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VALID's winning Document and Records Management solution, R/KYV, pronounced archive, has been awarded contracts in Carmarthenshire County Council, Salisbury District Council, Welwyn Hatfield District Council and Gwynedd worth over £700,000.

Dafydd Edwards, senior manager - Treasury, Gwynedd Council: "We chose VALID's R/KYV solution because its open format permits integration with specialist Local Authority software and results in a true corporate solution. Other factors included the solution's scalability, e-GIF compliance and PRO-approved Records Management functionality. And most importantly, the product is very competitively priced".

Carmarthenshire, in west Wales with a population of almost 170,000 chose R/KYV for its corporate Document Management solution. Valid beat Comino and Anite to win the contract. The Benefits Department is set to go live this month using DDE and ODBC links so Council staff will be able to "hot key" between Sx3 (formerly First Software) and R/KYV to control 18,000 cases at any one time, over four separate locations. Council tax and non domestic rates administration will go live immediately following the Benefits Department.Once again, R/KYV will be linked to Sx3 software.

VALID beat i-document systems to win a contract to implement R/KYV in Welwyn Hatfield District Council. The Council houses a rural and urban population of 95,000. R/KYV was initially installed to manage the Revenues and Benefits, Housing and Planning Departments, with a view to running it as the corporate solution. Within Welwyn's Revenues and Benefits Departments R/KYV will integrate with Academy software and in the Housing Department, with Orchard Information Systems. Control of the Planning Department will be provided by R/KYV linking up with Innogistics.

Rural Salisbury, home to a population of 111,476, in partnership with West Dorset District Council, chose R/KYV over i-document systems as its corporate solution. The Revenues and Benefits Department with 50 users will be the first installation site. As part of the Best Value Initiative, Salisbury's Revenues and Benefits solution will incorporate the Wyvern Workflow, written by West Dorset's technical department and tailored to meet Salisbury's requirements. R/KYV integrates with Academy software and Ingres database, using DDE links, to manage the Revenues and Benefits departments.

Gwynedd County Council, population 117,000, in North Wales has also just purchased R/KYV to provide a corporate EDMS solution. R/KYV will initially be installed in the Revenues and Benefits Departments where it will integrate with Academy software.

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