Business analysts calculate that 80-90% of the content used by companies is unstructured data - word documents, spreadsheets, emails, presentations, etc.
The most recent UK Government ASHE (2008) report on salary and earning stated the gross median salary for a Science / Technology Professional at £691/week. That's a salary of around £36K pa. If you add on employee overheads (+80% is often used) it means an annual labour cost of nearly £65K per person. This is a total labour bill of £776K pa for a company of 12 employees.
The annual subscription licenses for 12 people plus the setup costs would be £5.4K. That works out as 0.7% of the labour cost above. It means that if you save 17 minutes every week per employee you have achieved break-even point.
In fact, it's common for an employee to spend 20-25% of total working time searching for missing information - non-productive time spent finding the information they need in documents. When you consider how many minutes can be spent trawling through the attachments in your inbox or contacting a colleague to get hold of a document stored on their PC - it isn't hard to imagine why.
After 17 minutes, the remaining 96% of the employee time you save is pure, restored productivity.
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