AUSTIN, Texas �August 17, Apr.2005 �CIBER, Inc. (NYSE: CBR) today announced
that a custom software application it jointly designed, created, and implemented
with the Tarrant County (Texas) Tax Office was awarded a “County Best Practices
Award�for superior innovation in technology. The award was accepted by Betsy
Price, Tarrant County Tax Assessor/Collector at an awards ceremony recently at
the Texas Association of Counties Post Legislative Conference in Austin. Price
nominated the project for the award.
CIBER’s Motor Vehicle Inventory Tracking System (MVITS) was created to help
the Tarrant County Tax Assessor-Collector’s Office streamline its vehicle
registration and titling process. The tax office registers more than 1.6 million
vehicles and performs 500,000 title transfers each year. The office is also
responsible for managing the inventory—valued at more than $11 million—of
license plates, windshield stickers, and transfer forms provided to dealers, who
register and title vehicles as bonded agents of the tax office.
For the project, a team from CIBER’s Dallas/Fort Worth office analyzed the
tax office’s existing procedures and software systems, identified
inefficiencies, established specifications for a new system, and then designed,
coded, tested, and implemented a software solution using Microsoft Active Server
pages and Microsoft’s SQL Server Enterprise Edition. CIBER’s Dallas/Fort Worth
office includes nearly 200 consultants, an off-site performance center, and a
federal call center.
CIBER’s MVITS system has almost completely automated the inventory management
process, reducing by more than 50 percent the time and effort required to track
inventory and transactions, and eliminating the need for annual dealer audits.
Accurate inventory counts are available at all times, and include bond and
dealer expiration dates, insurance company information, and dealer contacts. The
system provides alerts when discrepancies arise, so problems can be isolated to
individual dealerships, and corrections can be made to reduce exposure to
potential losses. Within the first month, the system identified more than $1
million in changes that needed to be made to dealer bonds.
The Texas Association of Counties selects projects for the County Best
Practices Award based on the level of innovation involved in the project,
significant and measurable increases in productivity and customer service,
significant and measurable decreases in costs, benefits to the county and/or
public, and repeatability of the project for use in other counties.
“The MVITS system has helped us enormously,�says Price. “We needed to make
changes to keep up with the county’s growing population—Tarrant County is the
seventh fastest growing county in the U.S. in number of new residents each year.
CIBER’s significant experience with state and local governments was a major
factor in selecting it for the project. CIBER consultants understood and
analyzed the situation quickly, and designed an efficient and highly successful
solution. We’re very pleased.�
“Tarrant County was a terrific project. We were able help the county by
designing and implementing a solution to a difficult problem, a solution that
has already shown its value within the first month of operation,�says Joseph
Mancuso, Senior Vice President of CIBER’s Commercial Division. “This shows how
IT investments can really benefit organizations of all sizes.�
Prior to CIBER’s MVITS program, the tax office used a mostly manual system to
track inventory and transactions. This system required more than 200 hours per
month of labor and did not provide an up-to-date picture of inventory.
Inaccurate inventory subjected the tax office to significant potential financial
loss if a dealer experienced economic hardship.
Tarrant County is home to more than 1.5 million people, many of whom live in
Fort Worth, the county’s largest city. The county houses roughly seven percent
of Texas�22 million residents, and covers 864 square miles
About CIBER, Inc.
CIBER, Inc. (NYSE: CBR) is a pure-play international system integration
consultancy with superior value-priced services for both private and government
sector clients. CIBER’s global delivery services are offered on a project or
strategic staffing basis, in both custom and enterprise resource planning (ERP)
package environments, and across all technology platforms, operating systems and
infrastructures. Founded in 1974, the company employs consultants who serve
client businesses from over 60 U.S. offices, 22 European offices and three
offices in Asia. With offices in 17 countries, an annualized revenue run rate of
approximately $975 million, and nearly 8,000 employees, CIBER and its IT
specialists continuously build and upgrade clients�systems to “competitive
advantage status.�CIBER is included in the Russell 2000 Index and the S&P
Small Cap 600 Index. CIBER, ALWAYS ABLE.
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