prominent metric these days, particularly in B2C businesses or
government services. Social media sites, consumer blogs and supplier star-ratings provide easy ways for customers
to report on good service, and even more so on bad service. Within B2B businesses, ease of dealing with customer-
facing staff is an important criterion for service level assessments. Where help-desks and call offices are centralized,




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immediate access to all channels of customer or citizen correspondence is vital if call targets are to be met and




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criticism avoided. Internally, HR departments need to match response times in other areas of the business, despite
the fact that paper forms, letters and certificates are fundamental to many of their processes.
Given the pressure to react quickly to customer communications and to provide transparency within the process,
converting incoming documents to electronic format, and moving all incoming communications to a uniform
workflow, is likely to be a major benefit. In our survey, 70% of existing users consider that scanning and capture has
improved customer response by a factor of 3, and nearly 30% are seeing response improved by a factor of 10. This
would seem to be something of a breakthrough for many businesses. The average estimate was a 6.7 times faster
response. In Figure 8, we can see a secondary peak at “10 times faster.” This is likely to reflect the elimination of a
mailing delay.


Figure 8: By what factor would you say your use of scanning and capture improves the speed of response of your operational
     unit to customers, suppliers, citizens or staff? (Think about waiting time or elapsed time in minutes, hours or days)
                                                          (N=194 users)




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                                          0%             5%       10%      15%           20%          25%

                                  Same
                   1.25 mes faster
                     1.5 mes faster
                       2 mes faster
                       3 mes faster
                       4 mes faster
                       5 mes faster
                     10 mes faster
                     20 mes faster
       More than 20 mes faster




Scanning and capture can dramatically improve your customer response times – typically between 2 and 3 times
faster, but in many cases 5 and 10 times faster. This is a crucial metric of business performance in today’s customer-
sensitive environment.




Scanning and Capture ROI
It comes as no surprise, therefore, that more than half of those who have invested in scanning and capture are
seeing a payback period of 18 months or less, with 42% seeing a return within one 12-month budgeting period. A key
factor within capture ROI is the degree of back-scanning required. Those reporting longer payback periods may have
undertaken significant back-scanning, whereas those adopting a “day-forward” approach are achieving faster
financial returns.




© 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals                                                              9
Figure 9: In general, what payback period would you say you have achieved, or are on track to achieve, from your scanning
                                 and capture projects? (N=147 users, excl. 97 Don’t Know)


                                      0%            5%            10%    15%       20%         25%          30%




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                         6 months

                         9 months

                       12 months

                       18 months

                            2 years

                            3 years

             More than 3 years




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Digital Mailrooms
Although they may be configured in a number of ways, the “digital mailroom” term generally means that a mixture of
incoming mail is scanned and routed internally, as opposed to the more dedicated sorting of specific forms or
coupons for scanning to a single process. 41% of responding organizations operate some form of digital mailroom,
either as a centralized operation, perhaps with high-throughput scanners (11%), or as a distributed operation at
branch offices.


     Figure 10: Do you operate any of the following “digital mailroom” scenarios (i.e., scanning, capture and electronic
                                      distribution of general incoming mail? (N=384)


                                                         0%       10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%

        Centralized through a large mailroom
                         scanner or scanners
        Centralized using mul ple produc on
                                    scanners

   Distributed capture at branch-offices, etc.

         Outsourced capture of incoming mail

                                      None of these



There has been a movement over the last few years to implement scanning and capture using a distributed
approach, where scanners of different types and locations feed into a common capture system, which then presents
a unified connection to downstream processes. This is particularly useful for MFPs (multi-function devices) within the
main office, but also at branch offices. The technology has most recently been extended to include field-based and
mobile devices, as well as handling multiple-electronic file formats such as PDFs, faxes and emails.




© 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals                                                              10
Figure 11: Which of the following do you have connected via a unified or distributed capture system
                                        (as opposed to point solutions)? (N=130 users)


                                               0%       5%        10%    15%   20%   25%   30%   35%    40%




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                       Desktop scanners




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                            In-office MFPs
Process-specific scanning opera ons
                                        PDFs
                         Incoming emails
                                       Faxes
                                Web forms
                            Branch offices
                         Digital mailroom
                       Field/mobile staff
                                 Outsource




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                            None of these


The strongest benefit of the digital mailroom approach is a faster turnaround time to customers, along with the
immediate availability of the latest communication, whether that is by letter, email or fax. Reductions will also be
possible in the space and resource requirements for physical mail distribution. Focusing the recognition servers at a
single point is also likely to be more efficient and may allow investment in better equipment, thereby improving the
quality of data presented to downstream processes. Remote accessibility for mobile or teleworking staff is an
important benefit, particularly during times of travel disruption.


            Figure 12: Which aspects of digital mailrooms are proving the most beneficial? (Max 3) (N=130 users)


                                                                  0%    5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45%

             Faster turnaround mes to customers

  Reduced storage and processing space for mail
          Immediate access to latest customer
                               correspondence
   More efficient/higher quality data capture for
                        downstream processes
                            Remote accessibility for
                    mobile/telework/outsource staff
 Fewer opera onal staff physically handling mail

                       Fewer lost/delayed mail items

More efficient/higher quality imaging for archive

 Environmental benefits – fuel, photocopies, etc.

             Outsource of mail-handling opera ons




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Digital Mailroom ROI
Payback periods for investments in digital mailrooms are slightly longer than for scanning and capture in general.
This is probably because of the heavier-duty equipment needed, but the ROI is still 12 months or less for 37% of
organizations, and 18 months or less for 53%. For some organizations, recovering mailroom space, implementing
hot-desking, or restructuring operations can provide an overriding logistical reason for adopting a digital mailroom,




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and this is the case for 8% of our respondents.




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Centralizing incoming mail handling and distributing forms and documents electronically keeps paper out at the door
and provides big advantages for downstream processing.




Outsourcing/DPO
Running a scanning and capture operation may not be considered core business for many organizations, and it has
certainly been the case in the past that setting up scanners and recognition systems for the best results is a
somewhat specialist expertise. 37% of organizations in our survey use document process outsourcing, mostly
alongside in-house. This breaks down as 25% of smaller businesses, 36% of mid-sized and 56% of the largest. In
many cases, the outsource merely scans documents to an image file and passes that back on disk for archive or for




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import to an in-house system. Data recognition and capture may also be carried out, and in a small number of cases,
the DPO will have online access to in-house systems for further process work.


                          Figure 13: Which of the following apply to your use of outsourcing? (Multiple)
                                          (N=344, inc. 217 (63%) not using outsource)


                                                                  0%   5%   10%    15%      20%      25%   30%

                   We outsource all of our scanning
           We use both outsourced and in-house
                              scanning resources
           Our outsource does basic scanning and
                                    imaging only

     Our outsource does recogni on and capture
     Our outsource archives documents to their
                                   own system
    We import the images with captured data to
                                  our system(s)
         The outsource has online access to our
                                     system(s)



Looking at forward plans for outsourcing, there is a general move to increase the amount of downstream processing
carried out by the DPO. On the other hand, many users are keen to invest in more equipment in order to move things
back in-house, reduce their reliance on outsource and regain control.




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Figure 14: What are your forward plans regarding outsourcing? (N=304, inc. 47% “None of these”)


                                                                  0%    2%   4%    6%   8%    10% 12% 14% 16%




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            Move more imaging work to outsource




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          Go beyond imaging to increased capture
    Move more of the process work to outsource
     Link outsource systems more closely to ours
             Make more use of outsourced storage
            More use of SaaS apps from outsource
 Review outsource suppliers to drive down costs
   Review outsource suppliers to increase quality
                   Reduce our reliance on outsource
  Invest in in-house equipment to regain control




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Driving down the cost of outsource suppliers shows up as a strong priority. When it comes to cost comparison
between in-house and DPO, over half of our respondents feel they are paying the same or more for the service,
although a third are saving 15% or more. Obviously, circumstances will vary, but it is important to ensure that a DPO
adds value or reduces risk. It would be unwise to assume that outsourcing will automatically cut costs.


  Figure 15: Comparing your outsource costs, what would you say is the % difference (including staff costs, overheads and
                        running costs) from using the outsource compared to in-house? (N=105)


                                  0%              5%              10%        15%        20%      25%        30%

             10% higher cost
              5% higher cost
             About the same
                   5% savings
                  10% savings
                  15% savings
                  20% savings
                  25% savings
       33% or more savings




Overall, a net of 13% of all organizations have strategic plans to increase their use of DPO, although the proportion
using offshore services for reduced cost is set to fall, with a net of just 1% planning to use more offshore services.
Growth projections are, however, somewhat uneven across company sizes and geographies, with the biggest
strategic growth in outsourcing coming from mid-sized organizations, particularly in Europe.




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Figure 16: What are your strategic plans regarding outsourcing?
                            (Net % of organizations “Do More” minus “Do Less”, excluding “No Change”)

                                         10-500          500-1,000      5,000+                                   Rest of
                           All                                                        N. America     Europe
                                          emps             emps          emps                                    World




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 Outsource               +13%             +10%              +14%        +12%            +12%            +21%         0%




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 Offshore                +1%               +2%               +1%         -3%             +1%            +2%          -11%

Note: this table shows a net percentage of organizations looking to grow DPO as a strategic option, not a percentage
of predicted growth, nor of immediate spend (see Fig 25).


There is an appetite amongst many organizations for increased use of outsourcing and for the outsource to take on
more processing aspects. Others are keen to drive down outsource costs and/or to bring capture back in-house.




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Mobile Capture
Devices
When looking at their smartphone or tablet, few people would recognize it as being a capture device. Yet the
combination of camera, processor, communications link and even GPS device put it firmly in contention. Include the
ability to OCR text, recognize bar-codes, add notes, metadata and form fields, and file back to an ECM, records
management, CRM or even an ERP system, and you have a game-changing situation. If the demand is entirely for
scanning pages of agreements or contracts, perhaps at customer premises or on the road, then portable scanners
can be very effective. If more of a ruggedized electronic clipboard is needed, there are specialist tablets available.


