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Enterprise Content Management “The Vertical Possibilities” Pamela Doyle, Fujitsu. AIIM’s definition of ECM : The strategies, methods and tools used to capture , manage , store , preserve and deliver content and documents related to key organizational processes. 2. What ECM Covers.
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Enterprise Content Management“The Vertical Possibilities”Pamela Doyle, Fujitsu
AIIM’s definition of ECM: The strategies, methods and tools used to capture, manage, store, preserve and deliver content and documents related to key organizational processes. • 2
What ECM Covers • ECM is not a single system • ECM usually is a group of aligned systems • ECM is about “unstructured” information Unstructured information Structured information • Processed by systems • Databases • Ordered data • Sales and invoicing • Accounting • Human resources • Used by humans • Images • Office documents • Graphics and drawings • Print streams • Web pages and content • E-mail • Video • Rich media assets • 3
ECM – is and is …not • ECM is not… • a single technology • a black box • a miracle cure • easy • ECM is… • about business & organizational processes • not just technology • complicated • 4
1.2 ECM – E = Enterprise ECM • Think like an environmentalist • Think globally, act locally • Think strategically, implement tactically • 5
1.2 ECM – C = Content ECM • All content, not just text documents, not just e-mails without attachments • How widely do you need to search & retrieve • Users inside & outside the organization • 6
1.2 ECM – M = Management ECM • Not just collecting & holding content, but actively managing it • 7
ECM Software Technologies Production Capture Distributed Capture OCR ICR/OMR/Barcode Forms Processing IDR Document Distribution Key from Image Image Enable Document Management WCM Digital Asset Mgmt. Electronic Records Management Business Process Management (Workflow) Enterprise Report Mgmt.
ECM Hardware Technologies • Network Infrastructure • Scanner(s) • Image Enhancement • Security • Storage: • Magneto Optical • WORM • RAID • CDs/DVDs • NAS • SAN
Business Drivers Core Competencies Business Continuity Regulatory Compliance Environmental Conscious
Horizontal Applications • Horizontal Applications: • Disaster recovery • Customer records management • Human resource records management • Processing forms • Document distribution • Document publication • Automating business processes
Health Care – The Prospects • Hospitals • Multi-physician practices • Solo-physician practices • Pharmacies • Drug manufacturers • Health care plans • Dentists • Assisted living facilities • Nursing homes • Optometrists • Insurance providers
Health Care – The Business Drivers • Paper intensive • High administrative costs • Lost or misplaced files • Need to improve quality of care (competitive) • Improve accuracy of diagnosis • Need for clinical repositories • Expedite transaction processing (i.e. EOBs) • Regulatory compliance (HIPAA, FDA CFR)
Health Care – The Applications • Admissions • Patient records • Claim processing • EOBs • Order entry • Clinical data repositories
Alamo Asthma & Allergy • Company Overview: • San Antonio, TX • 2 Physician Practice (opened Aug., 1999) • Provide quality treatment for asthma & allergy related illnesses • Small office, 1,100 sq. ft. • Practice grew, added 1,900 sq. ft. • Business Problem: • Space was being over taken by patient charts • Maintaining records was time-consuming & tedious
Alamo Asthma & Allergy • Lost records (NIGHTMARE) • Retention – 7 yrs. or more • HIPAA Requirements • Implementation Objectives: • Remote access to records (patient calls after hrs.) • Easy to use • Use existing MS Word patient templates • Minimize manual indexing • Data security (in case of server crash) • HIPAA compliant
Alamo Asthma & Allergy • Solution: • FileBound Content Management Solution • e-forms module • Deployment: • Backfile conversion of 3,500 existing patient records • Temporary help • Establish a daily routine for imaging patient records • Patient documents, including MS Word, printed prior to patient’s arrival • Barcode applied (patient ID, date, form type) • Documents scanned and automatically filed without manual indexing
Alamo Asthma & Allergy • Benefits: • Reduced time and frustration of dealing with paper records • Reduced storage requirements • White-out functionality aided with processing EOB • Remote access via Internet (home access 24 X 7) • Redundant storage to laptop • ROI: • HIPAA compliant (privacy, track access, protection) • Practice expansion with no additional administrative staff
