Effective system administration is a critical factor for successful OnBase solutions. The System Administrator will both maintain the organization’s existing OnBase solutions and continually refine the ability to recognize when and how an organization’s solutions should evolve to meet the needs of the growing or changing business.
Pros: OnBase allows us to securely store and safely access student records easily.
Cons: When I first started using OnBase i had the older version (looked like an old DOS or mainframe system), and it was hard to sometimes locate student records, and/or see if there were more levels (additional documents) for the same student. But once I switched to the newer version I was able to easily see much more and drill down when a single student had more than one document scanned into OnBase.
Overall: We were lucky to have been using OnBase for our document storage system, not every school in the district chose to use OnBase like we did. Being able to transfer the scanned documents from OnBase into our previous database system was different at first, but we quickly caught on how to use it. Recently the district switched to a new application system only to find that they can't upload documents directly into it. When it was announced that all schools would need to use OnBase we are happy, as we are already ahead of everyone else! Our transition to the new software has been almost seamless.