WASHINGTON STATE'S EDMONDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE SELECTS AUTONOMY'S BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT SOLUTION
LiquidOffice Solution to Streamline Approvals and Reduce Processing Costs for Complex Personnel Action Forms
Cambridge, UK and San Francisco, Calif. - Aug. 4, 2008 - Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced that Edmonds Community College (the College) has selected Cardiff's Business Process Management solution to enhance its administration's efficiency and improve employees' productivity. LiquidOffice will enable the College to effectively create, deploy, route, approve and manage thousands of digital forms each year. Edmonds Community College, one of the 34 colleges that comprise the Washington State Community and Technical College System, serves about 19,000 students per year.
The LiquidOffice solution will initially be used by the College to streamline and automate the processing of thousands of forms, such as the "Personal Action Forms" (PAFs), that are typically initiated by Human Resources to process a number of activities, including cost of living adjustment and salary increases. The College estimates that approximately 5,000 to 10,000 PAFs are processed each year and these forms must be routed to multiple departments for approval. PAFs also contain sensitive information, including employees' Social Security numbers; as a result, securely routing the forms at each step in a business process is a priority for the College. Moving forward, the College's staff will be able to electronically fill out HR-related forms and intelligently route them throughout the organization. Consequently, delays inherent in paper-based processes will be eliminated, and authorized users will have access to valuable "in-flight" process reporting to track the status of a particular business process, allowing instant accountability to be achieved.
"Previously, all of our administrative information was managed using paper-based processes that were labor intensive and prone to error," said Victor Portolese, manager, Application Development Services at Edmonds Community College. "We required a solution that would reduce the time and costs associated with the management of forms while also integrating easily with our existing system framework. The LiquidOffice solution provides us with out-of-the-box robust capabilities that can be rapidly tailored and deployed by our staff with little to no programming. With Autonomy Cardiff, we will be able to automate and streamline our HR-related business processes that have historically been paper based, helping to decrease the time it takes to process our digital forms, while increasing our employees' productivity."
"Administrative processes within colleges and universities can be very complex and time-consuming, involving a significant number of staff members and processes in the approval process," said Mark Seamans, Autonomy Cardiff's CEO. "Automating these types of processes - where approvers may be geographically distributed across a large campus or regional environments - is an area of strength for our Business Process Automation solution. We are pleased to help Edmonds Community College improve its employees' productivity by eliminating manual data entry and providing immediate access to data and forms from within a unified online portal environment. The solution will undoubtedly deliver process acceleration and hard cost savings immediately."
The Cardiff Intelligent Document suite automates all aspects of both paper-based and Web-based document-centric business processes. It delivers significant cost reduction, accelerated processes and an improved customer experience by taking formerly static documents and enabling them to 'process themselves' through the introduction of embedded intelligence. For more information on the LiquidOffice solution, please visit http://www.cardiff.com/products/liquidoffice/.
About Autonomy
Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L) is a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise and is spearheading the meaning-based computing movement. 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, be it text, email, voice or video. Autonomy's software powers the full spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications including information access technology, pan-enterprise search, information governance, end-to-end eDiscovery and archiving, records management, business process management, customer interaction solutions, and video and audio analysis, and is recognized by industry analysts as the clear leader in enterprise search.
Autonomy's customer base comprises of more than 17,000 global companies and organizations including: 3, ABN AMRO, AOL, BAE Systems, BBC, Bloomberg, Boeing, Citigroup, Coca Cola, Daimler Chrysler, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson, Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Lloyd TSB, NASA, Nestle, the New York Stock Exchange, Reuters, Shell, 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 350 companies OEM Autonomy technology, including BEA, Citrix, EDS, H-P, Novell, Oracle, Sybase and TIBCO, and the company has over 400 VARs and Systems Integrators. The company has offices worldwide.
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