Document Loss Numbers Highlight Value of Enterprise Content Management Planning for Microsoft Dynamics Solutions

Unstructured content permeates across all enterprises and can be found in nearly every corner of an organization. Seemingly innocuous, the vast collection of documents, records, presentations, contracts, web pages, XML components, audio, video, scanned images, engineering drawings, and enterprise reports that companies wrestle with daily is both expensive and time consuming.

According to a report from Gartner Group, Coopers & Lybrand, and Ernst & Young, an average of 3 percent of documents are lost or misfiled and have to be recovered at an average cost of $120 per document. Additionally, 32 percent of a company's "active documents" are in use at any given time, making them unavailable to others. Finally, the typical executive spends 100 to 2...

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