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Resolution to Approve a Professional Services Agreement with Brian Karcher, Independent Contractor for OnBase Development (Not to Exceed $125,000.00)
Memorandum
Attached for your review and approval is a resolution that will approve a professional services agreement between the City of Ann Arbor and Brian Karcher to provide OnBase Developer Services. This will allow OnBase, the City’s Enterprise Content Management System, to be efficiently and effectively promoted to various City Service Units in a timely manner.
In June of 2009, City Council approved Resolution 09-0257, which approved the first phase of this initiative, including the City of Ann Arbor/Washtenaw County Enterprise Content Management partnership that saved approximately $500,000 in City project start-up costs. In August 2010, City Council approved Resolution 10-0732, which established an Enterprise Content Management project budget of $470,000 and authorized a Purchase Order Not to Exceed $200,000 with ImageSoft. ImageSoft had been the City’s OnBase integrator for the last two years and has been successful in completing many OnBase initiatives including implementations for the City Assessor's Office, City Clerk's Office, Police Department, Project Management and Finance.
Enterprise Content Management is a very large, complex, city-wide initiative that involves the optimization of business workflows, the digitizing and cataloging of documents across the organization and the implementation of supporting systems for locating, integrating and managing electronic documents.
Document digitization occurs either by integrating an electronic document directly to the content management system or by scanning a paper document into an electronic format and then adding it to the content management system during a business process. Cataloging is setting up multiple search terms, or keys, for the digitized document so it can be retrieved later by authorized users. Supporting software provides se...
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