SORA can be your first step in going paperless, or a part of your continuing efforts.

Since SORA can store all of the paperwork associated with offenders - from finger print cards to justice department reports - think of how you can save...

• Lower paper, printing, faxing, and postage costs
• A Xerox survey showed most office workers print an average of 10,000-12,000 sheets per year EACH!
• Fewer filing cabinets needed - therefore, more space!
  
  

Your soft costs (those you don't see directly) can also be lowered:

• Faster access to important information
• Less time spent filing
• Access from office or patrol
• Lower electric bills (we pay for the servers - you don't!)
• Less time spent shredding and recycling paper
• Less duplication of effort
• Record keeping constitutes more than 90% of all office activity
• Studies done by the Association for Information and Image Management and Coopers and Lybrand estimate the lifecycle cost of a document is between $20 to $50 per document (including printing, storing, managing, distributing, and handling)!

And, you can help the environment:

• Fewer trees used for paper
• Paper is the number-one material thrown away, comprising 40% of our waste stream
• Fewer harmful computer parts in the landfill