Innovative Systems Supports Launch of Association's New Web Site

Innovative Systems Supports Launch of Association's New Web Site The Association of Regulatory Boards of Optometry turns to Innovative's consulting and services group to deliver a winning solution for its member-centered Web site PITTSBURGH, Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovative Systems, Inc., a global provider of customer data integration and regulatory compliance solutions, today announced that its consulting and services group has successfully completed a data quality and integration project with the Association of Regulatory Boards of Optometry (ARBO). Innovative's data quality and conversion services provided a business and technology solution that enabled ARBO to complete its Web site project on time and on budget. ARBO is a federation of state, provincial and territorial boards of optometry throughout North America. The organization will soon launch a redesigned Web site that includes new optometrist-centered search and tracking capabilities. In order to ensure that these new features and capabilities produce reliable and useful results, ARBO determined that it was necessary to address the state of its non-standardized and duplicate data by undertaking a clean-up and consolidation effort. As a small organization with limited personnel resources and budget, ARBO chose to leverage Innovative's data quality consulting and conversion services to accomplish this critical task in a time- and cost-effective way. "One of the reasons we needed assistance on this is because we are not data experts," said Dr. Jack Terry, member of the ARBO Board of Directors. "Innovative's team was able to help us quickly understand our data quality issues so we could jointly develop the right technology solution to our business problem. I couldn't be more pleased with the results. Innovative has been an extremely beneficial and useful resource." The project used Innovative's data quality and integration software to standardize and format ARBO's various databases, so that member records could be matched together and integrated into a single, super-data set of unique, complete records. In the span of three weeks, ARBO achieved the intelligent customer data integration required for the new Web site. Going forward, ARBO will continue to collect new and changed optometrist information and provide updates to Innovative on a regular basis for offsite change management, cleansing and matching. Doing so will ensure the integrity of the ARBO database without requiring the implementation and management of data quality software. Innovative Systems' services group offers organizations a variety of options for utilizing the expertise and strength of its software and data management professionals. Organizations have turned to Innovative's services to help them identify, diagnose and correct data quality problems, to assist with large-scale conversions associated with mergers and acquisitions, and to perform annual data management audits to benchmark quality standards over time. Innovative's web-based software and services capabilities have extended the traditional reach of its consulting services beyond working with only large enterprises to address the data quality and data integration needs of small-to-medium-sized businesses. About Innovative Systems, Inc. Innovative Systems, Inc. is a world leader in delivering enterprise customer information solutions to organizations whose success depends on a complete and accurate understanding of their customers. The company assists clients with the migration, consolidation and storage of customer-centric data to create a unified view of any customer across the enterprise. Innovative's data integration solutions include i/Lytics(R), a comprehensive data quality, postal coding and customer data management solution; i/Lytics Data Profiler(TM) for data profiling and analysis; i/Lytics SECURE(TM) and eWatchLine(TM) for fraud and regulatory compliance; and Synchronos(TM), a centralized master registry of customer data that ensures accurate and synchronized enterprise customer data management for improved cross- departmental business and compliance decision-making. Since 1968, enterprise-class companies worldwide have relied on Innovative's data quality software, systems integration, database solutions and customer data quality audits. Innovative has set the standard for data quality management in thousands of applications in more than 30 countries. Innovative maintains headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with European operations based in London. Representative offices are located in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and Spain. 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