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VisionWeb Integrates with Optical Software's OMICS Lab Management Software to Automate Online Orders

Integration enables additional labs to receive electronic orders from VisionWeb, expanding product offering for VisionWeb members

 

Austin, Texas - August 7, 2003 - VisionWeb, L.P., the Internet service to help eyecare providers streamline and simplify their practice, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Optical Software, Inc. to integrate VisionWeb into their OMICS lab management software for the eyecare industry.

 

"Our goal at VisionWeb is to provide our members with a one-stop, neutral ordering environment where they can access all industry labs and suppliers," said Michael O'Malley, CFO and director of business development for VisionWeb.  "We are very excited about our new relationship with Optical Software, making it easy for additional labs to provide their products to our members over VisionWeb."

 

There are currently more than 200 supported labs within North America using Optical Software's OMICS lab management software and a growing number outside North America.  This integration enables these labs to electronically receive orders placed by their customers over VisionWeb.  VisionWeb members will be able to place orders to the first OMICS labs integrated with VisionWeb within the next several months.

 

"We are pleased to have entered into this relationship with VisionWeb," said Rodney McKiel, president of Optical Software.  "The VisionWeb integration is an added benefit for our lab customers, enabling their ordering processes to run more smoothly, and saving them time and money.   This, in turn, makes the ordering process smoother for their customers, the eyecare providers, since the VisionWeb ordering process increases order accuracy and helps eliminate order errors.  Optical Software is committed to providing our customers with a wide choice of products so they can effectively compete in the optical marketplace."

                                               

ABOUT OPTICAL SOFTWARE

Headquartered in New Brunswick, Canada, with offices in Greensboro, N.C., Optical Software, Inc. is a leading software provider for the eyecare industry with comprehensive management solutions for surfacing laboratories, finishing laboratories, remote tracing and ordering, interfaces with retail applications, custom designed systems, lab consulting services and advanced training programs.  For more information about Optical Software, please visit www.omics.com.

 

ABOUT VISIONWEB

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, VisionWeb L.P. is the Internet-based service to help eyecare providers simplify and streamline their practices.  VisionWeb offers convenient and direct-to-supplier online ordering; one-stop access to ophthalmic clinical news and information pooled from 1,200 publications worldwide; customizable Web sites; and other benefits for opticians, optometrists, ophthalmologists, optical manufacturers, laboratories, distributors and patients.  For more information or to register for VisionWeb, please visit www.visionweb.com.

 

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