Are you grappling with the challenge of encouraging adoption of your BDMS system while trying to balance the ever-increasing storage and infrastructure costs?

After several years of expanded use, the production BDMS repository at Wright State University had grown to over 5.7 million pages and took 1.8TB of space on our SAN. When a storage study in early 2010 revealed the B-S-ADMN cabinet alone was taking up 72% of that space, we developed a plan to increase the efficiency of our space utilization and reduce ongoing costs. We will share the technical aspects of this in-house project from the planning stages through client verification of the resulting document quality.

Using a combination of scripts and the free image manipulation tool IrFanView, we were able to convert the B-S-ADMN images into bitonal and apply compression which saved over 1 TB of storage space. This project gave the university a soft savings of approximately $10,000 in storage costs and allowed us to re-purpose the freed space to meet other needs.