East Cambridge council invests in Anite
East Cambridgeshire District Council has announced the
organisation-wide rollout of an electronic document and records
management system in a contract worth £164,000 rising to £215,000 over
five years.
Anite@Work, developed by Berkshire-based IT-systems provider Anite,
will enable more efficient and cost-effective record maintenance for the
Council, providing access to shared information to facilitate customer
service improvements and reducing the reliance on paper records.
The system will provide a ‘one-stop’ approach to the capture,
storage, archiving, management and retrieval of information, encouraging
Council-wide co-operation and enabling integration with other service
providers and partners.
Andrew Killington, Executive Director at East Cambridgeshire District
Council said, “The corporate-wide rollout of Anite@Work will enable more
efficient ways of storing, amending and accessing information. It will
ensure legislative compliance, reduce the cost of handling information
and help to deliver improved public services.”
The system will also reduce the amount of time and money spent on
document-management tasks.
Mike Kingswood, Managing Director of Local Government at Anite said:
“With the drive for transformational government and joint working
between public service organisations, department-based policies for
document management, workflow and records management are now considered
short-sighted. Anite is delighted to be supporting East Cambridgeshire
District Council in simultaneously driving sustainable performance
improvements and significant cost reductions through a corporate-wide
initiative.”
Research by analyst Gartner suggests that the average document is
copied nine to 11 times at a cost of approximately £9 — with the cost of
filing each document at about £10, retrieving a misfiled document at £60
and replacing a lost document at £110.
Source: bjhc&im May 2007
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