Recruitment Program in Southern Province

Visit us at Career Fair 2009 in Tangalle, Southern Province - Sri Lanka. We have several openings in following areas and eligible candidates can submit detail CV to careers@sanje.com.

• 100 Openings for Data Entry Operators
• 20 Openings for Data Quality Control Supervisors
• 10 Openings for Scanner Operators
• 100 Openings for Document Processing Clerks
• 5 Openings for Sales Executives & Business Development Executives
• 5 Openings for Project Coordinators
  

e-FDS at e-Asia Exhibition 2009

Sanje Lanka Private Limited invited by Ministry of Public Administration & Home Affairs to demonstrate its enterprise document management system, Form-less Document Systems E-Government Version in the e-Asia 2009 Exhibition. Currently Form-less Document Systems 3.0 implemented centrally connecting 13 DS offices in Colombo District to facilitate quick and fast issuance of Birth, Marriage and Death certificates to general public.

His Excellency President Mahinda Rajapaksha visited the exhibition stall yesterday (2nd December 2009) and shown his interest to scale up these services to all the other districts in Sri Lanka to improve public services and express his gratitude to all the parties involved in this successful project. Colombo District Secretary Mr. G.A.J. Sylvester, Officers from ICTA, Registrars Department and Sanje Lanka Private Limited also present in the above photograph in the event of issuing Birth certificate to the His Excellency President Mahinda Rajapaksha.

The importance of paper sizes and the layout in ECM

Couple of years back I was handling a document conversion project for a well known multinational. There were two main obstacles that we had to face.

1. The main document that we had to scan was in a non standard size. It was a bit longer than an A3 paper. This prevented us from using most of our scanners, since they were not capable of scanning papers longer than A3. Among all what we had, the only scanner capable of this at that time was the good old Kodak - I 260. Even for that we had to add additional RAM. (At present the problem is not that significant since there are several models of scanners that support scanning of extra-long documents. I will write about these in a separate post).

What we can learn from this is that it would be very much easy and cheaper to scan a standard size document than a non-standard size. The scanners are designed having considering the standard paper sizes (ISO as well as US sizes). More than that, this is a main factor upon which the price of a scanner depends on. As an example a scanner that can scan A3 size documents will cost around 4-5 times of a scanner that can scan only up to A4 or legal. So my personal opinion is that it is always good to keep your documents at A4 or legal size. This also helps a lot in the handling as well as storage of documents. Having non standard size documents will make it more difficult to file, store and even copy a document.

2. The main document was an application form which had all the filled in information in one side and the applicant's signature on the other side. That was because the second side was full of all the terms and conditions under which the customer had to place the signature. Since the signature was required to capture we had to scan both sides of the page.

If the signature was on the same side along with the other details then we could have scanned only that side of the page. This would have reduced the cost of conversion by 50% , and reduced the project duration at least by 20-30%. Not only that we would have reduced the storage and bandwidth requirements by about 30%. So this is a good example why you need to consider about the layout of the documents.

These are just two examples of how the size and the layout of documents will matter in your ECM activities.