Case Study: the Ministry of Agriculture accelerates grant application processing with ARC Business Solutions

The Ministry of Agriculture processes 360 applications in 4 days with ARC Business Solutions

ARC Business Solutions partnered with the Ministry of Agriculture, a government body responsible for agricultural programs in Saskatchewan, Canada. The Ministry faced a significant challenge in processing a high volume of grant applications for its Farm and Ranch Water Infrastructure Program (FRWIP), which traditionally resulted in a manual data entry backlog and delays, especially when applications were submitted in large numbers near deadlines.

ARC Business Solutions implemented an Electronic Input Management system utilizing EMC Captiva InputAccel technology. This solution captured information from paper and electronic applications, used optical character recognition (OCR) to extract data, and integrated with an Oracle database. The result was a dramatic reduction in processing time; three clerks processed over 360 applications in four days, a task that would have taken an estimated three to four weeks to complete manually, eliminating the backlog and preventing delays.

The Ministry of Agriculture