Seren Group has completed the implementation of a centralised document repository from Invu to give staff immediate access to all tenant and housing documentation. After a two-month implementation, the Invu electronic document management system went live in August 2010, followed by six-months of back-scanning Seren’s documents. Invu reported that the total cost of the project,…
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Document Management
Interview with Optical Record Systems
Housing Technology caught up with Joe Pettit, Optical Record Systems’ recently-promoted associate director of business development, to find out more about the company’s recently-launched HousingMail service, an electronic document management and workflow alternative to traditional post-room services. What is HousingMail? Over the last five to ten years, there has been a push within the housing…
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Why is document management so hard?
Mark Palmer, director of products and marketing at Invu, explores the prerequisites for the successful deployment of a document management system and guides housing providers on how to deliver a highly-effective business operation that results in increased efficiency and service levels, reduced costs and compliance risks, and as a result higher Audit Commission ratings. One…
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Southern Housing & Look Ahead deploy HousingDocs from ORS
Optical Record Systems has announced that Southern Housing Group and Look Ahead Housing & Care are the latest housing providers to implement its HousingDocs system to automate their finance invoice processing. Southern Housing is already using HousingDocs integrated with Open Accounts to automate the processing of over 400 invoices per day. Look Ahead will also…
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Barcoded documents at Spectrum Housing Group
Spectrum Housing Group has also moved towards paper-free operations with the introduction of an electronic document scanning and retrieval system from ORS that uses barcode technology to capture and index the files and convert them into a digital format. As part of the pre-scanning process, ORS created a header sheet with barcodes containing unique details…
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Kensington & Chelsea paper-free with ORS
Kensington & Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation has implemented a company-wide electronic document management system as part of its move to new offices in West London and to remove the cost and access inefficiencies of storing enormous volumes of paper documents. Civica W2 was chosen for the core EDM system supported by Optical Record Systems, one…
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