Created in 1934, GMA is the only state organization that represents municipal governments in Georgia. It is a voluntary, non-profit organization that provides legislative advocacy, educational, employee benefit and technical consulting services to its members which currently totals more than 500 municipal governments, accounting for more than 99 percent of the state's municipal population.
Hummingbird Enterprise will provide GMA with a central repository for managing content lifecycle including paper, electronic documents and e-mail, according to a release from the company. The new solution will replace the previous practice of storing and sharing documents across several different directories. Content to be managed and stored include life insurance eligibility forms, retirement forms, contracts with third party vendors and other cities, and standard financial documents.
"We have a lot of paper in the building and realized that we needed to digitize this information because if we were ever to have a serious incident such as a fire or even a grievous act which could prevent us from continuing normal operations, all our documentation would be lost," said John Restivo, Director, IT at the Georgia Municipal Association. "It is critical to have an information infrastructure that is always accessible rather than having to recover from a business stoppage. Hummingbird Enterprise will provide us with a proven, solid foundation to build a functionally-rich content management environment with full disaster recovery."
