The following “fast facts” are drawn from theAIIM Industry Watch research reports. Download the original reports — all are free — all you need to do is register.

1. The volume of paper records is still increasing steadily in 56% of organizations, but in 22% it is at last showing signs of decreasing. Meanwhile the volume of electronic records is “increasing rapidly” for 70%, and unsurprisingly, is not decreasing for any.
2. Half of organizations are scanning newly received paper items and filing them electronically rather than manually, and a third of businesses are looking to go to all-electronic records-keeping
3. But for the other half, as well as manually filing inbound paper documents, 40% admit to routinely printing newly generated office documents and emails for the purpose of filing them as paper records.
4. Electronic records are more than twice as likely to be described as “Unmanaged” than paper records.
5. 71% of organizations have a procedure for legal hold of paper records in the event of litigation, but only 57% have one for electronic records.

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