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 Active
Data Services Unveils
Industry's Next Generation Integrated Document
Facility
Manage And Distribute All Forms Of Print And Electronic Business Critical
Communications
February 2003 - Digital Publishing Solutions' - Active Data
Services, Inc. is the market leader focused on the next generation
Integrated Document FacilityTM, specifi- cally providing a full complement
of int- grated services including data capture, digital asset management,
output and distribution services to the growth-oriented document intensive
technology business sectors such as healthcare, financial, government and
the enterprise.
Active Data's Integrated Document Facility produces over 150
million personalized print and electronic communications such as bills,
invoices, transactional documents, financial statements, trade confirms,
policy renewals, explanation of benefits, newsletters, enrollment kits and
direct mail across multiple channels of distribution with reliability and
accuracy.
Traditionally, organizations have focused on the delivery of
physically manufactured business and consumer communications. However, the
digital economy has provided a multitude of new B2B, B2C ande-commerce
opportunities. Active Data's vertical-differentiated solution suites drive
business innovation and major business benefits such as:
- Cost Saving
Benefits
- Technical Benefits
- Operational Benefits
- Customer Relationship
Benefits
Over the past several years business enterprises have accumulated
an astounding amount of text-based assets, including data, documents and
information and rich media assets such as images, video and audio, all used
to market corporate products andservices and to distribute information. The
Gartner Group, the leading provider of technology and business research and
advisory services, was first to promote the Automated Document Factory.
Today, Active Data Services has advanced this concept to create a timely,
next generation Integrated Document Facility around four key criteria: Input
& Ingestion, Transformation, Preparation & Delivery and Report& Control.
Based on the demands of today's fast-paced business environments, the Active
Data Solution Suite has been designed with the industry's most influential
and authoritative experts, leading technology analysts and practioneers.
"Increasingly, our customers have identified the need to partner with an
advanced services organization that can provide scalable, innovative brick,
click and hybrid services that help activate the entire customer and
employee experience. Our mission is to deliver superior service solutions
and world-class quality with an excellent ROI," states Peter F. Ransome, EVP
and CMO.
Active Data has created a highly scalable and extensible suite of
solutions specifically targeted for a company's core vertical market. The
power and flexibility that the Active Data Solution Suite offers is
unprecedented compared to alternative providers. The Active Data Solution
Suite is a product set that includes a proven underlying technology,
customer specific API’s and development tools that allow for an easy
implementation with the following vertical applications:
- Active Data
Healthcare Suite™
- Active Data Financial Suite™
- Active Data Government Suite™
- Active Data Enterprise Suite™
The Active Data Solution Suites
appeal to a wide group of customers and strategic partners within the
Fortune 500, horizontally to IT buyers across all vertical markets and to
specific departments and lines of business users in vertical industries.
"To
ensure these core business services are effectively and reliably delivered,
Active Data Services continues to strategically invest in technology and
quality manufacturing programs," says John Kabbes, EVP and COO. "We are
domain experts committed to integrating service solutions our customers need
to continually improve their business performance." Active Data Services
customer, industry and application focus supports progressive companies like
RBC Centura, Blue Cross Blue Shield, GlaxoSmithKline, Bayer, BB&T, Red Hat,
The State of North Carolina, Duke, Time Warner and others.
Active Data
Services is a North Carolina based corporation with strategic partnerships
in Boston, Cincinnati and San Francisco. The new company is a result of a
successful management buy-out from Lason Systems led by Kenneth A. Eller who
serves as President and CEO and a seasoned executive management team
including Pete Harvey, EVP and CFO and Peter F. Ransome, EVP and CMO.
Active
Data Services secured financing from top tier investors including RBC
Centura. "Due to the strength of our client roster, new customer wins and
the formation of strategic partnerships with leaders in the document and
content management market, including Bell+Howell, Eastman Kodak and Xerox,
it has made 2002 tremendously successful for our company," said Eller. "This
substantial investment from premier investment firms and strategic partners
allows us to broaden our research and development initiatives while
ramping-up our sales & marketing activities in order to further expand our
position as the market leader."
"Healthcare companies and companies within
the financial services, state and local government, education and
telecommunication industries are realizing the strategic value of outsourced
traditional and online services," said Pete Harvey, EVP and CFO. "By helping
companies turn their data, information and content into critical business
communications with the opportunity for them to monetize that content,
Active Data is reinventing the way companies interact with a wide range of
end-users".
About Active Data ServicesActive Data Services, Inc. is the
market leader focused on the next generation Integrated Document FacilityTM,
which provides a full complement of integrated relational management and
communication services for businesses to create lasting, profitable
relationships with their target audiences.
The company was founded in April
2002, and is a privately held US corporation headquartered in Durham, North
Carolina within the Research Triangle Park providing world-class operational
excellence.
For more information on Active Data Services, the Integrated
Document Facility, the Active Data Solution Suite and right-sourcingTM your
business critical communications, call Peter Ransome at 1.866.ADS.CORP.
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