CIC Introduces Enhanced Capabilities for On-Demand Straight-Through Processing Applications with SignatureOne Ceremony Server 2.0

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., March 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Communication Intelligence Corporation ("CIC") (OTC Bulletin Board: CICI), a leading supplier of electronic signature solutions for business process automation in the financial industry* and the recognized leader** in biometric signature verification, announced today SignatureOne® Ceremony® Server 2.0 with added functionality that extends CIC's competitive advantage for SaaS applications.

SignatureOne Ceremony Server 2.0 delivers substantial enhancements which support industry directions related to SOA and Cloud Computing for deployed on-premise or hosted solutions as well as leveraging direct feedback by customers who have large scale SignatureOne Ceremony Server deployments operating in a service based model.  

SignatureOne Ceremony Server has been adopted by several of the largest insurers in the US and top tier channel partners focused on the Financial Services vertical market. The latest release extends the capabilities desired by typical large enterprise organizations and provides the flexibility required for integration and embedding into applications from vertical market channel partners delivering SaaS and Cloud based solutions.  

Innovations and Enhancements Deliver Substantial Business Value

Enhancements and innovations in SignatureOne Ceremony Server 2.0 include:

• Support for mobile devices that include a web browsing and document presentation capability such as the iPhone, Blackberry, or Windows Mobile based phones,
• Extended audit and security features including additional options for identity verification and user authentication,
• The full range of CIC signature methods for click-signing with Knowledge Based Authentication (KBA) or our KnowledgeMatch™ technology, PIN / Password, PKI, Voice, Fingerprint, and handwritten signatures enabled for all major hardware device makers,
• Implementation of support for the latest industry standards,
• Extended workflow configuration options to support everything from the simplest workflow to the most complex,
• Extended web services, event services, and application program interfaces to support the complexities of large enterprise integration and embedding by our vertical channel partners, and
• Simplified user interface and branding modularity to enable our customers to easily create, modify, and maintain their own workflows, legal and compliance content, and corporate style guides without dependency on CIC.  

"We are pleased that SignatureOne Ceremony Server 2.0 achieves the objective of equipping end-users as well as our solution providers with capabilities that fully enable optimization of straight-through processing applications," stated Russ Davis, CIC's CTO & VP Product Development. "CIC continues to monitor the technology, legal and compliance activities affecting our solutions, proactively solicit input on functionality from our valued clients, and leverage our unique experience and knowledge to ensure that we maintain our market and product leadership through delivery of the highest quality and most versatile solutions available."

SignatureOne Ceremony Server 2.0 has already been chosen by large financial service enterprise accounts as well as several strategic channel partners that plan to have it available with their deployed on-premise solutions and as a key component of their SaaS based offerings later this year.  

SignatureOne Ceremony Server 2.0 is currently available.  For more information please visit www.cic.com or contact us directly via email to [email protected].

About CIC

Communication Intelligence Corporation ("CIC") is a leading supplier of electronic signature solutions for business process automation in the Financial Industry and the recognized leader in biometric signature verification. CIC's products enable companies to achieve truly paperless work flow in their eBusiness processes by enabling them with "The Power to Sign Online®" with multiple signature technologies across virtually all applications in SaaS and fully deployed delivery models.

Industry leaders such as AGLA, Allstate, American Family, Charles Schwab, Prudential, Snap-on Credit, Travelers, Wachovia, Wells Fargo and WFG (World Financial Group) chose CIC's products to meet their needs. CIC has deployments with over 400 channel partners and enterprises worldwide representing hundreds of thousands of users, with over 500 million electronic signatures captured, eliminating the need for over a billion pieces of paper. CIC sells directly to enterprises and through system integrators, channel partners and OEMs. CIC is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California and has a joint venture, CICC, in Nanjing, China. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.cic.com

*In December 2008, CIC was named to Forrester Research's "Hot Banking Tech Companies To Watch in 2009" Report.

**In October 2007, CIC was awarded the 2007 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Market Leadership in the dynamic signature verification market.

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CIC's logo, SignatureOne, Ceremony and the Power to Sign Online are registered trademarks of CIC.  KnowledgeMatch is a trademark of CIC. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

SOURCE Communication Intelligence Corporation