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From the beginning, iKAN Software has embraced change, which is why our suite of services and products are
continually evolving. We help our clients move towards a paperless enterprise by providing real, scalable
solutions that fit any situation or level of service. iKAN Software products seamlessly integrate with many of the
industry's largest platforms and software, and we can do all of this more cost effectively than our competition.

The iKAN Virtual Document Center will improve your business operations by replacing tedious efforts to maintain,
manage, and constantly find paper and electronic files with more productive tasks like serving your customers
better or opening up new markets.

And when you sign up, you can be up and running right away, without having to buy expensive servers and
software or requiring specialized consultants to set you up. It's so easy to use, that you and your staff or
department will be using the system in no time, with very little training required.

Target industries:

iKAN Software solutions and the iKAN VirtualDocumentCenter are applicable to organizations across a wide
spectrum of industries and service oriented companies. This is because the problems we solve - by eliminating
the organizational bottlenecks of manually maintaining your paper and electronic files - exists for nearly all
businesses. We have direct experience in the following vertical areas, but our expertise is not limited to these
alone.
  * Accounting
  * Education
  * Financial Services
  * Real Estate
  * Retail
  * Transportation

We Could Be a Valuable Business Partner for You!

Top Goal of Our Company:

Improving response time to customer inquiries. Improving the flow of documents between departments. Speeding the decision making process. Taking a preventative approach to a potential disaster. The list goes on.

Our Products:

iKAN Software is a total document management solutions company. We have a range of services and products that help you achieve
improved productivity and record-keeping without the high cost associated with traditional solutions. We offer more functionality at less
cost than our competition.

Beyond the iKAN Virtual Document CenterTM, we offer customized solutions. What works for you doesn't always work for someone else.
We can tailor a solution that fits your needs perfectly.

We take the time to figure out what you truly need. We dig deeper into your environment, uncovering vital details that make the difference
between a software program that simply fulfills your requirements and one that exceeds your expectations.

Our Approach:

Compare the Features of the iKAN Virtual Document center to these alternatives:

• 1. Maintaining a Manual Based Filing System
• 2. Installing a Traditional Packaged Document Management Solution
• 3. Continuing to Use Electronic Filing System that is Not Meeting Your Needs
  

 Your Current Manual Based Paper Filing System

Can I continue to get by just with my paper based filing system? If you are running your business storing your paper documents in file
cabinets and storage boxes you are:    

• Vulnerable to loss from natural disaster
• Vulnerable to fines or penalties for non-compliance
• Wasting time looking for paper files
• Having to recreate lost or misfiled documents
• Spending a lot of money on mailing, faxing, and copying
• Not as organized or efficient as your competitor
• All of the above

Let's face it, with the capabilities available in todays electronic and Internet driven world, moving paper documents around is not the best
use of your time or money.

Does your company have a disaster prevention plan in place that is actively managed? In a survey by Fujitsu Corporation, 55% of persons
asked said their organization had no formal disaster recovery plans for their paper documents. This can be a huge problem. The issue also
ties into compliance - if paper files are lost in a disaster, the underlying compliance required for those documents is also gone, which could
spell more trouble.

Have you considered the security of your present paper based filing system? Fact is, most security breaches happen from within
organizations, not from the outside. Storing documents within your own network on your own servers is definitely not foolproof. Are your
confidential documents safe from employee access? What is the extra cost to the organization to create secure filing areas (such as locked
file cabinets or locked entrances to paper file repositories? Is your present filing system an open area where nobody knows who has a file
out at any given time?

Is managing your company documents one of your core competencies? For some organizations, it is. They have the staff and the
resources required to manage both the IT infrastructure (servers, databases, help desk and training), and the records management
professionals to track everything. But for most companies, they want to focus their resources on their core competencies, and dedicate
their resources to that end. It's one of the reasons the iKAN VirtualDocumentCenter makes perfect sense - your documents are scanned
and preserved and available when you need them, and you pay for what you use.

A Traditional Packaged Document Management Solution

Have you considered the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of a packaged solution, including setup, maintenance, training, backup, and
upgrades? According to the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), planners often omit or underestimate the people resources
and other costs necessary to acquire and run an on-premise software solution. On average, the cost of the software represents only 20%
of the total cost to acquire, setup, train, and maintain a new software system.

Have you planned for the on-going costs through the life of your system? Let's start with on-going maintenance. Most vendors charge as
much as 20% per year of the software cost for on-going maintenance. This usually results in an annual software upgrade. Who will be
performing the upgrade? Will it have an impact on operations? What is the cost in man hours and user training to perform the upgrade?

What will you do when the computer that your documents are stored on needs to be repaired, upgraded, or replaced? This is an often
overlooked issue. Most people don't back up their personal systems at home and rely on their organization to back up their PC's at work.
The time and effort required to reestablish a software system on a new system can be consuming and tedious. If the local machine
crashes, the data is often incomplete when a restore is performed. Many companies purchase or lease PC's on a 3 year cycle. With the
rate of improvement in performance and lowering of hardware costs, turnover is often higher.

Many people are coming to the conclusion that it's just not worth the time and effort involved to upgrade and update application software
in these shorter cycles.

Your Current Electronic Filing System is Not Meeting Your Needs

This is a common situation, and could be due to a number of different reasons. The biggest underlying reason is that the application is not
sized for the task at hand. Some of the common symptoms:

1. The solution cannot scale. The individual desktop solution or the same solution is licensed on individual desktops without a common
   repository. Are different users running different versions of the same application? Does everyone maintain their own islands of
   information?
2. The system is expensive to expand. Too often, deployments are limited to a small few or a single department, because the
   expansion costs prove to be too high. Did your project start with great intentions only to stop progressing because the costs became
   too high?
3. There is no underlying database application. Many applications that support scanned and electronic documents are driven by a file
   name, which the user applies after navigating to a folder where they want to store the document. Have you spent unnecessary time
   trying to find a file you know you scanned but just can't find? Have you ever gotten the wrong version of a file thinking you were
   looking at the right one? Have you ever felt that you've spent more time looking for a file than if you had never converted it in the
   first place?
4. The system is outdated. Is technical support getting more difficult to get? Do you experience periods of days where the system is
   down waiting for someone to fix it? Products reach the end of their life cycle, and technical support can get difficult to obtain on a
   reliable basis. Methods and techniques become obsolete.
5. The system lacks effective security controls. Do your users avoid storing documents on shared drives because they fear it could be
   a security hazard?
6. The system is difficult to understand and use. With the amount of specific information we have to keep track of today, who has time
   to learn proprietary formats and systems, especially if you are a casual user? Have you ever learned a system, not used it for some
   time, then had trouble remembering how it works when you went back?

Did the manual for operating the system resemble space shuttle flight operations guide? If you're ready for a change to something new -
one that's easy to learn, easy to acquire, setup and use, then contact us today. Let us show you how easy and affordable our solution
really is!