Document Scanning and Records Management and Clean-up

As the letter hit her desk, the Clerk saw the signature of the City Manager telling her to get it done. The new City Manager wrote an email to all departments telling them that they needed to reduce costs of delivering services to citizenry while speeding up response time...

Cloud-Based eGovernment: eAgenda, ePermitting, eLicensing and More

eGovernment, Business Process Management, Scanning Bright Star is a small-business social enterprise that provides cloud-based e-government solutions including e-permitting,e-agenda, e-licensing, e-code enforcement and more. Our eSolutions decrease costs, increase revenues and...

Englewood Chooses Bright Star’s ePermitting

The City of Englewood has chosen Bright Star eSolutions to implement its first municipal ePermitting and eCode Enforcement system, allowing citizens and contractors to apply and pay for permits online. ePermitting makes it easier for citizens, businesses and contractors to...

eAgenda Pro Case Study: Large Licensing Bureau in NJ

eAgenda Pro Large NJ Licensing Bureau Bright Star provides Board Meeting Services for a large licensing board located in New Jersey. The licensing bureau licenses, monitors, manages complaints, and enforces regulations. They have about nine meetings per month and average...

Visions for the Future

CEO Dorothy Nicholson said, “The coming together of social networks and mobile device technologies has created new and expanding requirements for better management of information and processes,” she said. “Citizens and businesses aren’t confined to one space anymore. They’re...

Bright Star’s Team of Veterans Implement All of our Solutions

They are brave. They are heroes. They are Americans and they risked their lives for our safety. Vietnam, Operation Desert Storm, Opertation Desert Shield, Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom were the wars in which they fought. They are our children, our...

We Were Immersed in Teamwork

By Hakida and Alain Edmond, Veterans of the United States Army There are two types of soldiers leaving the armed forces; those who adapt to civilian life and those experiencing difficulty reintegrating. From our first days in BCT (Basic Combat Training) we are immersed into the...

Transitioning from Military to Civilan Life…Culture Shock

By Hakida and Alain Edmond, Veterans of the United States Army There is a sharp contrast between civilian and military life. In 2003, I was in Korea. A minor typographical error caused Defense Finance not to pay me for three months. When my wife made me aware of this, I told my...

Paper to Paperless

Scanning…it’s so easy! All you have to do is put paper in a scanner and watch it pop up on a computer screen… right? Wrong! The time it takes to go from paper to paperless depends on the size of the project. It takes one or two days for a small project, and up to several...

A Message to our Customers…Thank You!

On behalf of the many Veterans facing challenges every day, thank you! Thank you for giving us the opportunity to help them transition back into civilian life…thank you for letting us provide you with the services that will enable us to support them. It can be a very scary...

Case Study: Board Meeting Services

Bright Star provides Board Meeting Services (different from eAgenda Pro) for over 40 boards in a large licensing bureau iun New Jersey. The licensing bureau licenses, monitors, manages complaints, and enforces regulations relating to many different practices from dentistry and...