Rotech Healthcare and Crouse Hospital Select Brainware Distiller and Ascend SmartTouch

ASHBURN, Va. and BREA, Calif., April 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Brainware and Ascend Software announced today that Rotech Healthcare (NASDAQ: ROHI), an Orlando, Florida-based provider of medical equipment and services, and Crouse Hospital, a major healthcare provider based in Syracuse, New York, have selected a combined Brainware and Ascend solution for accounts payable (AP) automation.  This combined solution provides powerful capabilities for sorting and extracting header and line item invoice data with efficient routing for approval, integration with legacy content management platforms and quick, simplified document retrieval on the back end.

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"Recognizing that accounts payable demands are high, Crouse Hospital's finance team was motivated in finding a proven paperless solution to organize our AP department to meet today's challenges," said Deborah Montrond, Accounts Payable Manager for Crouse.  "We needed to implement workflow automation to improve efficiency, reduce invoice processing time and assist with month-end accruals.  After many months of reviewing other companies' products and services, we chose Ascend Software -- which embeds Brainware's data capture technology -- because we feel their solution will work best for us."

"Ascend's ground-up design and deep understanding of Accounts Payable and business processing allow us to identify and implement greater cost-cutting automation, while providing our customers with a solution that adapts to change," said Larry Robinett, Vice President, Sales at Ascend Software.  "Together Ascend and Brainware offer a higher quality solution that translates into unmatched functionality and ROI."

"Brainware's growing partner network has delivered a broad range of opportunities, leveraging considerable talent and specialized expertise to addressing the unique needs and challenges of complex enterprises," said Charles Kaplan, Vice President of Marketing at Brainware.  "Combining Brainware's scalable, out-of-the-box capabilities for intelligent data capture with Ascend's proven business process management enables organizations like Rotech and Crouse to achieve comprehensive, end-to-end automation of the AP process, eliminating manual data entry for a faster, simpler, more compliant and less costly operation."

Rotech Healthcare Inc. is one of the largest providers of home medical equipment and related products and services in the United States, with a comprehensive offering of respiratory therapy and durable home medical equipment and related services.  Visit www.rotech.com for more information.

Crouse Hospital, located in Syracuse, New York, serves a 15-county area of Central New York and operates one of the longest-running and largest ambulatory surgery programs in the U.S.  For more information, visit www.crouse.org.

About Brainware, Inc.

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, Anadarko, BB&T, Baylor Health Care System, British American Tobacco, BSkyB, Clear Channel Communications, Cleveland Clinic, Continental Airlines, CORT, Frontier Communications, Gardner Denver, Halliburton, Her Majesty's Prison Service, Johns Manville, KPMG, NEC, NHS/Steria, Newell Rubbermaid, Old Dominion Freight Line, Philip Morris International, Resurrection Health Care, Reynolds & Reynolds, Shell, Southern Company, Sun Chemical, The Bank of New York Mellon/SourceNet, TriZetto, and many others.  For more information, please visit www.brainware.com.

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, Oregon, Illinois, and Northern California.  Visit www.ascendsoftware.com for more information.

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