Imaging Science and Services, Inc.
ISSI specializes in complex, business critical financial document management services and tax compliance software.
Our Mission
To leverage our experience and grow organically as a company, while providing the best customer experience. Our focus is reducing the risk and cost of tax compliance for exempt transactions, utilizing secure and efficient technology.
Our Core Values
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We conduct ourselves with honesty, integrity and commitment in our business relationships with out customers, partners and employees.
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We build business solutions that enable value built on partnerships with our customers, while providing ongoing support, education and technical awareness.
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We strive to produce the best overall experience for each and every company.
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Our employees are our family.
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We are motivated people who are passionately devoted to the success of our customers. When our customers succeed, we succeed!
History
| As paper documents swamped corporate America in the 1980s, the notion that these paper documents could be managed as electronic images or files took hold. Capturing document images and subsequently managing those files with specialized software and systems has blossomed into a variety of disciplines collectively thought of as document management or electronic content management. During those early days, Philip Hodge, then a CIO and a CPA, recognized the opportunity presented by this nascent technology and a vision took shape. He realized that one size could not really fit all, especially when it applied to handling business critical financial documents like sales tax exemption certificates. | |
| Phil conceived and developed imaging software that specifically helped businesses manage their sales tax exemption certificates including their existing paper files and regain control of their tax audit strategy. Headquartered in Hudson, Ohio, and established as an S Corporation in 1994, OfficeMax became its first major client and ISSI was born. As the business of taxation grew more complex and invasive while regulatory compliance, like Sarbanes-Oxley, grew more burdensome, ISSI expanded its offerings as it prospered. With an array of software products and services, ISSI has grown beyond its retail and distribution roots and now serves the manufacturing, healthcare, legal, insurance, and real estate markets. |
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Founder
Phil Hodge, President, started Imaging Science and Services, Inc. in 1994. He was previously employed as CIO of Central Reserve Life, and has managed systems design and development for over 25 years in a variety of industries including retail, wholesale, financial services and manufacturing. He is a nationally recognized speaker on the business case for digital imaging systems. Phil holds a BS in accounting with a minor in computer information systems from Cleveland State University, where he also completed several post-graduate courses. He is a certified public accountant (CPA), a member of the Association of Systems Management, and past member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). Phil has completed certification work in Microsoft and the Risk Institute of Management Science (RIMS). Early in his career, Phil served with the United States Marine Corps from 1968-1970 as a military guard including serving as a part of the presidential guard detail for President Nixon (1969-1970). He was promoted meritoriously three times and was honorably discharged as a Sergeant. His civic and community activities include volunteering with community youth programs, member and past president of the Bedford Lions Club and assisting in helping place recent college graduates in a mentoring program (Getting Started). He also served as a foreman on the Federal Grand Jury (87-5G) chairing cases of general crimes and certain organized crimes.
