Scottish Universities Benefit From New Technology

The Scottish Funding Council Implements Open Text ECM Suite to Improve Document and Record Management, and Knowledge Sharing Abilities

London, UK - 2009-04-27 - The Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council (SFC), responsible for distributing around £1.7 billion of funding to Scotland s universities and colleges, has implemented Open Text ECM Suite to improve its records and document management abilities.

Open Text Corporation, a global leader in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), was selected by SFC to improve its cost effectiveness, with central document management enabling better archiving, editing, tracking and easier access to documents, while increasing the ease of internal information sharing and collaboration.

According to Tim Cain, Senior IT Projects Officer and the programme manager at SFC, it was decided to install the Open Text ECM Suite to help open new opportunities for external collaboration and government efficiency.

We recognised effective communication and information flow as a major challenge, paired with the stringent regulations put in place by the regulatory agencies. SFC concluded that content management capabilities available from the Open Text ECM Suite could fulfil its current and potential needs, says Cain.

The Open Text ECM Suite brings together the content management capabilities needed to manage all types of enterprise content. For SFC, it offers cost effective benefits with a central document management system.

We needed a more seamless integration between records management, document processing and reporting, and content publishing. In addition, the ability to create a staff intranet alongside a new file sharing service was a huge advantage when it came to looking at the all important people' aspect of the implementation, says Cain.

The Open Text ECM Suite has encouraged a better approach to work that is immediately more collaborative. It has supported a culture change that is also having an impact on business processes. It provides SFC with better information security and a proactive response to legislative and good practice requirements.

According to Cain, the deployment of the Open Text system is enabling SFC to achieve maximum floor-space efficiencies and significant benefits in the amount of administrative work related to processing and searching for documents.

The benefits have been so great that we re now looking at the feasibility of reducing overall office space and using the reclaimed space more effectively. Through the changes we ve made with Open Text, there s potential for major cost savings as well as creating a better environment for staff.

While its often difficult to measure, when we take into account the way we used to do things, the cost savings and improvements are staggering, which is a massive contributor to the efficiency gains we are committed to make as part of the Government s Efficiency Program, added Cain.

The Open Text ECM Suite, the company s flagship offering, brings together the broad range of content management capabilities organisations need to securely and safely manage all types of enterprise information documents, vital records, Web content, video, images, email, forms and reports across many different enterprise systems and applications.

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