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AIIM ON DEMAND 2005

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While Esker Software may be best known for adding document
delivery to SAP and other enterprise applications , the company has
responded to this need for extension of document delivery capabilities
into common desktop software, with the launch of an on-line document
delivery service called Esker on Demand for Office.com

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Esker is the intelligent document delivery leader . in the
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CONTACT: Meg Killian, communications manager , +1-215-496-9272 ext. For
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"This survey's results reinforce what we're already hearing from
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Esker on Demand - document delivery services enabling physical
mail, fax, email and SMS delivery from enterprise and desktop
applications with no printers, mailroom equipment, fax machines,
office supplies, etc. Microsoft is a registered trademark
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It features the
industry's broadest range of delivery media and file format conversion
options and is the only solution with the DeliveryWare Rules Engine
for document processing intelligence that eliminates the need for
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As far as preferences for how they receive invoices, 74% of
respondents said they prefer to receive billings via postal mail and
only 20% of organizations favor online or emailed invoices.

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Free Financial Advice From CPAs; PICPA Answers Questions from the Public

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To respond to burning business and personal finance questions, the
Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) recently
launched the "Ask a CPA" feature on its Web site. 63% of
organizations rank fax as their second most frequently used means for
sending billings, and 56% said that they used email for delivery least
often among the three transmission methods.

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Also revealed in the survey was a general trend of self-service
when it comes to document production and deployment. The worldwide Esker on Demand network can be
accessed via Esker DeliveryWare or on-line via Esker on Demand for
Office.

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Top-level results of the survey showed that despite the
proliferation of enterprise software to manage financial transactions ,
organizations remain dependent on popular desktop applications like
word processors (73%) and spreadsheets (45%) for generating business
documents such as invoices, purchase orders, contracts , remittance
documents and order confirmations.

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AIIM Annual Conference and Exposition, Esker is offering
demonstrations of the service and providing attendees with trial
accounts that allow users to send 30 documents using the tool for
free. SAP is a registered trademark of SAP AG.

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newscom. Individuals and business
owners can submit general questions on various financial topics, including
financial reporting and budgeting, personal finance, and taxes. While
enterprises with more than 15,000 employees were more likely to be
able to count upon specific departments dedicated to mailing functions
(41%), the findings suggest that most billing managers still spend a
significant portion of their time on the administrative tasks of
printing, labeling and mailing business documents .

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In addition , despite the growing use of electronic billing and
payment methods, the majority of billing managers (64%) still utilize
postal mail as their primary means to deliver their invoices. With software
and hosted delivery services to automate every phase and every type of
document delivery, Esker helps organizations streamline manual,
paper-intensive business processes providing significant and immediate
operational efficiencies, cost savings and measurable ROI in as little
as three to six months .

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Founded in 1897, the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public
Accountants is a professional association of more than 19,000 CPAs who work in
public accounting, industry, government, and education . 73% of all
respondents reported that their departments both generate and manually
send invoices , purchase orders and similar documents.S.

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PICPA is the second-
oldest and fifth-largest state CPA organization in the United States. It enables users
of the most common desktop applications to choose among physical mail,
fax, e-mail and SMS as document delivery options.

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Students and educators can visit PICPA's specially
designed site http://www. 186 or
Maureen Renzi, communications director, +1-215-496 -9272 ext.org, both of Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public
Accountants.

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Questions and answers from those who have already used this free service are
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73% of finance and billing personnel surveyed reported generating
business documents with popular word processors, 82% say customers
prefer receiving bills via postal mail

Esker Software, the leading provider of intelligently automated
document delivery solutions and services, today released results of a
survey of over 500 North American billing and invoicing managers
regarding their organizations' practices and preferences surrounding
the creation and delivery of transactional business documents. "Second, we're learning that even the bigger
companies who rely primarily on enterprise software want to extend
automation to the desktop to fill in those gaps currently handled by
everyday desktop software like word processors and spreadsheets.com

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Esker Survey: Organizations Still Use Word Processors and Spreadsheets for Transactional Business Documents and Rely on Postal Mail for Delivery

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Specifically, over 76% of responses
included a Microsoft Office product (Word, Excel, Access or Works)
among the software identified as often used to create these documents.

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The PICPA will answer as many questions as possible, but individuals or
business owners with complex needs should use the "CPA Locator" tool to find a
CPA in their area.

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The questions
are answered by experienced and knowledgeable CPAs and posted on the site. 185 ,
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Media not attending AIIM who are interested in more detail from
the Esker Software survey should contact Renee Thomas, Director of
Field Marketing for Esker Software , at 608-828-6140, or via email, at
renee.A.A.

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However,
enterprises with 15,000 or more employees are significantly more
likely to prefer online invoicing (39%) than those companies with
fewer than 1,000 employees (16%). Firstly, it's not just the biggest companies that can
save a great deal of time and money by automating document delivery,"
commented Mitch Baxter, Executive Vice President of Business
Development for Esker.