Press Release

Announcing an easy, secure way to generate and pay bills via the Internet.

SANTA BARBARA, CA - IMAGE-X, a leader in E-Commerce applications, announces the availability of Secured e-Billing, a Web-based bill distribution and collection software application. IMAGE-X recently announced and implemented Secure e-Filing, its flagship e-commerce application for facilitating legal filing in California.Using the same Data Broker technology, IMAGE-X now offers Secured e-Billing. Public and private companies can immediately provide better service, more efficiently for less money. From generating invoices to long-term data storage, finally there's a secure and easy way to take full advantage of Internet technology.

E-commerce is increasingly the way that business is being done. Commercial companies and other organizations want to take advantage of advances in Intranet/Internet technologies. However, security, public acceptance, and ease-of-use are major concerns.

Here's How It Works.

Secured e-Billing.

Companies publish monthly invoices directly onto the web. Data is obtained straight from the mainframe, UNIX or NT server based billing application. Using IMAGE-X's IMX print utility, an index file and image/data file is created for each bill. The image/data files are then transferred to IMAGE-X's MINDS (Managed Information Network Data Services) and the indexed data is transferred to an SQL database.

The customer simply keys in their password and PIN (Personal Identification Number) code, accesses the invoice and pays it using the Secured e-Payment module. They merely log-on to the user-friendly WEB interface and see their bill as an electronic image. Then just as easily, they can pay part or their entire bill. The money is automatically transferred to the proper account. IMAGE-X e-commerce Customers can access up to twelve months of account activity, pay with their credit or bank debit card, and get a confirmed receipt for their records. Payment information is made available as an ASCII delimited file for easy import into your organization's billing software and is posted in real time without the user ever having access to the main application. IMAGE-X's Secured e-Payment system can also be tailored to split allocations for bilingual readouts.

Why It's Secure.

Secured-Filing uses IMAGE-X's Data Broker Technology as a model. This methodology allows remote collection of images and data using secured sockets interface, which separates the remote user from the line-of-business application while still allowing the user to interact with the program.

Benefits of IMAGE-X's Data Broker Architecture:

Full security during transfer to server.
Data is protected by "Firewall" technology when moved from the Intranet to LAN (Local Area Network) at the server.
Outside users cannot access data directly from the server.
Users can only query data outside of the Firewall.
Data can be input to IMAGE-X's Data Broker server module but your line-of business application is never made available to any outsider.
COMPANIES can improve their cash flow by speeding their access to daily deposits, reduce management and billing time by decreasing payment processing costs, and improve customer service.

CUSTOMERS benefit from the convenience of mistake-free service detailed receipts, faster accounting and crediting, and the ability to pay without a stub.

AGENTS will appreciate a system that's easy to learn and use, the ability to keep a continuous audit trail, and the convenience and peace-of-mind of automated balancing.

Take a closer look at IMAGE-X by logging on to our web site at www.imagexx.com.

IMAGE-X is a nationally renowned full-service document management company. The firm won the 1998 Process Innovation Award for the superior application of information technology to solve business problems, received Advance Imaging Magazine's Solution of the Year award, and was instrumental in E.M. Jorgensen placing 36 in InfoWorld's top 100 companies. Clients include American Airlines, Nordstrom, US Tax Court, Universities, as well as European and Asian clients.

IMAGE-X is strategic business partners with companies such as IBM, Microsoft, Digital Equipment Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, Data General, Compaq, SUN Microsystems, Novell, Computer Associates, Oracle, Sybase, Progress, Fujitsu, Kodak among others.