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Going Global? DEI partners with Mid-East Company MEPD for sales and implementations in the Middle East and Northern Africa! Middle East Projects Development (MEPD) has partnered with DEI to provide document management and workflow solutions to clients in the Middle East and Northern Africa regions of the world. 7/1/2009

DEI has partnered up with Middle East Projects Development (MEPD) out of Cairo, Egypt to provide a full range of document imaging, document management, automated workflow and business process management as well as content management and data capture for customers needing these cost-savings solutions on the other side of the globe.

Challenges facing the partnership is making available versions of the highly acclaimed DEI portfolio of product offerings in Arabic, which both companies are allocating translator resources to accomplish. New software versions will have Arabic fonts and language for the actual software interface and support files, with a small English sub-text to make support and calls for assistance easy and very ergonomic.

MEPD is a top-rated and deeply experienced business consulting and technology provider for the Middle East and Northern Africa regions of the world. Exclusive territory is being granted to their company and will be continued to MEPD based upon projected success and efforts made in those regions. MEPD was selected for their technical prowess, record of consulting expertise and historical list of business successes as a company.

MEPD will be granted dealer and support access to the entire DEI portfolio of products and services, and will operate as an extension of DEI in their selected regions of influence, as their new business venture develops and grows. DEI will act as provider, support partner and consultant, as MEPD grows its enterprise larger within the document and information management industry.

Further details will be available at a later date.

PAPERWISE schedules its next "PaperWise Summit Conference" for 11/8/2009 - 11/11/2009 in Henderson, NV.

PaperWise has scheduled its next conference for both PaperWise end-users and business partners at the Green Valley Ranch Resort in Henderson, Nevada, just 15 minutes outside of Las Vegas, NV.

The conference, which has always been a big hit with PaperWise customers and their business partners, will commence with an open bar reception on Sunday evening, 11/8/2009 in the late afternoon, and be followed by three days of informative seminars, educational tracts, guest speeches, entertainment, administrational training, and a host of other activities and dining engagements.

Any PaperWise customer can go to http://www.paperwisesummit.com/ and follow the links to register for both room accommodations and the conference itself. The Green Valley Ranch Resort is a very highly rated and celebrated Resort Vacation spot and Spa, with incredibly facilities, dining, entertainment, golf and other sports-leisure activities. If you are having trouble registering for the conference and would like to attend, you can call PaperWise directly at 1-417-886-7505 and ask for Rachel Mhire, or you can call DEI at 713-658-1175 for assistance.

DEI becomes the PaperWise Top Business Partner in the Southwestern U.S. - 4/30/2008

DEI, with 8 new client implementations in the past 7 months, has earned the honor of becoming PaperWise's Top Business Partner in the SW United States. Included in the new clientele, are law firms, a steel fabrication company, a large public school district, a mid-sized insurance brokerage and a couple of healthcare facilities. More prospects are in final discussions now to implement new PaperWise systems over the summer and Fall of 2008.

DEI bolsters its advanced Scanning and Data Capture business with new releases 2/2/2008.

Customers needing more and more automation in the scanning and processing of their paper documents and their data get even more solution options and potential from the DEI line of document imaging and data capture products.

PSIGEN just released its full new version of PSI-Capture 3.2x. PSI-Capture, a very strong solution for the cost, is a quite a leap from its predecessor, PSIGEN's previous banner product, 'Scan HQ'. New improved batch capture reporting, security, process design and indexing options, along with better storage and migration support, will be sure to spark a new high in the PSIGEN sales curve.

Kofax is preparing a huge change to its normal Ascent line of products. Kofax Capture 8, set to release in May of 2008, now sets monthly or annual volume as its core piece, with low cost workstations and scan stations. The new line of Ascent will now be called simply "Kofax Capture 8", with its offerings of Xtrata Pro, for advanced structured forms processing, and Indicius, for advanced auto-recognition of HCFA and other forms, as well as contractual forms and documents. New configurations of Kofax Capture will come out at 5-9% less than older Ascent configurations and be much easier to set up in solution design and ordering.

Autonomy has released its new version of Cardiff Teleform (v.10.2x) that has improved multi-form auto-recognition, easier advanced template design, and more integration with PDF Forms, XML and Database feeds, and other E-Form processing options. At its lower entry price-points, Cardiff continues to sell strong into companies and enterprises not able to afford 6 or 7 figures for high-volume deployments.

