ATLANTA, Aug. 17, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- American State Bank has placed Harland Financial Solutions at the center of its front-to-back customer sales and service enhancement initiatives, by adopting three of Harland's Enterprise Services Platform Solutions and has licensed its popular ENCORE!(R) Platform and Teller software, along with the company's sophisticated loan origination and decisioning system, Decision Pro(TM). Harland Financial Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of John H. Harland Company (NYSE:JH).
With 30 branches and more than $1.8 billion in assets, the Lubbock, Texas-based bank is no stranger to Harland Financial Solutions' technology. It is already using the company's industry-leading Laser Pro(R) compliant loan documentation system and Touche(R) Analyzer marketing customer information file (MCIF) business analytics system. With the licensing of ENCORE! and Decision Pro, the bank will seamlessly connect front-office and back-office sales and service processes through the Enterprise Services Platform architecture.
Harland Financial Solutions is well known as the provider of many of the financial industry's most widely used teller, platform, call-center, CRM, business intelligence, deposit account opening, loan decisioning and loan origination systems. The company's new Enterprise Services Platform harnesses the power of all of its individual solutions, delivering tightly integrated sales and service functionality to the branch and call center staff through a single user interface. Key elements of the Enterprise Services Platform include single points of administrative setup, workflow definition and user login.
Jon Pitzer, assistant vice president, American State Bank, cited three main goals of deploying Harland Financial Solutions' Enterprise Services Platform Solution. "First, we are looking to enhance our branch-based deposit and loan sales activities with in-depth customer analytics fed by our back-office CRM and MCIF tools. Second, we want to streamline our loan processing workflow. We'll be able to automatically pass loan applications taken in the branch to the back office for decisioning and document preparation, with the final compliant documents automatically printing in the branch at the time of closing. Finally, we want to be able to do all of this with a high degree of centralized enterprise level control and reporting."
American State Bank joins other notable financial institutions that have adopted Harland Financial Solutions' Enterprise Services Platform, including $13.5 billion Raleigh, North Carolina-based First Citizens and $30 billion Portland, Maine-based TD Banknorth.
"We believe that the expansion of our relationship with American State Bank is further validation of our front-to-back, end-to-end integration strategy embodied by our Enterprise Services Platform," said Kris Hanson, vice president of Harland Financial Solutions' Retail Solutions business.
About American State Bank
American State Bank (www.asbonline.com) is a locally owned and locally operated financial institution. A unique strength of American State Bank is its continuity of management. Since its opening in 1948, the bank has had only one change of presidents. In 1974, the reins were passed from the first president, Jack Payne to W. R. Collier, its current president. The bank has grown considerably over the past 55 years -- with assets of $1.8 billion and 30 branch locations.
About Harland Financial Solutions
Harland Financial Solutions (www.harlandfinancialsolutions.com) supplies software and services to thousands of financial institutions of all sizes, offering its solutions in both an in-house and service bureau environment. Harland Financial Solutions is a leader in core systems, item processing, payment processing, electronic document management, financial accounting systems, electronic documents, deposit & loan origination, customer relationship management, compliance training, branch automation, check & MICR printing, mortgage lending, and solution consulting.
About Harland
Atlanta-based John H. Harland Company (NYSE:JH) (www.harland.net) is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "JH." Harland is a leading provider of software and printed products to the financial institution market. Harland's software solutions include, deposit & loan origination, platform, teller, call-center, mortgage, business intelligence, core systems, and customer relationship management systems. Harland's printed products offerings include checks, direct marketing and financial forms. Scantron Corporation (www.scantron.com), a wholly owned subsidiary, is a leading provider of software services and systems for the collection, management and interpretation of data to the financial, commercial and educational markets.
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