New Castle County, Del. Tames Its Paper Tiger With Image-Based Internet Deeds Management Solution From Unisys, American Cadastre.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers BILLINGS, Mont.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 2001 Records warehouse for eight million documents replaced by electronic images accessed, managed and paid for over the Internet IACREOT IACREOT International Association of Clerks, Recorders, Election Officials and Treasurers Annual Conference--Searching for one of the millions of land use documents stored in New Castle County, Del., is now a matter of browsing a Windows-based index in seconds at any time of day. The mountains of paper and microfilm accumulated over centuries by the county's Recorder of Deeds Recorder of deeds refers to the government office tasked with maintaining a record of real estate ownership, as well as other deeds that provide persons other than the owner of a property with real rights over that property. Office are now stored as electronic images in a Unisys e-@ction Enterprise Server the size of a file drawer, thanks to the Land Information System provided by American Cadastre CADASTRE. A term derived from the French, which has been adopted in Louisiana, and which signifies the official statement of the quantity and value of real property in any district, made for the purpose of justly apportioning the taxes payable on such property. 3 Am. St. Pap. 679; 12 Pet. 428, n. , LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control (AmCad). Well over eight million online document images converted from microfilm and paper are available to the public via the system, which is also integrated with and accessible by the county's other information systems and databases. The task of finding, processing, routing and sharing the documents is simplified with the centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. tracking and workflow function. The $1.6 million project also includes bar coding, cashiering and receipting to enable users to pay for recording of documents submitted to the Recorder of Deeds office. "We conducted a year-long search for a partner with the latest technology to move our offices into imaging and Internet technologies," said Michael Battaglia, Recorder of Deeds, New Castle County, Del. "We also wanted the complete conversion of our data, microfilm and paper images online. The AmCad and Unisys team offered technology with the performance and redundancy we needed as the largest county in Delaware." "Our alliance with AmCad at New Castle County is an excellent example of combining Unisys high-performance Intel-based server technology, AmCad vertical market expertise and Unisys software applications to provide complete, turnkey solutions from a single source," said Jim McShea, area director, Unisys Business Partner Sales. "The benefits realized by New Castle County and its constituents are precisely the kind of advantages made possible by combining Unisys core strengths with best-of-class offerings of AmCad." Based in Alexandria, Va., AmCad provides solutions that enable governments worldwide to record and secure their documents. AmCad is a Unisys marketing associate and reseller of Unisys servers and Unisys e-Workflow & Imaging Solutions. It offers solutions for managing land records and court records as well as geographic information systems geographic information system (GIS) Computerized system that relates and displays data collected from a geographic entity in the form of a map. The ability of GIS to overlay existing data with new information and display it in colour on a computer screen is used primarily to along with comprehensive integration capabilities. A privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. founded in 1986, AmCad now has solutions in over 10 U.S. states. About Unisys Unisys is an e-business solutions company whose 37,000 employees help customers in 100 countries apply information technology to seize opportunities and overcome challenges of the Internet economy The Internet Economy refers to conducting business through markets whose infrastructure is based on the Internet and World-Wide Web. An Internet economy differs from a traditional economy in a number of ways, including: communication, market segmentation, distribution costs, and price. . Unisys people integrate and deliver the solutions, services, platforms and network infrastructure required by business and government to transform their organizations for success in this new era. The company offers a rich portfolio of Unisys e-@ction Solutions for e-business based on its expertise in vertical industry solutions, network services, outsourcing, systems integration and multivendor support, coupled with enterprise-class server and related technologies. The primary vertical markets Unisys serves worldwide include financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , transportation, communications, publishing and commercial sectors, as well as the public sector, including federal government customers. Unisys is headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania Blue Bell is a census-designated place (CDP) in Whitpain Township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, its population was 6,395. , in the Greater Philadelphia area. For more information on the company, access the Unisys home page on the World Wide Web at www.unisys.com. Investor information can be found at www.unisys.com/investor. RELEASE NO.: 0601/8027 http://www.unisys.com/news/releases/2001/jun/06188027.asp Unisys is a registered trademark and e-@ction is a trademark of Unisys Corporation (company) Unisys Corporation - The company formed in 1984-5 when Burroughs Corporation merged with Sperry Corporation. This was when the phrase "dinosaurs mating" was coined. . All other brands and products referenced herein are acknowledged to be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion