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Overall Satisfaction with PowerDMS
The Novi Police Department began using PowerDMS in July of 2014 to help us through our accreditation process with CALEA. Since that time, we have experienced several benefits from the system, including having all of our agency policies, forms and documents in an electronic format for all agency employees. The reporting tool in PowerDMS allows us to hold our employees accountable for the policies that they acknowledge.
We have also incorporated PowerDMS into our training program, tracking all of our agency training and being able to run reports of the amount and type of training each officer has attended. This helps cut down on civil liability claims of deliberate indifference as we can prove there has been no failure to train in our organization.
We also create courses in PowerDMS to move some mandatory training which does not need to be instructor led into a blended learning environment, thus saving valuable training time for more practical exercises.
- PowerDMS is a great document management system that is very user-friendly.
- The reporting tools in PowerDMS have assisted agency administration in quantifying not only agency documents, but training as well.
- PowerDMS staff is always available and willing to help!
- I would like to see PowerDMS allow the end user to customize features more to allow the end user to best recreate their current agency forms.
- I would like to see PowerDMS allow users to share courses they have created with other PowerDMS users.
- I would like Power DMS to come up with a system to keep from having to constantly update highlighted areas of documents each time a document is updated. This would be a huge timesaver!
- The ROI has been in staff time to revise directives and other documents.
- The ROI has been in the copying and printing of directives into a paper policy manual. It is not available as an on-line system. No need to print 100 copies of the policy manual.
- Negative ROI has been in the number of hours to edit all of the highlighted areas of documents needed for an accreditation each time a document is edited.