EDM GROUP WINS TOP SPOT AT NATIONWIDE'S BUSINESS SERVICES SUPPLIER AWARDS

Posted on: 24/06/2008

The EDM Group, a UK leading document management solution provider, has announced that it has won two awards at the annual Nationwide Business Services Supplier awards, which took place Thursday 12th June 2008. The awards were created to mark the achievements of those working in partnership with the Nationwide Building Society. EDM was nominated in two categories and was successful in both, winning first place for Innovation and runner-up in Best Supplier, for providing a consolidated corporate-wide document archive and retrieval solution in line with Nationwide's business deadlines.

EDM designed and supplied Nationwide with a document archive and retrieval solution through its Scan-on-Demand service, as part of a five year contract to manage 2.5 million customer files and over 1 million microfiche in a specialised facility in Wolverhampton. To date, 70,000 boxed customer files, and 19 cabinets of customer data on microfiche have been moved into the EDM Nationwide Archive. From this facility, EDM has serviced an average of 1,700 retrievals per month via EDM online, EDM's secure web hosted service, direct to Nationwide desktops, across 3,000 Nationwide employees. Each month, a further 500,000 images are being scanned and added to the digital archive.

EDM's scan-on-demand document management solution has significantly reduced the time taken to access documents whilst making them readily available to all staff. The service has also delivered improved auditability and control, and brought environmental benefits because courier van journeys have been eliminated.

The Nationwide Awards have been running for 4 years and enable Nationwide to recognise and reward business partnerships in pursuit of mutual aims and continuous improvement.