Gundersen Lutheran Health System Selects Combined Brainware and Ascend Solution for World-Class A/P Processing

ASHBURN, Va. and BREA, Calif., Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Brainware and Ascend Software announced today that they have partnered to deliver the Brainware Distiller intelligent data capture (IDC) solution along with Ascend Software's business process automation solution to the Gundersen Lutheran Health System. One of the Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals of 2010, Gundersen Lutheran will utilize Brainware Distiller and Ascend's SmartTouch A/P technology to automate accounts payable processing, with an objective of increasing operational visibility and control within their Lawson ERP environment.

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"After an extensive evaluation of frontline vendors for our A/P imaging and workflow solution, we selected Ascend Software's Business Process Automation with real-time Lawson integration and Brainware's intelligent data capture solution, Distiller," said Karen Haville, Project Manager for Finance/Accounting at Gundersen Lutheran.  "We believe that together, these products deliver both the best data extraction technology and the best workflow solution.  The combination of these two products will yield the greatest automation available, providing Gundersen Lutheran the maximum savings and optimal efficiencies."

Brainware and Ascend share the same philosophy of building superior solutions from the ground up.  The companies have partnered to combine their approach and to leverage their mutual in-depth market knowledge to offer all customers innovative, sustainable and results-oriented solutions.

"Brainware is the leader in intelligent data capture and their ability to image and extract data with superior accuracy rates complements our advanced workflow and document management solution," said William Carey, EVP Business Development and Partner Alliances of Ascend Software.  "Together, Ascend and Brainware will deliver a true best-of-breed data capture solution that provides unmatched recognition rates, extensive productivity enhancing automation and the shortest implementation timeframe.  This, accompanied by Ascend's business process management solution, will provide Gundersen Lutheran with a complete end-to-end solution."

"The visibility and control that companies like Gundersen Lutheran can now achieve through the deployment of business process automation tools integrated with intelligent data capture are impossible to ignore," says Colin Kaye, Vice President of Strategic Alliances for Brainware. "Ascend and Brainware will deliver a combined solution that addresses the needs of Gundersen Lutheran and other leading organizations that are aggressively striving to optimize their operations."

About Ascend Software

Since 1997, Ascend Software has developed business process management solutions that provide greater cost savings automation and are easy to implement.  Ascend's enterprise information management solution was designed from the ground up to archive all types of information (i.e. reports, documents, images and all file types) to build a centralized archive in order to retain corporate information.  Additionally, Ascend developed their advanced workflow solution that provides greater automation and is the foundation for their SmartTouch Solution suite, which features robust automation and business savvy design delivering greater cost savings to customers.  Ascend's advanced automation overcomes challenges typically found in workflow solutions and is the reason for the implementation success.  Ascend's solutions are implemented in all industries and distributed in fourteen countries.  Headquartered in Brea, California, the company has branch offices in Tennessee, Maine, Virginia and Northern California.  Visit http://www.ascendsoftware.com for more information.

About Brainware

Brainware, Inc. is an innovative provider of intelligent data capture and enterprise search solutions that help Global 2000 companies eliminate costly manual data entry, rapidly process large volumes of documents and retrieve data from across the enterprise. Its solutions were built from the ground up to manage unstructured data without templates, exact definitions, taxonomies or indexing. Headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia, Brainware maintains global sales and support operations through its North American, U.K. and European offices. Brainware customers include Airbus, Alcon, Alltel, Amgen, Anadarko, Anixter, BB&T, Continental Airlines, CORT, Gardner Denver, Halliburton, Her Majesty's Prison Service, Johns Manville, British American Tobacco, Kimberly-Clark, KPMG, NHS/Steria, Newell Rubbermaid, Phillip Morris International, Reynolds & Reynolds, Shell and others. For more information, visit http://www.brainware.com.

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