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Artsyl wins WorldVision project

07/20/2007

“Artsyl wins WorldVision project”
Toronto, Canada (July 7, 2007)

Artsyl announces the awarding of software and services contract by the non-profit organization WorldVision International (www.worldvision.org). WorldVision’s mission is to connect children with donators. The organization is the largest of its kind, raising hundreds of millions of dollars a year internationally for the support of children in need in third-worlds countries. Obviously, with an organization of this size there are paperwork, forms, and large administration overhead. Enter Artsyl.

Artsyl brings to WorldVision a software and hardware solution that allows for more rapid and accurate tracking of sponsored children. At each remote site where a sponsored child resides, there is a set of forms that are completed on a regular basis to update information and progress on the children. This information has to be collected on hand-filled forms and entered into the WorldVision database. Artsyl’s solution allows entering the information without the need of manual keying. In addition, the Artsyl solution includes a component that generates printable forms with a child’s previous information, so that only changes are entered into the form.

The RFP process for WorldVision started in early June and attracted a large number of responses from resellers and technology providers in the imaging and content management space. In the end, WorldVision chose Artsyl because of their unique proposal, experience in this type of capture, and solution quality. “We were blushing when we discovered that the final three included two large public companies - and us, the little-guy private firm. We knew our stuff was the best at that point,” says Mr. Riley, Artsyl’s Vice President of Business Development and leader of the RFP responses.

Several components of the solution are custom-tailored to WorldVision’s exact specifications, but the core is tried and true. Artsyl elected to use ABBYY’s ICR engine for extracting handprint, as they identified it through countless testing as being the most accurate engine for this type of processing. Kodak’s scanning hardware, specifically the Kodak i1210 and i1220, were chosen for their robustness, portability, image quality, and easy integration. Several of the components are downright new for solutions aimed at this market - such as a distributed capture procurement and support portal and AutoMerge automatic form generation tool.

In the first three years, the project is expected to grow to 1250 sites spread throughout the world in places not famous for their technology infrastructure. The processing is entirely distributed with a mechanism for all results and processing statistics to be uploaded to WorldVision’s central databases. “We clearly saw the challenges in support and deployment,” says Mr. Vassylyev, Artsyl’s Director of Engineering, “but we also knew that this is the type of project that no one knows more about than Artsyl.” Mr. Vassylyev, as a matter of fact, was an original developer for the major recognition engines in the market, and knows all the inner workings of such a technology.

The official launch of the project is in October of 2007, when all components have to be in a near-final state. Prior to launch, there will be a lot of testing, trainings, and preparation to make sure the solution can be deployed as seamlessly as possible.

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About Artsyl: Artsyl Technologies, Inc. is a Canadian-born firm that specializes in recognition technologies. We take currently available technologies and put them into practice for organizations. Artsyl also serves as a knowledgebase for the development of future recognition technology solutions and a resource for all organizations investigating such technologies. To find out more please visit the corporate website at www.ArtsylTech.com. News contacts please email relations@artsyltech.com.

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