The Coal Authority

“Wisdom had a head start for us in the competition to find a supplier because they already implemented, very successfully, the IMPReS application here at the authority. This enabled us to manage all of our legacy paper records electronically, so whilst other organisations could have migrated those paper records into their systems, Wisdom gave us the confidence factor of being able to do that successfully.”

Coal Authority Company Secretary
The Coal Authority

The CA had a requirement to implement electronic document and record management (EDRM) by January 2005 in accordance with government initiatives. Previously, all records were retained and managed in paper form, and the archive held approximately 850,000 paper files. These files were all to be retained and managed alongside the electronic records. A paper file management system (IMPReS), supplied by Diagonal Solutions (now Morse) in 1998 was being used to manage the paper records. IMPReS has now been superseded with the introduction of EDRM, and all IMPReS data has been be transferred to the Wisdom database.