The Future of Documents

Are you drowning in paper documents? Want to go paperless, or at least “less paper”, and move all of these documents into the electronic world? But you want to make sure these documents are safely stored on a central ECM system with all of its benefits: indexing, metadata, backed up, and securely accessible 24hrs a day?

Docushare Virtual Filing Cabinet can help you. This new offering combines archival software, a high-speed scanner, and a new Docushare 6.5 version. But, probably even more important, it includes some consulting to help you get started, analyse your existing file cabinet organization, and set up your electronic system.

Besides the easy and secure access and distribution, this sort of technology helps you go green, save on costs, and claim storage space back.

Sounds interesting? For more information, check this short video out by clicking the image below.

Promised, my last post on the “Paperless office 2.0″ and e-paper… at least for this year

I still see all those predictions that e-paper would replace print and paper almost overnight - but don’t expect it will happen that fast. I have to agree with Nick Sheridon’s prediction that e-Paper mass usage won’t happen before 2012, and even then not for document readers.

 I have not seen many predictions on e-Paper readers, but one of them estimates “the portable electronic reader devices [...] product category  is predicted to grow to 41 million units in 2010″.

According to Wikipedia, the U.S. CIA World Factbook estimated in 2007 that the overall world literacy rate was 82% of “age 15 and over can read and write”. Given a world’s population around 6.6 billion, we have 5.4 billion potential readers – it will take a few years (or decades) before production can bring these readers in numbers and prices in a range that can be really used broadly (not to mention general issues with power, wireless connectivity, usability, etc…).

Still, change is inevitable and welcome, and our reading habits need to and will certainly change. Let’s hope this will not only happen in certain populations and developed countries though. Maybe the “One Laptop Per Child” vision will be followed one day by a “One e-Paper Reader per Child” ?