   Figure 17: Do employees in your business unit use any of the following portable devices to capture documents or forms
                                when not at their desk? (N=350. Excl. 62% “None of these”)

                                                                   0%            5%            10%             15%

       Portable scanner – paper forms for post-process

               Portable scanner – suppor ng documents
                   Smartphone/camera – scan suppor ng
                                documents (imageonly)
      Smartphone/camera – photo images (as records)
                 Smartphone/iPad – capture paper forms
                                             (with OCR)
                Smartphone/iPad – capture photo images
                                             (with OCR)
                                 Smartphone – scan barcodes

             Smartphone – forms app (direct data input)

         iPad (or similar) – forms app (direct data input)
      Dedicated touch or stylus-based tablet with forms
                                  app (digital clipboard)
                            Other specialist portable device




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In 38% of organizations, some form of portable capture device is in use. Portable scanners are the most popular,
used to capture paper forms and supporting documents such as receipts, certificates, and most recently checks
(cheques). Smartphones and cameras are also useful for capturing photo-records such as insured damage or dial
readings. Smartphones and tablets are also capable of OCR capture of photographed documents, as well as photo
images of meter readings and license plates. This OCR capability is used by 4% of organizations.




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Tablets are also poised to make a further impact in the mobile forms area, providing a simple capability to fill in e-




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forms on the move in a more convenient way than laptops have been able to, feeding the data directly into back-
office applications, and avoiding the logistics issues of paper forms distribution in the first instance.


Signatures
Of course, many mobile capture operations revolve around signatures – process sign-offs, sales and loan
agreements, delivery acceptance, patient approvals, etc. As we might expect, imaging a physical signature from
paper (30%) provides the most re-assurance, but it is interesting to see that “paper free” digital signature
applications (21%) are popular too.


  Figure 18: Regarding portable/mobile devices, do any of your portable forms applications involve capturing signatures?
                                           (N=137, inc. 19% “Not necessary”)




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                                                                  0%   5%   10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35%

                             Yes – scanned from paper
                                                Yes – stylus
                                               Yes – touch
                             Yes – digital signature app
     No, but would speed up customer processes
   No, but mobile approvals would be very useful



Over 80% of respondents using mobile capture have applications that would benefit from mobile signature capture.
Even those who have not done it as yet could see the benefit in speeding up customer-facing processes and
shortening approval cycles


Mobile Benefits
Speed of data availability is the key benefit of mobile capture, along with keeping paper out of the process, better
data accuracy and fewer lost or incomplete forms. Due to the cost of devices, overall payback periods are longer
than other capture applications, but 51% still saw payback in 18 months or less. Security and lost devices is the
biggest issue encountered, followed by user resistance – much as with any process change project. Poor 3G
coverage and slow connection speed is also an issue for many, and will vary considerably depending on territory.




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Figure 19: What have been the biggest benefits of your mobile/portable capture projects? (Max 3)


                                                                  0%              20%         40%        60%




                                                                                                                                                           Industry
                                Speed of data availability




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                      Keeping paper out of the process

                                      Be er data accuracy

                           Fewer lost/incomplete forms

     Reduced logis cs of forms and paper handling

                        Improved back-office efficiency

                           Reduc on in form-filling me

            Freeing up process flows/approval cycles

                   More compe          ve customer service




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Mobile devices can have a big impact by moving capture closer to the source, either by scanning paper forms with
smartphones or portable scanners, or by direct data input on tablets and specialist devices.



Scanning Strategies and Performance
We discussed earlier the provision of centralized or distributed scanning platforms, and it seems that our
respondents are keen to increase their commitment to both. There is also a strong appetite for more auto-
classification, and for capturing from mobile devices.


                               Figure 20: How would you characterize your strategy for the following?
                                      (N=301, line length indicates “We don’t generally do this”)

                                                             0%
                                                             40%       20%
                                                                       20%   40%
                                                                              0%        60%
                                                                                        20%   80% 100% 120%
                                                                                               40% 60% 80%

     Centralized scanning and capture resource

        Distributed process-specific workplace /
                         branch-office scanning
     Distributed ad hoc workplace scanning, eg,
                               MFPs, desktops
    Central scanning and electronic distribu on
                               of incoming mail

   Automated - recogni on (OCR, ICR, IDR, etc)

                   Automated - auto-classifica on

                       Capture from mobile devices


                                                                        Do less     No change       Do more

Exploring the use of recognition technologies a little further, around a third of our respondents are using variable layout
forms OCR, most likely to capture invoices from multiple suppliers. Modern systems have learning mechanisms that
can detect the appropriate fields from the invoice without needing manual setup. 18% are using handwriting recognition

© 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals                                                               16
(ICR), with 70% of those finding it to be adequate or good as regards performance, compared to 89% rating full text
OCR to the same levels. This is, of course, an area that has advanced considerably in the last few years.


                         Figure 21: Which of the following recognition technologies do you use? (N=280)




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                    Barcode capture




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           Fixed layout forms OCR
       Variable layout forms OCR
                         Full text OCR
                Mark capture OMR
                    Handwri ng ICR
               Auto sort for rou ng
   Auto-classifica on for archive




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We also looked in some detail at the proportions of documents that are being scanned and recognized in different
ways. A significant proportion of documents are being scanned double-sided, and in color.


        Figure 22: What proportion of the documents that you scan are? (N=244 with variable numbers of Don’t Knows)

                                                     Average of all       % companies Half            % of companies
                                                     scanned docs             or more                   All (90%+)

 Scanned in duplex (double-sided)                          35.6%                   37%                     18%


 Scanned in grayscale (not B/W)                            33.3%                   37%                     20%


 Scanned in color                                          21.2%                   20%                      7%


 Multi-language capture                                     8.5%                   8%                       3%


 Visually inspected after scanning                         51.3%                   56%                     34%


 Barcode captured                                          20.2%                   22%                     19%


 Mark captured (OMR)                                         8%                    5%                       1%


 Selective fields OCR’d                                    38.5%                   18%                      9%

 Full OCR’d                                                27.6%                   17%                     19%

 Handwriting (ICR)                                          6.8%                   5%                       3%


In terms of document handling, we can see in Figure 23 some areas where even with scanning, paper copies leak
back into the organization. 14.7% of scanned documents are photocopied before scanning – most likely before
being sent to an outsource. Around half are visually inspected after scanning, but only 33% are destroyed after
scanning. 28% are shipped off-site for archive, but this leaves more than a third being stored on-site after scanning –
a very cautious policy. Historically, scanned images have been stored in TIFF format, but the industry-preferred
archive format is PDF-A. So far only 14% of organizations have fully adopted it even for fresh scans.


© 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals                                                           17
Figure 23: What proportion of the documents that you scan are? (N=244 with variable numbers of Don’t Knows)


                                    Average of all scanned              % companies half or       % of companies All
                                            docs                              more                      (90%+)




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 Photocopied before
                                                 14.7%                          12%                         4%




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 scanning

 Destroyed after scanning                        32.8%                          34%                         18%

 Archived off-site after
                                                 28.0%                          26%                         14%
 scanning

 Saved as PDF                                    50.1%                          52%                         34%


 Saved as PDF-A                                  21.2%                          22%                         14%




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Poor process design in many organizations is allowing paper to leak back into the building before or after scanning.




Cloud Deployment
Just as for any other IT application, capture can be deployed in the cloud, either as a SaaS model, or capturing to a
cloud-based archive or ECM system. Cloud processing is particularly appropriate for mobile capture. Overall, 12%
are committed to a cloud deployment of capture in the next few years, rising to 20% of the largest companies. 39%
are still struggling with their strategies (small or large) and 36% of respondents don’t know what their company’s
strategy is.


                Figure 24: What is your strategy for cloud deployment of capture? (N=311, inc. 112 Don’t Know)


      Already deploy or expect to deploy
          capture in a cloud model in the
                        next 6-12 months
                                                                                        10-500 emps
            Expect to deploy capture in a                                               500-5,000 emps
        cloud model in the next 2-3 years                                               5,000+ emps

       We do not plan to deploy capture
       in the cloud in the next 2-3 years

         We are defining a cloud strategy
         but have not made a decision re.
                     capture in the cloud

         S ll trying to understand where
      the cloud fits into our long-term IT
                    and business strategy


                                    Don’t know



                                                                        % of Organiza ons
                                                   0%             10%     20%       30%     40%       50%


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Spending Plans
Our respondents indicate very positive increases in spend on capture software in all flavors, including front-end
systems for SharePoint and mobile capture apps. On the scanner side, sale of production scanners seems steady,
but overall, fewer organizations will be extending their MFP network or numbers of desktop scanners. As regards




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outsourcing, there seems to be some contradiction between those with a longer term strategy to do more (Fig 16,
net +13%) and those intending to spend more in the next 12 months (Fig 25, net -4%).




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       Figure 25: What are your spending plans for the following product areas in the next 12 months compared to the
                   last 12 months? N=263, Net is (“More” or “Much more”) minus (“Less” or “Much less”)



                     Produc on scanners

                                 MFP/MFDs

                         Desktop scanners
        Capture so ware or modules -




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                             general
      Capture so ware - front-end for
                          SharePoint

                            Mobile capture

                                Outsourcing

                     Consultancy services

                                    Training


                                                        Same      Net more       Net less




Most organizations are keen to continue or increase their investments in capture software, particularly as a front-end
to SharePoint, and for mobile capture.




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Conclusion and Recommendations
Paper-free, paper-less, less-paper…? Yes, it seems that some progress is being made, particularly in larger
organizations. We looked at the physical space savings that this can produce, and an all-electronic filing policy could
save nearly 8% of office space within 5 years. And there are, of course, environmental benefits associated with less




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paper, less photocopying and less printing.




