Paris-based paper management solutions company Xamance hasn’t created a robotic office assistant, but its Xambox comes awfully close.
The Xambox, released in its Professional model last week, automatically manages and files papers both digitally and physically. Considering four trillion paper documents are filed annually in the U.S.–a figure that’s growing 22 percent annually–Xamance is meeting a significant demand. The company has established operations outside of Philadelphia in Elverson and plans on expanding it in the coming months as demand for the product grows.
“The Xambox does all of these steps for you, so you can concentrate on value-added tasks,” says Xamance COO Etienne Leger. “One button to file your papers, one click to retrieve them.”
Xambox is based on the company’s proprietary concept of chaotic filing, an innovative organizational method that offers the ability to locate documents without ever having to sort them.
The Xambox Professional can scan, sort, manage and store documents from any size from legal to business cards and boasts automatic character recognition and full text indexing that allows documents and data to be identified and classified immediately. It was selected by msn.com as one of the most useful tools at the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Companies spend $20 in labor to file a document, $120 to find a misfiled document and $220 to reproduce a lost document, according to data from PricewaterhouseCoopers, giving Xamance an easy selling point.
“It has received a great deal of acclaim for providing a new and effective paper management solution,” says Leger.
Source: Etienne Leger, Xamance
Writer: Joe Petrucci