A major donation to the University will cut down on paperwork.
Entrepreneurs Michelle Melbourne and Phillip Williamson are redefining the shape of modern philanthropy with a major new donation to the University. The couple, both ANU graduates, have given a gift in kind by donating high-technology software to help the University streamline its complex administration processes. The gift from their Canberra-based company Intelledox is worth more than $1 million, but has the potential to save the ANU millions more as the software is used to digitalise manual paper-based processes. "Phil and I are both passionate alumni, and it is such a great privilege and an honour to be able to share the technology we've invented with our alma mater," said Ms Melbourne, Intelledox co-founder and Executive Director. ACT Chief Minister Katy Gallagher announced the donation at a ceremony at ANU. The donation includes University-wide perpetual licenses to use Intelledox software. A trial of the software has allowed the ANU to update its bureaucratic travel processes by replacing as many as 10 paper forms with an integrated on-line travel application system, saving the University up to half a million dollars a year.
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