HUG%202003%20halFILE%20Users%20Conference

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HUG 2003 halFILE Users Conference

• Welcome to Austin

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Welcome to HUG 2003

• H - halFILE, Optical Access, WinImage,
  CountyCashier.
• U - Users. The best Users meetings are run by
  Users. Think about volunteering to help with
  next years HUG meeting.
• G - Group. Thats us, Users plus hal employees.
• Mission statement
• Our mission is straightforward and effective To
  continuously educate our members, facilitate
  networking among colleagues and hal Systems
  representatives, and influence future hal Systems.

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Thanks to our Vendors

• Fujitsu Rob Turner
• Samsung Ted Cox
• and our Imaging products Distributor
• Cranel Michael Sweet, Cindy Reekon

Visit their display tables outside the Ballroom
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Some of our Resellers are here

• AMS Advanced Micro Solutions
• Sherman, TX
• Mindy Sloan, Jena Barron, Wade Gilgore Aaron
  Miller
• TDMS Texas Document Management Systems
• Denison Texas
• Mike Hathaway Lucia Hathaway
• Imagine Imaging
• Redding, California
• Shawn Sease
• Surety Data Systems
• San Angelo, TX
• Scott Stout

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Now a Quiz?

• What does hal stand for?
• 1. Hahn and Langham
• 2. The computer hal in 2001 A Space Odyssey
• 3. One up on IBM (each letter hal is one letter
  before IBM)
• The answer is-
• ALL OF THE ABOVE!

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halFILEs Developer

• TOM HOKANSON
• CHIEF SOFTWARE ARCHITECT
• halFILE, e.halFILE halTRACK
• Tom started on halFILE in 1987, a DOS version
  which we beta tested at an Insurance Company and
  then eventually sold in 1991 to Edna Abstract
  (Texas)

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Software Development Group

• Tom Hokanson - 21 years
• Sr. Vice President Software Development
• Richard Hahn - 26 years
• Sr. Vice President Product Planning
• Christopher Smith - 9 years
• Senior Systems Analyst
• Scott Johnson - 3 years
• Systems Analyst/Programmer
• James Tabor - 6 years
• Technical Support Analyst

Almost a garage... Austin 6th street 1981
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New York Developer Richard Hahn - 26 yearsSr.
Vice President Product Planning

• responsible for halFILE CountyCashier
  product line
• responsible legacy products
• Land/NET Lease Records System
• and PASHAL/NET (OG accounting)

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Dallas - Home Office

• Karen Duncan - 26 years
• - Exec. Assistant - responsible for everything
  else!
• Jimmy Dean - 19 years
• - Vice President Support Services
• Matt Macone - 9 years
• - Support Services Specialist
• Dave Persful - 7 years
• - Imaging Sales Consultant Account
  Representative

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Denver Sales Office

• Kathy Taylor - 3 years - Imaging Sales Consultant
  Account Representative for the midwest
  northern states

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Dallas - Home Office

• Home minding the fort !!
• Heda Elmendorf Hahn - 26 years - Controller
• Linda Goad - 14 years - Accounts
  Payable/Accounting
• Jessica Kizer - Receptionist

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2003 Accomplishments

• Made our 330th halFILE sale
• Reached 4,400 halFILE seats
• Upgraded 130 clients to V2.1
• Soon to release halFILE V2.2, e.halFILE V2.2
  CountyCashier V2.2
• Moved into larger offices in Dallas
• We are holding our 2nd Annual HUG conference!

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Special Award for our early adopters halFILE
Pioneers

• Carol McDonald
• Edna, Texas
• Coastal Title - McDonald McDonald
• Coastal Title
• First halFILE Customer
• January 1992
• Coastal scanned and built 4 Title Plants
• using halFILE

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Special Award for our early adopters halFILE
Pioneers

• Jackson County Clerk
• Edna, Texas
• Kenneth McElveen, County Clerk
• First halFILE Government Customer
• January 1993
• Jackson County installed halFILE and then
  CountyCashier when it was released

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Special Award for our early adopters halFILE
Pioneers

• Augusta Title
• Atlanta, Georgia
• First halTRACK Customer - 2001
• Augusta has processed 30,000 orders through
  halTRACK since they began using it

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5 MILLION IMAGE AWARD
Award Winner
Clients with over 5 million pages under halFILE
management

• Mercury Companies, Inc
• Denver, Colorado
• (Better known as Security Title Guaranty)
• Bought halFILE in 1996, e.halFILE in 2001
• Have 12,000,000 pages under halFILE management
• 12 Databases, 38 scanners, two major applications
  (Title plant policy, Human Resources)

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5 MILLION IMAGE AWARD
Award Winner

• Ticor Title (Key Title)
• Salem, Oregon
• Bought halFILE in 1997
• Run a 12 county Title Plant in Oregon
• Have 7,696,000 pages under halFILE management
• Use centralized Terminal Services for 160 users
  in 13 offices

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Soon to be 5 Million Image Awards

• Colorado Record Data
• Denver, Colorado
• Just bought halFILE e.halFILE are converting
  26 million pages for access by their agents
  customers

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1 MILLION IMAGE AWARDS

• First American Title St Louis, MO
• Stewart Title of Cameron County , TX
• Coastal Title - Calhoun County TX
• Wise County Title Decatur, TX

Award Winners
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Existing Million Image Award Winners

• Coastal Title (4 counties) (3.5 million) -
  Edna, TX
• Texas Dept of Health - Fiscal (2.6 million)
  Austin, TX
• NTA Life Insurance - Dallas, TX
• Cumberland Title - Nashville, TN
• North Star Title - Minneapolis, MN
• Great American Title (3.6 million) Springfield,
  MO
• Universal Title - Edina, MN
• United Title Lakewood, Colorado
• Walsh Title - Edina, MN
• Stewart Title of Kansas City - Blue Springs, KS
• American Abstract Des Moines, IA
• Stewart Employee Services, Houston, TX
• Trinity Abstract - Waxahachie, TX

Award Winners
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Fun Games

• We will be drawing tickets at the beginning of
  each session
• The lucky winners get hal t-shirts or caps, Texas
  wine, Austin t-shirts and other fun gifts........

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Dont forget dinner tonight!

• at the Iron Cactus Downtown 6th Street..
• authentic Mexican-style restaurant
• highly recommended by our own man about town
  James Tabor
• 606 Trinity - 3 blks east of the Driskill
• RSVP with Karen at the registration desk

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Housekeeping items

• Please fill out the session evaluations
• If you need assistance with anything, see
  Karen or James (our man around town)
• If you want DSL access to your office/email
  plug in over at the Demo computers or see Matt to
  hook up
• Cocktail Party tonight and Dinner afterwards

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Welcome to Austin - Thanks for coming!We hope
you enjoy your stay and learn all about our
products!Now on with the HUG Conference...Sessi
on I halFILE V2.2 enhancements
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There's no such thing asa bad hug, only good
onesand great ones
HUGS halFILE Users Get Smarter