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In a nutshell, CumulusPro delivers business-ready capture, remotely, via the Cloud. The Scan+Process Lite software has since gone on to win two successive DM Awards for SME CMS Product of the Year. This feature aims to update our readers on the company's ongoing success and growth since then, and focus on some innovative customer stories.

The company's early success across Europe since it inception on 2013 has been mostly focused in what we would consider 'traditional' target markets for document management; finance and insurance, but the nature of the specific projects undertaken is changing as the power of the technology becomes better understood. Dutch insurance companies who initially implemented the system for claims processing have now rolled out change-of-address processes and application forms, for instance.

In another project in Belgium, the technology is being used to power an app that helps users see how socially responsible their purchasing habits are. By scanning and cross-checking information from receipts, users can get instant feedback on how healthy a specific purchase is, or whether a vendor follows sustainable or eco-friendly manufacture processes.

MOVING TO THE CLOUD
CumulusPro CEO and founder Giulio Battistini believes that DM/BPM users are genuinely ready to start moving their processing into the Cloud, as they begin to recognise the potential benefits clearly outweigh their concerns.

"What most people have seen so far out of CumulusPro really only represents the first steps we have taken with the goal of creating a document processing platform," says Battistini. "Most of our conversations have been around our browser-based scan client and how it can be embedded into a portal to make it easier to capture documents, as well as our mobile app, which can be utilised out-of-the-box or, using our SDK, be built into existing apps.

"Those solutions offer a quick time to value, and our customers have been using them to enable their processes and/or send documents to repositories. In the meantime, we have been developing Straatos, which is a true BPM platform based on the BPMN 2.0 standard."

Business Process Management and Process Automation have of course always been a critical aspect of corporate operations. If the first wave of process automation was all about digitising existing processes, the current wave is much more radical in that it involves the actual reinvention of processes from the ground up.

But, says Battistini: "Most BPMN 2.0 designers simply allow a user to draw a process - however, you cannot run that process. You would have to take the process design to a developer who will use then program it. This is a time consuming and costly exercise. Our platform is very different: if you design the process, you can immediately run it on our platform. No developer needs to translate the design into a process. This is a key differentiator for our platform versus standard BPMN 2.0 designers. Businesses therefore benefit from lower overheads and higher productivity, while improving profit margins and increasing customer loyalty and retention."

THE CUMULUSPRO VISION
When the founders of CumulusPro entered the market three years ago they had already anticipated these forces of change. That was why they brought their 'future-forward idea' to life: a state-of-the-art, highly-scalable, cloud-native business process management platform with a focus on ease of use. "The emergence of ecosystems and virtual communities is one of the most exciting developments for software companies in the Web 2.0 space," says Battistini. "For CumulusPro, this means building a rich ecosystem of technology vendors, service partners and user communities on its cloud-based collaboration platform. The CumulusPro Marketplace enables user communities to design their offerings around the latest technologies based on CumulusPro's cloud and mobile platforms - all while providing maximum value to customers."

THE STRAATOS PLATFORM IN DETAIL
The CumulusPro Straatos platform is natively built on Microsoft Azure, a growing global network of Microsoft-managed data centres. Microsoft Azure provides operational excellence, the highest levels of security and reliability as well as instant scalability, cost-effectiveness and environmental sustainability - all of which form the basis of the CumulusPro solution.

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