Marshall Huwe
President and CEO
Amicus, Inc
(512) 531-3435
Take the paper out of paperwork with Amicus AccountStream
electronic forms web-conduit for your financial service representatives
Austin, Texas (April 15, 2008) – Amicus® today announces the general availability of Amicus AccountStream Essential (http://www.amicus.com/solutions/accountstream/ ), a comprehensive, web-delivered, electronic forms conduit for the Financial Services industry. Powered by Efficient Technology's Quik! Enterprise, AccountStream takes the paper out of the paperwork necessary to set up new accounts and investments by providing firms and investment professionals with a comprehensive set of sponsor, clearing, and firm-specific forms, and delivering them via a graceful, secure and platform-agnostic web interface for anytime/anywhere access.
Are you tired of managing stacks of paper, hours of manual data entry, and the parade of form rejections due to flawed data? AccountStream breaks new ground by serving your financial service firm's reps the account forms they need, anytime they need them, with just a few mouse clicks. The auto-fill functionality means that reps only need to fill in each field once, letting the system automatically flow the data throughout the rest of the forms package wherever the field repeats eliminating time-wasting busy-work and ensuring the data is consistent and in good order. No data leaves the encrypted connection, keeping investors safe and your practice compliant.
"AccountStream replaces the inconvenience of paper-based forms by eliminating the time it takes to find forms and manually enter data," said Amicus CEO Marshall Huwe. "The simple interface means self-serviced forms, found in a snap, from any location. AccountStream makes form filling easy and quick so your reps can focus on relationships, not paperwork headaches. If you want electronic forms it doesn't get easier, and it certainly doesn’t get more cost-effective."
Amicus, Inc., an industry pioneer and leader in hosted software as a service (SaaS) solutions for the financial services industry, and Efficient Technology, Inc., the industry leader in automated forms technology with its Quik! Enterprise products, announced their collaboration partnership on February 26th, 2008. AccountStream is the first fruit of that partnership. The Quik! Enterprise products lead the industry in helping firms automate their forms-related processes, from connecting to client data sources, pre-filling industry forms, to digitally signing and archiving the forms, to submitting forms to the backoffice for straight-through-processing. "By partnering with Amicus to provide hosted solutions for Quik! Enterprise, we are reaching many firms that otherwise do not have or want the IT infrastructure necessary to go it alone," said Jeff Reece, Vice President, Product Relations for Efficient Technology.
Amicus today also announced Amicus® AccountStream Advanced, due out during the second quarter of 2008. With AccountStream Advanced, we'll take hosted, web-accessible electronic forms to the next level with data import, saved work-in-progress, and back-office legacy system integration. And because the forms will stay digital throughout the process, there will be less to file, keep, shred, and waste.
Pricing & Availability
Amicus AccountStream Essential is available today, and at $6.00 / user / month it is priced to make moving to electronic forms at your firm the logical choice. Call Amicus today at 800.419.0150 to take the paper out of paperwork!
Amicus: Essential Services, Freakishly Good Support
Amicus is a hosted business application company, combining process automation, compliance, messaging, and archive software with a fierce commitment to marvelous customer service. Since 1996, Amicus has provided superior email, business collaboration, and regulatory compliance tools (including FINRA, SEC). Amicus is a founding Zimbra hosting partner, and a leading Application Service Provider of regulatory compliance solutions for the financial services industry. As regulatory compliance and broker-dealer back office experts, we also provide custom business consulting. Visit http://www.amicus.com/solutions/accountstream/
Amicus' suite of products and services includes:
- Amicus® AccountStream™ - hosted financial rep and recruit electronic forms
- Amicus® Envoy with Zimbra Inside™ - hosted Exchange replacement
- Amicus® Email Monitor - hosted email/IM supervision and archive compliance
- Amicus® MessageKeep™ - hosted e-mail and IM archive
- Amicus® eBlotter Monitor / Rules Engine - transaction suitability compliance
- Amicus® KYC (Know Your Customer) - hosted customer identification
About Efficient Technology, Inc.
Efficient Technology, Inc. (ETI) is the developer of Quik!, the industry leader of enterprise forms automation solutions and provider of an extensive library of fillable forms. Quik! enables straight-through processing and seamless integration with any existing process flow resulting in faster transactions with fewer errors and an easier way of doing business. ETI is committed to providing effective and efficient solutions through outstanding customer service. ETI was founded in 1996 as a consulting company and built the Quik! Enterprise Solutions in response to the industry’s growing need to automate the process of filling out paperwork. Visit http://www.quikforms.com .
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