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	ANNOUNCEMENTS
"Allowing all our citizens to interact with government with ease and speed on their own behalf is a goal attained."... Nelda Wells Spears – Travis County Tax Assessor/Collector, Texas "voters would have to wait anywhere from 20 to 30 minutes in line to have their registration verified. Now there are no lines. The new system is a complete automation of the registration process."... Dusty Knight - Chief Operating Officer Travis County Tax Office, Texas "You can see the actual votes come in as soon as they're being reported,"... Steve Kelly - IT Customer Services Manager for Monroe County, New York "Our business philosophy not only considers the needs of the particular department, but also looks beyond the local entity--to its citizens and taxpayers who are the true customers of the solutions." William C. Hamer, Hamer Enterprises CEO "All of our customers using it, love it," Sharon Long - Bell County Tax Assessor, Texas "It gives us a lot more flexibility, a lot more control over the program itself," Earleen Polick - Division Chief for the Business Division of the San Diego County Assessor's Office, California "Hamer demonstrates great passion, determination, and a keen understanding of their clients' needs." Donn Atkins - General Manager, IBM Global Business Partners

Cameron County Parks - Launches Hamer Enterprises' Online Reservation System
Cameron County has teamed up with Hamer Enterprises to build an intuitive online Parks Reservation system, for their most popular parks: Isla Blanca, Adolph Thomae, and Andy Bowie .... READ MORE

New York State Board of Elections wins Best of New York Leadership Award!
Project Demonstrating Best IT Collaboration Among Organizations, "Hamer Enterprises was not the direct recipients of this award but we were part of the team".... READ MORE

Hamer Enterprises Website for Travis County (Texas) wins Adobe's Site of the Day Award!
Travis County enhances its website to make information more accessible to its citizens. New Adobe PDF forms with instructive pop-ups, text-only views, and font-size preferences help disabled and senior citizens... READ MORE

Bell County Making Swipe At Credit Access
Cash is king, or at least it used to be. Nowadays, credit cards seem to be the royalty of choice when it comes to spending... Even Bell County has caught on that the best way to collect fees and fines... READ MORE

Site Easier For Disabled Users
Travis County on Wednesday announced improvements to the tax assessor/collector's Web site... READ MORE

New City Site Assists The Visually Impaired - Online Forms Accessible To Travis County Blind
Travis County announced an improved county tax office Web site Wednesday featuring enhanced accessibility for the blind and visually impaired. Developed by IBM's Austin-based Human Ability and Accessibility Center and Hamer Enterprises... READ MORE

Travis County Launches Enhanced Web Site With Greater Accessibility for Citizens With Impaired Vision
Travis County, Texas, selected Hamer Enterprises and IBM's Austin-based Human Ability and Accessibility Center to develop and deploy an enhanced county tax office Web site providing greater accessibility to on-line county services for more citizens... READ MORE

Travis County Launches Enhanced Web Site With Greater Accessibility for Citizens With Blindness or Vision Impairments
Travis County has selected Hamer Enterprises and IBM's (NYSE: IBM) Austin-based Human Ability and Accessibility Center to develop and deploy an enhanced county tax office Web site... The Web site (www.traviscountytax.org), which goes live on August 14, enables users who are blind or visually impaired to gain access to more information on the Web... READ MORE

County To Make Web Site More Accessible To Blind
Travis County and IBM have teamed up to improve the county's Web site. They plan to make it more accessible to the blind and visually impaired. The county says... READ MORE

Web Site Access for Vision-Impaired Texans
Travis County has selected Hamer Enterprises and IBM's Austin-based Human Ability and Accessibility Center to develop and deploy an enhanced county tax office Web site providing greater accessibility... READ MORE

IBM introduces Accessibility Initiatives For Business Partners At PartnerWorld 2006 Conference
Business Partners attending the PartnerWorld 2006 Conference are invited to learn about the business opportunities available to them when they work with IBM to build accessible information solutions... READ MORE

