Only 10% of corporate information lies in structured
databases. The remaining 90%, often critical to business processes, lies in unmanaged
chaotic file system structures.
Sources: Coopers & Lybrand, PC Magazine, AIIM.
The average business document is copied 19 times. In labor, the average office spends:
$20 filing or retrieving a document, $120 finding a misfiled document, and $250 recreating
a lost document. 7.5% of all documents get lost, 3% of the remainder get misfiled.
Professionals spend 5 to 15% of their time reading information, but up to 50% looking for
it.
Sources: PC Magazine.
