Carreker-Antinori, ACS and Eastman Kodak Announce Alliance to Provide Financial Institutions with Internet-based Digitized Check Image Capabilities.DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 1999-- Carreker-Antinori, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : CANI), Affiliated Computer Services Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) (NYSE: ACS) is a Fortune 500 company that provides information technology outsourcing as well as business process outsourcing solutions to businesses, government agencies, and non-profit organizations. , Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : ACS (Asynchronous Communications Server) See network access server. ) and Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: EK) have announced an alliance to provide Internet access See how to access the Internet. to digitized images of microfilm checks. This new service - Trac2Image(TM) - will allow banks and their customers to significantly reduce check losses, increase operational efficiencies and fee income, and improve operational decision-making capabilities. "Trac2Image will provide banks the benefit of digital processing Digital processing is the process of altering digital data in any form. The most common situations where digital processing is involved are computer graphics and digital audio processing. at significantly lower investment and processing costs than digital image capture at the reader/sorter," says J.D. `Denny' Carreker, chairman and chief executive officer, Carreker-Antinori. "This service will improve the cost effectiveness of current microfilm operations, and allow the industry to avoid $1-3 billion of investment in high-speed image cameras." "What our companies are most excited about is our ability to leverage existing microfilm operations and impact our customers' earnings in such a positive way," says Charles Kight, EVP EVP Executive Vice President EVP EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) Valve Position Sensor EVP Electronic Voice Phenomenon EVP Europäische Volkspartei (Germany) EVP Employee Value Proposition of the ACS Financial Industry Group. The ability to access check images electronically at microfilm cost levels will pave the way for large-scale electronic clearing and check truncation. All participating parties in the check clearing process both customers and banks - will be able to view images captured by the bank of first deposit via the web. The open architecture design being utilized in Trac2Image will support Internet connectivity between all archives, both microfilm and image. Mr. Carreker added, "Beginning first quarter 2000, it will also be possible to leverage existing microfilm archives as Electronic Check Presentment (ECP (Enhanced Capabilities Port) See IEEE 1284. 1. ECP - Engineering Change Proposal. 2. ECP - Enhanced Capabilities Port. 3. ECP - Extended Capabilities Port. 4. ECP - Extended Concurrent Prolog. ) and electronic check return notification (RNOTE) as functionality is implemented. The timely ECP and RNOTE data - augmented by digitized images of the checks - can be coupled with available fraud mitigation databases to help banks and their customers dramatically reduce check losses and processing costs." For example, a check deposited by a retailer at a bank on Monday at 5 p.m. could be identified as fraudulent and an image of the check made available to the retailer via the Internet on Tuesday at 8 a.m. This is hours, and in many cases, days earlier than the physical check is typically returned to the bank of first deposit, and five to ten days before a physical check could be returned to the retailer. Today more than 80 percent of the +60 billion checks deposited annually in the U.S. are captured on microfilm either by the bank of first deposit or their processing agent. ACS develops more than 80 percent of that film in many mature markets, and stores those images in its 550-acre protection and research facility. New micrographic mi·cro·graph n. 1. A drawing or photographic reproduction of an object as viewed through a microscope. 2. An instrument used to make tiny writing or engraving. technology and computer-aided image enhancing technology - developed by Kodak - will be used to dramatically improve the quality of digitized images available through this service. "We are excited about the enhanced levels of digitized image quality that can be achieved via new technology, coupled with Trac2Image providing near instantaneous image presentment to financial institutions and their customers," says Jeff Markin, vice president, Document Imaging, Eastman Kodak Company. In addition, Trac2Image will utilize new Carreker-Antinori/ACS Internet technology that will integrate with the bank's current archive research technology. Approximately 80 percent of the nation's top twenty banks' volume of check image retrieval An image retrieval system is a computer system for browsing, searching and retrieving images from a large database of digital images. Most traditional and common methods of image retrieval utilize some method of adding metadata such as captioning, keywords, or descriptions to the from microfilm or image archive today utilize technology provided by Carreker-Antinori, either directly or through its recently announced alliance with Pegasystems, Inc. Prototype planning is underway with full product availability to banks and their customers planned for the first quarter of 2000. About Carreker-Antinori Carreker-Antinori, Inc. is a leading provider of integrated consulting and software solutions that enable banks to increase their revenues and/or reduce their costs. The Company's offerings include revenue enhancement revenue enhancement An increase in revenues, especially by way of increased taxes. Revenue enhancement includes reducing taxpayer deductions and eliminating tax credits. , payment systems, and enterprise IT services. Carreker-Antinori also provides strategic payment systems leadership that centers upon electronification of the check. The Company's customers include 75 of the largest 100 banks in the United States, as well as customers in Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Carreker-Antinori is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with regional offices in North America and Europe. Access Carreker-Antinori on the World Wide Web at www.carreker-antinori.com. About ACS (Affiliated Computer Services, Inc.) ACS is based in Dallas, Texas and has operations primarily in North America, as well as Central and South America, Europe and the Middle East. ACS provides a full range of information technology services including technology outsourcing, business process outsourcing Business process outsourcing (BPO) is the contracting of a specific business task, such as payroll, to a third-party service provider. Usually, BPO is implemented as a cost-saving measure for tasks that a company requires but does not depend upon to maintain its position in and systems integration and professional services. The Company's Class A common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. under the symbol "ACS." Visit ACS on the Internet at www.ACS-inc.com. About Kodak For over 70 years, Kodak has been facilitating business processes with imaging technologies. Today, Kodak provides world-class imaging products and services that make it easier and cost-effective for document-intensive enterprises to capture, store, manage and retrieve image-based information with assurance of future access. Hardware, software and media from Kodak are in use across a wide range of industries, including financial services, insurance, government, healthcare, and other service providers. Visit Kodak on the Internet at www.kodak.com/go/businessimaging. Forward-Looking Statement forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. - In addition to historical information contained herein, other matters discussed in the news release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 32E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and are subject to the safe harbors created thereby. The Company's future actual results could differ materially from the forward-looking statements discussed herein because of the factors discussed from time to time in the Company's public reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, such as those discussed under "Risk Factors" included in it's report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the year ending January 31, 1999. Additional contacts: Carreker-Antinori - Vicki Richter, Product Information (972) 371-1445; ACS, Inc., Mark King, EVP and CFO See Chief Financial Officer. (214) 841-8007. |
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