Imaging Ignored for many years, COLD technology has recently blossomed into a large component of the imaging market, as major vendors offer organizations a more efficient way to store computer documents. It just might, thanks to a technology that's been around for a while, but is now emerging as a mainstream product.
COLD systems can handle volumes ranging from a few thousand to tens of millions of pages per month.
According to Derella, banks embraced COLD early on because it enabled workers in customer service to view the same statement that a caller had in printed form. But the big benefit of COLD is the cost savings it generates. The nation's businesses and governments generate 54 billion pages of computer reports each year that end up on paper or microfiche. With COLD, an agency can cut its annual supply costs by as much as 30 percent. Some customers have seen paybacks from their COLD systems in less than a year.