Education Solutions

Paperless & Automated Undergraduate & Graduate Admissions

Managing ever-increasing volumes of Admissions applications and supporting credential documents requires a document management strategy, a paperless Admissions process and document conversion approach that overcomes inherent challenges and maximizes valuable staff resources.

DataBank has helped colleges and universities nationwide go paperless and meet those challenges head-on with not just one solution that we try to fit all needs but with a portfolio of services and solutions that can meet your specific operational objectives.

Create a Paperless Processing Environment with our comprehensive array of quality services

  • Admissions staff is freed to focus on higher level tasks requiring their attention and expertise in a paperless office environment
  • No Mail to Open; No Documents to Scan; No Data to Capture, Index, and Store – completely paperless Admissions processes
  • No temporary staff needed to meet peak processing periods.

Your Student Information System is Image-enabled

  • Images and data appear in your SIS ready for your counselors to process
  • Whether ImageNow, Banner, PeopleSoft, FolderWave, Datatel, DocFinity or a home-grown SIS, digital images and index data are seamlessly integrated

Our SaaS Solution Provides Maintenance-Free, No-Capital-Investment Operation where:

  • Applicant folders are automatically created
  • Incoming documents are stored electronically with our paperless solutions, and
  • Rules-based workflow processing is applied to remove mundane tasks and speed application processing.

Complete Life Cycle Management of Applications
for Admissions

  • From the instant documents are received at the Post Office
  • Through electronic and automated processing
  • To electronic document storage and physical storage and disposition of paper

DataBank provides end-to-end paperless Document Management Services and Solutions for Admissions every step of the way all within SAS70 Type II and PCI-Certified environments, thus assisting compliance to FERPA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, and HIPPA regulations.


Create a paperless office, lower operating cost,
speed application processing.
Contact a DataBank expert today.


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DataBank is a leading document management company that provides comprehensive digital document imaging, document scanning, ecm systems and electronic document management software, and an array of microfilm scanning services.

We have document scanning and digital document management expertise in numerous market verticals including Healthcare, Education, Financial Services, Government, and Back Office Business Services. Our document management software is recognized as an industry leading solution and all our document management services are backed by a 100% guarantee.

Our SAS 70 Type II certification covers document handling operations, digital document imaging, online document management, and document image transmission as well as a comprehensive set of internal operating standards. This SAS 70 Type II certification accomplishment provides our clients a level of protection and security that is currently not available through most document management service companies in our industry today.

We have a presence in major markets across the United States including locations in Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Detroit, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Louisiana, San Francisco and Sacramento, California.

Our document management company has unequaled expertise in all areas of digital scanning and business document management. We have partnerships with industry-leading document management and electronic document management organizations from around the world.

A successful, comprehensive Admissions process is timely, efficient, and applies electronic document management, business process automation (BPA) and paperless Admissions processes to streamline applications.  It is one that allows all students to be considered individually with equal opportunity. Colleges and Universities are confronted each year with processing an increasingly higher volume of applications and associated credential documents in a short period of time.  Our document conversion services provide a full complement of options for creating paperless Admissions processes.
BPA provides the consistency and rules-based processing.  However, creating a paperless workflow solution and a paperless Admissions process removing the mundane tasks associated with managing incoming documents will allow staff to focus on higher level tasks.  The key to recruitment, selection, notification and enrollment is an admissions process that maximizes the use of valuable staff resources and minimizes the administrative workload while achieving your enrollment strategy and desired student demographics.  Paperless Admissions is critical to creating an environment that allows this to occur. 
DataBank can help you meet those challenges head on by creating paperless Admissions with outsourced document processing or by implementing an in-house scanning and data entry operation or by establishing an electronic mail room at one of our facilities.  Our document scanning and digital document management expertise in Undergraduate and Graduate Admissions can help you achieve that paperless environment.
Our production centers are strategically located across the United States including locations in Dallas, Washington DC,  Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Louisiana and Sacramento, California.
For those schools that have already implemented a Student information System that meets their need for the BPA aspects of a comprehensive solution, DataBank provides a full set of imaging services to assist you in implementing a paperless Admissions office from post office/mail box management to scanning, data capture and quality control and loading into a sophisticated student information system such as DocFinity, Banner, ImageNow, Datatel, ImageNow or a home-grown system.  For those colleges and universities desiring an end-to-end paperless solution, DataBank provides a portfolio of options – our approach is to understand our client’s operation, their current and projected needs and growth.  Then with not just one solution that we try to fit to meet all needs but with a portfolio of solutions that can meet their specific operational objectives and your goals for a paperless Admissions department.
Our solutions go well beyond traditional imaging approaches including Software-as-a-Service models that free an institution from maintenance and can be implemented with no need for capital expenditures.  Our services and solutions address complex business processes designed specifically for our Higher Education clients. Our software was designed by industry specialists and administrative professionals in the field of Higher Education. We deliver end-to-end solutions that can provide an in-house system that is managed and operated by your IT staff or one that is delivered as a maintenance-free, outsourced SaaS service with no capital investment required for hardware and software. Our suite of products and services can provide a paperless Admissions and Financial Aid environment with business process automation and document management options to meet the challenges you face today and well into the future.
Not only do we automate administrative processes, but we can provide a completely paperless university environment where
• Paper applications and credentials are received, scanned, indexed, and processed daily in a regional DataBank production center
• Data and document images are uploaded overnight into an application service provider (ASP) environment where electronic student folders are created and incoming documents are stored in electronic folders – thus achieving a paperless Admissions environment
• Administrative staff log into a secure web-based environment and are presented with activities that require their attention and expertise and where rules-based workflow processing has been applied to remove mundane tasks.
• An applicant’s personal folder is available for their reference, viewing, status and progress. Their secure encrypted information is only viewable by authorized users established by your institution. 
Key benefits of paperless Admissions to Admissions Staff
• Valuable staff resources are freed up and the need to add administrative personnel during high volume application/acceptance period is eliminated
• Candidates that meet the desired student demographic are quickly identified and are prioritized for immediate review
• Preferred student application packets are electronically available for Admissions review within 48 hour after initial receipt
• Significantly speeds up the Admissions process and identifies students ready for processing in Financial Aid.
• Creates a paperless environment and eliminates the labor and costs associated with handling paper, storage, photocopying, faxing, and filing.
Our SAS 70 Type II certification covers document handling operations, digital document imaging, online document management, and document image transmission as well as a comprehensive set of internal operating standards. This SAS 70 Type II certification accomplishment provides our clients a level of protection and security that is currently not available through most document management service companies in our industry today.
As a leader, DataBank provides comprehensive digital document imaging, document scanning, ECM systems and electronic document management software, and an array of microfilm scanning services all aimed at helping you achieve a paperless Admissions process.  Our document management software and our industry partnerships are recognized as industry leading and all our document management services are backed by our 100% guarantee. 

To learn more on how DataBank can help you create a paperless Admission process, manage your documents more efficiently, lower your operating costs, and improve your organization’s access to information in a highly secure environment, document management