News - 2009

“The DRS IntelliReg® system is state of the art, efficient and matches our 21st century school. We are seeing real benefits for our already outstanding school in having access to even more management data through the use of the system, as well as streamlining the whole registration process".

Essa Academy in Bolton is using its staff to trial DRS IntelliReg®, a biometric e-Registration solution that delivers clean, instant, accurate and consistent data to monitor student whereabouts.

Celebrating its 40th year in business, global data capture specialist DRS has won the award of a contract from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to supply its world beating census solutions for the next Population Census in Pakistan - the 6th most populous country in the world.

DRS, which is celebrating 40 years in business this year, provided Lord Mandelson with an insight into its examination services, student registration technologies and education data capture solutions, with Lord Mandelson commenting “DRS is going places”.

Global data capture specialist DRS has signed Datafinity Ltd as a reseller for its intelligent document and data capture solution DocXP™.

In a first across the Higher Education sector, Roehampton University is set to pilot a biometric e-Registration solution that will dramatically improve its registration and attendance process, ensuring it has clean, instant, accurate and consistent data that monitors student whereabouts.

“With the PS960 being the preferred choice for large scale, real-time and complex data capture exercises around the world, I am delighted to bring this award back to our in-house teams who are continually innovating our range of products and services. Winning this award is a huge achievement for DRS and I extend my thanks and congratulations to the dedicated team that contributed to this success.”

“While the built-in quality assurance aspects of e-Marker® is the main attraction for ABRSM, we are also excited about the far greater visibility and control over the whole marking process made possible by the system.”

“This is the third time DRS e-Counting technologies have been successfully used in East Ayrshire. As the complex single transferable vote system was used for this by-election, electronic counting was our best option. It allows us to produce a result more quickly than would ever be the case with manual counting.”

“DRS IntelliReg® is introducing innovation into education establishments, helping to track the whereabouts of students and delivering information in real-time whilst complying with the Home Office reporting requirements.”

DRS, the global data capture specialist, has been shortlisted in nine categories of the prestigious DM 2009 Awards including Product of the Year and Company of the Year. 

DRS, the global election specialist, has deployed its e-Voting solutions to deliver results efficiently and effectively at the Nigerian Computer Society’s Annual General Meeting and Conference where members of its management committee were elected. 

Global census data capture specialist, DRS, has supplied its technologies and services to successfully process and deliver the results of the fifth population census of Sudan, revealing its overall population figure as more than thirty-nine million.

The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), which provides examinations and certification for the Commonwealth nations and territories situated in and around the Caribbean, is set to pilot DRS e-Marker® – an exercise which, if successful, could lead to full deployment of the education data capture specialist’s electronic examination marking solution in the Caribbean.

With the new geography GCSE syllabus, starting September 2009, to include the use of GPS devices, education technology provider DRS is planning to offer its own GPS device to the education market.

Harrogate Grammar School, in north Yorkshire, is set to pilot a biometric e-Registration solution that will dramatically improve its registration and attendance process – ensuring it has clean, instant, accurate and consistent data that monitors student whereabouts whilst helping to provide real-time information to parents.

Following an invitation to tender, education technology provider, DRS has been contracted to deliver its e-Registration solution, IntelliReg®, in 50 classrooms and changing rooms around the school to help deliver lesson level registration.

Global data capture specialist DRS is to advise on how best practice in document and records management can help an organisation improve services and optimise business processes at the Association for Enterprise and Content Management (AIIM) roadshow from 1st to 5th June.

Global data capture specialist DRS has announced the retirement of its founder and non-executive chairman, Malcolm Brighton, OBE, DL. Mr Brighton stood down from the DRS Board and from its Remuneration and Nominations Committees at the close of the Company’s Annual General Meeting on Monday 11th May.

Peladon Software today announced that MedAmerica, Inc. has licensed DocXP™ to automate the processing of Explanation of Benefits (EOB) forms and other medical records.

Education technology provider, DRS is to exhibit at the 2009 Student Record Officers’ Conference (SROC) which brings together higher education staff working in the field of student records in universities and colleges.

“DRS is continually seeking to develop new innovations and a wider range of solutions designed to fit the individual needs of the National Statistics Offices and census officials around the world. This partnership between DRS and STR will further aid NSOs by providing a complete census solution - from public information gathering to information dissemination back to the public and organisations.”

Education technology provider, DRS is sponsoring the first ever Learning and Technology World Forum to be delivered by Becta (the UK government's lead agency on supporting technology in education) on behalf of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) and the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).