excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 100% IRS considers outsourcing submission processing Summary: (Posted: Wednesday, April 2, 1997, 12:21 PM) With customary succinctness, the Internal Revenue Service has taken a tentative step toward subcontracting its submission processing: Pursuing the outsourcing of the program to private industry, which possesses the core competencies to re-engineer the work processes and deploy imaging and other advanced technologies, creates opportunities to reduce costs and improve efficiency and effectiveness. 99% IRS considers outsourcing Summary: IRS considers outsourcing. "The IRS must end its dependence on antiquated technology," the study finds. For vendors that may stand to benefit from government contracting, there's cautious optimism. The IRS is not optimistic about the timeliness of any transition to an outsourced system. The IRS does plan to undertake a cost analysis using an outside contractor. 86% Voice of the future Interactive voice respons... Summary: Interactive voice response. Many of the callers need basic information about their accounts, such as "when is my next payment due?" Most of those requests can be handled by the customers themselves, without an operator, using an innovative approach to information management. Information Management Consultants (IMC, McLean, VA) and Voicetek (Chelmsford, MA) worked together on an interactive voice... 85% A taxing situation gets better Summary: Imaging World, August 1st, 1996. The cost of processing a state income tax form has dropped 26%-from $1.28 with the old data entry method to $.95 per return with the new imaging system. With the old system, a data entry operator could process about 375 returns per day. But the change has improved their work environment, he said. In 1996 the figure is expected to reach 1.3 million income tax forms... 82% Lason Systems Summary: LASON is the leading provider of integrated outsourcing services for Records Management, Document Management and Business Communications. LASON currently has 15 multi-functional imaging centers and operates over 50 facility management sites located on customers' premises. 81% Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, Colorado Imaging Solutions Summary: Each server has a 26-GB RAID subsystem and 160 MB RAM. Records for educators already holding certification are on microfilm. The workstations all have 24 MB of RAM. There also have been reductions in the cost of temporary staff and office space. Collins grows, so will its document. 81% Remittance processing goes remote Summary: Remittance processing goes remote.com) is providing GTE's Remittance Processing Service (RPS) a remote keying solution for its payment processing centers. By adding this remote keying module at its operations in Dallas, Los Angeles and Tampa, GTE plans to use the technology integrated by BancTec to send compressed images of checks across GTE's broadbank network. The real-time system decompresses... 80% ADP puts tax records on CDs Summary: (Posted: Thursday, April 24, 1997, 8:07 AM) In order to make year-end employee payroll and tax records available, ADP (Roseland, NJ) has installed Kodak's (Rochester, NY) writable CD COLD software system. 79% Apotex improves its regulatory submission pro... Summary: Apotex improves its regulatory submission processes. It now takes five-to-six hours, thanks to the use of Interleaf's electronic publishing and document management system. The company must submit all new products to various regulatory agencies for approvals, which requires lengthy and complex documentation. James Roser, senior systems analyst at Apotex, said the company chose Interleaf to... 79% Cyber-sales mean cyber-sales tax Internet shop... Summary: Cyber-sales mean cyber-sales tax. Internet shopping software developed to help. An Internet sales tax system that allows merchants to figure the appropriate sales tax for Internet transactions, regardless of jurisdiction, is available from Taxware (Salem, MA). "Merchants have discovered that calculating sales taxes on Internet purchases can be confusing," he explained. "Our Internet tax system... 76% Lucent drives Ford's new messaging service Summary: Lucent drives Ford's new messaging service.lucent. Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, MI, http://www.ford. Ford is linking Lucent's multimedia messaging system, Intuity Audix, through Ford's private network and public-switched facilities. 71% Trust operations improve via electronic document managemen Summary: Banking & Financial Services White Paper Trust operations improve via electronic document management. By Irving Levy, President. Electronic Document Management Systems (EDMSs) allow trust departments to scan in images of such items as bonds held in trust at the bank. The trust folders contain 15 categories of trust documents and the real estate folders contain 13 different types of documents.com... 71% Scanners the digital gateway Summary: The Xerox (Rochester, NY) DocuImage 620S is designed for print on demand, forms-processing and document-imaging applications. DocuImage 620S ($12,000) is an open-system implementation of Xerox's DocuCS scanner that processes 40 ppm at 200 dpi, 32 ppm at 300 dpi and 20 ppm at 600 dpi. Both models offer 400-dpi resolution and a 1,000-sheet document feeder. The M3099EX/GX handles 11-in. These... 70% 40 companies to watch in 1997 Summary: They are: R.E. Ray Edwards, Apex D.E. Dan Elam, IMERGE B. T.S. Robert Smallwood, Image Associates S. 70% DealMakers 3-17-97 Summary: Engineering VAD opts for Docs. Software developer and systems integrator Radian Systems (Alexandria, VA) is bundling CADDMS, its engineering and enterprise data management software, with PC Docs' (Burlington, MA) Docs Open. Remittance processing goes remote. BancTec (Dallas) is providing a remote keying solution to GTE's Remittance Processing Service (RPS) for its payment processing centers.... 68% The product beat Summary: Imaging World, June 1st, 1996. The product beat. No manual intervention or rewriting of code is necessary. ScreenScan Systems released Image Processor Version 2.3 software and Image Handler Software Version 2.3. The new software expands the current capabilities of ScreenScan as an add-on microfilm or microfiche scanner to include full electronic folder support. Symbus Technology announced... 66% Wheb Systems Summary: Wheb Systems manufactures the Intelligent Forms Processing System, providing high-volume, turn-key, automated data collection solutions for specific uses in the private and public sectors. Best known for highly accurate OCR/ICR recognition, enhancement and automation technology, IFPS is proven to increase productivity while reducing data entry costs, errors and turnaround time. 65% News Shorts 4-21-97 Summary: SOME NEW JERSEY TAX RECORDS.. A NEW SEMINAR SERIES. ADVANCING INDUSTRY SPECS. RECORD STORAGE WAREHOUSE ARSON VICTIM. IMAGINATION SOFTWARE PARTNERS. 65% Sign on the digital line Summary: Sign on the digital line. We have the technology for digital signatures. And there is no assurance that the digital document being digitally signed hasn't been digitally altered after the image was applied. More technology can increase the validity of a digital signature. Silanis isn't the only vendor offering a digital signature product. 63% Fed imaging in its prime Summary: Imaging World, November 18th, 1996. Fed imaging in its prime. Mirroring the common perception of a federal workday, the Federal Imaging Conference (Washington, Oct. For example, witness the strength of the large systems integrators in the government arena. The mammoth Census 2000 program sponsored by the Bureau of Census will employ extensive imaging technology.
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