Autonomy Process Automation Chosen by Palm Beach County School District to Enhance Operational Efficiency
By Autonomy Corporation Plc, PRNEMonday, June 21, 2010
Module Used by 25,000 Employees to Automate the Processing of More than 2,000 Administrative Forms Based on the Understanding of the Documents' Content
CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO, June 22, 2010 - Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in
infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced that the Palm
Beach County School District has significantly enhanced its operational
efficiency by implementing Autonomy Process Automation. The twelfth largest
school district in the nation, Palm Beach County is using Autonomy to
transform its traditional paper-based processing of more than 2,000
administrative forms into an automated electronic process based on the
understanding of the documents' content. Autonomy Cardiff's Certified
Partner, Informa Software, was the systems integrator for the project.
Autonomy Process Automation includes electronic forms, electronic
signatures and workflows, and is used by 25,000 School District employees,
and 170,000 students and parents. These forms range from academic to human
resources / payroll and finance-related forms. With Autonomy, the School
District can rapidly transform all documents and forms into digital data. The
system then immediately triggers a workflow to allow a secure audit trail to
be captured at every step of the process. In addition, Autonomy empowers
automation of the form processing by allowing the data to be automatically
and immediately validated for accuracy as it is being entered.
Traditional paper-based processes are often complex in nature, involving
legally binding documentation, multiple layers of approval, signatures and a
significant amount of paperwork. By automating many of its paper based
processes, the School District has significantly reduced the processing time
and provides the ability to track the status of each process with the click
of a mouse.
"As the nation's twelfth largest public school district, we process an
enormous amount of forms each day. Our previous manual paper-based processing
of forms was simply not meeting the needs of our students, faculty, employees
and other constituent groups," said Kara Rubinson, general manager of IT
Applications at the School District of Palm Beach County. "By enabling us to
move many of these paper-intensive processes into a secure online
environment, Autonomy Process Automation has significantly reduced the time
and costs associated with the management of our business processes. Security,
scalability, compliance, as well as ease of use and integration were
important factors in our selection of the Autonomy solution."
Rubinson continued, "For example, the School District's Human Resources
Department was recently directed to put together an online course on Code of
Ethics for our 25,000 employees. Each participant was required to watch a
video, take a test and then sign a form stating that they have read the
policy. This signed form then goes into each of the participant's personnel
file. In the past, our staff members would have to hand sign their form,
which were then all physically transported to a central location for scanning
and indexing into each person's personnel file. It was a very labor intensive
and time-consuming process. With LiquidOffice, our employees are now able to
watch the video, take an online test, and then electronically sign the form
that gets routed automatically into their personnel file within minutes.
Automating this one process has saved our School District an enormous amount
of time and money, while improving our operational efficiency."
"We are pleased to help the Palm Beach County School District improve its
operational efficiency by eliminating manual processes and providing their
administrators with immediate access to data and forms," said Sean Sullivan,
Autonomy Cardiff's CEO. "Autonomy's award-winning Process Automation has
delivered process acceleration and hard cost savings to thousands of
organizations around the world. Our scalability, security and performance are
unmatched in the industry."
For more information on Autonomy Process Automation, please visit
www.cardiff.com/products/liquidoffice/index.html.
About Autonomy
Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in
infrastructure software for the enterprise, spearheads the Meaning Based
Computing movement. It was recently ranked by IDC as the clear leader in
enterprise search revenues, with market share nearly double that of its
nearest competitor. Autonomy's technology allows computers to harness the
full richness of human information, forming a conceptual and contextual
understanding of any piece of electronic data, including unstructured
information, such as text, email, web pages, voice, or video. Autonomy's
software powers the full spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications
including pan-enterprise search, customer interaction solutions, information
governance, end-to-end eDiscovery, records management, archiving, business
process management, web content management, web optimization, rich media
management and video and audio analysis.
Autonomy's customer base is comprised of more than 20,000 global
companies, law firms and federal agencies including: AOL, BAE Systems, BBC,
Bloomberg, Boeing, Citigroup, Coca Cola, Daimler AG, Deutsche Bank, DLA
Piper, Ericsson, FedEx, Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Lloyds TSB, NASA, Nestlé, the
New York Stock Exchange, Reuters, Shell, Tesco, T-Mobile, the U.S. Department
of Energy, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission. More than 400 companies OEM Autonomy technology,
including Symantec, Citrix, HP, Novell, Oracle, Sybase and TIBCO. The company
has offices worldwide. Please visit www.autonomy.com to find out more.
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Autonomy Editorial Contacts: Winifred Shum David Vindel Autonomy (US) The Red Consultancy (UK) +1-408-771-6668 +44-207-0256529 wshum@autonomy.com david.vindel@redconsultancy.com Edward Bridges Financial Dynamics (UK) +44-207-831-3113 edward.bridges@fd.com
Winifred Shum of Autonomy (US), +1-408-771-6668, wshum at autonomy.com, or David Vindel of The Red Consultancy (UK), +44-207-0256529, david.vindel at redconsultancy.com, or Edward Bridges of Financial Dynamics (UK), +44-207-831-3113, edward.bridges at fd.com
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