Self Memorial Hospital • Referral hospital (421 beds; 1,600 staff) • Problem: • Turnaround time for trauma patients was too long due to inability to find files quickly (250 boxes in hall with 3,000 documents) • HIPAA • Solution: • Scan to CD • 4 MVP scanners
Self Memorial Hospital • ROI: • Faster patient response (10 min. vs. < 3 min.) • Reduced storage (elim. storing 150,000 docs. monthly) • Cost savings ($500K per year) • Faster retrieval and processing for HIPAA compliance
Financial – The Prospects • Large banks • Community banks • Credit unions • Brokerage firms • Accounting firms • Financial investment firms • Check cashing facilities
Financial – Business Drivers • Heavily reliance on microfilm • Seeking the use of Internet to accelerate business processes • Maintain competitive advantage • Cost of office space • Reduce operating system costs • Heavily regulated - SOX, GLB, SEC, Check 21 (Risks and Total Costs of Failure)
Financial – The Applications • Proof of deposit • Check truncation • Signature verification • New account ID • Transaction processing • Safe deposit contracts • Wire transfer documentation
Maier, Markley & Menashi LLP • Company Overview: • Professional services firm • White Plains, NY • Provide clients with accounting, tax compliance & consulting, medical billing, and collection & accounts payable management • Business Problem: • Must maintain several years of records for their clients • Pushed the physical limits of on-site storage • Increasing cost for off-site storage
Maier, Markley & Menashi LLP • One of their clients, a health care organization, who provides renal-dialysis services, was experiencing steady growth. As they grew so did the volume of paper. • This client was the catalyst for seeking DM solution • The business process? Accounts Payable • Implementation Objectives: • Integrate with LOB application to eliminate data entry duplicity (MAS 200 AP Module) • Dynamic and scalable
Maier, Markley & Menashi LLP • Web access for customers • Workflow to automate business processes • Cost effective • Solution: • FileBound Web-based Content Mgmt. System • FileBound Importer Pro (key to integration with MAS 200 AP system) • Metadata imported to FileBound • Invoices scanned • User can search & locate documents in seconds
Maier, Markley & Menashi LLP • ROI: • Documents are digitized • Search and retrieve in seconds vs. days • New functionality to existing LOB • Reduce cost of AP processing • Reduce duplicate payments & late fees • Visibility to status of payment • Looking Forward: • Add workflow component to automate business processes (i.e. invoices over $1,500)
Ernst & Young, Merrill Lynch, Solomon Smith Barney • Full service financial brokerage firms with branch offices throughout U.S. • Business Problem: • Branch offices generate 350-450 new accounts daily (average of 5 documents = 10,000 pages per day) • Previously documents sent via interoffice mail • At corporate, enter new account workflow • Many documents were lost
Ernst & Young, Merrill Lynch, Solomon Smith Barney • Remote Capture and Workflow Solution: • Distributed Capture Solution (Kofax ACIS) • LVP Scanners/VRS • Documents sent via any Internet connection • ROI: • Eliminate courier services • Ensure regulatory compliance • Accelerate business processes • Enable better B2B and B2C
Transportation – The Prospects DOTs Courier services Brokers Trucking companies Food distributors U.S. space program Airlines Relocation providers
Transportation – Business Drivers • Economic issues and price of fuel seeking ways to cut costs: • Photocopying • FAX • Storage space • Workforce reduction • Administrative costs • Regulatory compliance • Data analysis (collisions, road and bridge repairs) • Enhance customer service (self customer service) • Accelerate revenue
Transportation – The Applications • Proof of delivery • Accounts payable • Customer records management • Custom documentation • Document distribution • Shipping documents • Packing slips • Maintenance records
Sirva • Company Overview: • Based in Westmont, IL • Leader in providing relocation solutions • Brands include: • Allied • Global • North American Van Lines • 7,800 employees • 365,000 relocation per year (end to end) • Business Problem: • Each household move generates an average of 25 pages of shipping documents • Agents used mail or courier to overnight documents to be processed using Datacap Taskmaster data & document capture solution integrated with custom DM system
Sirva • Implementation Change Objectives: • Reduce processing time • Reduce costs • Solution: • Datacap Taskmaster Web (browser-based scanning & indexing solution) to remotely capture shipment paperwork & transmit to corporate in Indiana • Fujitsu fi-4110 and fi-4120 workgroup scanners • ROI: • Reduced processing time by an average of 2 days • Reduced scanning costs • Reduced costs associated with shipping documents
