Apex Introduces Web-Based QA Tool for Newspaper Digitization

ProQual™ Adheres to ISO 2859-1 Sampling Standards

Herndon, VA (PRWEB) August 20, 2006 -- Apex CoVantage, a leading global knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) company, announced today the release of ProQualTM its quality assurance software for image-based, archival newspaper databases. ProQual is compliant with the ISO 2589-1 standard and is customizable to various Acceptable Quality Limits (AQL), giving archival collection owners unprecedented control over the quality of their electronic databases.

ProQual is web-based, allowing it to be used remotely. Until now, customers have had to take physical delivery of converted data in order to perform quality acceptance processes. Since newspaper databases tend to be very large, this has imposed significant logistics and data management costs on customers, and often resulted in inadequate data verification, costly reruns, and extended production schedules. With ProQual, customers can, from their offices, check the quality of the converted data while resident at the production location, eliminating all of the costs and delays incurred under current industry practices.

Compliance with an established ISO standard, and the scientific, defensible quality acceptance processes that it enforces, means that electronic database products checked using ProQual will be judged by its users to be more credible, enhancing their value to the archival owners.

ProQual also has powerful reporting capabilities, allowing customers to track quality and approval history of complete production runs, lasting months or even years, and covering complete collections.

“Our digitization solutions are all designed to solve the problems that had been inherent to the process of digitizing newspapers and other documents.” says Drew Pipkin, President of Apex CoVantage Publishing Solutions. “It was designed with our clients in mind; they are now able to maintain critical control over the integrity of their data. ProQual’s cutting-edge technology shows once again that Apex is committed to providing our customers with the highest level of quality from start to finish.”

About Apex CoVantage

Apex CoVantage (www.apexcovantage.com) is an American provider of Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) services. We opened our first KPO service center in 1988 and subsequently pioneered the market for offshore services. Today, we provide contact center, engineering, epublishing and prepress solutions, as well as professional KnowledgeSolutionsSM, from a global network of service centers. Our clients include many of the largest, fastest growing and most admired companies in the United States, Europe and Australasia. In every industry and every service area, these clients are reaching the next level of service performance in partnership with Apex CoVantage.

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