Danbury, CT and Salem, OR -- Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) has been chosen by the State of Oregon to provide a technology solution that addresses issues of workflow within the government as an integral part of their integrated electronic document strategy.

Digital Document Delivery (D3) by Pitney Bowes docSense offers Oregon a cost-effective way to leverage the capabilities and cost savings of Electronic Funds Transfer through an Automated Clearing House (ACH). Perhaps more importantly, the Electronic Reporting and Payment feature of D3 allows authorized agencies the ability to view their reports online instead of receiving them in hard copy.

The XML-based architecture of D3 facilitates job reporting without modifying internal procedures. D3 efficiently redirects the workflow information back to the authorized department or organization for online posting to simplify the workflow process.

"D3 satisfies Oregon's immediate need to display designated reporting while also providing the infrastructure for an eventual migration to EBPP--for tax refunds to citizens, for example--or for any other kinds of transactional communication between the government, business and residents of the state," says Karl Schumacher, president of Pitney Bowes docSense.

"Digital Document Delivery will enhance efficiency in the state government while adhering to the Governor's sustainability agenda," agrees Russ Bass, Project Coordinator for the State of Oregon's Publishing and Distribution Department.

Digital Document Delivery gives Oregon the ability to leverage their existing legacy applications by utilizing print streams or other standard output formats to convert and direct data to the proper delivery channel from an XML data repository composed by the State’s authorized organizations or departments.

The database is also used to electronically trigger ACH transactions for accounts payable to vendors doing business with the state. D3 triggers and processes ACH transactions from the banking details contained in the enrollment database. The state utilizes the ACH for direct deposit of payments made to Vendors.

Report recipients receive an E-mail notification that a report exists along with a hot link to the URL. The reports viewed on the web include any failed transactions, which are generated as a failsafe. The disbursing department can then check the quality of their data to determine why the transaction failed and correct those errors.

"State agencies should now be able to accomplish both electronic and hard copy document changes at the print end with greater efficiency and in a more timely fashion," says Bass.

Other value-added processes are being implemented at the print end--including StreamWeaver and other mail hygiene products from Pitney Bowes.

"We are creating a more cost effective approach for hard copy output-- including mail hygiene, mail merge, print/finish management and reorientation of documents--all of which have traditionally been accomplished at the legacy mainframe end by systems analysts," says Bass. "We will now be able to make choices prior to print about how we want documents output."

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