The Web site is now being tested. Using the Web is particularly appealing to Digital Storage Solutions because it expands its reach enormously. The company now is geographically confined to the metropolitan area both in the selling and installation of equipment and as the recipient of paperwork that companies want scanned and saved. The Web gives Digital Storage a global reach. About 70 percent of the company's revenue comes from the hardware and software side, with the rest coming from the young document-processing division.
Customers now have two choices if they want to save their documents in searchable databases.
The charge for that averages 10 to 15 cents a page. Either way, the result is a CD that contains from 12,000 to 15,000 pages, about what fits in a four-drawer file cabinet. Its biggest jobs have been in the million-page range. Their focus quickly evolved from servicing hardware to designing, selling and installing imaging and scanning systems. They recognized the complementary nature of their work and merged in 1999 under the Digital Storage name.