Imaging Science and Services, Inc.

ISSI is announcing the addition of features that enhance the TEAMS offering, along with the hiring of Larry Powers as Chief Strategy Officer, to lead their business development campaign for 2010. This is part of the new goal by ISSI to eliminate paper tax exemption certificates within five years. 

The new functionality increases ease-of-use for corporations implementing tax exemption certificate compliance solutions, and with the elements for retail/POS, e-commerce, telecommunications, and web services expanded and offered to corporations of all sizes. It also increases the availability of the TEAMS offering across verticals, and streamlines the ability for corporations to respond to audits efficiently and in a secure manner.

“Our goal at ISSI is to work with our customers and partners to make paper a thing of the past, while reducing the amount of time they work to respond to audit and keeping their information safe and sound,” says Phil Hodge, CEO of ISSI, “while carrying forward the quality and customer service that has made us the provider of choice currently.”

Hodge also cited the new position of Chief Strategy Officer at ISSI, filled by Larry Powers, a tax technology veteran who has succeeded both on the software and ERP implementation aspect with customers in energy, telecommunication, sales tax and VAT compliance in his former positions. He has also created solutions for audit defense and helped corporations with leveraging technology for their compliance needs.

“I am pleased to be part of the team and associated with a quality organization that has a 16 year history of success and vision for the future,” stated Powers. “Phil (Hodge) is such a respected person in this industry, it will be a pleasure to represent an organization with such high expectations. One of the key differences I noticed was a genuine concern by ISSI that customers needed alleviation for audit needs and a reduction of audit support tasks.”

One of the focus points for Powers will be to bring fruition for ISSI’s partnerships and expand their e-commerce, retail, and corporate governance solutions into more verticals. ISSI will be exhibiting at the Institute for Professionals in Taxation 34^th Annual Conference in Phoenix later this month to display their offerings and demonstrate the new features.

About Imaging Science and Services, Inc. (ISSI):
From exemption certificate collection through audit defense, ISSI reduces the risk and cost of sales and use tax exemption certificate management (ECM) with TEAMS Express & LineLink™ software. ISSI is headquartered in Hudson, Ohio and has reduced the risk and cost of transaction tax compliance with blended solutions of technology, services and knowledge transfer for hundreds of companies in the manufacturing, telecommunications, utilities, retail, healthcare and financial services industries since 1994.

We dig cool, new software as much as the next company. Google’s new browser Chrome, currently released in beta, certainly offers some interesting takes on browser functionality in a minimalist sort of way. We did a first look in our development lab and are happy to say that TEAMS Express on Demand works well in the Chrome world even in its early beta stage.

When Chrome is ready for prime time, you can be assured that Imaging Science and Services, Inc. is leading the way for all of its TEAMS Express customers using our solutions for sales and use tax exemption certificate collection, validation and management.