Alpharel announces first installation in school district

Business Wire, June 19, 1995

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 1995--Alpharel Inc. (NASDAQ/NMS:AREL), a principal supplier of enterprisewide imaging application software, Monday announced that it has agreed to install a new student and personnel records document management system for the Poudre School District of Fort Collins, Colo.

The Poudre School District is responsible for approximately 21,000 kindergarten through high school students at 43 locations in the region. The district employes nearly 2,500 teachers, administrators and staff.

The state of Colorado requires its school districts to retain student files forever. Personnel records must also be retained permanently. In addition, the city of Fort Collins has recently experienced much growth. The combined effect on the school district has been a marked increase in demand on the student records functions, not only filling Poudre's storage facility beyond capacity but also requiring more staff time managing the system.

Based on the costs associated with new warehouse space, continuation of the existing warehouse expenses, and the salaries for document maintenance personnel, the school district was able to justify the purchase of an Alpharel imaging system to replace all of its paper and the associated overhead.

Alpharel will provide Poudre School District with its FileFolder product, a system designed to manage business and technical documents. FileFolder facilitates a comprehensive network-based solution for managing applications such as enrollment, scholastic records, personnel records and health and safety information. AlphaVIEW Plus, a high-speed viewer with full markup and annotation capabilities, and QManager, a document distribution manager, round out the system.

"We selected Alpharel for many reasons," stated David Williamson, communications services manager, Poudre School District. "We wanted an enterprise imaging system that would support a cross-platform Macintosh and PC environment. We needed to be able to perform workflow, store and display documents in their native languages, fax in and out, and integrate COLD storage capabilities. After looking at many imaging companies, Alpharel was the clear choice."

"The document management demands alone placed on school systems are convincing justification for implementing an imaging system," said Stephen P. Gardner, Alpharel president and CEO. "Our open architecture leverages that initial investment, allowing for growth in many directions now and at any time in the future."

With headquarters in San Diego, Alpharel is the primary supplier of open imaging software for enterprisewide solutions. The company excels in meeting the challenges of complex environments -- managing access to high volumes of engineering and office documents by many users spread across diverse locations.

Alpharel's client/server software components are available on a variety of platforms, including UNIX (Sun, HP, SGI, DG and IBM), DEC VAX, Macintosh and PC, and operate efficiently across both local and wide area networks.

Client operating environments include X Window OSF/Motif, Microsoft Windows and Apple System 7. Alpharel's software products easily integrate with customers' existing applications, providing departmental or corporatewide document management.

CONTACT: Alpharel Inc.

Nancy Mumford, 800/992-6784

Email: info@alpharel.com