- Key Anacomp Management, Technical Experts and Customers will
Present 21 Educational Sessions with Special Focus on
Internet-Based Document Management - Anacomp, Inc. (Nasdaq: ANCO), a world leader in digital document-management services, will exhibit its newest Internet Document Services offering at Xplor International's 20th Global Electronic Document Systems Conference & Exhibit at the Los Angeles Convention Center from October 31 to November 5. Anacomp will sponsor 21 technical and application presentations at this year's conference, including eight customer-application digital document-management case studies. Throughout the week, Anacomp associates will deliver a variety of presentations on the application, technology and techniques of Internet-based outsource services for document management, including system architecture, user considerations, security, web technologies, implementation and operations, market trends, business-process reengineering, document management for financial services and e-commerce, electronic billing, and physical delivery media, particularly CD-R. In addition, complementing these technical presentations, representatives of several Anacomp clients from both the United States and Europe, including American Express, Delta Air Lines, Deutsche Bank, and others, will discuss the document-management solutions Anacomp helped them implement for their specific business needs. On the Convention floor, conference attendees can visit Anacomp at Booth 1901 to view a live demonstration of Anacomp's Internet Document Services and learn more about the company's next generation of Internet-based document-management offerings. "Xplor is an important aspect of our goal of strengthening Anacomp's position as a major provider of digital document- management outsource services," said Ralph Koehrer, president and chief executive officer of Anacomp. "We are significantly increasing our presence at Xplor this year and are delighted to be sponsoring a number of customer presenters who will share their companies' successes in partnership with Anacomp." Anacomp Conference Highlights Joint Technology Council Partner Update Session Monday, November 1; Room 406 A & B, Los Angeles Convention Center 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.; 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.; 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Anacomp's chief executive officer, Ralph W. Koehrer, will be joined by other members of the company's executive management team, to present "From COM to .com(TM): Making Internet delivery work." This one-hour Joint Technology Council (JTC) Partner session will give an overview of Anacomp's current technology, business strategies, and next generation of Internet-based document services. The session will include a live demonstration of Anacomp's flagship Internet Document Services, a leading outsource service for efficient, scalable, and secure storage and delivery of documents via the Web. The session will be introduced by Anacomp's JTC user-chairperson Gemma Burns, EDPP. Customer Application Case Studies Session descriptions for several examples of the application case studies presented by Anacomp customers follow. Complete conference schedules and descriptions can be found at www.xplor.org. Document storage and presentment in the financial services sector Tuesday, November 2, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Fritz Simon, Solothurner Bank (SoBa), Switzerland Mr. Simon describes how, through a cooperative effort with Anacomp, SoBa is implementing a document-management solution that will consolidate 20 separate branch archive systems, meet the highest level of security standards, deliver a response time of 15 seconds or less for SoBa's 400 concurrent users, and be implemented without any interruption in customer service. Integrated document-presentment solutions in banking Tuesday, November 2, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Reinhard Meisberger, Deutsche Bank, Germany, and Pierre Royaute, BICS-Banque Populaire, France In partnership with Anacomp, Deutsche Bank is implementing a new automated check and invoice reconciliation system for its large commercial customers. Mr. Meisberger will discuss how this system will provide Deutsche Bank and its customers with substantial benefits. Deutsche Bank is confident that this system will gain competitive advantages in supporting existing commercial customers, build the foundation for a range of new customer services, and gain additional customers. Mr. Royaute describes how, in partnering with Anacomp, BICSs replaced its existing film-based document-management system, with more than 60 applications supporting more than 70 million stored pages and images per year, with a digital integrated capture, storage, and delivery solution. He also will describe how additional documents, currently being captured in a Xerox scanning environment, will be integrated into BICS' digital document archive. The archive and its importance for customer care and Internet commerce Wednesday, November 3, 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Scott Kenny, Banc of America Securities, LLC Scott Kenny, senior Web developer at Banc of America Securities, LLC and John Upham of Anacomp will jointly discuss how Banc of America Securities implemented an archiving and viewing solution from Anacomp which has resulted in savings of more than $50,000 a month while increasing customer satisfaction by providing customer access via both the intranet (for internal use) and the Internet (for customer self-service via the web). The presentation will identify the business problems the Banc of America was looking to resolve; the selection, design and implementation of the solution; and the resulting savings that occurred and the planned expansion of the solution. Operational Issues in remote storage and access implementations Thursday, November 4, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Jeff Hoening, Delta Air Lines Working with Anacomp to leverage the power of the Internet, Delta Air Lines incorporates an innovative system of document storage and retrieval for critical business documents, with far- reaching benefits for Delta's global Air Cargo organization and its customers. Mr. Hoening will pilot the audience through the design and implementation of a complete Internet-based solution. Internet vs. media presentment: advantages, disadvantages, and technology direction Thursday, November 4, 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Mark A. Weber, American Express Mr. Weber describes how American Express partnered with Anacomp to implement an innovative storage and retrieval service that enabled American Express to enhance its customer service. Internet Document Services Demonstration Anacomp will present live demonstrations of its Internet Document Services, an all-in-one service solution that can integrate, store, and deliver a company's documents at substantially lower cost and greater effectiveness than an internal system. This outsource service offers users real-time access to statements, reports, images, and many other types of electronic documents, which are delivered online utilizing a combination of Internet security protocols and encryption, and a specialized hosting operated by Anacomp. Upon receipt of customer documents, Anacomp transforms them for Web use, indexes the information they contain for easy search and retrieval, and stores them in an integrated repository. The documents are immediately available to users throughout the enterprise of around the world via standard web browsers. In related news, Anacomp recently became a Benefactor of the Electronic Document Systems Foundation (EDSF) with a contribution in support of the Foundation's educational scholarships and research programs. This year, the EDSF will recognize four academic programs for innovation in education and will fund one academic scholarship, and in the year 2000, will sponsor Future of Print, an industry-wide study of all aspects of paper-based communication. "We are pleased to support Xplor and the work of the EDSF," said Koehrer. "As the electronic document-management industry continues to grow, we believe our partnership with Xplor offers unique opportunities, through its extensive membership and the success of the Global Conference & Exhibit, to reach customers and decision makers." Anacomp images more customer documents than anyone else in the world. 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