Cardiff Honors Stratford District Council With Government Application of the Year Award.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BRENTFORD This article is about the London suburb. For other uses, see Brentford (disambiguation). Coordinates: Brentford is a suburb in the London Borough of Hounslow at the confluence of the River Thames and the River Brent in West London, situated , England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 7, 2003 Cardiff Cardiff (kär`dĭf), Welsh Caerdydd, city and county (1998 est. pop. 320,900), S Wales, on the Taff River near its mouth on the Bristol Channel. Cardiff is the capital of Wales and an important port. Until the early 20th cent. Software Ltd., a leading global provider of business process-automation solutions, today announced that Stratford Stratford, estate, United States Stratford, home of the Lee family, overlooking the Potomac River, E Va., SE of Fredericksburg. A national shrine dedicated in 1935, the site was purchased in 1716 by Thomas Lee, who built the mansion Stratford Hall in District Council has been awarded the Cardiff Government Application of the Year Award for 2003. The award was presented to Stratford in recognition of its use of the Cardiff LiquidOffice(TM) eForm automation system to improve citizen accessibility to government services while complying with government interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. mandates as defined by the e-Government Interoperability Framework (e-Gif) initiative. Stratford District Council is long recognised as an innovative council with an excellent track record in delivering service improvements through the careful application of new technology. This award further establishes Stratford's credentials CREDENTIALS, international law. The instruments which authorize and establish a public minister in his character with the state or prince to whom they are addressed. If the state or prince receive the minister, he can be received only in the quality attributed to him in his credentials. as a benchmark authority in its push towards full electronic service delivery by 2005. With LiquidOffice, Stratford's citizenry cit·i·zen·ry n. pl. cit·i·zen·ries Citizens considered as a group. citizenry Noun citizens collectively Noun 1. can now fill in forms online directly from their desktop PC, which are then routed straight into Stratford's administrative system. This eForm technology provides the following: -- Elimination of lost, misplaced mis·place tr.v. mis·placed, mis·plac·ing, mis·plac·es 1. a. To put into a wrong place: misplace punctuation in a sentence. b. or misfiled documents -- Administrators at Stratford now have electronic copies of all the information and documents they need to process housing and council tax benefit forms without having to look elsewhere. -- Increase in accountability to citizens -- LiquidOffice automates the decision process based on specific pieces of data and evidence received and alerts administrators when tasks are not completed within a given timescale timescale Noun the period of time within which events occur or are due to occur timescale n → délais mpl timescale time (Brit) n . This automation has enabled forms to be processed faster and more efficiently. -- Improved responsiveness to citizens -- By automating the generation of response documents such as letters and automatically updating back office systems, Stratford's citizenry benefit from faster service and more accurate information. Receiving this award, Dave Webb, head of the Stratford-on-Avon eGov committee responsible for eForms, commented, "This award solidifies Stratford's position as one of the U.K.'s foremost adopters of technologies that improve services to the citizenry and meet the demands of the e-Gif mandates. The processing of renewals for housing and council tax benefit claims was a time-consuming, labour-intensive and costly process. It was important for us to find a way to automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. this business process. The fact that our solution to this problem has been recognised as a leading approach is extremely rewarding." On presentation of the award, Tim Dubes, vice president of sales and marketing EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets. at Cardiff, said, "Many local authorities had very strong applications, but Stratford District Council's stood out as a example of how eForm technology can be utilized to improve customer service and the flow of information to citizens while also reducing costs and increasing employee efficiency. I am pleased to award the 'Cardiff Government Application of the Year 2003' to Stratford District Council." About Cardiff Software Ltd. Cardiff Software is a leading global provider of business process-automation solutions. Cardiff helps organisations gain tremendous advantages by automating their core business processes. Cardiff has a global distribution network spanning every continent and more than 20,000 customers worldwide. For more information on Cardiff, see www.europe.cardiff.com. (C) 1991-2003 Cardiff Software, the Cardiff logo, TELEform, LiquidOffice, LiquidCapture and MEDIclaim Option are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cardiff Software Inc. All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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