It is hardly surprising that as the 21st Century unfolds, the activities
of the US knowledge workers in a service-based economy are dominated by
document-centric work.
Across the Fortune 1000, office document expenditure
exceeded a staggering $217 billion in 2002 or $7,500 per employee.
In paper consumption
terms, this equals 272 billion sheets of paper with an equivalent
number of electronic counterparts.
The STAR project is a unique initiative to provide the tools to reverse the growing problems of uncontrolled office document sprawl and turn it into a sustainable competitive edge.