FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DOC-LINK™ WITH OUTPUT MANAGER FOR GREAT PLAINS ACCOUNTING
SOFTWARE WAS SELECTED BY SKILLED HEALTHCARE, LLC

Laguna Hills, Calif., August 4, 2004 - Altec, a leading provider of document imaging and workflow management solutions for mid-market, announced today that Skilled Healthcare, LLC has selected doc-link to streamline payables processing. Skilled Healthcare LLC is headquartered in Foothill Ranch, California and has over fifty five facilities that provide quality clinical and rehabilitation services for seniors. They strive to hire the best teams in the industry, create strong relationships in the communities they serve, and to dominate the Medicare/Managed Care market.

Skilled Healthcare, LLC set out to reeingineer their accounts payable department in an effort to reduce overhead costs, eliminate their large volume of paper and the related retention issues, and decrease cycle times in expense review and approval. Doc-link provides Skilled Healthcare with better accounting controls using workflow while eliminating duplicate documents, and reducing the time spent researching documents. With doc-link’s image repository, documents can be electronically retrieved quickly and easily - increasing employee productivity. With these benefits, Skilled Healthcare anticipates a savings of over $290,000 during the first year alone. Skilled Healthcare will enjoy even more savings once doc-link is implemented in the accounts receivable and order processing departments.

About Altec
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
www.altec-inc.com