FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE CHOOSES DOC-LINK™ INTEGRATED DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT TO STREAMLINE PAYABLES PROCESSING

Laguna Hills, Calif., June 29, 2004 - Altec, a leading provider of document imaging and workflow management solutions for mid-market, announced today that Ruth’s Chris Steak House has chosen doc-link integrated document management to streamline payables processing. Ruth’s Chris Steak House was founded in 1965, with the Metairie, Louisiana location being their first establishment. Now Ruth’s Chris Steak House has over 80 locations worldwide and has become the largest prime aged steak house company in the world. Ruth’s Chris Steak House has received numerous awards - the “Award of Excellence” in 1998, and the “Best Restaurant for Steaks” six years in a row.

Ruth’s Chris Steak House selected doc-link to streamline payables processing. With over forty-one corporate-owned restaurants sending invoices to the corporate office in Metairie, Louisiana, the transportation costs, duplication costs, and phone calls researching documents was excessive. Additionally, Ruth’s Chris Steak House wanted to eliminate the unnecessary cost of their couriers. Doc-link provides better accounting controls using workflow, eliminates the time spent reconciling supporting documents, reduces photocopy expenses, eliminates duplicate documents, and overall lessens manual paper handling – all reasons why Ruth’s Chris Steak House chose doc-link. Once the Accounts Payable department is operational, Ruth’s Chris Steak House will look to extend doc-link’s return on investment by deploying the solution into their Human Resource and Legal departments. After their first year of implementation in the AP department alone, Ruth’s Chris Steak House is anticipating an annual savings of over $94,000 a year.

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Altec is the leader in accounting centric document imaging and workflow management software solutions. Altec enables organizations to unleash the power of their accounting package and enhance productivity and communication among its customers, employees and vendors. Offering a variety of products from customizable paper based documents, to enterprise wide electronic document management, MICR check printing solutions, Print to Mail, Pressure Seal, promotional items and more, Altec can provide you with any business need you may have. Altec is headquartered in Laguna Hills, California with an office in Tacoma, Washington and affiliates nation wide. For more information about Altec, their products, or services, please visit the company’s website at
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