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But the big reason to head paper off at the door is to prevent it clogging up processes and to mobilize its content.
Improved access and sharability to other staff, faster response to customers, and better process productivity are the
three big gains. In particular, our respondents estimated that on average their use of scanning and capture improved
the speed of response to customers, suppliers, citizens or staff by 6 times or more – a dramatic improvement to
competitively in a world that is only too ready to publicize poor service. Funneling incoming mail through a digital
mailroom enhances this benefit, ensuring that all customer or supplier correspondence is immediately available to
help desks, sales staff and teleworkers - and this concept lends itself to both in-house and outsourced provision.
Overall we saw a return on investment of 18 months or less for over half of our respondents.
We also found many ways in which paper leaks back into the office. Apart from the inevitable personal printing of
emails, we found procedural shortcomings where PDF and faxed invoices are printed out – and then sometimes
scanned in again; where scanning takes place at the end of the process rather than at the beginning; where
documents are photocopied before scanning; and where documents that have been successfully scanned are stored
in the office rather than being destroyed, or at least, warehoused.




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Finally, we took a glimpse at the impact of the explosion in mobile devices and their increasing capability to scan and
capture paper forms, or to provide direct data input to back-office processes.




Recommendations
I Audit your processes to see where paper slows throughput, adds process steps, or restricts transparency and
  reporting.
I In particular, examine your customer (or supplier or staff) response mechanisms to see if physical mailings or
  paper processing are slowing things down, restricting visibility, or paralleling electronic communications paths.
I Look at how physical handling of incoming mail site-by-site might better be centralized, processed in higher
  volume, and distributed electronically.
I If you are already using scanning, consider how much “closer to the door” you could be going electronic, and how
  that might transform who does the subsequent processing and where they might be located.
I Evaluate the latest technology for capturing data from forms and invoices, and look to process a higher proportion
  of your documents automatically.
I Consider using a bureau or DPO, especially if you are concerned about capital outlay, fluctuating volumes and
  overall risk. Don’t assume that basic DPO will be cheaper, but ensure that they add value by taking on as much of
  the down-stream processing as possible.
I Aim to scan documents or capture data as close to the source as possible – in the branch office, on the shop floor,
  in the field or at the customer’s premises.
I Brainstorm how the capabilities of modern mobile devices – portable scanners, smartphones, tablets and
  specialist devices – could transform your processes by eliminating elapsed time, lost forms, poor data, and re-
  keying.
I Pick just one of these areas and test out the business case. Chances are it will show a good enough return on its
  own, with other applications and benefits enhancing the potential return.




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Appendix 1: Survey Demographics
Survey Background




                                                                                                                                                 Industry
477 individual members of the AIIM community took the survey between Nov 30, 2011, and Jan 03, 2012 using a
Web-based tool. Invitations to take the survey were sent via email to a selection of the 65,000 AIIM community




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members.

Organizational Size
Survey respondents represent organizations of all sizes. Larger organizations over 5,000 employees represent 23%,
with mid-sized organizations of 500 to 5,000 employees at 43%. Small-to-mid sized organizations with 10 to 500
employees constitute 33%. 41 respondents from organizations with less than 10 employees have been eliminated from

                                         over 10,000                       11-100
                                         emps, 14%                        emps, 13%

                                 5,001-
                                 10,000
                                emps, 9%




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                                                                                       101-500
                                                                                      emps, 21%




                                    1,001-5,000                               501-1,000
                                    emps, 32%                                 emps, 11%


the results.

Geography
69% of the participants are based in North America, with most of the remainder (22%) from Europe.

                                                                     Central/
                                                                  S.America, 2%
                                         Australasia, 2%
                             Eastern Europe,                                Asia, Far East,
                               Russia, 2%                                         1%

                         Middle East,
                        Africa, S.Africa,
                              4%
                     Western Europe,
                           9%

                            UK & Ireland,
                                11%                                                      US, 56%



                                    Canada, 13%




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Industry Sector
Local and National Government together make up 27% and Finance, Banking and Insurance represent 16%. The
remaining sectors are fairly evenly split. To avoid bias, suppliers of ECM products and services have been eliminated
from all of the results.




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                                   Aerospace, 1%
                                                                     Bureau,




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                       Pharmaceu cal &                            Outsource, 1%
                          Chemicals, 2%
                                                                  Other, 7%
                  Media, Publishing,
                     Web, 2%                                                                     Government &
                                                                                                Public Services -
                 Non-Profit,                                                                     Local/State, 21%
                 Charity, 3%
             Manufacturing,
             Agriculture, 3%
         IT & High Tech –
           not ECM, 3%
       Engineering &                                                                                    Government &
      Construc on, 3%                                                                                   Public Services -




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                                                                                                         Na onal, 6%
     Consultants, 3%

      Retail, Transport,
       Real Estate, 4%                                                                                Finance/Banking,
          Professional                                                                                      10%
        Services & Legal,
               4%
                Healthcare, 4%                                                              Insurance, 6%
                        Power, U li es,
                         Telecoms, 5%                             Mining, Oil & Gas,
                                                      Educa on, 6%      7%


Job Roles
29% of respondents are from IT, 49% have a records management, information management or compliance role and
19% are line-of-business managers.


                                              President, CEO,
                                                 Managing
                                                                         Other, 4%
                                    Business Director, 2%
                                 Consultant, 7%                                   IT staff, 9%
                              Line-of-
                              business                                                    Head of IT, 5%
                             execu ve,
                            department
                          head or process                                                        IT Consultant or
                            owner, 10%                                                                Project
                                                                                                  Manager, 15%

                                  Head of
                                  records/
                               compliance/
                                informa on                                               Records or
                               management,                                               document
                                    16%                                                 management
                                                                                         staff, 33%




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Appendix 2: Overall Comments
Do you have any general comments to make about your scanning and capture experience? (Selective)




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I We have been scanning for over 10 years in-house with great success.




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I Lots of moving parts in scanning solutions, awkward to troubleshoot problems, but big boosts to process
  automation when all runs smoothly.
I Management and user buy-in continues to be the main issue with implementing end-to-end processes.
I We are working to outsource back-scanning and will then consider a single digital mailroom across 20 offices
  within 12-18 months from now.
I Need to integrate more with BPM and electronic signatures to be effective within the organization.
I User education, skills, and changing the confidence level in digital images are our greatest challenges.
I We are more mature than most state agencies; however we have a long way to go especially when it comes to
  mobile usability.
I Everyone should do it - has made work so much easier and efficient.
I We scan all docs and e-mails into our ECM system. It is a great system, and we can find anything we need.




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UNDERWRITTEN IN PART BY


ABBYY




                                                                                                                                             Industry
As a leader in document recognition, document capture and linguistics technologies, ABBYY now provides the




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foundation for many of today’s popular mobile data capture solutions. ABBYY’s product offerings include:
• FlexiCapture: A line of data capture and forms processing technologies, Flexicapture provides a single
  entry point to automatically transform the stream of different forms and documents of any structure and
  complexity into business-ready data. With automatic document classification and data capture
  features, ABBYY FlexiCapture helps organizations of any kind with any volume of paperwork significantly
  increase efficiency by automating paper-based business processes.
• FineReader Engine: A comprehensive SDK, FineReader Engine readily integrates into any mobile
  application or platform. Including the full spectrum of ABBYY recognition technologies, it provides
  functionality for full-page recognition, zonal recognition, PDF conversion and data capture.
• Mobile OCR Engine: A specialized development toolkit, Mobile OCR Engine empowers applications for
  camera-equipped smartphones, PDAs and tablets, with text-recognition and conversion. Such applications
  enable users to transform text within photographs of articles, business cards, timetables, menus, etc. into




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  data that is easy to store, share and export.
.




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EMC Corporation
EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform
their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud
computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud
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EMC Captiva
EMCTM CaptivaTM intelligent enterprise capture solutions provide a comprehensive set of products
for capturing information from paper, electronic files, and data sources. Captiva solutions support
both centralized and distributed capture, transform these documents into digital images and
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To learn more about EMC Captiva, please visit www.emc.com/captiva.

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UNDERWRITTEN IN PART BY


IBM




                                                                                                                                                           Industry
With IBM Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, organizations can improve efficiency and reduce




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costs by gaining control of unstructured content. Knowledge workers can then access, collaborate and
influence business decisions in new, innovative ways to increase competitiveness and maximize productivity.
There are four critical areas of IBM ECM technology and solutions that can help you achieve your business
goals:

Essential Content: Managing unstructured content                   Content Analytics: Users need to find content when
throughout your organization – such as scanned                     it matters most and turn passive content into active
images, electronic documents, web pages, video,                    sources of insight. Trusted content analytics and
email, electronic records, paper files – is an essential           search provide critical tools and capabilities to
ECM capability to drive down costs while improving                 increase return on investment and business
efficiency. Businesses need to use content, regardless             advantage.
of type or location, in a consistent, reusable manner
(standardized and federated) to respond rapidly and                Information Lifecycle Governance: A key goal of
accurately to information demands.                                 the integrated enterprise is to support compliance and




                                                                                                                              - dream or reality?
                                                                                                                                                    The Paper Free Office
                                                                   risk management policies and regulations, improving
Advanced Case Management: IBM unifies                              eDiscovery and the collection, archiving, classification
information, processes and people to provide a 360-                and management of all content from various sources
degree view of a case. Advanced case management                    while keeping unnecessary costs down throughout the
relies on information, processes, advanced analytics,              lifecycle.
business rules, collaboration and social computing to
help drive more successful, optimized case outcomes.


