Great Britain's The Health and Safety Executive Finds its Form with Verity
SUNNYVALE, Calif. - 2005-01-31 - Verity Inc. (NASDAQ: VRTY), a leading provider of enterprise software that enables organizations to maximize the return on their intellectual capital investment, today announced that The Health and Safety Executive (HSE), an independent body sponsored by the British government's Department of Work and Pensions, has selected Verity® LiquidOffice™, a powerful Web-based business process automation solution, to underpin its forms processing, workflow and business processes. Initially this will be available for internal use such as staff expenses and administration forms by HSE's 4,000 employees, but it will then be used to progressively replace and enhance existing forms used by the public on HSE's own Web site.
HSE is responsible for the regulation of risks to health and safety arising from work activity in Great Britain. Its mission is to protect people's health and safety by ensuring risks in the changing workplace are properly controlled.
HSE has been working toward the British government's 2005 deadline for e-enabling its business and currently uses a mix of technologies reflecting the evolutionary nature of e-business. But HSE had been seeking a more strategic solution that offers value-for-money, scalability and consistency of development and end-user experience. Verity LiquidOffice was selected from a shortlist of other potential products as the solution that could handle these requirements most effectively.
"We wanted a solution that enabled us to create easy-to-use forms that would contribute to an overall improvement in our own efficiency and provide a better and more accessible level of service to internal and external customers," said Phil Conway, HSE's program manager for its "Business On-line" project. "Intelligent data capture and sophisticated validation and workflow tools in one package were essential. We wanted to be able to track the progress of the forms and route them according to the sorts of information they contain. We are now working to transfer our internal forms and processes to Verity LiquidOffice so that the whole service process can be e-enabled, including updating legacy systems where appropriate."
"The first steps are to prove the solution internally and get our business processes and workflow improvements up and running effectively. We will then push this added service functionality onto the external, customer-facing channels via the Web site to improve both efficiency and quality of service there," Conway said. "LiquidOffice can provide the appropriate level of authentication and security necessary to provide external customers with the confidence they seek when using e-services." LiquidOffice has standard reports that provide management visibility and a documented process audit trail, as well as a real-time picture of ongoing transactions.
Verity LiquidOffice provides a Web-based user interface with structured workflows to enforce business rules. It incorporates routing for approvals, and allows the creation of intelligent forms that are pre-populated with data and that self-return if any of the information a user enters is incorrect. This includes an error message to explain why it was returned. It also enables the HSE to process information while maintaining a high level of security to safeguard data.
"With organizations where a large amount of information is produced, moved and stored, it is vital to be able to manage these processes efficiently and securely," said Anthony J. Bettencourt, Verity's president and chief executive officer. "The Health and Safety Executive is committed to enabling employees and customers to access and submit information electronically in a consistent, secure way, and we are proud to have been chosen to help with this."
About The Health and Safety Executive
Britain's Health and Safety Commission (HSC) and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are responsible for the regulation of risks to health and safety arising from work activity in Britain. The HSE website is at www.hse.gov.uk.
Their mission is to protect people's health and safety by ensuring risks in the changing workplace are properly controlled.
They look after health and safety in most workplaces including, for example, nuclear installations, factories, farms, hospitals and many other aspects of the protection both of workers and the public. Local authorities are responsible to HSC for enforcement in offices, shops and other parts of the services sector.
The HSC/HSE is an independent body sponsored by and ultimately accountable to the Department of Work and Pensions.
About Verity
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Verity provides software that enables organizations to maximize the return on their intellectual capital investment. The company's intellectual capital management (ICM) solutions provide integrated search, classification, recommendation, monitoring and analytics across the real-time flow of enterprise information, along with question and answer interfaces for effective online self-service. Other Verity ICM solutions capture content and drive automated business processes. Verity technology also serves as a core component of more than 260 applications from leading independent software vendors.
Verity software solutions are used by more than 11,500 customers in the private and public sectors. Customers include American Express, AT&T, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Cardinal Health, Cisco Systems, EMC Documentum, Dow Jones, Financial Times, Hewlett-Packard, Lotus, Kaiser Permanente, META Group, SAP, Siemens, the State of California, Stellent, Sybase, and the U.S. Departments of Energy and Justice.
The statements in this press release regarding the benefits that HSE can realize from Verity LiquidOffice are subject to risks and uncertainties, including the risk that: the benefits may not be obtained due to technical or other reasons; and the IT and process structures within HSE may not be conducive to realizing these benefits. These and other risks relating to Verity and its business and products are set forth under the caption "Risks Relating to Our Operations" in Item 2 of Verity's Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 7, 2005.
For more information, contact Verity at info@verity.com or at World Wide Web site http://www.verity.com or call 408-541-1500.
Verity and the Verity logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Verity, Inc.
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