STP Performance and What toExamine TherearenoexactanswersforhowmuchSTPyoucanachievewithoutdoing a good amount of work. And yet, it is definitely possible to put boundaries around potential STP performance by examining, at a high level, the number of documents within a project and the degree of variance within eachdocumenttype.Afterthat, youcanstartto puttogether a framework listing-out the documents by type, the estimated number of variants, the document structure and data types. From there, you can provide rough estimates based upon the guidelines provided above to get a good sense of what is practical in terms of overall project STP objectives. Technology Behind Straight Through Processing Technical Side of STP: Confidence Scores and Thresholds: Delving into the underlying intelligent capture technology behind achieving STP requires examining confidence scores. In client engagements and in conversations with analysts and consultants, the topic of confidence scores almost always comes up. Far too often, there is a lack of understanding of what confidence scores actual are and how they are used. A common question is something like, “do you display confidence scores to users?” This question reveals a fundamental lack of understanding so let’s dig deeper into some common misunderstandings and therealities. 27 Straight Through Processing - Document Automation