                                                                                                      www.ibm.com




Kofax
Kofax is a leading provider of capture driven business process automation solutions, which streamline the flow
of information throughout an organization by managing the capture of business critical information arising in
paper, fax and electronic formats in a more accurate, timely and cost effective manner. These solutions provide
a rapid return on investment to thousands of customers in banking, insurance, government, business process
outsourcing and other markets. Kofax delivers these solutions through its own sales and service organization,
and a global network of more than 800 authorized partners in more than 70 countries throughout the Americas,
EMEA and Asia Pacific.

Kofax leverages its rich history and wealth of global resources to create powerful capture driven business
process automation solutions, supported by market leading products that impact the entire enterprise, one
process at a time. Kofax solutions securely capture all types of inbound information at the perimeter of the
organization where capture driven business processes are initiated. Kofax solutions enable highly automated
and, in many cases, “touchless” processing of information, reducing the manual effort required to understand
the information and make decisions about delivering that information to the right person, at the right time, on
the right device and in the right format.

Kofax enables companies to see into their critical business processes and unlock their value; to improve the
quality and flow of information and produce better business outcomes; and to improve decisions, reduce costs
and errors, increase compliance and enhance employee effort across the entire organization. With Kofax, any
company can Capture the Enterprise.




                                                                                                   www.kofax.com

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Swiss Post Solutions




                                                                                                                                                   Industry
Swiss Post Solutions, a division of Swiss Post, offers a comprehensive range of document and business




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process outsourcing services. With 7000 people working for us across Europe, North America and Asia and
with access to an extensive partner network, we are able to support our clients across the globe.
Private and Public sector organizsations have chosen to outsource their physical and digital document
processing needs to us, utilizing our extensive knowledge of people-based outsourcing and our capability to
deliver document processing services on, near or off-shore. Our corporate information management system is
a unified delivery platform that provides organizations with the ability to cost-effectively onboard and distribute
documents throughout the organization. It provides our clients with the capability to:
I Simultaneously improve productivity and reduce operational costs
I Take an enterprise-wide approach to automating business processes
I Enable improved decision making and customer satisfaction by accelerating business transactions
I Reduce the risk of non-compliance and achieving legislative and regulatory requirements




                                                                                                                      - dream or reality?
                                                                                                                                            The Paper Free Office
I Regardless of document type, physical or electronic medium, format, language or geographic location,
  Swiss Post Solutions offers an end-to-end solution from document creation to content management,
  production, distribution and business intelligence.




                                                                       www.swisspostsolutions.com




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AIIM (www.aiim.org) has been an advocate and supporter of information professionals for nearly 70
years. The association mission is to ensure that information professionals understand the current and
future challenges of managing information assets in an era of social, mobile, cloud and big data.
Founded in 1943, AIIM builds on a strong heritage of research and member service. Today, AIIM is a
global, non-profit organization that provides independent research, education and certification
programs to information professionals. AIIM represents the entire information management
community, with programs and content for practitioners, technology suppliers, integrators and
consultants.