IBM Announces New Benefits For ISV Business Partners — Aimed At Closing Mutual Deals
Today IBM announced rich extensions to its IBM PartnerWorld program and the PartnerWorld Industry Networks for ISV's, all aimed at helping IBM Business Partners close sales with IBM. "We're doing something very dramatic with this announcement"... READ MORE

IBM Announces Finalists in IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Awards Competition
IBM today announced 92 finalists in its annual PartnerWorld Beacon Awards competition, which recognizes IBM Business Partners for their unique solutions for On Demand Business, ingenuity, and customer satisfaction. Nearly 600 nominations... READ MORE

Congratulations To All The Deserving Members Who Won An Award At The 66th Annual TAAO & ICTA Conference!
Marillyn Albert Achievement Award - Winner - J. Sidney Vela, CTA, Chief Appraiser, Jim Wells CAD; Nominees: Eddie Carter, CTA, Chief Appraiser, Dallam CAD; Kay Hall, Collections Manager, CAD of Johnson County... READ MORE

IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Awards - The Best IBM Systems and Technology Group Teaming to Win - Industry by Industry
Using IBM middleware running on IBM eServer iSeries, the EZ-Access solution from Hamer Enterprises eases the task of tax billing and collection management and voter registration. Travis County, TX. uses EZ-Access to let citizens interact... READ MORE

Hamer Enterprises recognized internationally with an IBM Beacon Award.
Hamer Enterprises has been named the winner of the "Best IBM Systems and Technology Group Teaming to Win - Industry by Industry" category in the annual IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Awards competition, honoring IBM Business Partners for their ingenuity, customer satisfaction and outstanding achievements in providing on demand business solutions...READ MORE

Can We Count On It?
Four years after hanging chads made headlines, many people are worried about how electronic voting technology will perform this election season. Residents can renew their library books online without driving to the library. They also can pay their water bills electronically without cash ever touching their hands. But, when it comes to voting, things are not running so smoothly... READ MORE

IBM Unveils New PartnerWorld Industry Networks for Government and Insurance Business Application Software Providers
IBM today unveiled new PartnerWorld Industry Networks for independent software vendors (ISV's) focused on the government and insurance industries. IBM also introduced new technical offerings and expanded initiatives... READ MORE

Thanks to Hamer Enterprises, long lines are not allowed in tough-thinking Travis County, Texas
ISV Case Study: IBM and Hamer solution benefits county, voters and taxpayers - Travis County Tax officials sought tax and voter registration solutions that would streamline workflow and enable staff to manage increasing county growth more effectively... READ MORE

State & Local - Small Towns, Big Profits
Before the year 2000, election night in Monroe County, N.Y., was a marathon. Election officials at every polling venue started counting votes at 9 p.m. and inputted the results into the creaky 15-year-old mainframe system used to gather voting data... READ MORE

Showing the way to new voter ID
Travis County is one of the first to qualify voters through a database using information on driver's licenses... READ MORE

Easy Access, Inc. Receives Special Designation From IBM
On Demand e-Business and Powered By WebSphere Program Recognizes Easy Access, Inc. ... READ MORE

Texas Logic, Inc. Receives Special Designation From IBM
On Demand e-Business and Powered By WebSphere Program Recognizes Texas Logic, Inc. ... READ MORE

SEAGULL Together with Hamer Enterprises Bring Accuracy and Efficiency to the Election Process
The inaccuracies that plagued the 2000 U.S. presidential election caused an awakening in the state and local governments-revealing the potential chaos that can arise from the use of antiquated voting equipment and methods... READ MORE

Cameron County Tax Officials Go to Plan B and Hamer Enterprises Agrees to Help Complete the Project
County employees were dispatched to San Antonio on Wednesday to recover tax statements that should have been prepared and mailed... READ MORE

Accessible Software
Local software company puts McAllen on technological map... READ MORE

AS/400 Company Disconnects the Election Process
Software company Easy Access hopes to use wireless technology to manage voter information at the polls during this presidential election... READ MORE

Easy Access, Inc. Casts Ballot for Wireless Access To Voter Registration with SEAGULL Technology
Wireless-to-Host Solution Enables Realtime Access to Voter Information During Early Voting Period... READ MORE