ALPHARETTA, Ga., March 24, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Optio Software (OTCBB:OPTO) today announced that five new members will join the company's 2005-2006 Enterprise and Healthcare Customer Advisory Boards.
The two boards meet regularly to recommend product developments, offer their insights and provide feedback on product direction. The most recent meeting of the Healthcare Customer Advisory Board took place March 14-15, 2005, at Optio's world headquarters in Alpharetta, Ga. The Enterprise Customer Advisory Board met March 7-8, 2005. During the recent meetings, Customer Advisory Board members participated in sessions addressing Optio's product roadmap and strategic direction, and shared their feedback, deployment experiences and best practices.
"The Enterprise Customer Advisory Board demonstrates Optio's commitment to customers and serves as a very good sounding board for the future direction of their solutions," said Steve Brooks, director of Enterprise Business Systems at Parametric Technology Corp. in Needham, Mass. "It's obvious that Optio takes our input very seriously. We've actually seen the result of the advisory board's input in their new offerings over the past year."
"The Healthcare Customer Advisory Board gives customers a definite voice in driving Optio's strategic direction and initiatives," said Eric Daffron, applications support manager at Southeast Alabama Medical Center in Dothan, Ala., who serves on the healthcare panel. "Optio is taking a genuine interest in the healthcare market by listening to their customers to learn the challenges they face every day and creating solutions to address those needs."
A representative from Danaher Motion (Radford, Va.) joins existing Enterprise Customer Advisory Board members from Appleton (Appleton, Wis.); Motorola (Eglin, Ill.); Edward C. Levy (Dearborn, Mich.); City of Fort Collins, Colo.; Hutton Communications (Carrollton, Texas); Parametric Technology Corp. (Needham, Mass.); and Erie-Scientific (Portsmouth, N.H.).
New members selected for the Healthcare Customer Advisory Board include representatives from Memorial Health (Savannah, Ga.); Banner Health System (Greeley, Colo.); Middlesex Hospital (Middletown, Conn.); and Sharp HealthCare (San Diego, Calif.)
Existing members of the Healthcare Customer Advisory Board include representatives from: West Tennessee Healthcare (Jackson, Tenn.); Southeast Alabama Medical Center (Dothan, Ala.); Lutheran Health Network (Ft. Wayne, Ind.); Northeast Medical Center (Concord, N.C.); and ProMedica Health Systems (Oregon, Ohio).
"Optio's Customer Advisory Boards represent a broad cross-section of our most innovative customers from the Fortune 500, public sector, healthcare and almost every vertical we serve," said Wayne Cape, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Optio Software. "The boards include customers who have deployed and integrated our output management, print management and imaging solutions in a wide range of enterprise and hospital information system environments. The invaluable input of our Advisory Board members enables us to deliver innovative solutions that help customers improve their document-driven processes."
About Optio
Optio Software's imaging, output and print management solutions help enterprises reduce the cost, time and complexity of managing the entire lifecycle of their transactional documents and achieve higher levels of efficiency and accuracy in their document-driven business processes. Founded in 1981, Optio Software has world headquarters in Alpharetta, Georgia, EMEA headquarters in Paris and sales offices in Germany and the United Kingdom. More information about Optio Software (OTCBB:OPTO) is available at OptioSoftware.com.
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