(you will need to register on the site to download)
In celebration of Earth Day, AIIM has released the top 6 reasons for organizations to go green with ECM (Enterprise Content Management) technologies.
If the U.S. cut its office paper use by roughly 10 percent, or 540,000 tons, greenhouse gas emissions would fall by 1.6 million tons — equivalent to taking 280,000 cars off the road for a year. [Source: Susan Kinsella, Gerard Gleason, Victoria Mills, Nicole Rycroft, Jim Ford, Kelly Sheehan and Joshua Martin. “The State of the Paper Industry.” The Green Press Initiative, 2007.]
ECM technologies are one of the best kept secrets when it comes to technology investments that can help the environment. The key to making a real environmental impact – as opposed to a cosmetic one – is to think systemically about the role of paper in your organization. There has been a great deal of focus on reducing paper use through such efforts as copying on both sides of the paper. While this is important, this kind of effort only begins to touch on the kinds of paper savings that can be created by actually getting rid of paper through automating and digitizing core business processes.
In this economy, it is not enough to simply seek environmental benefits. The key to understanding the multiplier impact of ECM technologies is that these technologies, by driving paper out of business process, create BOTH cost savings AND environmental benefits.
There is no better time than Earth Day to share the ‘secret’ of green ECM technologies with a broader audience – hence our Top 6 Reasons for Going Green with ECM (you will need to register on the site to download).
Information on the green impact of ECM technologies can be
found on a special section of the AIIM web site at: http://www.aiim.org/green-ecm.
AIIM also provides a comprehensive training program on the effective implementation of ECM technologies – http://www.aiim.org/training.
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