STATISTICS ON PAPER BASED SYSTEMS
  • There are over 4,000,000,000,000 (4 trillion) paper documents in the U.S. alone, growing at the rate of 22% a year, or roughly 880 billion a year
  • The average document gets copied 19 times in its
    Life
  • 7.5% of all documents get lost, 3.0% get misfiled.
  • It costs approximately
    • $20 to file a document
    • $120 to find a misplaced document
    • $220 to replace a lost document
 DO YOU HAVE A DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN
  • Nearly 18,000 businesses were dislocated, disrupted or destroyed by 9/11
  • Thousands more were affected by Katrina
  • According to research by the University of Texas
    • 6 percent of companies suffering from a catastrophic data loss survive
    • 43 percent never reopen
    • 51 percent close within two years