NEPS and Art Plus Technology Selected as Océ TransPromo Design and Development Partners
Partnership Enables Faster Deployment of Relevant, Personalized Communications
March 4, 2008 - Salem, NH and Boston, MA - NEPS LLC, a trusted provider of communications management services and solutions, and Art Plus Technology (APT), a wholly-owned subsidiary of NEPS that provides award-winning strategy, information design, and development services, today announced that they will partner with Océ to help customers jump-start and optimize their trans-promotional initiatives.
Océ, an international leader in digital document management and delivery, is committed to helping its customers capitalize on the opportunities that can be created by adding relevant personalization and marketing messages to well-designed transaction documents. Recognizing the complexity of creating, implementing, and managing effective and efficient trans-promotional materials, Océ sought partners with recognized expertise and a track record of measurable results in these areas and has created a full menu of trans-promotional development services that complements its impressive lineup of production-class print systems and workflow software.
"Océ has a long history of innovation that laid the groundwork for today's TransPromo applications," said Mal Baboyian, President, Production Printing Systems, Océ North America. "Our partnership with NEPS and Art Plus Technology will allow us to help our customers make the crucial transformation from pure transaction documents to TransPromo communications. Together, our best-of-breed services, software, and print systems create a complete offering to help customers maximize their investment and make the transition as quickly as possible."
NEPS and APT services will be offered as part of the Océ Professional Services portfolio and include:
- Jump-start to document design review and TransPromo strategy
- User experience research, usability testing, and response measurement
- Document design and functional specification for optimized implementation
- CRM, ECM, and composition integration and document implementation services
"Like Océ, Art Plus Technology helped to establish the market for relevant, personalized communications. Through our ground-breaking design and development work and educational events such as the Financial Communications Forum, Healthcare Communications Forum, and Shareholder Notice and Access Symposium, we have raised the bar for effective communications continuously for nearly 20 years," said Elizabeth Gooding, President of Art Plus Technology. "We are pleased to have been selected for this strategic partnership by Océ and look forward to leveraging our combined expertise to create innovative solutions for the benefit of our mutual customers."
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ABOUT NEPS
NEPS, LLC is an expert provider of communications management solutions and services that orchestrate information for relevant, personalized delivery. We take enterprise content, extract the bits relevant to each recipient, and transform them for insertion into every designated output stream. A hidden and very complex series of tasks, we now regularly perform them for financial, insurance, and healthcare firms. We do this by consulting on critical business and technology issues; providing software and solutions like NDemand,™ which adds production printing and e-delivery support to content management and legacy systems; and on a hosted basis. Additional information is available online at www.neps.com or by calling 603-314-5600.
ABOUT ART PLUS TECHNOLOGY
Art Plus Technology is a trusted provider of communications management strategy and expertise. A wholly-owned subsidiary of NEPS, LLC, we help organizations design, develop, and deliver business communications that are simple, personal, clear, and effective.
Our creativity and vision help you convey intricate information to multiple audiences while speaking directly to each individual recipient. Experts in information design, plain language, process, metrics, and technology, we originated the market for personalized transaction documents some 20 years ago and now regularly serve financial, insurance, and healthcare firms. Additional information is available online at www.artplustechnology.com or by calling 617-646-4000.
About Océ
Océ N.V. is a leading international provider of digital document management technology and services. The company's solutions are based on Océ's advanced software applications that deliver documents and data over internal networks and the Internet to printing devices and archives -- locally and around the world. Supporting the workflow solutions are Océ digital printers and scanners, considered the most reliable and productive in the world. Océ also offers a wide range of display graphics, consulting and outsourcing solutions.
Océ employs around 24,000 people, with 2007 annual revenues of approximately $4.6 billion, operates in approximately one hundred countries and maintains research and manufacturing centers in the Netherlands, the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Belgium, the Czech Republic, and Romania. Océ North America is headquartered in Trumbull, CT, with additional business units in Chicago, IL; New York City; Boca Raton, FL; Salt Lake City, UT; Coventry, RI; and Vancouver, BC. North American revenues represented approximately half of Océ's worldwide business in 2007, and employment is currently 11,000. For more information about Océ, visit www.oceusa.com. Outside the U.S., consult www.oce.com.