2. Budgeting for EDM

In addition to software license costs, implementing an EDM entails both direct and indirect costs which are not always easy to identify, but which need to be budgeted for.

Cost-generating stages include :

• definition of the filing plan; an organization expert can assist the company in (re)defining the filing tree structure;

• definition of use and backup procedures ;

• basic configuration (definition of various tables: directory, users, etc.) ;

• deployment, which can take up to two days; depending on the size of the company and the extent of the documentation, it can take ten times longer;

• acquisition and integration of existing paper archives;

• taking account...