© 2012
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  • 2. About the Research As the non-profit association dedicated to nurturing, growing and supporting the Information Management community, AIIM is proud to provide this research at no charge. In this way, the entire community can leverage the education, thought leadership and direction provided by our work. We would like this research to be as Industry widely distributed as possible. Feel free to use this research in presentations and publications with the attribution – “© AIIM 2012, www.aiim.org” Watch Rather than redistribute a copy of this report to your colleagues, we would prefer that you direct them to www.aiim.org/research for a free download of their own. Our ability to deliver such high-quality research is partially made possible by our underwriting companies, without whom we would have to return to a paid subscription model. For that, we hope you will join us in thanking our underwriters, who are: ABBYY EMC Corporation IBM 880 N. McCarthy Blvd. Suite 220 176 South Street 3565 Harbor Blvd., - dream or reality? The Paper Free Office Milpitas CA 95035 Hopkinton MA 01748 Costa Mesa, CA 92626 Phone: +1 408.457.9777 Phone: +1 866.438.3622 Phone: +1 800.345.3638 + 866.463.7689 Email: softwaresales@emc.com Web: www.ibm.com/software/data/ecm Email: sales@abbyyusa.com Web: www.emc.com www.abbyy.com Kofax Swiss Post Solutions 15211 Laguna Canyon Road, Pfingstweidstrasse 60B Irvine, CA 92618 8080 Zurich USA Switzerland Phone: +1 949.783.1000 Email: solutions@swisspost.com Email: contactme@kofax.com Web: www.swisspostsolutions.com www.kofax.com Process Used and Survey Demographics While we appreciate the support of these sponsors, we also greatly value our objectivity and independence as a non-profit industry association. The results of the survey and the market commentary made in this report are independent of any bias from the vendor community. The survey was taken using a web-based tool by 477 individual members of the AIIM community between November 30th, 2011, and January 3rd, 2012. Invitations to take the survey were sent via e-mail to a selection of the 65,000 AIIM community members. Survey demographics can be found in Appendix A. Graphs throughout the report exclude responses from organizations with less than 10 employees and suppliers of ECM products or services, taking the number of respondents to 395. © 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals 1
  • 3. About AIIM AIIM (www.aiim.org) has been an advocate and supporter of information professionals for nearly 70 years. The association mission is to ensure that information professionals understand the current and future challenges of managing information assets in an era of social, mobile, cloud and big data. Founded in 1943, AIIM builds on a Industry strong heritage of research and member service. Today, AIIM is a global, non-profit organization that provides Watch independent research, education and certification programs to information professionals. AIIM represents the entire information management community, with programs and content for practitioners, technology suppliers, integrators and consultants. About the Author Doug Miles is head of the AIIM Market Intelligence Division. He has over 25 years experience of working with users and vendors across a broad spectrum of IT applications. He was an early pioneer of document management systems for business and engineering applications, and has produced many AIIM survey reports on issues and drivers for Capture, ECM, Email Management, Records Management, SharePoint and Social Business. Doug has also worked closely with other enterprise-level IT systems such as ERP BI and CRM. Doug has an MSc in , Communications Engineering and is a member of the IET in the UK. - dream or reality? The Paper Free Office © 2012 AIIM - Find, Control, and Optimize Your Information 1100 Wayne Avenue, Suite 1100, Silver Spring, MD 20910 Phone: 301.587.8202 www.aiim.org © 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals 2
  • 4. Table of Contents About the Research: Scanning and Performance: Industry About the Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Scanning and Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Watch Process Used, Survey Demographics . . . . . . . . 1 Global Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 About AIIM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Spending Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Conclusion and Recommendations: Introduction: Conclusion and Recommendations . . . . 20 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Key Findings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Appendix 1 - Survey Demographics: Keeping Paper Out of the Business: Survey Demographics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Keeping Paper Out of the Business . . . . . 5 Survey Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 - dream or reality? The Paper Free Office Paper Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Organizational Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Adoption of Scanning and Capture . . . . . . . . . . 6 Geography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Incoming Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Industry Sector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Invoices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Job Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Forms Distribution and Scanning Costs . . . . . . . 7 Appendix 2 - Overall Comments: Drivers and ROI for Capture: Appendix 2 - Overall Comments . . . . . . . 23 Drivers and ROI for Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Document Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Underwritten in part by: Customer Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 ABBYY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Scanning and Capture ROI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 EMC Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 IBM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Digital Mailrooms: Kofax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Digital Mailrooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Swiss Post Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Digital Mailroom ROI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 AIIM Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Outsourcing/DPOI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Mobile Capture: Mobile Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Signatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Mobile Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 © 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals 3
  • 5. Introduction Since the invention of the typewriter, offices have been drowning in paper. Painstakingly typed letters with barely readable carbon copies filled desks and cabinets until the arrival of computers and photocopiers. But they just made things so much worse. Thankfully, in the email, internet and socially connected world of today, the paper letter is at last Industry falling away. But the favourite tool of administrators the world over has always been the form. We use it to collect data, to carry signatures, to drive the business process, and to provide an auditable record of the outcome. As we shall see, Watch each of those functions can be readily carried out in all-electronic formats, but until recently, the paper form has been somewhat stubborn in its hold on even the most modern offices. The best way to remove paper from business processes is to head it off before it gets into the building. A digital mailroom – in-house or outsourced - transforms incoming mail into electronic format and routes it automatically to the correct process department. At the same time, recognition software can capture data from the form and link it to the enterprise processing system. Communications from customers, citizens, suppliers and partners can arrive at the business through other channels - email, fax, web or social. This needs to be fed in a uniform way through the capture system and then routed to the appropriate process alongside the scanned paper documents. Capturing content before it gets into the building makes it immediately accessible, kicks off the process early, minimizes hand data-entry, and provides complete flexibility for who does the processing, and where. And if we can directly capture data via web forms, or with mobile devices, we can finally eliminate the paper form completely. In this report, we look at the success of paper-elimination projects, where and why paper is still leaking into the business, the features and success of scanning and capture investments, forward plans for document process - dream or reality? The Paper Free Office outsourcing (DPO), and the potential impact of mobile devices. Key Findings I There is less paper floating around the office – especially in the biggest organizations. The consumption of paper and the number of photocopies is decreasing in 35% of organizations, whereas it is increasing in 32%. In the largest organizations, the net proportion of respondents posting a decrease is 15%. I Electronic-only filing would halve the storage space needed for paper in 5 years. The average proportion of office space taken up by paper is now 15.3%, and it would drop to 7.4% with an all-electronic filing policy, a saving of nearly 8% in overall office costs. I On average, 45% of documents that are scanned are 100% “born digital” – just as they came from the printer. And many of the rest would be all-digital if not for the added signatures. I 77% of invoices that arrive as PDF attachments get printed. 31% of faxed invoices get printed and scanned back in. On average, 30% of invoices arrive as PDF attachments, and 15% as faxes. I 41% of organizations in the survey are using some form of digital-mailroom, either as a centralized operation or distributed at branch offices. 4% are outsourced. I 20% of organizations scan half or more of their inbound mail at or before entry. A further 20% are more likely to scan at the point-of-process, and 29% scan-to-archive after the process. I Improved sharability and searchability is the biggest driver for investment in scanning and capture. Followed by improved productivity and reduced storage space. I On average, respondents using scanning and capture consider that it improves the speed of response to customers, suppliers, citizens or staff by 6-times or more. 70% estimate an improvement of at least 3-times, and nearly a third (29%) see an improvement of 10-times or more. I 42% of users have achieved a payback period of 12 months or less from their scanning and capture investments. 57% are posting a payback of 18-months or less. I A net of 13% of respondents plan to increase their use of bureaus or document process outsource (DPO), particularly in Europe (net 21%). But only a net of 1% will be increasing their offshore activities. I 38% of respondents have employees equipped to use portable devices to capture documents or forms when not at their desks. Over 14% are using portable scanners for forms and supporting documents. 6% are using smartphones or tablets, including 4% who use OCR to capture data at the device. I Over half of those using portable devices capture signatures, either by scanning (30%), stylus (11%) or using a digital signature app (21%). I Speed of data availability and keeping paper out of the process are given as the biggest advantages of mobile capture, followed by better data accuracy and fewer lost or incomplete forms. I 12% of respondents are committed to a strategy of cloud deployment of capture – rising to 20% of the largest organizations. 18% overall have firmly decided against it and 39% are waiting for a company decision on cloud in general (27%), or capture specifically (12%). I Spending predictions indicate a considerable increase in spend on capture software, including mobile capture and as a front-end to SharePoint. A net of 23% of responding organizations indicate increased spend for the next 12 months. Spend on scanners is set to be stable, while spend on outsourcing is set to decrease. © 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals 4
  • 6. Keeping Paper Out of the Business Paper Volumes Overall, the consumption of paper and the number of photocopies is increasing in 32% of the organizations surveyed Industry and decreasing in 35% - a net of 3% of organizations seeing a decrease. This is a small improvement on the 2009 survey result where the situation was more balanced. However, when we look at Figure 1, we can see that small and Watch mid-sized organizations are making little progress, whereas a net of 15% of the largest organizations are seeing a decrease - a complete reversal of the 2009 result. This is likely to be based on wider use of scanning and capture in larger organizations, increasing mobility and hot-desking, as well as more stringent enforcement of Green IT policies. Figure 1: Would you say that the consumption of paper and/or number of photocopies in your organization is? (N=391) 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% Increasing rapidly Increasing somewhat 10-500 emps - dream or reality? The Paper Free Office 500-5,000 emps Stable 5,000+ emps Decreasing somewhat Decreasing rapidly Storage Savings There is a considerable variation in the proportion of office space currently taken up by storage of paper documents from 2% to 35% or more. However, most of our respondents estimate that the adoption of an electronic-only filing culture would reduce the space needed dramatically. The average space taken up now is 15.3%, and this would be more than halved to an average of 7.4%. If this is directly reflected in office running costs, it represents a saving of nearly 8%. Figure 2: How much of your office space would you say is currently used for storing paper documents? What do you think that figure would be in 5 years’ time if you could change the culture to one of electronic-only filing? (N=387) Now 5 Years’ Time 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 0% 10% 20% 30% 35% or more 35% or more 30% of space 30% of space 25% of space 25% of space 20% of space 20% of space 15% of space 15% of space 10% of space 10% of space 7.5% of space 7.5% of space 5% of space 5% of space 2% of space 2% of space 1% of space 1% of space © 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals 5
