The US Army to speak about its successful paperless initiative at IBM’s ECM UserNet conference
Montreal, QC, April 16 2009 - Silanis Technology, the leader in electronic signatures, and Enterprise Information Management, Inc (EIM) today announced that the US Army will share best practices for eliminating paper from government processes at the IBM spring regional ECM UserNet conferences in Washington, DC on April 16th. The US Army will discuss how it successfully leveraged e-signatures, e-forms and content management capabilities to achieve straight-through electronic processing and significantly reduced the costs and delays of authorizing government decisions and approving requests.
As the premier leader in the rapid automation of business processes, EIM develops powerful information management solutions for the federal government and commercial organizations worldwide. Silanis and EIM were responsible for assisting the US Army in achieving these goals, resulting in the most successful paperless initiative in government to date.
“The current economic crisis is increasing the pressure on government agencies to take action quickly and eliminate wasteful spending. Adding complexity to the problem is the need to document processes and hold people accountable,” says Tommy Petrogiannis, Silanis’ President and Co-Founder.
A detailed overview of the US Army’s initiative will offer insight into the single largest deployment of electronic signatures and electronic forms, involving more than 1.6 million users. Since the implementation began more than three years ago, the project has met initial project objectives of cost avoidance and productivity, including:
- An estimated cost avoidance savings of more than $28 million in electronically processing evaluation forms alone
- An estimated 2-hour reduction in the time to process each evaluation form
- Personnel around the world can complete these evaluation forms in days instead of months