Datawitness Online Ltd. Press Feed

Ontario Provincial Government Renews Datawitness Status As Approved Vendor For Three More Years

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:20 -0800

Richmond, British Columbia – September 3, 2008 – The Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities renewed Datawitness Online Ltd. for an additional three years as an approved vendor for maintaining and issuing student transcripts for Ontario Private Career Colleges (PCCs). PCCs are required by the Private Career Colleges Act, 2005 (the Act) to store transcripts off-site for 25 years within 90 days of a student leaving a college. Datawitness is re-qualified as an approved vendor until July 18, 2011.

Datawitness provides long-term student and corporate records archiving to Canadian educational institutions and other business sectors. Datawitness.com's StoreIt service enables educators to maintain secure off-site student records without the cost, space, and security challenges of keeping paper records safe and accessible for decades.

"We are pleased to continue offering our service to Ontario PCCs," said Karim Allibhai, Director of Sales, Datawitness. "StoreIt was a perfect fit to accept student records from the day we were selected as an approved vendor. We're happy to report that many PCCs have come on board with us over the past year to maintain compliance with the Act. They discovered how easy it is to archive and manage transcripts online using StoreIt. We continue to improve StoreIt as an efficient and cost-effective way for our current and future PCC clients to achieve Ministry compliance."

To view the approved vendors list, please see the Ontario Provincial Government Ministry of Training Colleges and Universities website: http://edu.gov.on.ca/eng/general/vendors.html.

Datawitness Announces Partnership with Document Destruction Company Maximum Security Shredders

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 09:27 -0800

Richmond, British Columbia – August 9, 2008 – Destruction of paper records is a key part of the paper to digital record conversion process. Only when original paper records are destroyed does the full integrity of the converted records transfer to the digital and microfilm replacements.

Maximum Security Shredders of Okotoks, Alberta offers secure on-site and off-site shredding to businesses and organizations in Southern Alberta. "Our clients need Certificates of Destruction to protect themselves legally when sensitive records are destroyed," said Rachel Lavelle of Maximum Security Shredders. "Our highly secure services prevent any accidental release of confidential information. We are happy to partner with Datawitness and Resolve to offer effective paper to digital conversion. The process yields shredded paper we can put back into paper product production and reduces the demand for new pulp."

"Our partnership with Maximum Security Shredders enables us to offer a complete solution for paper to digital conversion in Southern Alberta," said Karim Allibhai, Director of Sales, Datawitness. "Organizations can take advantage of new standards to reduce paper storage costs and risk of document loss and damage by preserving long-term integrity of records in a microfilm format legally accepted as equal to the original paper. If that wasn't enough, companies who convert from paper are also being environmentally friendly. We're pleased to partner with Maximum to offer a long-term archiving process compliant with CGSB (Canadian General Standards Board), ANSI (American Natural Standards Institute), and other regulatory bodies. Together, we remove the millstone of paper record keeping that's been deadweight around the neck of businesses and organizations for years."

Datawitness Partners with Resolve Information Management Inc. To Provide Permanent Paper to Digital Record Conversion Solution

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:18 -0800

Richmond, British Columbia – July 23, 2008 – Businesses and organizations of all sizes are examining established business practices to cut expenses for long-term storage of paper records. They still need to retain permanent records for compliance, risk management, and historical reasons but new alternatives are available that will save money, time, and effort.

Resolve Information Management Inc. of Calgary, Alberta specializes in paper to digital record conversion. Resolve also develops and implements post-scanning record management systems to help organizations find and retrieve key information efficiently and quickly by eliminating the retrieval delays and potential for loss and misfiling that are common with stored paper records.

"Our customers and prospects are clamoring for a way out of their paper storage nightmares," said Colin Hunt, President, Resolve Information Management Inc. "Datawitness offers a unique way to get records off paper that's often boxed up for years in storage rooms and costly warehouses. We scan them, Datawitness archives them on microfilm with digital copies available anytime through their web application, then we shred the paper. Not only do we free up space and money used to store paper, we put the shredded paper into the recycling stream. Then it can be reused in paper with post-consumer fiber content and reduce the amount of trees cut to feed the demand for paper."

"The situation is a win on all fronts," said Karim Allibhai, Director of Sales, Datawitness. "Organizations reduce their paper storage costs, lock the long-term integrity of records into a format more compact and durable than paper, and help the environment. We're pleased to partner with Resolve to offer a CGSB (Canadian General Standards Board) and ANSI (American Natural Standards Institute) compliant method for removing the deadweight of paper record keeping that's been carried by business people for years."

Datawitness Partners With Amperea Software Inc.

Wed, 21 May 2008 14:20 -0800

Richmond, British Columbia – May 21, 2008 – Private Career Colleges face record keeping challenges without the resources of publicly-funded institutions. Yet they still must comply with laws and regulations and pass licensing reviews administered by regional governing bodies.

Amperea Software Inc. offers the web-based ampEducator software solution for management and administration of private academic institutions. With Ontario law requiring Private Career Colleges to maintain off-site copies of student records, Amperea sought out Datawitness to provide record archiving for their current and future clients. "Datawitness's Application Programming Interface (API) enables us to extend ampEducator's feature set to include integrated and seamless long term archiving," said Jamie McLeod, Managing Director, Amperea Software Inc.

"ampEducator is uniquely positioned to use our API," said Karim Allibhai, Director of Sales, Datawitness."Integrating our witnessing and archiving services into the ampEducator platform is efficient because the changes are made only once. No software updates have to be installed onsite at client systems. The next time clients log in to their ampEducator accounts on the web, they will be immediately able to store documents offsite."

Datawitness Partners with PROFF Information Management Solutions Inc.

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:19 -0800

Richmond, British Columbia – April 15, 2008 – Private Career Colleges must maintain records to comply with laws and regulations and pass licensing reviews administered by regional governing bodies.

PROFF Information Management Solutions Inc. offers the Academic Administrative Information Management Solution (AAIMS) for academic institutions. With changes in Ontario law requiring Private Career Colleges to maintain off-site copies of student records, PROFF was looking for a way to offer off-site archiving functionality to its installed application base. "Datawitness Technology is a natural fit with our Management Information System. It offers our customers a complete and seamless long term archiving solution ," said Sohan Dias, President, PROFF Information Management Solutions Inc.

"We are pleased to partner with PROFF to serve the education market," said Karim Allibhai, Director of Sales, Datawitness."Integrating our witnessing and archiving services with PROFF solutions strengthens the capabilities of both companies. But most importantly, we enable new cost savings and time efficiencies for both our client bases."