  • 7. Adoption of Scanning and Capture Even within the AIIM community, more than a third do not use scanning and capture as a routine part of the process, and only 37% actively capture data from scanned documents and forms in order to facilitate routing, or to feed the process itself. Industry Watch Figure 3: How would you describe the level of image capture maturity in your business unit (across in-house and outsource)? (N=395) 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% We only scan things occasionally We use scanners for office tasks, but not as a coordinated input to process or archive We scan documents as image only, primarily for archive - dream or reality? The Paper Free Office We scan documents and forms, and capture text for rou ng or indexing to the archive We scan documents and forms and capture data to the process Of those documents that are scanned, our respondents considered that on average, 45% are born completely digital – ie, just as they came out of the printer. Many more would be completely digital if not for the handwritten addition of a signature. Of course, many of these documents are originated outside of the business and mailed by physical post. Scan-to-archive is still much more prevalent than scan-to-process. Only half of those organizations who capture text and data from scanned forms and documents actually link it into the process, as opposed to using it for routing through the process or indexing for archive. Incoming Documents Dealing with paper as it enters the business – or even before it enters if using DPO – will maximize the potential savings from sorting, routing, delivering and disposing of paper. As we can see in Figure 4 below, 20% of organizations have made good progress here, scanning half or more of their incoming mail on entry, with a further 25% scanning within the process department. The most interesting finding is that significant numbers of organizations are only scanning for post-process archive. Whilst they may be making savings in records storage space and improving subsequent searchability, they are not improving the efficiency of the process, nor raising the transparency of in-process documentation. Of course, the logistics of post-process scanning are somewhat different in that time lag is less likely to be critical, and it may be easier to outsource. Figure 4: What proportion of incoming documents to your organizational unit do you scan (not including brochures, junk mail, etc.)? (N=362) % orgs third or more % orgs half or more Average of all mail On Entry 25% 20% 20.9% At point of process 25% 20% 21.8% Post-process 40% 29% 29.7% © 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals 6
  • 8. Invoices Although many of the larger companies are pressing to have all-electronic billing and payment systems, we are still a long way from this ideal. Many businesses are at least trying to save on postage costs by sending invoices as PDF files, or as faxes. However, this does not generally result in a reduction of paper within the receiving business. In total, 77% of respondents are likely to print at least one copy of a PDF invoice, and 16% admit to printing it out and then Industry scanning it in for capture, as do 31% receiving a faxed invoice. Watch Figure 5: What proportion of your incoming invoices would you say arrive as: (N=363) % orgs third or more % orgs half or more Average of all invoices PDF attachments 42% 32% 30.6% Faxes 15% 11% 15.4% EDI/e-billing 29% 20% 21.7% - dream or reality? The Paper Free Office Around a quarter or respondents are able to feed PDF invoices and fax images directly into a capture and/or workflow system. Another fairly common paper-intensive practice with faxes, especially with contracts and application forms, is to print the fax, sign it, and feed it back into the scanner or fax machine. Wider adoption of digital signature systems would save considerable time here – and given the nature of signature approvals, this is likely to be quite senior people’s time. Figure 6: How do you mostly deal with invoices and forms that arrive as PDF attachments to emails? (N=358) 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% Print a copy and process as paper Print mul ple copies and process as paper Print and then photocopy (with or without other documents) Print and scan back in for capture Process on-screen but print an archive copy Pass directly to the capture system Despite the increasing use of electronic transmission of invoices using PDF or fax, four-fifths of them get printed – and all too often, printed and fed back into a scanner. Forms Distribution and Scanning Costs Before we deal with the savings that can be made from scanning documents and forms prior to processing, we should consider the costs involved up to and including the scan process itself. All paper forms incur costs of printing, distribution, mailing, collection and sorting, whether they go on to be scanned, or are used directly in the process as paper. This cost can only be avoided by direct data entry or e-forms. Our respondents report a wide range of cost estimates from 20 cents to tens of dollars per form. The average* reported cost per form or document is $3.63 and the median (half more/half less) is $2.00. (*excluding 12 over $20) © 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals 7
  • 9. Those forms and documents that are scanned pre-process will incur preparation costs and QA costs as well as the actual scan and capture process. We asked our 148 capture users to estimate their costs for this per-document, or per-form, and the results again ranged from 10 cents to tens of dollars. Here the average* was $2.84, and the median was $1.50. (*excluding 6 over $20) Taking these two together and picking the medians, we could say that in general, each paper form costs $3.50 in Industry handling costs up until it becomes an image file. Of course, if the form is not scanned and captured, it will also incur Watch manual data-entry costs and subsequent physical storage costs. Keying the data at source into a web form or a mobile device, rather than filling out a paper form, will save all of these costs. Drivers and ROI for Capture Document Access Better searchability and sharability of documents is the leading driver for scanning and capture. In today’s dispersed organization, the distance to a file cabinet or worse, a colleague’s desk, can be very long and quite disruptive. Improved process productivity and reduced storage costs are rated as the next strongest drivers, followed by compliance, and faster response to customers, citizens and staff. Reduced postage, transportation and document logistics is a stronger driver (22%) for the biggest organizations. Remote access for teleworkers is more important for smaller organizations (22%) than for larger ones. - dream or reality? The Paper Free Office Figure 7: What would you say are the three biggest drivers for scanning and data capture in your organization? (N=370) 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% Improved searchability/sharability of business documents Improved process produc vity Reduced physical storage space Records security and compliance Faster response to customers/ci zens/staff Improved accuracy and quality of data Remote access for teleworking or business con nuity Reduced postage/transporta on and document logis cs Sustainability/environmental ini a ves Flexibility for process change or outsource Mobilizing documents for access and sharing is a stronger driver than direct savings in process costs. © 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals 8
  • 10. Customer Response Speed of response to customers or citizens is a very prominent metric these days, particularly in B2C businesses or government services. Social media sites, consumer blogs and supplier star-ratings provide easy ways for customers to report on good service, and even more so on bad service. Within B2B businesses, ease of dealing with customer- facing staff is an important criterion for service level assessments. Where help-desks and call offices are centralized, Industry immediate access to all channels of customer or citizen correspondence is vital if call targets are to be met and Watch criticism avoided. Internally, HR departments need to match response times in other areas of the business, despite the fact that paper forms, letters and certificates are fundamental to many of their processes. Given the pressure to react quickly to customer communications and to provide transparency within the process, converting incoming documents to electronic format, and moving all incoming communications to a uniform workflow, is likely to be a major benefit. In our survey, 70% of existing users consider that scanning and capture has improved customer response by a factor of 3, and nearly 30% are seeing response improved by a factor of 10. This would seem to be something of a breakthrough for many businesses. The average estimate was a 6.7 times faster response. In Figure 8, we can see a secondary peak at “10 times faster.” This is likely to reflect the elimination of a mailing delay. Figure 8: By what factor would you say your use of scanning and capture improves the speed of response of your operational unit to customers, suppliers, citizens or staff? (Think about waiting time or elapsed time in minutes, hours or days) (N=194 users) - dream or reality? The Paper Free Office 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% Same 1.25 mes faster 1.5 mes faster 2 mes faster 3 mes faster 4 mes faster 5 mes faster 10 mes faster 20 mes faster More than 20 mes faster Scanning and capture can dramatically improve your customer response times – typically between 2 and 3 times faster, but in many cases 5 and 10 times faster. This is a crucial metric of business performance in today’s customer- sensitive environment. Scanning and Capture ROI It comes as no surprise, therefore, that more than half of those who have invested in scanning and capture are seeing a payback period of 18 months or less, with 42% seeing a return within one 12-month budgeting period. A key factor within capture ROI is the degree of back-scanning required. Those reporting longer payback periods may have undertaken significant back-scanning, whereas those adopting a “day-forward” approach are achieving faster financial returns. © 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals 9
  • 11. Figure 9: In general, what payback period would you say you have achieved, or are on track to achieve, from your scanning and capture projects? (N=147 users, excl. 97 Don’t Know) 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% Industry Watch 6 months 9 months 12 months 18 months 2 years 3 years More than 3 years - dream or reality? The Paper Free Office Digital Mailrooms Although they may be configured in a number of ways, the “digital mailroom” term generally means that a mixture of incoming mail is scanned and routed internally, as opposed to the more dedicated sorting of specific forms or coupons for scanning to a single process. 41% of responding organizations operate some form of digital mailroom, either as a centralized operation, perhaps with high-throughput scanners (11%), or as a distributed operation at branch offices. Figure 10: Do you operate any of the following “digital mailroom” scenarios (i.e., scanning, capture and electronic distribution of general incoming mail? (N=384) 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% Centralized through a large mailroom scanner or scanners Centralized using mul ple produc on scanners Distributed capture at branch-offices, etc. Outsourced capture of incoming mail None of these There has been a movement over the last few years to implement scanning and capture using a distributed approach, where scanners of different types and locations feed into a common capture system, which then presents a unified connection to downstream processes. This is particularly useful for MFPs (multi-function devices) within the main office, but also at branch offices. The technology has most recently been extended to include field-based and mobile devices, as well as handling multiple-electronic file formats such as PDFs, faxes and emails. © 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals 10
  • 12. Figure 11: Which of the following do you have connected via a unified or distributed capture system (as opposed to point solutions)? (N=130 users) 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% Industry Desktop scanners Watch In-office MFPs Process-specific scanning opera ons PDFs Incoming emails Faxes Web forms Branch offices Digital mailroom Field/mobile staff Outsource - dream or reality? The Paper Free Office None of these The strongest benefit of the digital mailroom approach is a faster turnaround time to customers, along with the immediate availability of the latest communication, whether that is by letter, email or fax. Reductions will also be possible in the space and resource requirements for physical mail distribution. Focusing the recognition servers at a single point is also likely to be more efficient and may allow investment in better equipment, thereby improving the quality of data presented to downstream processes. Remote accessibility for mobile or teleworking staff is an important benefit, particularly during times of travel disruption. Figure 12: Which aspects of digital mailrooms are proving the most beneficial? (Max 3) (N=130 users) 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% Faster turnaround mes to customers Reduced storage and processing space for mail Immediate access to latest customer correspondence More efficient/higher quality data capture for downstream processes Remote accessibility for mobile/telework/outsource staff Fewer opera onal staff physically handling mail Fewer lost/delayed mail items More efficient/higher quality imaging for archive Environmental benefits – fuel, photocopies, etc. Outsource of mail-handling opera ons © 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals 11
  • 13. Digital Mailroom ROI Payback periods for investments in digital mailrooms are slightly longer than for scanning and capture in general. This is probably because of the heavier-duty equipment needed, but the ROI is still 12 months or less for 37% of organizations, and 18 months or less for 53%. For some organizations, recovering mailroom space, implementing hot-desking, or restructuring operations can provide an overriding logistical reason for adopting a digital mailroom, Industry and this is the case for 8% of our respondents. Watch Centralizing incoming mail handling and distributing forms and documents electronically keeps paper out at the door and provides big advantages for downstream processing. Outsourcing/DPO Running a scanning and capture operation may not be considered core business for many organizations, and it has certainly been the case in the past that setting up scanners and recognition systems for the best results is a somewhat specialist expertise. 37% of organizations in our survey use document process outsourcing, mostly alongside in-house. This breaks down as 25% of smaller businesses, 36% of mid-sized and 56% of the largest. In many cases, the outsource merely scans documents to an image file and passes that back on disk for archive or for - dream or reality? The Paper Free Office import to an in-house system. Data recognition and capture may also be carried out, and in a small number of cases, the DPO will have online access to in-house systems for further process work. Figure 13: Which of the following apply to your use of outsourcing? (Multiple) (N=344, inc. 217 (63%) not using outsource) 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% We outsource all of our scanning We use both outsourced and in-house scanning resources Our outsource does basic scanning and imaging only Our outsource does recogni on and capture Our outsource archives documents to their own system We import the images with captured data to our system(s) The outsource has online access to our system(s) Looking at forward plans for outsourcing, there is a general move to increase the amount of downstream processing carried out by the DPO. On the other hand, many users are keen to invest in more equipment in order to move things back in-house, reduce their reliance on outsource and regain control. © 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals 12
