Release date: October 16, 2014

Redmond, WA – AscendoSoft Inc., a leading provider of software solutions and services, is celebrating their fifth anniversary this month.  AscendoSoft was founded in October 2009 by three experienced software experts and has steadily grown to almost 100 customers covering a wide range of industries.

“We are very proud to celebrate five years in business and we are looking forward to many more successful years.  Despite starting in a difficult economic climate, we were able to fight through those early years and establish a healthy business where revenue has increased every year.  We started with a vision of providing software and services to various vertical markets and have delivered on that vision and more.  The other two co-founders and I have stuck to our primary goals, yet we have remained flexible and branched out when new opportunities made sense for our long term growth.” said Brian Miller, AscendoSoft Co-Founder and COO.

“Looking back on the days prior to starting the business, we were confident that we would be able to successfully market our solutions, grow a customer base, and provide first-class service.  The blend of the founders’ software skills and experience has been an important component of our success.” stated Jim Holck, AscendoSoft Chief Sales Officer.  “In addition to our own solutions, we acquired DigitalDrawer in early 2013 and have steadily grown its revenue stream.  This acquisition has allowed us to branch out to a wide range of clients and extended our partner network.”

“We have developed solutions that have gained significant acceptance and it’s great to see our customer base growing.” said Alex Givens, Chief Technology Officer of AscendoSoft Inc.  “When we started, we established integrity, service, and value as our core principles.  Our commitment to these principles has brought us several referrals from existing customers and helped grow our customer base.  Our development and professional services teams have always focused on adding value to our customers, while managing the relationship from a long-term perspective.”

 About AscendoSoft Inc. – AscendoSoft specializes in providing software solutions and professional services to customers of all sizes including vertical markets, such as financials, education, utilities, healthcare, retail, etc. AscendoSoft offers a variety of software solutions including Document Management, Address Cleansing, and Automation Utilities. The Professional Services team provides Business and IT consulting, focusing on Automic/UC4.  Sample customers include Canandaigua National Bank, Marvin’s Stores, BECU, First Tech Federal Credit Union, Boeing Sikorsky, ESCO, AllSouth Federal Credit Union, NV Energy, and Truliant Federal Credit Union.

For more information, contact AscendoSoft Inc. at +1-425-749-3850.

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With the recent announcement that two senators, Orrin Hatch of Utah and Edward Markey of Massachusetts, hope to extend protection of personal student details, it’s time to consider how these changes may impact Document Management. The Family Education Rights and Privacy Right Act (FERPA) of 1974 requires that before a publicly-financed school shares personal student data with a third party, the school should obtain permission of the parents.

With the continued growth of IT systems at schools and the reduction of control over data, parents should be aware that their children’s personally identifiable information (PII) and detailed records are potentially available to parties outside of the authorized school district. Such records that can be exposed are grades, test scores, disabilities, memos, etc. Updating FERPA is needed to ensure that parents are guaranteed to be made aware of third parties who have access to this private information.

Many public school districts and private schools use document management solutions to store and organize student records. Some document management solutions store data on school premises, so the data is in the control of employees, while other document management solutions store data in the Cloud. Cloud-based document management systems, by their nature, require that data is stored external to the school IT network, meaning that all student, and potentially employee HR data is in the direct control of one or more third parties. Cloud-based document management software vendors often utilize a third party for storage, so the data may then be exposed to another party.

While the updates to FERPA do not directly target cloud-based document management solutions, school districts that store their data “in the cloud” should make plans to institute new procedures to comply with the upcoming changes. The proposed changes to FERPA will be costly to these school districts. School districts that are considering or currently evaluating cloud-based document management solutions should also be concerned about the time, effort, and cost of notifying parents.

See here for draft legislation specifics from Edward Markey’s official site.

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AscendoSoft, the developer of DigitalDrawer based in Redmond, WA, invites you to join a brief 30-minute webinar on March 19th to learn how schools have secured and organized their paper student records in a digital filing cabinet system.

See a live product demonstration showing how to capture, organize, and manage student records (and other documents) in DigitalDrawer.

• Date/Time: March 19th, 2014 (11am PT)
• Duration: 30 minutes
• Host: Jim Holck of AscendoSoft Inc.

Email: webinar@ascendosoft.com to register

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AscendoSoft launches next generation www.digitaldrawer.net website

Release Date: February 11, 2014

Redmond, WA – AscendoSoft Inc., a leading provider of software and services in the document management, data quality, data privacy, and application automation markets, announced the launch of their next generation website – www.digitaldrawer.net.

AscendoSoft collaborated with Studio 9, web design and search engine optimization (SEO) experts, to provide a modern website design that provides an improved user experience.  The new site offers a consistent look and feel, whether it is accessed through PC, Mac, tablet, or phone.  The fresh design coupled with an extensive SEO project offers AscendoSoft a foundation to grow its DigitalDrawer business.  Adding new content is now much easier than with the previous site.

AscendoSoft COO, Brian Miller said “The new website provides a progressive new image for our DigitalDrawer product and will ensure that visitors stay longer to browse and determine if DigitalDrawer is a good fit for their company. It also ensures that our marketing team can easily enhance and extend the site.  As a result of this website redesign & SEO project, we expect to see increased traffic and longer visits.”

“As more and more prospects look for solutions from their smart phones and tablets, we recognized that we had to redesign our website to enable those users.  Our previous DigitalDrawer website was somewhat limiting and we were unable to support this new generation of browsers.” chimes in Jim Holck, Chief Sales Officer at AscendoSoft.  “Ultimately the new website will generate additional DigitalDrawer sales activity and revenue.”

DigitalDrawer is electronic file cabinet software that helps small and medium sized businesses realize the benefits of secure, on-premise document management.  DigitalDrawer allows customers to scan, secure, store, organize, and easily retrieve documents, saving thousands of dollars each year. DigitalDrawer benefits include increased productivity, improved security, elimination of the risk of losing paper records, and compliance with government regulations.

About AscendoSoft Inc. – AscendoSoft specializes in providing software solutions and professional services to customers of all sizes including vertical markets, such as financials, higher education, utilities, healthcare, retail, etc.  AscendoSoft offers a variety of software solutions including Document Management, Address Cleansing, Data Masking, and Automation Utilities. The Professional Services team provides Business and IT consulting. Sample customers include Canandaigua National Bank, Marvin’s Stores, BECU, First Tech Federal Credit Union, Boeing Sikorsky, ESCO, AllSouth Federal Credit Union, NV Energy, and Truliant Federal Credit Union.

For more information, contact AscendoSoft Inc. at +1-425-749-3850.

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