Whether you’re looking at the issue from the point of view of an academic or historian, or the viewpoint of a business looking to optimize its operations, data preservation and the issues surrounding it has quickly become one of the most crucial challenges facing modern thinkers.

Lots of companies find that documents can take up a lot of free space. Often, companies will find that there are so many documents entire rooms are needed to store them. This takes up space that could be used for other, more productive reasons. While it is important to have a good record keeping system, hard copies are becoming a thing of the past. With the advance of technology, keeping records has become less space consuming.