Mobius Management Systems Inc. announced today that Norwest Financial Information Services Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Norwest Financial, Inc., has chosen Mobius` Electronic Document Warehouse (EDW) software suite as the foundation for its enterprise-wide customer information management initiative. The system will give users at 1,300 Norwest Financial branches and affiliate locations instant on-line access to information related to loans and collections, statements and all other non-marketing customer correspondence.
The EDW suite will enable Norwest Financial users to retrieve and view documents stored on multiple computing platforms and on multiple storage media. It also will allow Norwest Financial to eliminate distribution of paper reports and provide on-line retrieval of actual customer statements and historical data.
The Mobius software will interface with SAPPHIRE, Norwest Financial`s comprehensive three-tier client/server system, which will operate on a Windows NT platform and support the company`s consumer finance and affiliated businesses. The system also will include a decision-support program and third-party general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and human resources software packages.
The Electronic Document Warehouse at NFISG consists of several Mobius products, including ViewDirect for Networks, the archiving engine and document server; and the Document Direct API (application programming interface) to connect with SAPPHIRE. NFISG projects having 45,000 users on the system within five years.
"We wanted a comprehensive system that will enable us to deliver better customer service -- the key differentiator in the financial services industry today -- and not only support our core business but also allow us to market our services to other financial services companies," stated Denny Johnston, president of NFISG and senior vice president and CIO at Norwest Financial. "Mobius was willing to work with us to ensure that the EDW suite would work with SAPPHIRE, which we`re installing as part of our corporate reengineering process."
"Mobius had the price/performance and scalability we will need to expand the system in the future," added Beth Rohwedder, senior vice president of NFISG and SAPPHIRE project manager. "The open architecture of the EDW suite also provides the flexibility we`ll need as we add more users and reporting requirements."
"We are excited about the opportunity to partner with Norwest Financial to integrate our EDW suite into their mission-critical SAPPHIRE rollout," said Mitchell Gross, president and CEO of Mobius Management Systems, Inc. "Our EDW architecture is ideally suited to financial institutions that tend to need access to very large volumes of documents in various formats, typically resident on a wide variety of computing platforms and storage media."
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About NFISG
Norwest Financial Information Services Group (NFISG) is a leading provider of information technology services to the consumer finance industry. It has developed its own on-line, real-time information processing and communications systems, and supplies information services to Norwest Financial consumer finance and its affiliates throughout the United States and Canada. In addition, NFISG provides its systems and services to 25 other companies in the financial services industry.
Headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, NFISG currently services approximately 3,000 branch offices with 6.3 million accounts.
Mobius Management Systems, Inc., is represented by Bateleur Software Solutions (Pty) Ltd in Southern Africa.
About Mobius
Mobius Management Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise-wide Electronic Document Warehouse solutions in support of improved customer service and productivity. The company develops and markets a complete family of software products to integrate and archive large volumes of diverse documents and transactions and make them available over corporate networks and the Internet. Mobius products are used by more than 1,200 organizations worldwide, including banks, insurance companies, financial services providers, and telecommunications companies. More than half of the Fortune 100 companies use Mobius software.
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