City of Peoria, Arizona to Implement Second iCapture™ System for its Document

Management & Imaging System

WALNUT CREEK, Calif.--April 01, 2005

In early 2004, the Tax Division of the City of Peoria implemented an iCapture system as a subsystem within their new Integrated Tax System that was provided by TataInfoTech, Ltd. Based on the success achieved through this installation, the Police Department of the City has awarded a contract to Impression Technology to design and implement a data capture, imaging and workflow solution to meet its ongoing operational requirements.

The Police Department in Peoria must deal with approximately 1,000,000 pages of Case Files, training records, accreditation files and other documents annually. The Department recognized that the need to capture information from these document, the operational necessity to make this information quickly available and the sheer volume of documents meant that the continued use of paper as the primary media was not cost effective or feasible. Following the completion of a Requirements Definition and Conceptual Design, the Department has awarded a contract to Impression Technology to implement a customized version of iCapture and a document imaging and workflow system that will be based on the Captaris suite of software.

The Department requires a separate and highly secure solution as many of the documents that it processes contain confidential and sensitive information. In the first phase of this project Impression and the Department will focus on the over 20,000 Incident Report Files generated by the Department annually. Documents will be scanned and indexed, vital information will be captured and stored within the Departments Crimes Database, and images will be stored within a Storage Area Network repository for subsequent viewing and retrieval by the approximately 140 Officers and employees within the Department. In addition to the ability to retrieve images of desired files, the system will include a workflow subsystem that will route files to appropriate Divisions and Units within the Department for action based on pre-determined document characteristics.

The integrated iCapture/Captaris solution is being customized at Impression Technology’s facilities in Walnut Creek, California and it will be installed in Peoria in June, 2005. Following the installation and integration with existing Department systems, Impression will provide on-site training and the joint project team will conduct a series of formal Acceptance Tests. The Department has planned for a multi-phased project and the solution infrastructure that will be installed by Impression during this first phase will allow the Department to expand the scope and use of the system to encompass all of the types of forms, records and documents used and generated during the course of its normal business.

For more information on this project, please contact Bruce Lechner, Vice President, at 925.280.0010, Ext. 20.