Have you ever heard someone say: ’I hate cloud technology, why
can’t I just have a piece of paper in front of me? It’s so much clearer.’
Yes it may be clearer, but you could well be costing your
business a whole lot more than you realise.
Let’s start with the most obvious – printing costs of ink
and the paper it’s on. Of course even with cloud technology you don’t have to get
away from paper altogether if it’s your preferred medium, but replenishing
printer cartridges and those heavy boxes of paper can add up. And what do you
do with all that paper? Storing paper documents in your office is another
wallet scorcher – about £25 a year for a single document.
Still not convinced? Here’s another – how much time a year
would you say you spend looking for documents each year? Two hours? 5 days? Try 6 weeks. Mind boggling to say the
least, now imagine that multiplied by the number of people in your business,
and heaven help you if that document is filed incorrectly. That’s a lot of time and money that could be
better spent on just about anything else. In the cloud it’s easy to move, share,
search for and update documents in real time.
If you want to read a more in depth article on why to move
your business to the cloud, visit http://www.aiim.org/Research-and-Publications/Research/AIIM-White-Papers/Managing-and-Sharing-Documents.
Feel free to add anymore you can think of!
Guy
