LONG BEACH, CA - The City of Denton, TX Technology Services Department has been honored for outstanding IT leadership with the “Most Innovative Use of Technology Award” for its city-wide Laserfiche Imaging Project.

The award was given in the 2003 Best of Texas competition run by the Center for Digital Government, an international research and advisory institute on IT in government and education.

VAR VP Imaging of Dallas and Lubbock, TX has represented Laserfiche throughout the 3 ½ year project. City officials credited VP owners Cody and Nadine Bettis with providing perspective and a positive spirit throughout the enterprise project that has made records available throughout the City.

“This use of technology has addressed the imaging needs of departments in the city and has improved our overall business process by providing ease of access to information. We eventually hope to make the imaged information available to the public via the Internet, being able to provide information to the public every day 24/7,” said Alex Pettit, Denton’s director of technology services.

Denton, a fast-growing college city of nearly 90,000, which is the third leg of the “Golden Triangle” including Dallas and Fort Worth, has a city council committed to productivity and service to constituents. The city has applied Laserfiche technology in some unusual ways.

“The Engineering Department’s projects and sewer videos are digitized and available in Laserfiche. The Human Resources Department has automated the hiring process using Laserfiche,” said Cody Bettis of VP Imaging. “The Electric Administration Department has digitized the parts inventory on Laserfiche, for improved asset control, too.”

Mary Collins, Denton’s technology services manager, credits Pettit’s vision for making optimum use of information-sharing technology throughout the city. She said Laserfiche installations have been developed for each work group to ensure that stored records are easily accessible.

City secretary Jennifer Walters was an early user of Laserfiche, using it to archive council agendas, resolutions and ordinances.

“We are very pleased to present the Best of Texas awards to these IT leaders and agencies,” says Cathilea Robinett, executive director of the Folsom, CA-based Center for Digital Government. “The awards are presented to individuals and agencies that have demonstrated an unwavering commitment to improve the quality of service to citizens. The Denton recipients have definitely earned this recognition which symbolizes excellence in IT.”

Laserfiche employs open architecture, non-proprietary images and is widely scalable to make its products affordable and useful to the mainstream government and commercial market. Laserfiche’s Records Management Edition was recently certified under Department of Defense 5015.2, the US industry-standard.

Laserfiche (www.Laserfiche.com) is a division of Compulink Management Center, Inc. with world headquarters in Long Beach, CA. Since 1987, Laserfiche Document Imaging software has been helping manage documents in over 20,000 government agencies, schools, law offices, non-profit organizations, financial services companies and other businesses worldwide.

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