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Digitizing the Town of Windham with DocuWare

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Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Industries	Cities & Municipalities
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Challenge	The Town Clerk’s Office of the Town of Windham, with its 300 employees, was responsible for storing and maintaining all records for the town’s departments. This included processing and storing documents for its 16,000 residents, such as motor vehicle and boat registration, hunting and fishing licenses, census upkeep, and marriage, birth, and death certificates. The office also maintained election and voter records, board meeting minutes, and historical documents, adhering strictly to the state’s regulations on proper retention of records. The records were stored in physical form, in labeled cardboard boxes stacked on metal shelves inside a vault room. The staff manually filed and searched for records, spending 7 to 10 days a month on organizing papers. Read More
About Customer	The Town of Windham is a municipal government entity located in the United States. It has a population of approximately 16,000 residents. The Town Clerk’s Office, with its 300 employees, is responsible for storing and maintaining all records for the town’s departments. This includes processing and storing documents for its residents, such as motor vehicle and boat registration, hunting and fishing licenses, census upkeep, and marriage, birth, and death certificates. The office also maintains election and voter records, board meeting minutes, and historical documents, adhering strictly to the state’s regulations on proper retention of records. Read More
Solution	When a state law approved electronic record keeping, Town Clerk Nicole Bottai launched a digitizing project to manage and retrieve records faster and more efficiently. She selected DocuWare for its flexible cloud capabilities, great online reviews, and a proven easy learning curve. With DocuWare in place, Bottai and her co-workers can retrieve many documents within five minutes. Using the DocuWare Printer function, the staff can automatically “print” a document to the DocuWare system — and then easily index and store it, eliminating hand filing. The office scanned and saved existing public records, including election records, meeting minutes, town reports, appointment paperwork, and legal cases. The staff currently store about 26,000 documents in DocuWare. The Town Clerk’s Office aims to bring all departments online with DocuWare to better service both constituents and the Community Development Director. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services

Applicable Industries

Cities & Municipalities

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Challenge

The Town Clerk’s Office of the Town of Windham, with its 300 employees, was responsible for storing and maintaining all records for the town’s departments. This included processing and storing documents for its 16,000 residents, such as motor vehicle and boat registration, hunting and fishing licenses, census upkeep, and marriage, birth, and death certificates. The office also maintained election and voter records, board meeting minutes, and historical documents, adhering strictly to the state’s regulations on proper retention of records. The records were stored in physical form, in labeled cardboard boxes stacked on metal shelves inside a vault room. The staff manually filed and searched for records, spending 7 to 10 days a month on organizing papers.

About Customer

The Town of Windham is a municipal government entity located in the United States. It has a population of approximately 16,000 residents. The Town Clerk’s Office, with its 300 employees, is responsible for storing and maintaining all records for the town’s departments. This includes processing and storing documents for its residents, such as motor vehicle and boat registration, hunting and fishing licenses, census upkeep, and marriage, birth, and death certificates. The office also maintains election and voter records, board meeting minutes, and historical documents, adhering strictly to the state’s regulations on proper retention of records.

Solution

When a state law approved electronic record keeping, Town Clerk Nicole Bottai launched a digitizing project to manage and retrieve records faster and more efficiently. She selected DocuWare for its flexible cloud capabilities, great online reviews, and a proven easy learning curve. With DocuWare in place, Bottai and her co-workers can retrieve many documents within five minutes. Using the DocuWare Printer function, the staff can automatically “print” a document to the DocuWare system — and then easily index and store it, eliminating hand filing. The office scanned and saved existing public records, including election records, meeting minutes, town reports, appointment paperwork, and legal cases. The staff currently store about 26,000 documents in DocuWare. The Town Clerk’s Office aims to bring all departments online with DocuWare to better service both constituents and the Community Development Director.

Impact #1	The staff can retrieve many documents within five minutes.
Impact #2	Using the DocuWare Printer function, the staff can automatically “print” a document to the DocuWare system — and then easily index and store it, eliminating hand filing.
Impact #3	The office scanned and saved existing public records, including election records, meeting minutes, town reports, appointment paperwork, and legal cases.

Impact #1

The staff can retrieve many documents within five minutes.

Impact #2

Using the DocuWare Printer function, the staff can automatically “print” a document to the DocuWare system — and then easily index and store it, eliminating hand filing.

Impact #3

The office scanned and saved existing public records, including election records, meeting minutes, town reports, appointment paperwork, and legal cases.

Benefit #1	Reduced document retrieval time from days to minutes.
Benefit #2	Eliminated the need for hand filing of motor vehicle registrations.
Benefit #3	Digitized and stored about 26,000 documents in DocuWare.

Benefit #1

Reduced document retrieval time from days to minutes.

Benefit #2

Eliminated the need for hand filing of motor vehicle registrations.

Benefit #3

Digitized and stored about 26,000 documents in DocuWare.

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Digitizing the Town of Windham with DocuWare

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