Sitrof Technologies a Finalist for AIIM Best Practices Award

Recognized for paperless transformation

2011-02-14

EMMAUS, PA, February 13, 2011 (Press-News.org) Sitrof Technologies is pleased announced the end customer, Copernicus Group IRB (CGIRB) was named a finalist for the 2011 AIIM Best Practices Award. The Carl E. Nelson Best Practices Award was established to recognize excellence in information management.

Sitrof Technologies implementation of Xerox Corporation's (NYSE:XRX) DocuShare enterprise content management (ECM) was recognized as a finalist in the Small Company category for their work in transforming Copernicus Group IRB into a paperless company. CGIRB is now 96% paperless after the 2 year implementation. The paperless endeavor involved a massive legacy document scanning operation, including 1.5 million legacy documents totaling 5 million pages, as well as all internal documents and all inbound paper and electronic documents. Utilizing the Sitrof Compliance Module for DocuShare, CGIRB is able to maintaining FDA 21 CFR Part 11 compliance.

"We are excited to be a finalist," said Bryan Reynolds, Managing Partner of Sitrof Technologies. "This was a huge undertaking requiring a lot of time and resources. The success of the project was due in a great part to the multi-phase plan developed by CGIRB's director of IT, Jennifer Sodrel. Internal change management can sometimes be the most difficult part of a paperless implementation and Jennifer nailed it."

"The quality of the submissions for the Carl E. Nelson Best Practice Award continues to improve raising the bar on best practices while emphasizing innovation, benefits and lessons learned," said John Mancini, President, AIIM. "Our AIIM Emerging Technology Advisory Group (EmTAG) selected the finalists in each category for the Best Practices Award. Our professional members are determining the winner in each category. Each of the finalists share many valuable lessons learned to help others with their implementations."

AIIM professional members will chose the winner from the finalists. Award winners will be announced at the AIIM Annual Awards Celebration, March 22 at The W Washington, DC, where John Mancini, AIIM's President, will announce the winner.

About Sitrof Technologies
Founded in 1999, Sitrof Technologies provides a new breed of information management, data protection and compliance solutions. Sitrof Technologies has earned trusted advisor status with an expanding repeat customer base of over 200 leading enterprise and emerging mid-market companies. Backed by decades of experience and world-class partnerships, Sitrof saves companies millions of dollars across many industries, improving efficiency and mitigating risk.

To learn more visit Sitrof.com, email sales@sitrof.com or call 866-545-8954.

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