PrintBOS Newsletter March 2006

In this issue:

PrintBOS Acquired by Consist International

NEW PrintBOS Version 4.2

Electronic Signature Workflow Solution by PrintBOS

PrintBOS Acquired by Consist International

Consist International has recently acquired PrintBOS from BOS - Better Online Solutions, including all related intellectual property rights, costumer and supplier agreements, distribution channels, goodwill and workstations.

The Consist Group encompasses a broad and comprehensive spectrum of IT  products and services, and specializes in planning, development and integration of major computing projects, taking overall responsibility in its consulting services for development and implementation of information systems, and in providing outsourcing services.

Consist has been a distributor of The PrintBOS technology both in Germany and in Spain, and the acquisition of PrintBOS adds an enterprise output solution platform expertise to Consist's current offering. PrintBOS by Consist is now distributed also in Consist branches in USA, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Urugay and Mexico. More about Consist you can find in in PrintBOS new site (www.printbos.com) or in Consist site - www.consist.com.

 Adiv Baruch, President and CEO of BOS, commented that, "In order to continue implementing our strategy, we went through an intensive process to identify a global company with local presence who will have all the available resources required to continue investing and growing the PrintBOS business faster than with the resources that could have been allocated by BOScom for this purpose. Key factors for the transaction were to keep the existing team of employees and the existing distributors for customer satisfaction thus creating a smooth continuation of the product line. Finalizing the transaction with Consist was based on the mutual vision both companies had throughout the process."

More about the acquisition you can find in BOS corporate site.

Amir Gil, Senior VP Business Development and head of the PrintBOS division in BOS and now in Consist says:
We have been working with Consist as a distributor of BOS, and the close relations developed into this opportunity. We, in the PrintBOS team, have already merged swiftly to the Consist operations worldwide and in a short time  managed to gain new customers in Consist's strong markets in Latin America and Europe. Consist vast experience and excellent customer base is a major growth potential for PrintBOS - both commercially and technologically. We have also extended our distribution channels in Europe since merging into Consist and appointed Highgrove (www.highgrove.co.uk) to be our distributor in UK and Rendeck BV (www.rendeck.nl) to be our reseller in Holland.

NEW PrintBOS Version 4.2

PrintBOS Version 4.2 that will be launched through Consist branches and our resellers in the 15 of March 2006,  improves stability in multi-process operations and enhances support of stream-in XML, XSF, and RDI with a new look & feel Designer Tool.

The new version is already tested in various beta sites with Key customers and includes the following improvements:

• Stream-in Support - a new Designer tool enables intuitive design and template creation for XML, XSF, and RDI data. There are no limitations of hierarchy levels. and support links to external templates (sub-templates).To support all these feature a  new engine version was developed and supports any created stream-in data by the new Designer.
• Inline Attribute - Improves inline attributes such as bold, italic, underline for text in both page-in and stream-in printing mode.
• Barcode -  2D dimension barcode support was added and  supports Denso barcode.
• Fax Output - Supports TIFF G4 in Fax output.
• Email Distribution - Email distribution allows to post up to 500 recipients at once.
• Wrap Text - Supports wrap text in a table cell
• Interface to Printer Status - Provides an LPQ interface to acquire printer status.
• Supports Structured Parameters in Scripts - Allows transferring unlimited number of parameters to a scripting function via structure.
• Electronic signature workflow - see the following case study.

Electronic Signature Workflow Solution by PrintBOS

Pelephone, a leading Israeli cellular operator with over two million subscribers had a PrintBOS platform installed over two years ago, and was now seeking a solution for digitally archiving signed customer account transactions.

All information regarding transactions and account activities come from a 3rd party client billing application (AMDOCS), which sends raw data for PrintBOS designed forms.

PrintBOS Server processes the raw data with Pelephone's template and outputs a PDF document for signature.

The customer service representative at the Pelephone branch receives the PDF document and hands it to the customer for signing. The document's hard copy is signed on an OCR device (light pen with pad) and the customer gets the original copy.

PrintBOS now receives a bitmap image of the signature, and

combines it with the electronic PDF document. The final signed PDF document is then electronically sealed and archived by PrintBOS on a 3rd party archive system.

Archiving electronically signed documents saves Pelephone the need for complex paperwork, as well as the need to archive hard copies of each document signed.

Moving to e-world, Pelephone allows for faster processes and a highly available data.