First a word from your friendly sponsors:

User Friendly Consulting, Inc. provides all types of businesses, including energy, insurance, storage/transportation, government, and healthcare with affordable, value added, and cutting edge data capture and content management solutions that UFC has hand-picked after rigorous evaluations. But our uniqueness really is not just our ability to provide hand-picked out-of-the-box solutions, implement them, and provide superior support for them, but we also can customize our out-of-the-box ECM solutions to meet the most challenging technical needs of our clients, whether that is cleaner OCR or ICR results, better forms recognition, integration with other applications, or innovative fax solutions. Our clients, such as Halliburton, Amsurg, AAA, and others consider us true partners with them and they come back to us time and time again to provide them with solutions to their ECM challenges and we meet those challenges time and time again.

As you likely know already, ROI stands for Return on Investment. In simple terms it means "what am I going to get in terms of a return for money that I am about to spend". And every business and person, for that matter, wants to know what they are going to get in return for spending money.

In a nutshell, data capture and document management systems should result in bottom line improvements due to productivity gains and reduced expenses. But how do you figure out what those gains in productivity and reduced expenses are? Well, at UFC, Inc., we think that the best way to do that is to think broadly about the categories that benefits can be broken down into and then to put them into an ROI calculator. For example, you can think about the benefits of reduced filing space for storing documents if you can capture documents electronically. Or you can think about the reduction in labor costs if you implement a document management system and searching for documents does not take as long as it did when everything was paper driven.

One note: Please keep in mind that there are other soft benefits, like reduced exposure to regulation risks or improved customer service times that a ROI calculator may not take into consideration. So we suggest that you calculate your ROI but think about how else a data capture or document management system may improve your business or department and along with it - your bottom line. In order to learn more about how UFC, Inc. can provide affordable and cutting edge Data Capture and ECM solutions that meet your needs and improve your business' bottom line, please click here to visit our home page.

P.S. If you want to learn more about how you can get more bang for your data capture buck, we have also developed a free "30 Minute Data Capture Tune Up" which we conduct over the telephone with you and your top staff members. The ‘30 Minute Data Capture Tune Up' call is conducted by one of our lead technicians of our company, Phill Cormier, who has worked in the data capture and document management industry for many years and has developed innovative data capture and document management products, solutions, and integrations for many diverse corporations including Halliburton, AAA, and Amsurg to name a few. It is a fast-paced, zero-nonsense session. Please visit our Data Capture Consultation page to learn more about how to sign up for this data capture ‘tune-up'. There is no charge for this call, but please be advised that the call must be strictly limited to 30 minutes. Time slots are limited.

UFC's "ROI Calculator" is an Excel tool that provides you with the ability to quickly calculate your return on investment for data capture and document management projects. There is even a tab with a filled in template as an example.

This ROI Calculator is Free, all you have to do is fill out the form below and submit your information. Shortly after submitting you will receive an email with a link to download the tool. You are free to use it as you like. Remember that we'll never sell your email address to anybody, and that's a promise! Thanks.