  • 14. Figure 14: What are your forward plans regarding outsourcing? (N=304, inc. 47% “None of these”) 0% 2% 4% 6% 8% 10% 12% 14% 16% Industry Move more imaging work to outsource Watch Go beyond imaging to increased capture Move more of the process work to outsource Link outsource systems more closely to ours Make more use of outsourced storage More use of SaaS apps from outsource Review outsource suppliers to drive down costs Review outsource suppliers to increase quality Reduce our reliance on outsource Invest in in-house equipment to regain control - dream or reality? The Paper Free Office Driving down the cost of outsource suppliers shows up as a strong priority. When it comes to cost comparison between in-house and DPO, over half of our respondents feel they are paying the same or more for the service, although a third are saving 15% or more. Obviously, circumstances will vary, but it is important to ensure that a DPO adds value or reduces risk. It would be unwise to assume that outsourcing will automatically cut costs. Figure 15: Comparing your outsource costs, what would you say is the % difference (including staff costs, overheads and running costs) from using the outsource compared to in-house? (N=105) 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 10% higher cost 5% higher cost About the same 5% savings 10% savings 15% savings 20% savings 25% savings 33% or more savings Overall, a net of 13% of all organizations have strategic plans to increase their use of DPO, although the proportion using offshore services for reduced cost is set to fall, with a net of just 1% planning to use more offshore services. Growth projections are, however, somewhat uneven across company sizes and geographies, with the biggest strategic growth in outsourcing coming from mid-sized organizations, particularly in Europe. © 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals 13
  • 15. Figure 16: What are your strategic plans regarding outsourcing? (Net % of organizations “Do More” minus “Do Less”, excluding “No Change”) 10-500 500-1,000 5,000+ Rest of All N. America Europe emps emps emps World Industry Outsource +13% +10% +14% +12% +12% +21% 0% Watch Offshore +1% +2% +1% -3% +1% +2% -11% Note: this table shows a net percentage of organizations looking to grow DPO as a strategic option, not a percentage of predicted growth, nor of immediate spend (see Fig 25). There is an appetite amongst many organizations for increased use of outsourcing and for the outsource to take on more processing aspects. Others are keen to drive down outsource costs and/or to bring capture back in-house. - dream or reality? The Paper Free Office Mobile Capture Devices When looking at their smartphone or tablet, few people would recognize it as being a capture device. Yet the combination of camera, processor, communications link and even GPS device put it firmly in contention. Include the ability to OCR text, recognize bar-codes, add notes, metadata and form fields, and file back to an ECM, records management, CRM or even an ERP system, and you have a game-changing situation. If the demand is entirely for scanning pages of agreements or contracts, perhaps at customer premises or on the road, then portable scanners can be very effective. If more of a ruggedized electronic clipboard is needed, there are specialist tablets available. Figure 17: Do employees in your business unit use any of the following portable devices to capture documents or forms when not at their desk? (N=350. Excl. 62% “None of these”) 0% 5% 10% 15% Portable scanner – paper forms for post-process Portable scanner – suppor ng documents Smartphone/camera – scan suppor ng documents (imageonly) Smartphone/camera – photo images (as records) Smartphone/iPad – capture paper forms (with OCR) Smartphone/iPad – capture photo images (with OCR) Smartphone – scan barcodes Smartphone – forms app (direct data input) iPad (or similar) – forms app (direct data input) Dedicated touch or stylus-based tablet with forms app (digital clipboard) Other specialist portable device © 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals 14
  • 16. In 38% of organizations, some form of portable capture device is in use. Portable scanners are the most popular, used to capture paper forms and supporting documents such as receipts, certificates, and most recently checks (cheques). Smartphones and cameras are also useful for capturing photo-records such as insured damage or dial readings. Smartphones and tablets are also capable of OCR capture of photographed documents, as well as photo images of meter readings and license plates. This OCR capability is used by 4% of organizations. Industry Tablets are also poised to make a further impact in the mobile forms area, providing a simple capability to fill in e- Watch forms on the move in a more convenient way than laptops have been able to, feeding the data directly into back- office applications, and avoiding the logistics issues of paper forms distribution in the first instance. Signatures Of course, many mobile capture operations revolve around signatures – process sign-offs, sales and loan agreements, delivery acceptance, patient approvals, etc. As we might expect, imaging a physical signature from paper (30%) provides the most re-assurance, but it is interesting to see that “paper free” digital signature applications (21%) are popular too. Figure 18: Regarding portable/mobile devices, do any of your portable forms applications involve capturing signatures? (N=137, inc. 19% “Not necessary”) - dream or reality? The Paper Free Office 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% Yes – scanned from paper Yes – stylus Yes – touch Yes – digital signature app No, but would speed up customer processes No, but mobile approvals would be very useful Over 80% of respondents using mobile capture have applications that would benefit from mobile signature capture. Even those who have not done it as yet could see the benefit in speeding up customer-facing processes and shortening approval cycles Mobile Benefits Speed of data availability is the key benefit of mobile capture, along with keeping paper out of the process, better data accuracy and fewer lost or incomplete forms. Due to the cost of devices, overall payback periods are longer than other capture applications, but 51% still saw payback in 18 months or less. Security and lost devices is the biggest issue encountered, followed by user resistance – much as with any process change project. Poor 3G coverage and slow connection speed is also an issue for many, and will vary considerably depending on territory. © 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals 15
  • 17. Figure 19: What have been the biggest benefits of your mobile/portable capture projects? (Max 3) 0% 20% 40% 60% Industry Speed of data availability Watch Keeping paper out of the process Be er data accuracy Fewer lost/incomplete forms Reduced logis cs of forms and paper handling Improved back-office efficiency Reduc on in form-filling me Freeing up process flows/approval cycles More compe ve customer service - dream or reality? The Paper Free Office Mobile devices can have a big impact by moving capture closer to the source, either by scanning paper forms with smartphones or portable scanners, or by direct data input on tablets and specialist devices. Scanning Strategies and Performance We discussed earlier the provision of centralized or distributed scanning platforms, and it seems that our respondents are keen to increase their commitment to both. There is also a strong appetite for more auto- classification, and for capturing from mobile devices. Figure 20: How would you characterize your strategy for the following? (N=301, line length indicates “We don’t generally do this”) 0% 40% 20% 20% 40% 0% 60% 20% 80% 100% 120% 40% 60% 80% Centralized scanning and capture resource Distributed process-specific workplace / branch-office scanning Distributed ad hoc workplace scanning, eg, MFPs, desktops Central scanning and electronic distribu on of incoming mail Automated - recogni on (OCR, ICR, IDR, etc) Automated - auto-classifica on Capture from mobile devices Do less No change Do more Exploring the use of recognition technologies a little further, around a third of our respondents are using variable layout forms OCR, most likely to capture invoices from multiple suppliers. Modern systems have learning mechanisms that can detect the appropriate fields from the invoice without needing manual setup. 18% are using handwriting recognition © 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals 16
  • 18. (ICR), with 70% of those finding it to be adequate or good as regards performance, compared to 89% rating full text OCR to the same levels. This is, of course, an area that has advanced considerably in the last few years. Figure 21: Which of the following recognition technologies do you use? (N=280) Industry Barcode capture Watch Fixed layout forms OCR Variable layout forms OCR Full text OCR Mark capture OMR Handwri ng ICR Auto sort for rou ng Auto-classifica on for archive - dream or reality? The Paper Free Office We also looked in some detail at the proportions of documents that are being scanned and recognized in different ways. A significant proportion of documents are being scanned double-sided, and in color. Figure 22: What proportion of the documents that you scan are? (N=244 with variable numbers of Don’t Knows) Average of all % companies Half % of companies scanned docs or more All (90%+) Scanned in duplex (double-sided) 35.6% 37% 18% Scanned in grayscale (not B/W) 33.3% 37% 20% Scanned in color 21.2% 20% 7% Multi-language capture 8.5% 8% 3% Visually inspected after scanning 51.3% 56% 34% Barcode captured 20.2% 22% 19% Mark captured (OMR) 8% 5% 1% Selective fields OCR’d 38.5% 18% 9% Full OCR’d 27.6% 17% 19% Handwriting (ICR) 6.8% 5% 3% In terms of document handling, we can see in Figure 23 some areas where even with scanning, paper copies leak back into the organization. 14.7% of scanned documents are photocopied before scanning – most likely before being sent to an outsource. Around half are visually inspected after scanning, but only 33% are destroyed after scanning. 28% are shipped off-site for archive, but this leaves more than a third being stored on-site after scanning – a very cautious policy. Historically, scanned images have been stored in TIFF format, but the industry-preferred archive format is PDF-A. So far only 14% of organizations have fully adopted it even for fresh scans. © 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals 17
  • 19. Figure 23: What proportion of the documents that you scan are? (N=244 with variable numbers of Don’t Knows) Average of all scanned % companies half or % of companies All docs more (90%+) Industry Photocopied before 14.7% 12% 4% Watch scanning Destroyed after scanning 32.8% 34% 18% Archived off-site after 28.0% 26% 14% scanning Saved as PDF 50.1% 52% 34% Saved as PDF-A 21.2% 22% 14% - dream or reality? The Paper Free Office Poor process design in many organizations is allowing paper to leak back into the building before or after scanning. Cloud Deployment Just as for any other IT application, capture can be deployed in the cloud, either as a SaaS model, or capturing to a cloud-based archive or ECM system. Cloud processing is particularly appropriate for mobile capture. Overall, 12% are committed to a cloud deployment of capture in the next few years, rising to 20% of the largest companies. 39% are still struggling with their strategies (small or large) and 36% of respondents don’t know what their company’s strategy is. Figure 24: What is your strategy for cloud deployment of capture? (N=311, inc. 112 Don’t Know) Already deploy or expect to deploy capture in a cloud model in the next 6-12 months 10-500 emps Expect to deploy capture in a 500-5,000 emps cloud model in the next 2-3 years 5,000+ emps We do not plan to deploy capture in the cloud in the next 2-3 years We are defining a cloud strategy but have not made a decision re. capture in the cloud S ll trying to understand where the cloud fits into our long-term IT and business strategy Don’t know % of Organiza ons 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% © 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals 18
  • 20. Spending Plans Our respondents indicate very positive increases in spend on capture software in all flavors, including front-end systems for SharePoint and mobile capture apps. On the scanner side, sale of production scanners seems steady, but overall, fewer organizations will be extending their MFP network or numbers of desktop scanners. As regards Industry outsourcing, there seems to be some contradiction between those with a longer term strategy to do more (Fig 16, net +13%) and those intending to spend more in the next 12 months (Fig 25, net -4%). Watch Figure 25: What are your spending plans for the following product areas in the next 12 months compared to the last 12 months? N=263, Net is (“More” or “Much more”) minus (“Less” or “Much less”) Produc on scanners MFP/MFDs Desktop scanners Capture so ware or modules - - dream or reality? The Paper Free Office general Capture so ware - front-end for SharePoint Mobile capture Outsourcing Consultancy services Training Same Net more Net less Most organizations are keen to continue or increase their investments in capture software, particularly as a front-end to SharePoint, and for mobile capture. © 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals 19
