BMI Honored by Kinetic Information for Innovative Use of Technology
State College, Pa. – October 31, 2003 – BMI, a not-for-profit organization which represents songwriters, composers and music publishers across the globe, has been recognized by Kinetic Information as a second place winner of the 2003 Process Innovation Vision Award for its innovative use of technology.
Kinetic Information President Steve Weissman comments, “Our judges were impressed with BMI’s use of technology to proactively change their processes. This kind of forward-thinking decision is what qualifies an organization for a Vision Award, and BMI is a worthy recipient indeed.”
The Vision Award is presented annually, as part of Kinetic Information’s Process Innovation Awards, to organizations that push the standard application of technology to achieve greater success with everyday business processes.
Steve Emrick, CDIA+, Director of Imaging Technology for BMI, states, “The project for which we are being honored represents a remarkable accomplishment by not only an excellent interdepartmental team at BMI but an outstanding team at Optical Image Technology. I want to congratulate everyone who participated.”
Since 2001, BMI has been leveraging Optical Image Technology, Inc.’s (OIT) DocFinity® Suite of Products, to assist the organization in improving its business processes in six individual departments, including Accounts Payable, Licensing, Operations and Performing Rights. Scott Buchart, President and CEO of OIT, remarks, “The success BMI has had with the DocFinity Suite is outstanding. We’re very proud of the work they have been doing and extend our congratulations on being bestowed with this prestigious honor.”
For more information on BMI’s application of the DocFinity Suite or OIT, please visit www.docfinity.com, or contact Marketing at marketing@docfinity.com or 814-238-0038.
About Optical Image Technology
Since 1986, OIT has been developing award-winning integrated document management solutions, including COLD-ERM/EBPP, Document Imaging, Workflow/Process Management, Browser Access/E-Business Enablement, HSM, Print/Fax Server, and Enhanced Index Extraction. OIT’s DocFinity Suite of Document Management Solutions has gained prominent industry recognition by organizations such as AIIM International, Transform Magazine, Doculabs and Kinetic Information.
OIT serves customers throughout the world and across all major industries, including insurance, financial services, pharmaceutical, education, healthcare, government, manufacturing, retail, utilities and publishing. By dynamically coordinating and managing the transfer of content, OIT enables organizations to realize increased profitability, improved productivity and enhanced customer satisfaction by empowering enterprise wide business processes. For more information, please visit www.docfinity.com.
About BMI
BMI is an American performing rights organization that represents approximately 300,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in all genres of music. The non-profit-making company, founded in 1940, collects license fees on behalf of those American creators it represents, as well as thousands of creators from around the world who chose BMI for representation in the United States. The license fees BMI collects for the "public performances" of its repertoire of approximately 4.5 million compositions - including radio airplay, broadcast and cable television carriage, Internet and live and recorded performances by all other users of music - are then distributed as royalties to the writers, composers and copyright holders it represents.
BMI currently has offices in New York, London, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Miami and Nashville. For more information, please visit www.bmi.com.
About Kinetic Information
Kinetic Information performs strategic business consulting for buyers and sellers of information technology. Focused on technology’s ability to solve business problems, the firm provides practical analysis and high-value recommendations that its clients use to obtain maximum total value from the systems in their charge. Additional information is available on the Web at www.kineticinfo.com or by calling Steve Weissman at 781-893-4690.
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Release Date Oct. 31, 2003
