- Too much routine paperwork doing collections throughout Arkansas.
- Too many differences among Arkansas' 90+ judicial districts (filing fees, accompanying documentation, etc.) for staff to keep straight.
- Difficulty satisfying clients' financial reporting needs.
- No EDI capabilities
- Eightfold increase in number of collection accounts handled.
- Significant reduction in number of returned court filings due to oversight (court cost discrepancies, etc.)
- Electronic receipt of debtors & reporting of collection results implemented (1997-1998)
- A database to application track amounts owed, court costs incurred and payments received as well as filing fees for each judicial district.
- The application has migrated as technology has allowed. Since 1986, the application has moved from
- a CPT word processor to
- a DOS PC running Informix-4GL with the data stored in an Informix-Standard Engine database to
- a Windows for Workgroups 3.11 486 PC running Microsoft Access and Visual Basic to
- a Windows 95 Pentium PC running Microsoft Access 97
- 3 users on networked database using Microsoft Access 97
Client from 1986 through 2000.
For further information contact B.A. Smith at 501-227-2000 or by email or visit www.southernallen.com.
Note: As of summer 2000, Southern & Allen is no longer using this software. Off the shelf software has become available for their needs, and they converted to it (with my help). I have left them as a reference account since I am still proud of the the fourteen years of application development and support I provided to them.
