Assurex partner, North American Group, selects PaperWise as document management provider

Springfield, Mo. – May 2, 2007 – The exclusive Assurex partner of Oklahoma, North American Group, has chosen the PaperWise document management and workflow solution as a part of a corporate-wide initiative to create greater business process efficiency. After completing an infrastructure rebuild at their headquarters in Oklahoma City, Okla., the central office of North American Group became dedicated to Microsoft applications. As a Microsoft Gold Partner, the PaperWise system fit well into the new configuration.

As the 75th largest insurance agency in the country, as reported by Business Insurance Magazine, and the 27th largest privately-held agency in the country according to Insurance Journal Magazine, North American Group has achieved considerable growth. In light of their recent expansion, they intend to centralize their IT resources.

Document management will play a key role in the way they conduct future business. “We see document management as a tool to realize the business process today,” Kevin Wellfare, North American Group Director of Marketing, said. Committed to front-end scanning and using the PaperWise product to its full potential, North American Group is going to first implement the document management system at three of its entities totaling more than 100 users.

In phase two of the document management initiative, they plan to commit more of their entities to becoming paperless. According to Wellfare, PaperWise was the ideal choice for North American Group because it satisfies business as well as technical requirements. The flexibility to seamlessly integrate with third-party management systems, the protection and credibility provided to documents, and the added ability to extend services to other agency partners via the Web were factors that set PaperWise apart from the rest.

“We are going into this project with the belief and understanding that the way we do business will be better,” Wellfare said. On top of the benefits, Wellfare was impressed by what other PaperWise users had to say. “We can’t find a negative PaperWise reference,” he said. He believes the transition to going paperless opens even more opportunities for growth. “We believe it is going to give us a competitive edge,” Wellfare said.

The PaperWise system is a scalable and highly flexible answer to business process inefficiencies. For more information, contact Jannah Swink at 417.886.7505 or jswink@paperwise.com.