About eVisory

Business today is about bringing information together. Increasingly, organizations are discovering that content and records management technology isn't just a way to bring this information together and save money, it is also a way to comply with legal and regulatory needs as well. Imaging, document management, COLD, ERM, forms processing, workflow, output technologies, and portals have all come together to form today's enterprise content management (ECM) industry. With 200+ vendors on the market, it is hard to determine the best approach.

Unlike most other technologies, these can't be implemented without careful attention to business processes.

That is where eVisory comes in.

We are one of the nation's top unbiased consulting firms for these technologies. We do not sell or represent systems. We do not provide systems integration or other implementation services. We are real consultants who act as your advocate.

Our people have extensive involvement with the specific technologies and business practices in use by our clients. The people of eVisory have been involved in over $4B of procurements, founded various companies, created standards, and helped build the industry.

eVisory can help guarantee that any systems are installed on time and with the right operational functionality. In an industry with a 30% failure rate, our end-user customers have had a 100% implementation success rate. We are true experts with real methodologies backed up by continuous industry research - that is one reason why most of our projects are fixed price.

Unlike many companies in this industry, we aren't new. Our roots go back to 1991 as Imaging Consulting. Later our founders built IMERGE Consulting before splitting into eVisory. We evolved through principals of IMERGE Consulting. Our history includes projects such as Intel, Coca Cola Enterprises, US Postal Service, the IRS, Capital One, Trigon, Amtrak, Verizon, the Federal Reserve Bank, Tupperware, and Chemical Bank. Unlike most consulting firms who chase the latest technology buzzwords, eVisory has always just focused on the ECM industry. Today we are a privately-held woman-owned small business with consistent growth and profits.

eVisory is led by some of the most senior people in the industry. Our people have founded companies, chaired industry standard groups, and literally helped build the industry.

The secret has been our unwavering industry focus. We do not sell hardware, software or integration services. Unlike systems integrators and accounting firms, eVisory provides our customers with unquestioned objectivity and true unbiased advice.

Great companies have great people - and eVisory has some of the industry's very best. Take a look at some of them:

Dan Elam
Dan@eVisory.com
Dan Elam is the nation's best known expert on Document and Records Management. An AIIM Fellow, he created the industry's first formal needs analysis methodology and has assisted in over $4B of commercial and government procurements. His experience includes projects for the IRS, American Express, Delta Dental of Michigan, Minnesota Blue Cross, Census 2000, and many other forms processing and document imaging applications. Mr. Elam has worked on a wide variety of projects including American Express, the US Navy, Trigon, Intel, Delta Dental of California, and Coca-Cola Enterprises. In 1996 he was recognized as one of the industry's most influential people. He is the former chairman for US Technical Expert to the Organization (ISO), helped write the Certified Document Imaging Architect exam and currently serves on AIIM's Emerging Technologies (EmTag) group. He was the founder of IMERGE Consulting and a specialty systems integrator.

Michael Glass
Michael.Glass@eVisory.com
Mr. Michael Glass serves as Vice President with eVisory. As a nationally recognized expert in document conversion and digital document management, he has more than 15 years experience designing and implementing state and local government imaging and information system applications. Mr. Glass has extensive experience in government applications and was one of the first to design a large scale imaging application within government for access via the WEB. Mr. Glass’s experience includes leadership roles at Eastman Kodak Company, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and I-Net. He has more than 25 years experience in imaging, ERM, micrographics and records management. His experience in project management, system design, process management, document management services, including operations, sales, product development and management, marketing, strategic planning and acquisitions/alliances. His contacts within the industry enable him to assist our clients in obtaining the highest quality products are the lowest price. His extensive knowledge of various storage architectures, retrieval and distribution of electronic and film-based information includes Computer Output Laser Disk (COLD), Compact Disk (CD), Computer Output Microfilm (COM), as well as engineering drawing/source document scanning and microfilming. Glass' work is represented in the Smithsonian's Computing Hall of Fame.

Mason Grigsby
Mason.Grigsby@eVisory.com
As the inventor of Computer Output to Laser Disk (COLD) technology and implementor of the world's first imaging system, Grigsby is one of the true fathers of the industry. He has been awarded AIIM's Pioneer designation and his work is represented in the Smithsonian's Computing Hall of Fame. Grisgby is the former President and CEO of INSCI, a co-founder of IMERGE, and has nearly 40 years of ECM and computing experience.

Jon Hanshew
Jon.Hanshew@eVisory.com
Has nearly 30 years of computing experience. John has served as project manager for some of the most sophisticated imaging implementations in the world and has significant BPR and needs analysis experience.

Al Mattison
Al.Mattison@eVisory.com
Mattison has worked with government and business organizations on marketing and advertising programs for 25 years. He has provided strategic marketing and marketing research for business worldwide. By combining an understanding of technology and management principles, he has helped organization design and implement business marketing, and advertising programs. His consulting services are designed to assist organizations achieve optimal effectiveness and tangible results, shaped and sequenced in a collaborative partnership with the client. He tailors programs to meet specific client needs and to be congruent with strategic direction and unique culture of the target organization. He delivers a personalized service oriented and committed to excellence and client satisfaction. Mr. Mattison has owned an advertising and marketing agency, and is a Principal with eVisory Consulting.

Jane Pugh
Jane.Pugh@eVisory.com
Pugh is well known in the circles of state government thanks to her work at eVisory and her career with the Virginia Retirement System where she led the R&D efforts in the 1980s that resulted in VRS' award-winning system implementation.

Gary Roth
Gary.Roth@eVisory.com
Mr. Roth manages our Mergers and Acquisitions practice. Roth led a leveraged buy-out of Anacomp's Magnetic division and served Anacomp for more than 20 years in a variety of leadership positions. He previously served in senior roles with IBM.

Nikhir Kumar
Nikhir.Kumar@eVisory.com
With nearly 15 years of IT experience, Mr. Kumar is among the leading consultants for enterprise content/document management. He has been responsible for some of the largest document management and business process management procurements and implementations with FileNet. He has been heavily involved in early adopter impementations of records management and other compliance mechanisms. He is also very actively involved in providing ECM/BPM/RM strategy for various Fortune 500 corporations. Along with the document management experience, he is also involved in the distributed systems and networks security, and mobile agents space. He has authored papers in IEEE and ACM conferences and journals on this subject.

Netta LaValle
Netta.LaValle@eVisory.com
In a 25-year career working in the enterprise content management industry, Ms. LaValle has worked with a wide range of document storage and retrieval systems from the early technology of computer-aided retrieval (CAR) systems, computer output to laser disk (COLD) systems, to imaging and application service for document systems. From sales and marketing to needs analysis through delivery, implementation and training, she served as liaison between software engineering and end-users to achieve succesful solutions. Clients have included American Express, EDS, The Travelers Insurance Company and others in the financial, brokerage, insurance, healthcare and government sectors.