The Economist in its latest edition had an article that caught my eye The paperless office: On its way, at last, here they talked about how information age actually increased the paper consumption rather than decreasing, as many had predicted. The trends in paper consumption show that this may be the year where paper consumption in offices in developed world would decrease and continue to decrease for the foreseeable future.

This could be a sign of sales boost for imaging products in ECM market. When ECM companies would start announcing their quaterly results, I would like to see if their Imaging products are producing more revenue than before, as that would confirm what this article is discussing.

I have met many people from companies/offices who has gone paperless route, they always exclaim how they did what they did before with so much paper, now they can’t live without their imaging solution. I think with these real implementation stories and what main stream media is saying, finally Imaging products could tip the balance against using paper.