Unitrin Direct and Optical Image Technology Featured in Tech Decisions Webinar

State College, PA, September 11, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Unitrin Direct® Auto and Home Insurance and Optical Image Technology will be featured presenters for the free one-hour Tech Decisions for Insurance Webinar on Thursday, September 16 at 2 PM EDT. The webinar, entitled “What Are You Waiting For? Get Meaningful Use from Your Information Through Document and Process Automation,” is designed to help insurers discover how to automate and improve back-office processes and get more meaningful use from their information.

Carol McAllister, Information Technology Director for Unitrin Direct® Auto and Home Insurance--a Celent 2010 Model Insurer Award winner for their use of DocFinity--will discuss the benefits of using business process management (BPM) software to orchestrate communication between information capture and digital storage systems, phone systems, and more. The webinar will explore Unitrin's use of process and document automation to expedite underwriting and claims processes, lower operational costs, handle returned mail cost-efficiently, manage document retention effectively, and improve services.

Tips will be provided to help attendees:

Analyze routine business processes to create more efficient procedures
Run lean departments while increasing productivity
Untangle the web of processes that define their business
Use BPM to extract and re-purpose data meaningfully
Orchestrate the information flow that drives decision making
Think outside the box and create their own plan for effective automation

The webinar will wrap up with a question and answer session with Carol McAllister and Jim Thumma of Optical Image Technology. Interested persons can register on the Tech Decisions website for this free educational opportunity.

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