  • 21. Conclusion and Recommendations Paper-free, paper-less, less-paper…? Yes, it seems that some progress is being made, particularly in larger organizations. We looked at the physical space savings that this can produce, and an all-electronic filing policy could save nearly 8% of office space within 5 years. And there are, of course, environmental benefits associated with less Industry paper, less photocopying and less printing. Watch But the big reason to head paper off at the door is to prevent it clogging up processes and to mobilize its content. Improved access and sharability to other staff, faster response to customers, and better process productivity are the three big gains. In particular, our respondents estimated that on average their use of scanning and capture improved the speed of response to customers, suppliers, citizens or staff by 6 times or more – a dramatic improvement to competitively in a world that is only too ready to publicize poor service. Funneling incoming mail through a digital mailroom enhances this benefit, ensuring that all customer or supplier correspondence is immediately available to help desks, sales staff and teleworkers - and this concept lends itself to both in-house and outsourced provision. Overall we saw a return on investment of 18 months or less for over half of our respondents. We also found many ways in which paper leaks back into the office. Apart from the inevitable personal printing of emails, we found procedural shortcomings where PDF and faxed invoices are printed out – and then sometimes scanned in again; where scanning takes place at the end of the process rather than at the beginning; where documents are photocopied before scanning; and where documents that have been successfully scanned are stored in the office rather than being destroyed, or at least, warehoused. - dream or reality? The Paper Free Office Finally, we took a glimpse at the impact of the explosion in mobile devices and their increasing capability to scan and capture paper forms, or to provide direct data input to back-office processes. Recommendations I Audit your processes to see where paper slows throughput, adds process steps, or restricts transparency and reporting. I In particular, examine your customer (or supplier or staff) response mechanisms to see if physical mailings or paper processing are slowing things down, restricting visibility, or paralleling electronic communications paths. I Look at how physical handling of incoming mail site-by-site might better be centralized, processed in higher volume, and distributed electronically. I If you are already using scanning, consider how much “closer to the door” you could be going electronic, and how that might transform who does the subsequent processing and where they might be located. I Evaluate the latest technology for capturing data from forms and invoices, and look to process a higher proportion of your documents automatically. I Consider using a bureau or DPO, especially if you are concerned about capital outlay, fluctuating volumes and overall risk. Don’t assume that basic DPO will be cheaper, but ensure that they add value by taking on as much of the down-stream processing as possible. I Aim to scan documents or capture data as close to the source as possible – in the branch office, on the shop floor, in the field or at the customer’s premises. I Brainstorm how the capabilities of modern mobile devices – portable scanners, smartphones, tablets and specialist devices – could transform your processes by eliminating elapsed time, lost forms, poor data, and re- keying. I Pick just one of these areas and test out the business case. Chances are it will show a good enough return on its own, with other applications and benefits enhancing the potential return. © 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals 20
  • 22. Appendix 1: Survey Demographics Survey Background Industry 477 individual members of the AIIM community took the survey between Nov 30, 2011, and Jan 03, 2012 using a Web-based tool. Invitations to take the survey were sent via email to a selection of the 65,000 AIIM community Watch members. Organizational Size Survey respondents represent organizations of all sizes. Larger organizations over 5,000 employees represent 23%, with mid-sized organizations of 500 to 5,000 employees at 43%. Small-to-mid sized organizations with 10 to 500 employees constitute 33%. 41 respondents from organizations with less than 10 employees have been eliminated from over 10,000 11-100 emps, 14% emps, 13% 5,001- 10,000 emps, 9% - dream or reality? The Paper Free Office 101-500 emps, 21% 1,001-5,000 501-1,000 emps, 32% emps, 11% the results. Geography 69% of the participants are based in North America, with most of the remainder (22%) from Europe. Central/ S.America, 2% Australasia, 2% Eastern Europe, Asia, Far East, Russia, 2% 1% Middle East, Africa, S.Africa, 4% Western Europe, 9% UK & Ireland, 11% US, 56% Canada, 13% © 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals 21
  • 23. Industry Sector Local and National Government together make up 27% and Finance, Banking and Insurance represent 16%. The remaining sectors are fairly evenly split. To avoid bias, suppliers of ECM products and services have been eliminated from all of the results. Industry Aerospace, 1% Bureau, Watch Pharmaceu cal & Outsource, 1% Chemicals, 2% Other, 7% Media, Publishing, Web, 2% Government & Public Services - Non-Profit, Local/State, 21% Charity, 3% Manufacturing, Agriculture, 3% IT & High Tech – not ECM, 3% Engineering & Government & Construc on, 3% Public Services - - dream or reality? The Paper Free Office Na onal, 6% Consultants, 3% Retail, Transport, Real Estate, 4% Finance/Banking, Professional 10% Services & Legal, 4% Healthcare, 4% Insurance, 6% Power, U li es, Telecoms, 5% Mining, Oil & Gas, Educa on, 6% 7% Job Roles 29% of respondents are from IT, 49% have a records management, information management or compliance role and 19% are line-of-business managers. President, CEO, Managing Other, 4% Business Director, 2% Consultant, 7% IT staff, 9% Line-of- business Head of IT, 5% execu ve, department head or process IT Consultant or owner, 10% Project Manager, 15% Head of records/ compliance/ informa on Records or management, document 16% management staff, 33% © 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals 22
  • 24. Appendix 2: Overall Comments Do you have any general comments to make about your scanning and capture experience? (Selective) Industry I We have been scanning for over 10 years in-house with great success. Watch I Lots of moving parts in scanning solutions, awkward to troubleshoot problems, but big boosts to process automation when all runs smoothly. I Management and user buy-in continues to be the main issue with implementing end-to-end processes. I We are working to outsource back-scanning and will then consider a single digital mailroom across 20 offices within 12-18 months from now. I Need to integrate more with BPM and electronic signatures to be effective within the organization. I User education, skills, and changing the confidence level in digital images are our greatest challenges. I We are more mature than most state agencies; however we have a long way to go especially when it comes to mobile usability. I Everyone should do it - has made work so much easier and efficient. I We scan all docs and e-mails into our ECM system. It is a great system, and we can find anything we need. - dream or reality? The Paper Free Office © 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals 23
  • 25. UNDERWRITTEN IN PART BY ABBYY Industry As a leader in document recognition, document capture and linguistics technologies, ABBYY now provides the Watch foundation for many of today’s popular mobile data capture solutions. ABBYY’s product offerings include: • FlexiCapture: A line of data capture and forms processing technologies, Flexicapture provides a single entry point to automatically transform the stream of different forms and documents of any structure and complexity into business-ready data. With automatic document classification and data capture features, ABBYY FlexiCapture helps organizations of any kind with any volume of paperwork significantly increase efficiency by automating paper-based business processes. • FineReader Engine: A comprehensive SDK, FineReader Engine readily integrates into any mobile application or platform. Including the full spectrum of ABBYY recognition technologies, it provides functionality for full-page recognition, zonal recognition, PDF conversion and data capture. • Mobile OCR Engine: A specialized development toolkit, Mobile OCR Engine empowers applications for camera-equipped smartphones, PDAs and tablets, with text-recognition and conversion. Such applications enable users to transform text within photographs of articles, business cards, timetables, menus, etc. into - dream or reality? The Paper Free Office data that is easy to store, share and export. . www.abbyy.com EMC Corporation EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect, and analyze their most valuable asset—information—in a more agile, trusted, and cost-efficient way. EMC Captiva EMCTM CaptivaTM intelligent enterprise capture solutions provide a comprehensive set of products for capturing information from paper, electronic files, and data sources. Captiva solutions support both centralized and distributed capture, transform these documents into digital images and business data, and deliver it to back-end repositories and business systems. By helping organizations reduce or completely eliminate manual data entry, Captiva drives significant cost savings, minimizes processing errors, improves data accuracy, and boosts productivity. To learn more about EMC Captiva, please visit www.emc.com/captiva. EMC Corporation, 176 South Street, Hopkinton MA 01748, Phone: 800.222.3622 or 508.435.1000 Fax: 508.497.6904 Email:softwaresales@emc.com www.emc.com © 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals 24
  • 26. UNDERWRITTEN IN PART BY IBM Industry With IBM Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, organizations can improve efficiency and reduce Watch costs by gaining control of unstructured content. Knowledge workers can then access, collaborate and influence business decisions in new, innovative ways to increase competitiveness and maximize productivity. There are four critical areas of IBM ECM technology and solutions that can help you achieve your business goals: Essential Content: Managing unstructured content Content Analytics: Users need to find content when throughout your organization – such as scanned it matters most and turn passive content into active images, electronic documents, web pages, video, sources of insight. Trusted content analytics and email, electronic records, paper files – is an essential search provide critical tools and capabilities to ECM capability to drive down costs while improving increase return on investment and business efficiency. Businesses need to use content, regardless advantage. of type or location, in a consistent, reusable manner (standardized and federated) to respond rapidly and Information Lifecycle Governance: A key goal of accurately to information demands. the integrated enterprise is to support compliance and - dream or reality? The Paper Free Office risk management policies and regulations, improving Advanced Case Management: IBM unifies eDiscovery and the collection, archiving, classification information, processes and people to provide a 360- and management of all content from various sources degree view of a case. Advanced case management while keeping unnecessary costs down throughout the relies on information, processes, advanced analytics, lifecycle. business rules, collaboration and social computing to help drive more successful, optimized case outcomes. www.ibm.com Kofax Kofax is a leading provider of capture driven business process automation solutions, which streamline the flow of information throughout an organization by managing the capture of business critical information arising in paper, fax and electronic formats in a more accurate, timely and cost effective manner. These solutions provide a rapid return on investment to thousands of customers in banking, insurance, government, business process outsourcing and other markets. Kofax delivers these solutions through its own sales and service organization, and a global network of more than 800 authorized partners in more than 70 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific. Kofax leverages its rich history and wealth of global resources to create powerful capture driven business process automation solutions, supported by market leading products that impact the entire enterprise, one process at a time. Kofax solutions securely capture all types of inbound information at the perimeter of the organization where capture driven business processes are initiated. Kofax solutions enable highly automated and, in many cases, “touchless” processing of information, reducing the manual effort required to understand the information and make decisions about delivering that information to the right person, at the right time, on the right device and in the right format. Kofax enables companies to see into their critical business processes and unlock their value; to improve the quality and flow of information and produce better business outcomes; and to improve decisions, reduce costs and errors, increase compliance and enhance employee effort across the entire organization. With Kofax, any company can Capture the Enterprise. www.kofax.com © 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals 25
  • 27. UNDERWRITTEN IN PART BY Swiss Post Solutions Industry Swiss Post Solutions, a division of Swiss Post, offers a comprehensive range of document and business Watch process outsourcing services. With 7000 people working for us across Europe, North America and Asia and with access to an extensive partner network, we are able to support our clients across the globe. Private and Public sector organizsations have chosen to outsource their physical and digital document processing needs to us, utilizing our extensive knowledge of people-based outsourcing and our capability to deliver document processing services on, near or off-shore. Our corporate information management system is a unified delivery platform that provides organizations with the ability to cost-effectively onboard and distribute documents throughout the organization. It provides our clients with the capability to: I Simultaneously improve productivity and reduce operational costs I Take an enterprise-wide approach to automating business processes I Enable improved decision making and customer satisfaction by accelerating business transactions I Reduce the risk of non-compliance and achieving legislative and regulatory requirements - dream or reality? The Paper Free Office I Regardless of document type, physical or electronic medium, format, language or geographic location, Swiss Post Solutions offers an end-to-end solution from document creation to content management, production, distribution and business intelligence. www.swisspostsolutions.com © 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals 26
  • 28. AIIM (www.aiim.org) has been an advocate and supporter of information professionals for nearly 70 years. The association mission is to ensure that information professionals understand the current and future challenges of managing information assets in an era of social, mobile, cloud and big data. Founded in 1943, AIIM builds on a strong heritage of research and member service. Today, AIIM is a global, non-profit organization that provides independent research, education and certification programs to information professionals. AIIM represents the entire information management community, with programs and content for practitioners, technology suppliers, integrators and consultants. © 2012 AIIM AIIM Europe 1100 Wayne Avenue, Suite 1100 The IT Centre, Lowesmoor Wharf Silver Spring, MD 20910 Worcester, WR1 2RR, UK +1 301.587.8202 +44 (0)1905 727600 www.aiim.org www.aiim.eu © 2012 AIIM - The Global Community of Information Professionals