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The Situation. FirstGroup America is the leading transportation operator in North America, moving nearly 5 million passengers daily by motor coach and school bus, operating in 49 states and 11 Canadian provinces/territories. They process hundreds of thousands of supplier invoices per year, but the manual process FirstGroup used was time consuming and labor intensive. Invoices were received at each local office and multiple manual steps, inter office mailing and often duplicate data entry was required before the invoice was approved and ready to voucher in FirstGroup’s JD Edwards accounting system. Further, each month all paper invoices were shipped to an outsource image provider, scanned and images uploaded to an image server for viewing.

Perrysburg, OH, Boulder, CO – July 1, 2009 – Image Integration Systems (IIS), a leading document management solutions provider for business process improvement in high volume transaction environments and ProStor Systems, the leading supplier of removable disk storage systems for business backup and archiving, today announced that IIS has successfully completed comprehensive interoperability testing between its DocuSphere® line of business process management (BPM) products and the ProStor InfiniVault® system. The combined solutions enable IIS customers to cost effectively manage and store business records over the long term with automated retention management, compliance and disaster protection.

As an Oracle Partner and member of the Oracle Partner Network, IIS has completed the validation of DocuSphere integration with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.0. This is only the latest of validations that have been completed for the JD Edwards software (World and EnterpriseOne).

In order to increase efficiencies when processing Accounts Payable invoices in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne ERP system, The Opus Group, a $2.2 billion national real estate development company, installed our DocuSphere line of products along with a set of advanced capture products from AnyDoc Software. You can read about the project in the April 2009 Business Solutions OpEd piece. To see the full article, click here.

PERRYSBURG, Ohio – February 2, 2009 – Image Integration Systems (IIS), a leading workflow and document management solutions provider for business process management in high-volume transaction environments, announced its DocuSphere® software suite will provide an integrated workflow and document management solution to improve transactional business processes at FirstGroup America, Inc.

Paris, Perrysburg – January 19, 2009 – EntropySoft, specialist of the Enterprise Content Integration (ECI) market, today announced a new technology agreement with Image Integration Systems. Image Integration Systems is integrating a wide selection of bidirectional connectors from EntropySoft into its DocuSphere line of business process management (BPM) products. This agreement provides Image Integration Systems’ customers with expanded, out-of-the-box connectivity for accessing more critical information across the enterprise.

An article published in the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) Handbook by Robert J. Kearney, Image Integration Systems, Inc., USA

A Practical View of the Benefits of Workflow Systems in ERP Environments

The effective integration of comprehensive, independent workflow systems with Enterprise Resource Planning systems can produce significant improvements in those business processes implemented with the ERP. This synergism fully delivers on the economies of scale promised for centralized ERP processing, while insuring and simplifying the requisite participation of the "expert", often de-centralized, knowledge workers.

Practical limitations of most ERP systems are considered, as is the manner in which automated workflow overcomes those limitations to effect greater business process improvement. The results at two businesses are considered, each of which benefited from faster, less costly and more controllable business processes.

As an SAP Software Solution Partner, IIS has completed the certification of DocuSphere ArchiveLink 4.0 for SAP NetWeaver 7.00. This is only the latest of certifications that have been completed for the SAP software.

As an Oracle Certified Partner and member of the Oracle Partner Network, IIS has completed the validation of DocuSphere integration with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.12. This is only the latest of validations that have been completed for the JD Edwards software (World and EnterpriseOne).

The Situation. Calor Gas Ltd. is the UK's leading supplier of liquefied petroleum gas. Close to 4 million homes and businesses across the UK rely on Calor Gas for a variety of applications. The company’s headquarters and centralized corporate services center, responsible for all accounting and information system activities, are in Warwick, and supports over 60 sales, service and office sites. The company had a very complex Purchase-to-Pay 3-way matching process and experienced serious operational bottlenecks as the number of vendor invoices increased. The Calor Gas process improvement objective was to eliminate these bottlenecks and improve customer service without adding personnel.