“Measuring the ROI for a SharePoint Document Imaging Solution” by Kim Grego talks about the advantages of getting your enterprise’s paper documents onto SharePoint.

On-ramping paper documents into SharePoint will undoubtedly extend your ECM investment past simple collaboration and intranet portals.  This will provide a remarkably quick Return on Investment (ROI.)

The article notes that in the majority of situations with document imaging solutions, paper and costs are reduced, business process workflow is streamlined, and SharePoint investments are maximized.  Digitizing paper is not difficult and results in concrete savings, opportunity savings, and intangible savings.  These savings can commonly be realized in a mere three to six months.

With all the additional documents in SharePoint from a document imagining solution, search results will be strained without additional help.  The Semaphore Content Intelligence Platform from Smartlogic has been proven in large and complex SharePoint deployments with hundreds of thousands of documents.

Ken Toth, December 23, 2011

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