Tribes recognized for Laserfiche innovation

LAS VEGAS – Laserfiche recently presented the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma with its Visionary Award and the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma with its Pioneer Award. Both awards were presented at the TribalNet 2009 conference in Las Vegas, NV.

Choctaw Nation Administrative Manager Dee Ann Moore and IT Director Dustin Stark accepted the Visionary Award on behalf of Chief Gregory Pyle and the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, which is the third largest tribe in the U.S., with 175,000 members and 12 districts. The Choctaw Nation has used Laserfiche since 2001.

The Choctaw Nation continually strives to find ways in which to better serve our tribal members and we have found that leveraging technology has helped the Choctaw people,” Stark said.

The Choctaw Nation uses Laserfiche to manage documents and maximize productivity through increased data organization, accessibility and availability. With Laserfiche Rio enterprise content management, the Choctaw Nation automates business processes in the Tribal Council, Head Start, Housing Authority, Career Development and Low Income Home Energy Assistance Programs.

IT Manager Travis Chibitty accepted the Pioneer Award for the Comanche Nation, which has 14,732 members. The Comanche Nation has used Laserfiche since 2008 to manage information in the Finance, Land and Surveying, and Legislative Departments.

Laserfiche reseller Inter-Tribal Software Consultants (ISC) has worked with the Choctaw Nation for the last 12 years and the Comanche Nation for the last four years. ISC has also developed Tribal Assistance Manager (TAM), a Tribal member tracking software, and integrated Laserfiche in order to help tribes manage member assistance programs, automate workflow and track different funding sources. ISC is headquartered in Durant Oklahoma and is a certified Woman Owned Minority Business. ISC’s President is Ida Curley Wilcox, a full blood Navajo from the Window Rock area of Arizona. ISC’S Tribal Clients include the Absentee Shawnee Housing Authority, Choctaw Nation Housing Authority, the Housing Authority of the Seminole Nation, the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribe of Oklahoma, the Comanche Nation, The Comanche Nation Housing Authority, the Leech Lake Band of the Ojibwe, the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, the Rosebud Sioux, the Pine Ridge Oglala Sioux, the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma and the Susanville Rancheria Tribe, CA.