PAPERWISE formally releases the new PaperWise Advanced Workflow Suite

11/18/2007 - PaperWise released it's version 2 of their Advanced Workflow Suite that accompanies their normal PaperWise Document Management version 6.2. The Advanced Workflow Suite features improvements to the use of Electronic Forms, Workflow Designs and Business Process Automation versatility in a number of new ways.

Based upon the current PaperWise clientele demand, Version 2 of the Advanced Worfklow Suite will be distributed on a priority basis. "Our schedule is so full of new users, I'm having to work on my usual weekends off..." Dalayna Williams, Project Specialist at PaperWise, Inc.

PaperWise is scheduling Advanced Workflow Design courses for its priority business partners in early Summer of 2008 to make sure no end-users have to wait long for the next step in their company or institutions paperless evolution.

Fujitsu and Kodak top DEI List of Best Scanner Procurements - 10/07/2007

After 3 months of exhaustive testing on new units in the field, DEI staff rated Fujitsu and Kodak as their top offerings for scanner sales to new clients for the year 2007, on and up to the next date of comprehensive scanner testing.

After testing new releases of Bowe Bell & Howell mid-volume and high volume Spectrum units, Kodak low, mid and High volume units including the new i1860 scanner, all of the new 5000 and 6000 series line with Fujitsu, the Panasonic 3105C, 3065 CW, and their 2026C models, Canon's DR 7080C, 9080C, Visioneer, Xerox and several new copier-scanner MFP models, Fujitsu and Kodak offerings rated as the top 2 scanner makes for DEI to offer their clientele.

"The biggest news was that Fujitsu finally met or bested Kodak throughput on low, mid-range and high-volume scanners. We didn't expect that." Terrence Abrams, CEO of DEI, "We thought Kodak and Fujitsu would rank 1-2 again, with Bell & Howell a trailing third."

The release of Fujitsu's 2nd edition of the fi-5900C High Volume model (conservatively rated at 120 ppm,) actually equaled or improved upon the Kodak i600 line, a very successful seller, right on up to its fastest model, the i660 (120 ppm). Their fi-5650C rated better than the Kodak i-280 or i260 models for matching throughput and having a more durable construction. Kodak has announced the arrival of a new scanner line that will again challenge back for the mid-volume market. Their new i1440 is set for an early 2008 release date.

A last minute entry by Fujitsu, the fi-6140C, with the smallest footprint of any speedy scanner, had incredibly high durability marks and provided reliable scanning rates of a true 60 ppm in simplex bitonal, and had new features of automatic page-straightening, page protection and Kofax VRS Professional bundled in all for a price under $2,000.00

"This scanner changes the game a bit." Eric Francis of DEI. "It's only rated at 2000-4000 pages per day, but it looks unbreakable. It's a real production desktop scanner without needing a huge desktop."

Fujitsu has more releases scheduled along late 2008 for even faster scanners with heavy production parts in a small size.

Kodak triumphed clear and away for their i840 Scanners and their new i1800 line which reaches reliable sustained throughputs up and just over 200 ppm, with great image quality and their usual immaculate paper handling. "At this speed, no one touches them for qualified scanning throughput.....yet." Terrence Abrams.

One high selling entry, Canon, with its office supply franchises and partnerships, failed to break the top 4 again, due to more delicate parts, slow spare-part replacement service and a bit more feeder jams after short-terms of use.

Filling out the evaluation list in order were: (in terms of the entire scanner line)

1. Fujitsu

2. Kodak

3. Panasonic

4. Bowe Bell & Howell

5. Canon

6. Xerox

7. Visioneer

DEI awarded several new partnerships for ongoing ECM deployments and services - 10/31/2006

DOCS ETC, Inc. has recently finished agreements with 3 partner companies for increased Enterprise Content Management system deployments and vertical industry marketshare expansion. Over the past 14 years, DEI has worked very successfully with various regional partner companies in the document management arena. Here are the latest prestige partner additions and what they bring to the DEI partner affiliation advantages:

River City IT

Danny Munoz, President and Owner, River City IT in Austin, TX, reached an agreement with DEI to provide ECM solutions and document scanning conversion services to his clientele requiring updated software solutions and technology implementations. River City IT has been a major provider of network services and office equipment themselves over the past 10 years, but is positioning themselves in a well-earned consulting space and to launch off as a new ECM provider with DEI assistance.

