99 Cents Only Stores Employs Verity LiquidOffice and Advanced
Process Manager to Automate HR-Related Forms for 198 Retail Locations
Discount Merchandiser Realizes Significant Time Savings, as Forms Are Properly
Routed With Verity Solution
SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Verity Inc. , a leading
provider of enterprise software that enables organizations to maximize the
return on their intellectual capital investment, today announced that 99 Cents
Only Stores, Inc. , a leading discount retailer, has deployed Verity(R)
LiquidOffice(TM), a Web-based business process automation solution, along with
the LiquidOffice Advanced Process Manager to automate and manage the routing
and approval of human resource forms for 198 retail locations, regional
offices, multiple warehouses and corporate headquarters. Verity LiquidOffice
had been branded Cardiff LiquidOffice prior its acquisition by Verity in
February 2004.
99 Cents Only Stores is a rapidly expanding operation, with plans to grow
retail square footage by 25% across the country annually. It recognized that an
efficient and cost-effective way to manage its growing diverse form-based
processes, from administrative store-level human resources matters to
corporate-level actions, would be needed. As the company grew and became more
dispersed, the ability to ensure the accuracy and completeness of all forms
became increasingly difficult. In addition, the existing form process was
cumbersome and time consuming, demanding significant manual entry of data and
requiring manual delivery of forms from office to office.
After an extensive selection process, 99 Cents Only Stores chose Verity
LiquidOffice because of its ability to enable roles-based routing, reflective
of the company's organizational structure. This feature held keen appeal as
branch forms must be routed for approval by the appropriate district manager.
More important, Verity's open architecture allows for easy integration with 99
Cents Only Stores' back-end human resources database. The LiquidOffice Advanced
Process Manager enables the design and deployment of structured workflow
processes, allowing 99 Cents Only Stores to improve business performance and
enhance customer service. 99 Cents Only Stores also chose LiquidOffice because
of its ability to keep costs low, allowing the retailer to better manage costs.
"In evaluating eForm automation solutions, we required a solution that would
reduce time and costs associated with the management of forms while also
integrating easily with our existing system framework," said Robert Adams, 99
Cents Only Stores' vice president of information systems. "Verity LiquidOffice
met all our requirements and provides us with a complete eForm solution that is
also easy-to-use, nearly eliminating training costs."
Verity LiquidOffice includes a clear and easy to understand user interface.
This ensures that new employees and managers can learn to use the application
quickly, reducing time and costs associated with training. The workflow and
automatic routing inherent in LiquidOffice, which includes rules-based routing,
means employees can quickly move forms through the process to completion and to
storage in the back-end data system. In addition, since LiquidOffice is a
Web-based application, 99 Cents Only Stores' locations always have access to,
and are working from, the most current forms, guaranteeing processes aren't
repeated unnecessarily and all data is captured in the original form.
"99 Cents Only Stores is a growing retail operation that puts a premium on
cost- and time-effectiveness to make certain its business goals are achieved,"
said Anthony J. Bettencourt, Verity's president and chief executive officer.
"We are pleased to help 99 Cents Only Stores meet its objectives by providing
structured workflow to its human resources processes that improve productivity
by reducing operational costs, eliminating data errors and redundant
administrative tasks."
About 99 Cents Only Stores
99 Cents Only Stores(R) is the nation's oldest existing one-price retailer. 99
Cents Only Stores(R) emphasizes name-brand consumables at an excellent value,
in its 198 clean, attractively merchandised stores. The Company's New York
Stock Exchange symbol is NDN.
About Verity
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Verity provides software that enables
organizations to maximize the return on their intellectual capital investment.
The company's intellectual capital management (ICM) solutions provide
integrated search, classification, recommendation, monitoring and analytics
across the real-time flow of enterprise information, along with question and
answer interfaces for effective online self-service. Other Verity ICM solutions
capture content and drive automated business processes. Verity technology also
serves as a core component of more than 260 applications from leading
independent software vendors.
Verity software solutions are used by more than 11,500 customers in the private
and public sectors. Customers include American Express, AT&T, Bristol-Myers
Squibb, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Cardinal Health, Cisco Systems, EMC
Documentum, Dow Jones, Financial Times, Hewlett-Packard, Home Depot, Lotus,
Kaiser Permanente, META Group, SAP, Siemens, the State of California, Stellent,
Sybase, the U.S. Departments of Energy and Justice, and the U.S. Army.
This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to 99 Cents
Only Stores plan to implement the Advanced Process Manager for Verity
LiquidOffice. Actual results are subject to risks and uncertainties, including
the risk that further integration of the Verity solution into 99 Cents Only
Stores systems will not perform as anticipated as a result of unforeseen
technical difficulties. These and other risks relating to Verity and its
business and products are set forth under the caption "Risks Relating to Our
Operations" in Item 2 of Verity's Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission on April 12, 2004.
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