High priced archive equipment such as microfilm scanners and printers are not items that all businesses might find a use for everyday, yet Sungwoo DMS, an importer of high speed document scanners, microfilm printers and scanners and overhead scanners, foresaw the potential in the market for the management of document archives and offer businesses the ability to hire equipment. If a business is transferring to a e-document management system then the question is inevitably raised as to how to deal with existing data in document form. Sungwoo can enable, for example, the hireage of a 120 document per minute scanner so that all of your company's history can be contained within the new system.
A spokesperson said, "we handle the microfilms market in Korea and while it is small it has opportunity, even for individual customers because the life of a film is 100 years whereas the life of a digital image is somewhat restricted by software and media trends in usage types." It appears that in the more traditional document management environments that trends are irrelevant and to those in business the critical observation made by the Sungwoo spokesperson helps with making decisions about record management. Sungwoo's relevance to the individual customer or smaller organization is not only their willingness to hire out equipment but also their capability to convert data, such as a one hundred year old microfilm copied on to a new film for another hundred years or so of preservation.
Sungwoo DMS are exhibiting on the first floor of the Coex convention center in Seoul until the 6th June for the IACE (International Archival Culture Exhibition).
More can be read about Sungwoo DMS here: www.sungwoodms.co.kr
