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IPD Evolves Product Offering by Leveraging IBM’s Content Manager Version 8


Bloomfield Hills, Michigan--June 12, 2002 IPD, a leading software development and integration company specializing in business process management solutions for insurance companies, today announced the integration of IBM’s recently released Content Manager* Version 8 to its content management and workflow software application called Ultera™. Utilizing Content Manager Version 8, Ultera allows insurance companies to process mission critical documents such as claims and applications faster in a controlled and structured format. This delivers increased productivity, reduced operational costs as well as higher customer, agent and provider satisfaction. The combination of IPD’s Ultera and IBM’s Content Manager allows customers to use the same information across their enterprise and not just in this one application.

"IPD's latest version of Ultera will fully leverage the new functionality and features offered in IBM’s Content Manager Version 8.” says Mark Brazeau, IPD's senior vice president. “These new tools will be leveraged in Ultera to provide user functionality specifically required by insurance companies. Ultera will deliver this added functionality to end users in a browser-based paradigm."

"The enterprise content management market is expected to exceed $10 billion by 2004," said Andrew Warzecha, vice president, META Group. "As organizations increasingly seek single source strategic solutions, vendors that can support the broadest set of 'content' in an integrated environment will benefit the most. Indeed, we have already seen this over the last 12 months with vendors like IBM growing significantly at the expense of niche solution providers."

"IBM's announcement today of Content Manager Version 8 delivers the most complete content management solution to customers, including the broadest access to information regardless of location, advanced search capabilities and heightened performance," said Brett MacIntyre, vice president of content and information integration, IBM. "The powerful combination of IBM's Content Manager software and IPD's business process management solutions for insurance companies will help customers experience even greater value from their enterprise content management solution."

As e-infrastructures become more complex, companies are finding it necessary to integrate a secure repository for a wide spectrum of business information, including text documents, computer print output, scanned images, e-mail, video and audio with their existing operational systems. The newest version of IBM's Content Manager software helps companies better leverage this unstructured information for enhanced business value. IBM Content Manager with its unified API set makes it is easy for independent software vendors to enhance their solutions by integrating with IBM’s Content Manager. IBM Content Manager is a key cross-industry enabler for applications that enhance customer service, improve operational productivity and deliver rich media experiences.

About IPD

Founded in 1991, IPD, Inc. (http://www.ipdsolution.com) is a privately held software development and systems integration company specializing in large-scale workflow, process automation, content management and e-Business solutions for the health, life and property and causality insurance industries. The company provides packaged and customized software solutions, as well as consulting, training and project management services necessary to consistently achieve successful implementation. IPD’s integrated approach delivers increased productivity, reduced processing cycle time and lower administrative expenses, while dramatically improving service levels.

About IBM Content Manager

The IBM® Content Manager portfolio, based on DB2, provides the enterprise content management infrastructure to store, access and manage the full spectrum of digital information generated by e-business. Large collections of scanned images, facsimiles, electronic office documents, XML and HTML files, computer output, audio, and video can be managed. Integrating content with line of business, customer service, enterprise resource planning, digital asset management, distance learning, Web content management, or other applications can accelerate business process automation across the enterprise. See www.ibm.com/software/data/cm for more details.

* Content Manager and DB2 are trademarks of IBM Corporation, Inc. in the United States, other countries, or both

Ultera is a trademark of Image Process Design, Inc.