The document outlines various statistics about the costs of paper-based document management systems. It states that filing costs average $20 per document, each four-drawer filing cabinet costs $1,500 per year to maintain and holds 10,000-12,000 documents, and every 12 filing cabinets requires an additional employee. It also notes that paper in the average business grows by 22% each year and more than 70% of businesses would fail within 3 weeks of a catastrophic loss of paper records.