Vantegis

Vantegis Technologies is expected to help develop old and new customers into a more unified workspace of Enterprise Content Management and Content Conversion Services. Their rich past experience with IS and IT consulting, appliance-based document management and custom designed workflow will assist DEI in providing more and better ECM solutions to a vastly increased number of clients. DEI, in turn, as with River City IT, is helping Vantegis develop the resources for complete ECM provision and solution deployments.

Vantegis is based in Boerne, TX, just outside of San Antonio, and represents a large field of varied clientele.

DIVERSIFIED DIGITAL SERVICES (DDS)

Diversified Digital Services is a provider of computer network implementation and support services as well as an experienced telephony provider, VoIP and messaging services solution center. Based in El Paso, Texas, they have a comprehensive one-stop shop for their networking and PC clientele. DDS owner and president, Oscar Alvarado, who has worked with DEI in the past on an individual basis, has put together this company with his partners over the last three years. In those 3 years, DDS has compiled an impressive list of customers and a steadily growing market base.

DDS also helps serve the significant and always growing 'Makeladoro' range of international corporate clientele across the Juarez border to northern Mexico. DDS services are as widely ranged as their diverse clientele with everything from PC repair to advanced network protocol organization and corporate security on their technology infrastructure. DEI and DDS work together providing DDS clients and referrals new DM and ECM solutions for specific business models in the region.

PAPERWISE SUMMIT CONFERENCE A BOOMING SUCCESS!

DEI just attended the PaperWise 2006 Summit Conference in Branson, MO. It was a fun time for all and very informative as the ECM industry player PaperWise hosted a majority of end-users and channel partners at the "Chateau on the Lake" resort and hotel.

PaperWise demonstrated the new thick and thin client versions 6.1 and 7.0 (not yet in public release) that accommodate for the significant changes in upcoming Microsoft releases of Windows Vista, Longhorn and Internet Explorer 7.0. The new PaperWise design and modularity offers customers even more powerful management of all of their information files and workflow processes than ever before.

To a guest, the PaperWise Summit Conference was widely applauded for how the ECM software system has advanced into the upper tiers of Enterprise Content Management in just a short couple of years. The new Advanced Workflow Suite raised the most eyebrows with the level of robust power, reliability and mission-critical safety it offers its clients.

(T. Abrams, DEI) "They sure keep bringing it. I'd never thought they'd be in a position now, to offer such powerful workflow and ECM tools at such a low price-point. Even when we ask them for new and really advanced feature integrations, they don't stop supplying client satisfaction on a pretty quick schedule. What more can we ask for?"

PaperWise expects to release its updated version 6.1 in December, with version 7.0 set tentatively for late Spring. All PaperWise end-users will be able to request their free upgrades upon official release dates. DEI will also be taking pre-release date upgrade orders and execute the pre-orders once release date shipping commences.

Public Education System Business still Booming - 9/02/2006

DEI recently added-on more modular features and benefits to two of their four public education enterprises. In a late August onsite inspection, DEI had been asked to develop many new features of their ECM solution for public school districts and institutions over several states.

In one public school district, DEI designed and presented several new features, easily configurable in their ECM system. Those new subsystem functions were:

Student Tracking System

Cumulative Student File System

Construction & Maintenance Paperless Operations

Construction & Maintenance Procurement Automation

Integration with the legacy Accounting Application

Electronic Forms and Automated Workflow

Automation of all Staff Hiring Processes

All HR Personnel Recommendation, Transfers and Retirement

School Campus Hourly Worker Request and Hiring

Resume Content Analysis and Auto-Routing

Budget Tracking Forms and Data Exchange

Oversized Scanning of Engineering Documents & Maps

New Student Admissions

Business Analysis Reporting on School System Processes

High Volume Conversion of School System Records and Admissions

Grading System Integration

"The client was amazed that all of their desired features could be easily configured or quickly developed from their one ECM system..." (Eric Francis, DEI) "...we're putting in for pennies on the dollar, what about 4-5 other education system software vendors were trying to charge these public school systems around $600,000.00 on up to $2 million dollars for procurement." DEI provided a robust PaperWise ECM solution to this particular public school system.

