1. CASE STUDY Higher Education
Higher Colleges of Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) is the largest higher education
organization in the Middle East, with 17 campuses serving more than
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20,000 students across the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
In 2007, administrators at HCT realized that the organization needed to
better manage the tens of thousands of student- and staff-focused
documents it processes each year, and identified enterprise content
Human Resources management (ECM) software as the solution. To ensure they selected
Registry (Student Registration & Records) the best system for their unique needs, HCT’s IT/IS team compared
Finance several leading ECM systems head to head. In the end, one stood out:
Facilities Management ImageNow document management, document imaging and workflow
form Perceptive Software.
“Compared to the other ECM systems we evaluated, ImageNow was
easy to use and didn’t require a lot of training,” said Khalid Tariq, Head
of Enterprise Systems at HCT. “Its scalability and the ability to
seamlessly integrate with any of our systems also convinced us to go
with ImageNow.”
To ensure maximum results from HCT’s ECM project, they are using a
phased implementation approach; getting one department deployed at a
time.
“We were surprised by how easy and quick it is to implement
ImageNow,” Tariq said. “With the right people in place we can get a
department up and running in three to four weeks.”
Saving Time and Paper in the Business Office
The first area in which ImageNow was implemented was human
resources (HR).
Over 18 months, HCT scanned all personnel documents for more than
“ ith ImageNow, we’re making the right
“W 2,500 staff members – including CVs, contracts, medical forms, banking
decisions based on the availability of forms, job descriptions and interview notes – into ImageNow, which
the documents at the right time. If a automatically links them to the appropriate human resource
student comes in with an academic issue, management system record. This content is then easily accessible from
the HRM system when it’s needed.
counselors and other staff members have
full knowledge of that person’s history Employee resignation is one HR process that ImageNow has positively
impacted. Traditionally, when an employee resigns from the HCT
within seconds directly from the SunGard system, he or she went to almost 10 different departments to get sign
SIS and can give the best answer.” offs and clearance. Now, once an employee resigns and the supervisor
accepts the resignation, ImageNow Workflow takes over, sending the
Khalid Tariq appropriate documents to each department concurrently, without the
Head of Enterprise Systems employee physically taking the paperwork to each office.
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