As a part of the e-government initiative, tens of thousands of documents get scanned everyday at the various government organizations in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Converting physical paper into digital format is the latest trend in the effort to create a paperless e-office.
The amount of documents produced daily is growing rapidly in these organizations and each and every activity needs to be recorded and stored by law. As a result of which many local bodies like the Municipalities, Police, Civil Aviation and Financial Institutions in the UAE have turned to document management solutions in an attempt to convert their paper mountains and extend access of business critical data across their respective enterprise.
Document Management solutions, which typically comprise of a scanner, document management software and a storage element are also being deployed in most private organizations in this regions like banks, airlines and large commercial and industrial organizations, who have a more advanced infrastructure and look to make the document management solution a part of their overall IT systems, simply because there is lot of paperwork involved in the day-to-day activities.
The Electronic Document Management (e-DM) business comprises of electronic data and document capture, optical data storage, retrieval and display hardware and software, document management software and workflow software.
The e-DM market in the UAE is about 150 million Emirati dirhams ($40.8 million) in total this year and is expected to grow at the rate of 25-35 percent annually in the next four years or over 300 percent annual compound growth. This growth is driven by rapid corporate as well as government adoption of Electronic Document Capture technologies, that allows for cheaper document handling processes and more efficient use of existing market and customer data. — (menareport.com)
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