"It was amazing what money could be wasted in this public sector,..." (Terrence Abrams, DEI), "we found all sorts of Public Education Software vendors offering simple database-over-the-web applications for exorbitant prices and with a severe lack of open integration ability. We also found several competing Document Management vendors promising the moon with software applications that were severely limited in scale, design and ability. It's very nice to provide a client with the solution that is far more comprehensive, reliable and really making a statement for their budgetary dollar. PaperWise ECM Software and their development team really made this happen fluidly and trouble-free."

Of DEI's four public education enterprises, 2 are located in Texas and 2 are in Louisiana. DEI has used three different ECM systems in these four client sites depending on the client's expressed requirements and needs analysis at the time of their initial implementation. DEI is currently in talks with 4 new public education prospects that either don't have any Content or Document Management or need to replace poor Document Management systems that delivered far less than what was promised in years past. DEI does have Public Education School System experience which most competitors do not have and keep open minds and system abilities to address the growing needs in a difficult business model like public education.

DEI's most recent public school system client has now had an additional 9 system demonstrations, covering all departments and campus needs. The client is also planning to expand their four department initial installation into an Enterprise-Wide Content Management System. Budgeting has been set for fiscal 2007.

State of Louisiana Department of Education now offering Student Transcripts over the Web to Parish School Boards and Universities who need them - 08/15/2006.

The State of Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) running its Content Management System from DEI, has added World-Wide-Web access to Student Transcripts for students attending public and private schools in the State of Louisiana. Now, Parish School Boards needing to review, analyze or even correct student transcripts stored with the State Records and the Dept. of Education can retrieve, according to State-secured access, a student's transcript records and history.

The LDOE has been performing advanced Document Management, Automated Workflow, Records Management and Administrative Services with their OnBase ECM system for over 6 years to date. Recently, the LDOE's IBM Transcripts System was converted to a new Windows and MS SQL Database platform for upward mobility and system standardization. They wanted to marry the related student transcript information to all of the other archives in the LDOE's ECM system, so onsite administrators contracted DEI to design a working OnBase ECM integration whereby all transcripts could be stored in the LDOE repository, retrieved, viewed, and with secured access, even edit the student's transcripts online. Now the Parish School Boards can retrieve, view or edit student records as necessary, with nothing but a web browser on their desktop. The LDOE central network and servers do the rest.

Universities in Louisiana can now request Student Transcripts online from a single source, avoid postal mailing of certified paper transcripts, and have the information needed for admission in 1/10th the time it would have normally taken to receive. The LDOE is still working out policies for other approved institutions to access the student transcripts. Now Parish School Systems receiving student transfers into and out of their schools can easily get the transcript information they need in seconds, instead of several weeks or months as was found to be typical.

"The policy makers at the LDOE, their system administrators and their ECM system local administrator have been so smart and foresighted at the LDOE, that we could merely contact Hyland Software (OnBase) and manage the program with their developers to achieve this advanced integration. Customers with vision allow us to get right to work in solving a problem like this with expediency. Hyland Software developers are so good, we have to work hard just to keep up with them." - T. Abrams, DEI, 7/31/2006

Real Estate Developers and Construction Builders moving to ECM with a purpose - 08/02/2006.

DEI signed its first agreement to implement a Real Estate Development and Builder's ECM solution with the PaperWise Software System. In competition and/or cooperation with normal Real Estate Development vendors such as Sage Timberline, Microsoft Business Solutions, IDIA and Great Plains Software, DEI won a contract to make a large 3-state Real Estate Development Company paperless and business-process automated on document-centric work cycles and processes.

With the installation date tentatively set in December, for new office relocation considerations, the client has authorized DEI to begin discovery services for workflow analysis and digital scanning conversion and filing of each departments' paper documents and electronic files such as MS Project and AutoCAD files.

The client will then later implement the rest of their ECM solution, offering advanced Content Searching for their own customers across their business website and through selected portions of their digital archives and workflow cycles. It is expected that for a mid-sized investment, this client will save over 7 figures in the first year of new ECM operations alone.

"They have a lot for us to do, that is certain, but the work they are asking for is actually fairly simple and familiar to us. We should show them a record time to reach ROI (return on investment)." B. Cameron, DEI "Sales Contract work cycles, integration with their accounting and inventory management systems, Title and Deed document distribution and approval, these are all things we've done before with great expertise."

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