Velosum deploys new application of vCitePlus in Grand Junction Colorado
Grand Junction, Colorado; May 17, 2009 – In partnership with Grand Junction, Colorado, Velosum, Inc., (www.velosum.com) successfully deployed vCitePlus as the issuance and software management solution for the city’s weed abatement initiative. City personnel use digital pen and paper and vCitePlus’ ASP-based platform to issue warnings and citations, schedule follow-up visits, manage remediation, and facilitate collection and settlement services.
vCitePlus is most often deployed as a complete parking citation management solution. However, according to Michael Critchfield, Velosum’s Vice President of Sales and Marketing, “Our customers are validating the scalability and benefits our core system provides by requesting other vertical applications. We are able to reduce overall costs and drive new revenues by delivering multiple applications that allow more to be done at a fraction of the price of in-house legacy systems or current handheld technologies.”
Using Anoto digital pen and paper technology, vCitePlus creates full featured citation management platforms that capture, render, translate, process, and store handwritten forms. Pen and paper is still the simplest and most effective form of data collection, especially for mobile data, and Velosum’s handwriting recognition technology allows adaptable enterprise solutions that capture and share data between database systems – eliminating the need for manual data entry.
“Grand Junction city officials saw the value of an on-line system to improve their weed abatement program,” said David Boardman, Velosum Sales Executive. “vCitePlus provides multiple photos for every citation along with a GPS tag of its location. Citizens who are cited may immediately log-on to www.grandjunctionweeds.com to review their infraction. Integration to the county’s parcel database allows land owner information to be imported and notices to be sent directly from vCitePlus, creating an efficient and streamlined management process.”
Grand Junction is also planning to employ vCitePlus to document and manage graffiti forms – utilizing our photo and GPS technology to document and track graffiti vandalism throughout the city. This information will be made available in real-time to police officers, city staff, and others to help manage and eliminate these destructive crimes. Several more public safety organizations are looking into other applications such as gang monitoring and administrative citations.
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ABOUT VELOSUM, INC. www.velosum.com
Velosum is a leading provider of digital acquisition and Internet-based, on-demand portal technologies based out of Sandy, Utah. Velosum solutions enable organizations to "write paper to the web!" Their software provides management and real-time integration of handwritten data to other databases and Internet sites. Velosum launched its first vCitePlus application in December of 2007 and now has thirteen public safety customers across the United States. Velosum has also launched vTrialsPlus, a clinical trials monitoring tool, using the Velosum digital portal technologies. Velosum licenses digital pattern from Anoto. For more information contact Michael Critchfield, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, at 801 649-5461 or mcritchfield@velosum.com.
ABOUT ANOTO GROUP AB
Anoto Group is the company behind and world leader in the unique technology for digital pen and paper, which enables fast and reliable transmission of handwritten text into a digital format. Anoto operates through a global partner network that focuses on user-friendly forms solutions for efficient capture, transmission and storage of data within different business segments, e.g. healthcare, bank and finance, transport and logistics and education. The Anoto Group has around 110 employees, offices in Lund (head office), Boston and Tokyo. The Anoto share is listed on NASDAQ OMX Nordic small cap list under the ticker ANOT. For more information, go to www.anoto.com.
