BizFlow's Enhanced Integration with Adobe Forms Simplifies Government Forms Processing

Vienna, VA - September 19, 2005 - HandySoft Global Corporation, a world leader in business process management (BPM) solutions, today announced the enhanced integration of BizFlow®, its award-winning BPM platform, with Adobe® Acrobat® documents and forms. HandySoft's customers, including over 40 federal government agencies, will now have the ability to pass data from the form fields in an Adobe Acrobat form to BizFlow as process variables, allowing the perpetual reuse of this data for inclusion in enterprise-wide automated processes. Some of HandySoft's government customers — including the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) — are leveraging these new capabilities to save money, increase transaction speed, and reduce error rates associated with grant application and administrative processes.

Many government agencies use Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) to transform their paper forms into electronic documents. While BizFlow has supported the use of Adobe PDF files as a part of the management of many government processes (such as grant management or application processing), HandySoft's enhanced integration with Adobe now allows this to take place with little or no programming. Now, BizFlow users will simply require that the creator of any form uses a naming convention when the form object is defined in Adobe. Using this naming convention, BizFlow now automatically recognizes these fields and matches them to variables previously defined in the process.

"Vendors are making investments to deploy e-forms technology in desktop-accessible applications, and government organizations [for example, the U.S. Army] are investing in large e-forms installations," said Rita Knox, Research Vice President, Gartner, in a January 2005 research report entitled Companies Should Align Their Structured and Unstructured Data. "Through 2006, XML-enabled e-forms will at least double in use as a standard enterprise document format (0.7 probability). XML e-forms integrate data-centric information with a front-end presentation to users. E-forms also provide a mechanism for users to enter data."

The grant application and approval process can be time-consuming and prone to errors along the way. BizFlow empowers government agencies to automate grant processes in order to:

• Significantly reduce grant processing time and help make better decisions faster.
• Scan grant documents into EDMS and associate them with automated grant processes.
• Centralize grant information.
• Ensure compliance with regulation and guidelines.
• Eliminate processing redundancies.
• Validate transactions against budgets.
• Route approvals intelligently and manage exceptions.
• Gain visibility into the grant process for monitoring and audit purposes.
• Spend more on the grant work than on the administrative costs and eliminate overspending.

"BizFlow's enhanced integration with Adobe forms represents another important step in our continuing efforts to help our customers reap the full benefits of business process automation and management," said Daniele Chenal, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management for HandySoft Global. "This augmented capability is particularly beneficial for our government customers both here and around the world, who rely on the use of BizFlow and e-forms to save time and money and improve constituent services."

For more information about BizFlow solutions for Government Agencies, please visit: http://www.handysoft.com/solutions/government/

About HandySoft Global Corporation
HandySoft Global Corporation is the premier provider of configurable software solutions that simplify and automate business processes; capture and enforce best practices; improve productivity and quality while reducing costs; integrate information technology; and foster collaboration among employees, customers, and partners.

The foundation for HandySoft's industry and departmental solutions is BizFlow®, the award-winning platform for business process management, automated workflow, and collaboration. BizFlow offers complete capabilities for building and managing automated business processes, including tools for designing and monitoring the processes, presenting and accessing work, integrating existing IT systems, and administering the platform itself. As a global solutions provider, HandySoft Global is headquartered in Vienna, VA, USA, with offices in Sydney, Australia; Tokyo, Japan; and London, UK, and with strategic partner representation throughout the world. HandySoft has implemented process management solutions at hundreds of sites worldwide. For more information call +1-703-442-5600, email info@handysoft.com or visit http://www.handysoft.com.

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