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This blog was written by Jason Engen, the Public Sector Director at DataBank. Jason has been active within the public sector space for 15 years, with his primary focus being on state and local government. It’s 6:30 in the morning and I’m sitting in the airport heading home from one of my last client engagements… Read More»

The winning nominees for this month’s Iron Man Award As the comic book heroes continue to dominate the box office we decided to bring that action to DataBank’s Super Star Award. The Iron Man award is attributed to our superheroes who rise to the occasion no matter what the day might bring and prove the power of intelligence can… Read More»

At DataBank, employee recognition is top on our list of priorities! We give our employees the opportunity to recommend internal business colleagues who are top performers. The winners are announced on our company-wide call and posted on our DataBank Employee Website. In September, we recognized the “Made My Day” Award winners. Criteria for this award… Read More»

MOTIVATION sparks innovation and creates new ways to achieve goals by unleashing the capability for great changes to occur. The measure of one’s own motivation is the impact generated from the actions continually taken towards improvement. Manager Spotlight DataBank is pleased to focus the August employee spotlight on one of our Professional Services managers, Michael… Read More»

According to a study by the Aberdeen Group, 86% of new hires decide whether they want to stay with a company or leave within the first six months. Meaning, your companies first impression is very important. Losing employees is bad for productivity and the overall costs associated with hiring someone. In a study by the Center for… Read More»

Without the right resources, HR and Payroll departments in large companies can find themselves watching simple tasks take up time and money while making it difficult to meet compliance standards. Dave & Buster’s was one of those companies, processing over 250,000 employee documents a year in mostly manual systems. Before OnBase, all of their paperwork… Read More»

It’s no secret that the hiring process is notorious for requiring loads of paperwork. You need employee manuals, contracts, W-2’s, I-9’s and more. Keeping track of each form, what’s been signed and what hasn’t, is a chore. In our recent webinar with Essentia Health, we polled attendees to see where the biggest challenge was in… Read More»

We’ve all dealt with clutter in one form or another, whether it be dishes piling up in the sink or thirty tabs open on our desktop at one time. No matter how annoying it may get, sometimes we’re just too lazy to do anything about it. We’d rather lift a finger to open another tab… Read More»

HR departments help employees sort out all kinds of problems and always greet employees’ questions with a smile, even when they’re, “If I run a 4K 100 times in a year, will I qualify for a 401 K?” or “Can I use sick leave if I am sick of work?” HR professionals have heard and seen it all, and… Read More»

Helping constituents can be a challenge when Social Workers and Health and Human Services professionals are lacking vital information about their clients. With important data dispersed among county and state databases, how is the constituent “known” to the agency? A few years ago, Crow Wing County in Minnesota dealt with this exact problem and were looking… Read More»