The Channel Connection returned to the AIIM Expo, this year, and with it came the Channel Connection Award. Cosponsored by Questex’ AIIM Expo 2008 and Business Solutions, the Channel Connection Award recognizes a VAR or integrator for an outstanding content management technology installation that demonstrates integration complexity and delivers ROI. Vicki Amendola, Business Solutions’ document and content management editor, presented the awards.

Salt Lake City based, Dataimage was named as one of the three Channel Connection finalist for its work with the State of Utah ORS (Office of Recovery Services), an agency located within the Utah Department of Human Services. In the solution, Dataimage integrates several Kofax products, and the OPEX AS3690i scanner and model 51 Rapid Extraction Desk. The solution enabled ORS to achieve a 100% digital mailroom, decreasing the department’s mail-processing time. Mail that reaches the ORS by 5:00 a.m. is now electronically distributed to the proper recipients across the state of Utah by 8:00 a.m. that same day, as opposed to up to a week later as often occurred with the manual process. Also significant is the fact that Dataimage incorporated a Check 21 remittance solution that electronically verifies and distributes the nearly 3,000 checks the department receives everyday, reducing the time it takes to get the funds into the hands of the families the social system serves.

The award was selected from a pool of over 60 nominated solutions implemented by VAR’s from around the United States. This group of 60 was narrowed down to 18. The 18 were then voted on by industry experts, to select the final three finalists. Dan Dillingham, Vice President of Corporate Sales at Dataimage, received the award at the AIIM National Conference, in Boston, Massachusetts. “We are very honored by this recognition, this solution is a powerful working case study of the efficiencies gained through a combination of work process automation and electronic content management”, said Dillingham.

Business Solutions magazine is published exclusively for top management of companies that make up the distribution channel for information technology (IT) products. Business Solutions’ articles show readers how to sell new technologies and penetrate growing vertical markets. Business Solutions provides “actionable information” for value-added resellers (VARs) and systems integrators to increase sales, improve profits, and trounce the competition.