Case Studies

Douglas County has significantly improved the time its employees have available to spend assisting residents, by dramatically reducing document storage and retrieval time. Implementing DocuWare has positioned the County to process more records without adding personnel, giving the County the flexibility to meet budget constraints and growing needs simultaneously. The ability to search the records within the database will allow the Juvenile Justice department to perform early intervention programs, the Health department to provide better medical care, the Sheriff’s department to identify crime trends and the Assessors department to provide better access to public information.

Douglas County Oregon, population 100,000, is a rural county in the southwest corner of the state. The County’s IT department began looking for a document management system to better store 30 years of the Sheriff department’s case records. During their search, the County realized that a document management solution could be utilized as a research tool; therefore, the County expanded its focus and chose to implement DocuWare in the Sheriff’s department first and then expand the system to other departments.

National mattress manufacturer, Corsicana Bedding, Inc., implemented DocuWare to manage proof of delivery documents. The results: lightning fast, secure, storage and access of information for a significant improvement in cash flow, a knowledge base available to all employees for a dramatic improvement in customer service, and automation of key business processes.

Established in 1971, Corsicana Bedding, Inc., is a national mattress manufacturer with three large production plants and two distribution centers across the country. The company employs over 450 people and distributes its product to over 4,000 retail centers nation-wide.

Christian Health Care Center (CHCC), an elder-care and mental-health facility, has implemented DocuWare, streamlining its Admissions Department and improving information accuracy for the entire Center. Patient information can easily be transferred between programs. The Center has realized significant productivity and efficiency gains, and improved patient relations, thus allowing the Center to focus on providing services in a compassionate and loving environment.

CHCC was founded in 1911 by a group of deacons from the Reformed tradition. Today, CHCC - a non-profit organization open to anyone regardless of race, sex, or religion - provides high-quality, family-centered eldercare and mental-health services.

The Center offers both inpatient and outpatient programs. Elder-care programs include long-term care, a special-care inpatient behavior-management unit, adult day services, assisted living, and independent senior residences. Mental-health services include a psychiatric hospital, partial program, and outpatient counseling.

Sometimes, a little innovation can go a long way. That’s the case with a recent Laserfiche installation with one of the world’s oldest makers of fragrances and flavors, Robertet.

The 150-year old firm needed some way to readily access some very important papers it kept in notebooks at its US headquarters. Many of its operations were completely computerized, but not information in the notebooks, which held safety specifications about the materials they buy to make perfumes smell sweeter and soft drinks taste better.

According to federal guidelines, those documents, called material safety data sheets, had to be stored for some 30 years and Robertet wanted a safer way to store them. The company also wanted an easy way to store new material safety data sheets that came into the offices from time to time, and it wanted them stored in a document management system that would automatically index them in a way that would make them easy to find and retrieve.