How Fax Services
Address Cost, Capacity
and Infrastructure Issues
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This paper explores the benefits of fax services and is designed to help reduce or eliminate several common fax
problems encountered by an enterprise, as well as to demonstrate efficiencies of integrating fax capabilities directly
into desktop applications.
Above all, this paper is designed to help CEOs, CFOs, CIOs and system administrators learn, plan and evaluate potential
fax infrastructure upgrades to meet future business needs.
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Purpose of this Paper
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Introduction .....................................................................................................................................................................4
The Pitfalls of Traditional Faxing ................................................................................................................................5
Issues surrounding traditional faxing ...............................................................................................................................5
Manual faxing takes time ...................................................................................................................................................5
Fax servers require fixed costs and capacity limits ....................................................................................................6
Completing the process with fax document automation .........................................................................................6
Document automation as a service ................................................................................................................................6
Reinventing Fax ..............................................................................................................................................................7
What is Fax on Demand? ...........................................................................................................