Willamette • Paper and Lumber Manufacturer based in Portland, OR • Business Problem • Too many man hours spent filing and retrieving documents • Physical space to store was becoming excessive • Needed a disaster recovery plan for critical information asset • Solution: • Capture with LVP scanner
Willamette • ROI • Processing time reduced from 17-20 minutes to 20 seconds • Reduced storage costs • Accelerated business process by enabling customers to have direct access to documents • Ensured security of data from any data storage disaster
SMBs – The Prospects • Law firms • CPAs • Real estate and property management • Municipal governments (courts, transit, city and county governments) • Professional service organizations • Not for profits • Educational institutions (state and community colleges, professors, local school districts)
SMBs – Business Drivers • Economy and cost of fuel forcing many SMBs to seek cost reductions • Regulatory compliance • Business continuity • Lower costs ECM hardware and software
SMBs – The Applications • Records management (customer, vendor, HR) • Document distribution • Contracts • Transaction processing • Invoice processing • Disaster recovery • Sales agreements
Property Management Plus, Inc. • Company Overview: • San Jose, CA • 4 Person Property Mgmt. & Real Estate Co. • Serves clientele in greater SF Bay & international clientele in Australia, China, Israel, Japan, Philippines, & UK • Business Problem: • Highly paper intensive (agreements, photos, inspection reports, disclosures, etc.) • For regulatory purposes, physical file must be archived for up to 4 yrs. • Receive an avg. of 70 calls per day requiring immediate access to files
Property Management Plus, Inc. • Relying on traditional information sharing • (FAX, Postal & Courier Services) • Solution: • ScanSnap to digitize files to PDF for archiving and sharing via e-mail • ROI: • Eliminate costs of faxing (1 doc. to Philippines $27 / Korea $36) (Saved thousands) • Eliminated courier minimum 7 day staggering value-add • PDF provide for vast ability to collaborate • Execute contracts faster resulting in company growth
America’s Toughest Sheriff – Joe Arpaio • Overview: • Served in U.S. Army • Police officer in Washington D.C. and Las Vegas, NV • 32 yr. Federal law enforcement career concluded as head of state DEA • Reputation for fighting crime and drug trafficking • Campaigned to become county sheriff in 1992 • Re-elected to an unprecedented four 4-year terms
America’s Toughest Sheriff – Joe Arpaio • Benefits (Community Programs): • Bicycle registration • Block watches • Child identification & fingerprinting • Project lifeline (free cellular for domestic violence victims) • S.T.A.R.S. (Sheriff’s Teaching Abuse Resistance to Students) • Problem: • Arpaio believes inmates should be treated as harshly as legally possible
America’s Toughest Sheriff – Joe Arpaio • Solution: • Limited meals to twice daily (avg. cost .15) • Banned smoking, pornographic magazines & weight lifting • Hard knocks high study program • Chain gangs • Pink underwear • Tent city • ROI: • Substantial reduction in costs • Significantly enhanced community service • No prisoner released before his time
Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office • Overview: • Headed by the famed Sheriff Joe Arpaio • Maricopa County, Arizona • 3rd largest sheriff’s office in the country • Employees over 3,000 people • Committed to being the leader in establishing the standards for providing professional quality: • Law enforcement, • Detention, and • Support services for its citizens
Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office • Business Problem: • Employee hiring and screening process was very complex and paper intensive • The lengthy hiring process was resulting in: • Excessive overtime • Costly mistakes • Misfiled paperwork • Inability to comply with privacy laws and regulations
Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office • Solution: • FileBound enterprise-class content management (document management; workflow and eforms) • Integrated with LOB application • Benefits: • Hiring process shortened by weeks • Streamlined and innovative business process • Reduced overtime • Substantial reduction in lost documents • Secured access • More accurate employee records that are compliant with privacy laws and regulations
More Information • Case Studies and White Papers: • Fujitsu at www.fcpa.fujitsu.com • Health Care • Banking/Financial Services • Transportation • SMBs • Distributed Capture