Infodata's CORRControl helps manage federal correspondence

Infodata has released CORRControl, a software solution to help manage electronic federal agency correspondence.

CORRControl comes with workflow, an SQL database, PDF conversion software and scanners and scan stations. It runs on Documentum's EDMS 98 document management system.

CorrControl users create folders to electronically store, map the workflow routes and monitor the progress of correspondences and their responses received via mail, E-mail, telephone or by fax.

Perceived benefits with CORRControl include fewer communication delays, better decision support, less information redundancy and loss, reduced paper and waste and better staff efficiency (no paper searches or photocopies).

An early adopter of CORRControl is the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED), which expects to eliminate up to 70 percent of the steps involved with managing correspondence.

"Agency correspondence doesn't flow to people, it flows through people," explained Commander Foster of the U.S. Navy Medical Service Corps. CORRControl will allow BUMED staff to process information simultaneously rather than pushing physical documents through a linear process