Sepialine Announces eCopy Cost Recovery Connector for Argos

Users can now recover the costs of scanning

IRgA, BOOTH 810, HOLLYWOOD, FL - May 20, 2004 -- Sepialine™, the leader in Cost Recovery for service professionals, today announced a partnership with eCopy, Inc., an innovative provider of document distribution and integration solutions. Through their partnership, the eCopy Cost Recovery Connector for the Argos Cost Recovery Platform is now available. The eCopy Cost Recovery Connector for Argos delivers activity accounting for all scanning performed through eCopy ShareScan software. With an integrated cost recovery solution in place, users supply identifi cation and billing information prior to conversion and scanning. Billing information is then logged to a central database for subsequent analysis and client billing.

AN EMERGING TREND

Professional services firms – such as legal, architecture, advertising, and engineering firms – are the most common venues for cost recovery. By capturing and analyzing expenses, companies are able to gain business insight, charge back clients for reimbursables, and ultimately increase profit. Cost Recovery is a growing family of technologies designed to capture, analyze, and report business expenses, such as printing and copying. With the eCopy Cost Recovery Connector for Argos, users extend the concept by tracking all scanning activity from their digital office copier or scanner.

The eCopy Suite, coupled with the scanning capabilities of a Canon digital copier or scanner, enables any organization to transform paper documents into information that is easily integrated into commonly used business applications. Using the eCopy Suite, companies can provide open access to scanning that connects to the company’s e-mail and other networked enterprise applications for low-cost, easy, instantaneous distribution and management of electronic copies of paper documents.

"Sepialine has a deep understanding of the specific demands of service professionals," said Noel O’Dwyer, director of strategic alliances for eCopy, Inc. "Sepialine and eCopy share the common goal of helping customers manage and contain their office expenses."

COMMITTED TO COST RECOVERY

The Argos Platform from Sepialine is built to address the long-standing challenge of implementing cost recovery without compromising productivity. Sepialine firsts – such as message-based routing, icon notifi cation, global and user quotas, and snooze – all work together to make cost recovery easy and fl exible for end users and administrators alike. Traditionally, cost recovery solutions interrupt users and stop vital offi ce processes, such as printing, in order to obtain billing information. Sepialine’s unique approach preserves workfl ow, and yet ensures that all expenses are tracked.

"As the leader in cost recovery solutions for service professionals, Sepialine is committed to tracking all expenses throughout the enterprise," said Jeremy Evans, director of product development for Sepialine. "The ability to capture and recover scan and fax expenses is increasingly important to our corporate customers. Our partnership with eCopy helps us realize that vision by extending our reach."

ABOUT SEPIALINE

Sepialine, Inc. delivers products and services to capture, analyze and report expenses across the enterprise. The award-winning Argos Cost Recovery Platform from Sepialine delivers print, copy, scan and fax tracking for a variety of wide and small format devices and services. Sepialine products are used by corporate and service professionals, worldwide, including architecture, engineering, legal and reprographics industries. For more information, visit www.sepialine.com.

ABOUT ECOPY, INC.

eCopy, Inc. is an innovative provider of open and flexible solutions that rapidly integrate paper-based information into existing business processes and applications. Numerous industries, including legal, healthcare, and fi nancial services, use eCopy to easily access, modify, distribute, and share information to add value to their business. eCopy, Inc. is a global company headquartered in the United States, with a subsidiary in Japan, offi ces in England, Germany, France and Scandinavia, as well as sales operations in Mexico, Canada, Latin America, Australia, Singapore, and New Zealand. For more information, visit www.ecopy.com.