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1 in 4 businesses will suffer a catastrophic
loss (U.S. department of labor). What have
you done? What are you doing?
As business records accumulate, the
obligation to manage and protect company
information escalates. This has been
underscored by recent events that have
brought the world’s attention to the need
for disaster recovery preparedness.
Terrorist acts, infrastructure failures,
blackouts and weather related events to
include hurricanes, floods, tornados’,
mudslides, and fires have forced businesses
to look at their records and business
continuity in a new light.
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley,
Check 21, and dozens of other regulations
necessitate that companies institute
thorough emergency preparedness plans.
Regulators can impose harsh punishments and
fines, and offer no latitude when a company
is unable to meet requirements due to a
disaster or other data-loss event.
According to study done by the IDC (2004)
90% of
critical business information exists only on
paper.
The best computer backups systems in the
world can not help you recover lost paper
based information. You could, in theory,
make copies of all your files (daily) and
send them to an offsite storage facility
(that is no safer form disaster than your
office) for archiving. This is a commendable
but very expensive way to back up your
documents.
A more practical and much less expensive
approach to disaster recovery for records is
to save them using a document imaging
system; a system that creates digital
originals and stores them to portable media.
Ideally, you could create CD copies of your
records and store them in several secure
locations off site.
When you think of all the resources and the
tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars
that went into creating your business
critical information isn’t is worth a few
more cents to insure their safety?
A standard 4 drawer filing cabinet costs the
average business $20,000 to fill and $2,000
annually to maintain. In a disaster the
insurance company will replace the cabinet
and even buy you paper to fill it with, but
nobody will insure or replace the
information on those pages, until now.
Integrity systems document imaging services
provide you the insurance you need to keep
your information safe when disasters strike.
Be prepared
Lose the site, not the Business.
Business Continuity Planning
A
business document converted to digital
Images provides an easy way to back-up
documents for offsite storage and disaster
recovery. Paper is a bulky and expensive way
to back-up records and is vulnerable to
fire, flood and theft.
"70% of
today’s businesses would fail within three
weeks if they suffered a catastrophic loss
of paper-based records due to fire or
flood."
-Coopers & Lybrand
The
moment a disaster strikes your business,
whether fire, flood, tornado or other
dangerous event, is only the beginning of
disruptions that can last weeks too years.
Gartner Research recently released a
chilling statistic: two out of five
enterprises that experience a disaster go
out of business within five years.
One year
later in New Orleans, Louisiana - According
to statistics from the Times Picayune, out
of 81,000 local businesses in 10 parishes
that shutdown, only 42,168 are currently
open. Almost 50% could not reopen.
Although
businesses routinely back-up their servers,
90% of an organization's knowledge still
resides in paper. The advantage of document
imaging is that it converts these paper
documents into digital images capable of
being copied and securely stored off-site.
Business
documents can be a risky business… if not
protected! If you’re looking to safeguard
your strategic, financial and intellectual
paper corporate assets, you need ISI. We’ll
earn your business and trust one page at a
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