API has Another Successful Conversion to New Microsoft NT Platform; Scottsdale Healthcare Migrates to NT, Realizes Enhanced Reporting Capabilities.

Business/High Tech Editors

Automating Peripherals Inc. (API) announced today that Scottsdale Healthcare, based in Arizona, has recently completed a migration to the NT version of API's Payrollmation(R) product.

Payrollmation automates and simplifies the time and attendance data collection and calculation process, streamlining time card management, improving employee morale and helping organizations control labor costs.

"Our organization places great value on being able to analyze used resource consumption," said Jim Cramer, vice president and chief information officer at Scottsdale. "API will help us get that information faster, easier and more comprehensively. With the enhanced reporting offered by this system, we've gone from looking at things retrospectively to being able to pull information on a daily basis."

Scottsdale began to see benefits almost immediately following the first pay period live on Payrollmation NT. With the quicker calculations, the goal is that users will complete their time cards in a timelier manner. Long term, the staff at Scottsdale is anticipating the benefits of the expanded reporting capability of Payrollmation. Because the information is available in real-time, the organization plans to use this information to compare the cost centers actual expenditures versus the budgeted costs. This can be done immediately following a shift, versus weeks or even months after.

"Scottsdale is a perfect case study of an organization with a good system made better," said Luis Garcia, president and CEO for API. "The Windows NT makes our product more reliable and user-friendly than ever before. Supervisors were pleasantly surprised at how well they could utilize our ReportXpress tools with minimal training."

About Scottsdale Healthcare

A not-for-profit organization, Scottsdale Healthcare was founded in 1962 as City Hospital of Scottsdale. Today the organization serves the entire Northeast Valley with two hospitals, outpatient centers, home health services and a wide range of community health education and outreach programs. 4,000 staff members and 1,350 active physicians, representing more than 50 specialties, is unified in its dedication to keeping the community well. The organization's Web site address is www.shc.org.

About API

API is a leading provider of time and attendance, staffing/scheduling, payroll, human resource, education tracking and access control software for healthcare organizations. Founded in 1982, API has more than 350 installations in the United States, with customers ranging in size from 500 employees to more than 30,000 employees. The company has a strategic alliance with Microsoft Corporation and is a Microsoft Certified Solution Provider. The company's Web site address is www.api-wi.com.