Fujitsu fi-5900C Manuale Supplementare

How Document Scanners
Affect Productivity and
Compliance

Whitepaper

As enterprise content management (ECM) solutions become more prevalent and

sophisticated, manufacturers of document scanning hardware are responding with

enhanced functionality to meet the demands of technology and higher volume

business processes. The volume of documents scanned continues to increase due to a

number of trends, such as increased adoption of the shared services model (where

multiple business units rely on a centralized corporate facility for a specific business

process such as accounts payable). Concurrently, the processes being managed with

electronic documents are becoming increasingly complex and subject to increasing

regulatory compliance.

Market pressures to increase both productivity and corporate accountability need

to be as a high a priority when choosing a scanner as they are when buying enterprise

software. By understanding the implications of a scanner purchase on operational

efficiency, a positive work environment and organizational risk, you can make a more

informed decision that delivers return on investment (ROI) and supports your

governance, risk and compliance initiatives.

Document scanning is generally a starting point for other automated business

processes such as workflow, so delays in getting documents into the system can

affect productivity throughout the enterprise. In service bureau environments, paying

workers who are idle due to scanner downtime increases the cost-per-scan and

compromises the already lean margins associated with this kind of business. Achieving

maximum scanner uptime depends on a combination of hardware functionality and

human factors.