The document discusses the high costs associated with paper-based workflows and records management. It estimates that US companies spend $8 billion annually managing paper. Individual information workers waste an average of $19,000 per year and spend 30 minutes daily searching for paper documents. Digital transaction management can significantly reduce these costs by eliminating paper, printing, and physical delivery. For example, DocuSign has saved an estimated $9.3 billion in shipping costs alone by removing the need to overnight documents to signers.

1. Saved up to
$200K annually
by eliminating paper
and equipment.
PAY-PER
Money doesn’t grow on trees.
(No wonder it costs so much
to keep using paper.)
Whoever made up the saying “It’s not worth
the paper it’s printed on,” obviously had no idea
just how much that piece of paper costs from a
business standpoint. One study from Resources
Information Systems Inc. (RISI) estimates companies
spend about $8 billion per year just managing
paper. And that's only in the US. Expand that
globally, and it’s a world of pain.
Shuffling paper. It’s a bad deal.
Leaf the paper. Go Digital
Find out what you can do.
BTW, we practice what we preach.
$19K per year
That’s how much the average
information worker wastes in
time chasing paper documents.
(Source: IDC)
20% of paper
records
Are misfiled, on average.
(Source: ARMA International)
16 days a year
That’s 30 minutes each day
wasted searching for paper
documents. (Source: Harmon.ie)
$1,000 per ton
Typical bulk paper cost; one
office worker uses about 100
pounds a year.
$2.5-$3.5 M/Year
Wasted by enterprises with 1,000 or
more workers, searching for
nonexistent information, not finding
existing, or recreating documents.
(Source: IDC))
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TON
Digital Transaction Management (DTM) can have a profound impact
on operational costs, not only from a manpower standpoint, but
real money out the door. For example, DocuSign has saved about
$9,300,000,000 in shipping costs if those documents were
overnighted to/from a signer. Look how much green our customers
are saving right now:
The FORTUNE 100 to mom-and-pop shops in every geography
depend on highly-secure, easy-to-use eSignature and digital
transaction management solutions. You could, too. Visit
www.docusign.com to get started.
At DocuSign, we live the paperless mandate. The enemy is paper.
Fax machines are non-existent and printers are hard to find in our
offices. Our finance, HR, legal, IT, marketing, and sales ops revolve
around digital-based workflows and interactions. We are, after all,
determined to rid every workplace the world-over of paper. Starting
with ours.
Has saved more
than 30,000
sheets of paper
since launching in 2014.
Cut physical
delivery costs
by 53%.
Reduced
annual paper
consumption
by 60%.
Eliminated paper,
printing, & postage
for more than 100,000
applications per year.
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helps organizations achieve their digital transformations for dramatic ROI, increased
security and compliance, and better experiences for customers, partners, suppliers and
employees. DocuSign automates manual, paper-based processes with the only open,
independent, standards-based DTM platform for managing all aspects of documented
business transactions. DocuSign empowers anyone to transact anything, anytime,
anywhere, on any device securely.