Re: ACOM EZDocs 10 grand?

["Pradip Shah" <b2bedoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brad,

I agree. Well put.

Pradip Shah
www.B2BeDocuments.com



----- Original Message -----
From: Brad Jensen <brad@elstore.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 01:09:00 -0500
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Subject: Re: ACOM EZDocs 10 grand?

>
> Do you mean, why is it so inexpensive? Probably because it doesn't have all
> the bells and whistles of a compelte archiving solution.
>
> I have been thinking of splitting out our overlay system and making it a
> forms product.
> It's a small part of a complete archiving and document management solution.
>
> You can accelerate your business processes by removing paper, which always
> slows
> the process down and introduces errors.
>
> It amazes me that people still spend millions creating digital information,
> then
> summarize it and output it to paper, where it becomes a dead document. This
> is apparently
> intellectual inertia, since it is far cheaper and more convenient to keep it
> as a digital
> document.
>
> In the USA, 10 grand is less than the full cost of an employee for about 1/3
> of a person-year.
> A document management system that stores spool files is going to save ten to
> hundreds of times its cost
> over the life of the product, while improving decision making speed and
> skill, improving
> customer service and competitiveness.
>
> Even the clunky AS/400-based solutions will do this. A good PC-based
> solution will
> do even more.
>
> With a digital document management system, your output remains part of
> your information inventory, and it continues to create a return on your
> entire information processing investment. Paper documents, on the other
> hand,
> become an immediate and continually expanding expense, and a drag on the
> company's business process besides.
>
> I tell people, buy any one of my competitors solutions, and you will still
> be much better
> off than not having a solution at all.
>
> And if you want to continue wasting a lot more money than a software
> solution
> costs, keep doing the paper process you are doing now, while falling farther
> and
> farther behind your competition. You might as well take out your wallet and
> set it on fire,
> as continue'to print, store, and handle paper reports.
>
> Brad Jensen
> www.elstore.com
>
>
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