ACOM's Enterprise Payment Manager Blends Paper-Based, Electronic Processes, Provides Unprecedented Configuration Flexibility.

Business Editors

LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 20, 2000

ACOM Solutions Inc., developer and marketer of conventional and e-business solutions that integrate with enterprise applications to enhance back office and B2B processes, has introduced a powerful, exceptionally flexible payment solution that enables companies to maintain financial data control centrally while decentralizing the disbursement process to any point on the corporate network, it was announced today by James R. Scott, vice president of sales.

The new solution, Enterprise Payment Manager (EPM), allows users to issue payments as MICR laser checks or electronic payments using ACH and F-EDI transfers through EPM's built-in e-commerce engine. Remittance advice can be provided as printed copies or by fax or e-mail directly from the check run.

"Enterprise Payment Manager was built from the ground up to accommodate both existing and future corporate payment processing strategies," he said. "Our customers told us that in this day of global commerce, they need a migration path from paper-based processes to e-payments as well as the ability to select the type of payment and remittance advice -- electronic or printed -- and that is appropriate to the organization, function and mission of their companies right now.

"Enterprise Payment Manager provides all of this capability in a single platform, working with all financial software packages and bringing our customers the flexibility to configure their systems for maximum security, efficiency, velocity and control. EPM's architecture takes full advantage of networking and ERP resources, with MICR check payment options configurable for local, distributed or cluster printing applications."

Key operating features:

--  Supports ACH, F-EDI, payments
--  Supports fax, e-mail and laser-printed remittance advice
--  Features its own MS-SQL database
--  Works with all financial management software packages
--  Local or remote payments; remote check and remittance advice
    printing
--  Payee and checkbook disbursement control; centralized
    control/audit
--  Versatile historical database; results files for host system
    update; standard and custom reports
--  On-Demand/Manual Checks module with ACH capability
--  Networked and cluster printing support

Key Security features

--  Positive Pay Check Fraud Avoidance
--  Multi-level Security down to the user level for:
    Batch Access
    Branch Processing
    Departmental Processing
    Checkbook access and functional control
    Control over Electronic payments vs. printed laser checks

--  Secure Database permits remote administrative reporting.

"Enterprise Payment Manager provides the choices users need in order to configure their payment process for optimum security, efficiency and control, even in an evolving business climate," Scott said. "It enables companies to go forward technologically at their own pace, without the discomfort of radical change."

About ACOM Solutions

ACOM Solutions is an international developer and marketer of conventional and e-business solutions that integrate with enterprise applications to enhance back office and B2B processes for electronic, Internet and paper-based commerce. ACOM solutions run host-resident on the AS/400 platform as well as in the Microsoft Windows and client-server environments. Solutions include hardware-software MICR laser payment processing systems; electronic data interchange (EDI) solutions for e-commerce between multiple trading partners; Internet-based commerce solutions; and electronic document systems for laser printer generation of business and financial forms, checks barcodes and labels. ACOM solutions are compatible with all financial management/ERP software. Contact ACOM at 2850 E. 29th St., Long Beach, Calif. 90806; telephone [phone]; fax [phone]; e-mail [e-mail]; Web: www.acom.com.