Government institutions, like businesses, face enormous resource and budget management challenges. They are under constant pressure to reduce costs while still needing to maintain the same fixed level of services. In order to respond successfully to these pressures these organizations need to adopt new ways of operating and change their current procedures.

Change does not come easy to any organization, especially one as large and complex as a Government institution. Implementing new technologies and processes to automate many of these functions can help reduce the need for much of the manual activities and free up government employees to better serve their citizens.

New systems and processes can provide benefits in a number of ways, including:

• Through the deployment of ECM applications; the entering, retrieval and storage of information is automated and the time it takes to process applications and forms can be greatly reduced. At the same time, the likelihood of errors or omissions becomes far less and there is a substantial savings in the overall cost of the efforts.


• Recent directives such as HSPD-12 place new requirements on Government agencies and companies wishing to do business with these agencies. Identity management systems and authentication are now key requirements for daily operations.


• Typically Governments around the world are the largest single purchasers of goods and services in their respective countries. However many Governments are not seeing the benefits of this position. This can be attributed to a number of factors. In a large part there is no cohesive system or process through which all transactions and actions can be monitored. As a result the bigger picture is often lost and the true cost of project or initiative is not realized. By implementing new systems for purchasing, project and payment management, Governments can gain a better understanding of their activities and in doing so capitalize on the savings to which their position entitles them.

Consortio can assist governments both in North America and around the globe to innovate and improve the effectiveness of their operations at all levels. By successfully partnering with our clients Consortio’s Professional Services group can help mitigate the increased demands for Government services that are placing a burden on an already overly encumbered system.