HERNDON, Va., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Network Imaging Corporation (Nasdaq:IMGX) and Uniscan, Inc. today announced that it won a $640,000 contract from the Allegheny County, Pennsylvania prothonotary for the Company's 1View:Object Manager(TM) and 1View:Workflow(TM) software. Using Network Imaging's technology, the civil court system will be able to accept electronic filings from attorneys and make legal records available for simultaneous viewing by legal professionals and court-authorized users. By way of an administrative order, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania granted permission to the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas for a pilot program in which legal papers can be filed with the prothonotary and served upon parties by electronic means. Allegheny's county seat is Pittsburgh, where Prothonotary Michael Coyne's office serves a local population of 1.3 million citizens and processes an average of 27,000 pieces of paper daily.
Court administration has traditionally been challenged to manage and process legal paperwork in a more timely and effective manner. People employed by law firms, title search services and government agencies making regular use of court documents are required to visit the court house in person and wait for assistance from a clerk in order to manually file and retrieve case documents. Because there is only one physical file for each case, only one person can access it at a time. Documents created in any word processing package will be converted at the server into Adobe Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:ADBE) Acrobat PDF files, making them available for searching and viewing from a Web browser. With 1View:Object Manager's Web browsing capabilities, multiple users can concurrently access the same document. The new system will relieve the court staff of tedious manual processes, because filing and retrieval will become a self-service activity. Since physical files won't be distributed, the court will have better control over the integrity of its documents and reduce the risk of files being lost or damaged.
Eric Feder, Allegheny's Assistant Deputy Prothonotary said, ''There are 7,000 attorneys practicing in Allegheny County who need daily access to countless cases. Rather than coming to the courthouse to file paperwork and research case information, they will be able to instantly do the same work from the convenience of their office or home computers. This system will help us reach our ultimate goal of eventually eliminating all of our paper-based processes.''
Barry Rack, manager of business consulting at Corporate Restructuring Services, Inc., the company responsible for defining the project's requirements and managing vendor selection and implementation, says Network Imaging's technology was chosen in large part because of its easy integration with the prothonotary's docket database system from Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq:ORCL). ''We selected the Network Imaging solution offered by Uniscan because it best addressed Allegheny's core requirements -- the ability to work with existing legacy systems and the versatility to scale with the organization's needs. At present the prothonotary handles a volume of approximately 135,000 pages per week. 1View:Object Manager offers excellent scalability to accommodate a growing magnitude of incoming documents, while allowing us to effortlessly implement the solution in other areas of the county's judiciary operations.''
''This is exactly the kind of Web-based application that is driving a new era in the document management business. Remote access to vast repositories of information and the ability to process routine paperwork electronically between third parties is changing the way work is done. The significance of what Allegheny County has accomplished in gaining state Supreme Court approval for electronic filings could lead to dramatic changes in judicial operations nationwide, and open an entirely new market for our technology,'' said Jim Leto, president and chief executive officer of Network Imaging.
Will Sellenraad, president of Uniscan, Inc., the systems integrator responsible for the overall design and implementation of the project, believes that this solution could soon be ready for deployment on a county-wide basis. ''Once administrators in other areas of county government see how productive the court has become, they will likely want to automate their own manual operations and make better use of their human resources. In fact, this system can be replicated in any municipal organization dealing in high volumes of paper documents that need to be accessible to multiple users simultaneously. This solution is more practical now than ever before, as local governments are expected to make cuts in bureaucracy while taxpayers demand more responsive public services.''
About 1View:Object Manager
1View:Object Manager is a software solution for managing the content and storage of multimedia data types such as text, images, video and audio. Object Manager handles the management, storage and distribution of any type of multimedia or document object in high-transaction, client/server and Internet/intranet environments. Companies which utilize Object Manager are able to seamlessly multimedia-enable existing or new production applications while preserving their investments in legacy information systems and hardware equipment.
About 1View:Workflow 1View:Workflow is an easy-to-implement suite of software tools designed to automate everyday business processes. This rules-based workflow management system gives users the ability to graphically represent and control the flow of documents through an organization in client/server and Web environments. Workflow facilitates internetworking with other applications and can minimize or eliminate time delays that occur when work is done in multiple remote locations.
About Uniscan, Inc.
Uniscan, Inc. is a consulting and systems integration firm specializing in document-based technologies such as: imaging, workflow, document management and complex publishing for government, banking & finance, manufacturing and insurance. Uniscan provides modular document solutions that incorporate universal industry standards, work with legacy systems and manage all types of files including images, audio, video, graphics and text via a corporate network or intranet. Information about Uniscan is available on the Web at uniscan.com or by calling 1-800-949-7226.
About Network Imaging Corporation
Network Imaging Corporation develops and markets multimedia content and storage management, Internet, workflow, engineering document management and |
