Optical Image Technology, Inc. is Core Technology of Winning Solution for AIIM 2001 Best Practices Award
STATE COLLEGE, PA: Optical Image Technology, Inc. (OIT), a leader in e-Business and Integrated Content Management (ICM), is proud to announce that Western-Southern Life's "eTerm", which closely integrates with OIT's OptiIMAGE™and OptiFLOW™products, won the Best Practices Award at AIIM 2001 (the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) industry association annual Conference and Expo).
The AIIM Best Practices Award, encompassing all of North America and Europe, was established to recognize innovative applications of document and/or process management technologies to solve critical business requirements. "This prominent award acknowledges personal or organizational excellence in the ECM industry," said John Mancini, president of AIIM International. "Recipients demonstrated their outstanding applications at the AIIM 2001 Conference & Expo."
Western-Southern Life's winning solution was developed to meet the specific needs of Internet insurance buyers through an automated solution that integrated the forms automation capabilities of InSystems FastForms with the E-Z Data Client Data SystemŽ (CDS) database, and the importing of the forms into OIT's OptiIMAGE and OptiFLOW products. This specific group of e-based products called "Western-Southern eTerm" was developed for marketing on multiple web sites, the most noteworthy being InsWeb, Quicken Insurance and QuoteSmith. These insurance "mall" services for Internet shoppers allow them to view policies, compare costs and assess ratings of various insurance providers.
"We are extremely proud that our software is a part of such an impressive installation that is re-envisioning insurance industry standards through content and process management," said Scott Buchart, President of OIT. "The dedication and drive of Rita Roeper and her team within Western-Southern Enterprises deserves such recognition."
OIT's award-winning Total Solution for Document/Content Management includes: OptiFICHE™(COLD-ERM/EBPP), OptiIMAGE™(Document Imaging), OptiFLOW™ (Workflow/Process Management), IntraVIEWER®(Browser Access/E-Business Enabler), ObjectSERVE™ (HSM), ObjectPRINT™(Print/Fax Server), and InfoVIEW™(Enhanced Index Extraction). OIT has gained prominent industry recognition by organizations such as AIIM, Doculabs and Kinetic Information. OIT's Total Solution enables people to be more productive and makes information more manageable. For more information visit our website at www.opticaltech.com.
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Release Date: May 9, 2001



