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Zylpha, the UK's leading innovator of legal document distribution has launched a new system that enables the secure electronic transmission of confidential and legal communications for local authorities. Typically these include: case files, court papers, contract tenders and meeting minutes. The system, which meets the highest levels of compliance, automatically confirms that delivery has been securely received within minutes.

On average Zylpha can reduce bundle preparation time by up to 80%, delivering a rapid return on investment and significantly reducing the pain of delivering all the correct documentation in what are often painfully tight time frames. Any subsequent changes made by users to the original document bundle are automatically re-indexed and re-paginated, by the system, to ensure the file remains fully up to date for all authorised users. The system allows bundles to be prepared in all popular file layouts including: PDF, Word, Excel, Visio and PowerPoint.

Zylpha provides a full support package for the system including: technical level administration, software upgrades and legislation updates. Users can access fixed rate consultancy to cover tailoring, enhancements, training and also maintenance.

Commenting on the launch Tim Long, Zylpha's MD said; “Increasingly with so many clear benefits, local authorities are now moving rapidly towards electronic document bundling and secure delivery. As Zylpha integrates seamlessly with all leading case management systems these benefits are readily and easily accessible. With the preparation of bundles taking typically 80% less time to prepare than they did previously, the potential impact on budgets is positive and substantive.

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About Zylpha (www.zylpha.com )
Headquartered in Southampton Zylpha is an innovative specialist in secure electronic document production and delivery. The company, which was founded by Tim Long its MD, has won widespread acclaim in both the legal and local government sectors for it systems which transform secure communications for court and case management bundles.

Zylpha Users include: The London Borough of Hounslow, Leicester City Council, London Borough of Southwark and Brighton and Hove City Council.

For more information please contact:
Tim Long
Zylpha Ltd.
T: 01962 /658881
M: 07917 301496
t.long@zylpha.com

or

Leigh Richards
The Right Image
T: 0844 / 561 7586
M: 07758 372527
Leigh.richards@therightimage.co.uk





 

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Zylpha (www.zylpha.com), the UK’s leading innovator of legal document production and distribution has launched a new system that enables the secure and verifiable electronic transmission of legal communications and document bundles. The system meets the highest levels of compliance.

Designed to integrate seamlessly with industry standard case management products such as Solcase and Visualfiles, the new system eliminates the need for costly and environmentally unfriendly paper based systems, courier deliveries and DX usage. With Zylpha in place, all the relevant information required for a legal document bundle can be pulled together and integrated into one secure and paginated whole, with the context of applications and process relationships clearly defined. Zylpha can bundle all the popular file layouts including: PDF, Word, Excel, Visio, and PowerPoint. Any subsequent changes made by users to the original bundle are then automatically re-indexed and re-paginated to ensure the file remains fully up to date for all authorised users.

Solcase or Visualfiles automatically trigger Zylpha to generate and send the Court Bundle, Document Bundle or Deal Bible when required. Confirmation of secure delivery is received within minutes. In addition to legal bundles, a variety of other document types can be easily collated, produced and distributed including: contract packs, tender responses, board minutes and meeting agendas.

Zylpha's Extract system allows users to run their existing Solcase reports in a fraction of the time previously required. The reports can be printed, output to Excel or Text or just simply viewed. Additionally, all the functionality of the Zylpha Extract can be can be run from other programs and so could be incorporated in, for example, an organisation's intranet or marketing systems.

The new system is backed by a full support package including: technical level administration, software upgrades and legislation updates. Users can also access fixed rate consultancy to cover tailoring, enhancements, training and maintenance.

Users of Solcase and Visualfiles can also use Zylpha as an easy 'plug in' to the RTA Portal for personal injury claims using Zylpha's automated integration solution to process claims rapidly. Zylpha has also integrated with the acclaimed online identity checking and verification facilities provided by Callcredit.

Zylpha's integration module has also been specifically designed to integrate the Solcase and Visualfiles case management systems with the HMCS internet based service for Mortgage and Rental Repossessions. It is a convenient and secure way of making or responding to certain types of possession claims on the internet. It allows users to monitor claims from issue, through warrant to possession.

Commenting on the launch Tim Long, Zylpha's MD said; The case for law firms and legal bodies moving towards electronic document bundling and secure delivery is starting to gather a real momentum as the clear benefits are realised. In every practice or legal office, staff are required to produce high quality documentation, such as court bundles, professionally and rapidly. However, compiling them manually is such a lengthy process. Maintaining the bundle too as the case progresses, and ensuring that all the parties involved are provided with the latest updated versions, can also add considerably to an already hectic caseload. Then when one needs to send the bundles quickly and securely other even more daunting risks arise. With Zylpha in place, all these concerns are negated as the whole business process is now part of one integrated, secure and compliant solution.

We have had an enormously positive response to the new system, from the profession. They see it as a genuine leap forward in the governance risk and compliance of secure document management and distribution and very much fit for purpose.

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About Zylpha (www.zylpha.com)

Headquartered in Southampton Zylpha is an innovative specialist in secure electronic document production and delivery. The company, which was founded by Tim Long its MD, has won widespread acclaim in both the legal and local government sectors for its systems which transform secure communications for court and case management bundles.

Zylpha Users include: Bott & Co Solicitors, The London Borough of Hounslow, Glenisters, Leicester City Council, London Borough of Southwark, Brighton and Hove City Council and Kester Cunningham John

For more information please contact:

Tim Long
Zylpha Ltd.
T: 01962 658881
M: 07917 301496
t.long@zylpha.com

or

Leigh Richards
The Right Image
T: 0844 561 7586
M: 07758 372527
leigh.richards@therightimage.co.uk

Iron Mountain opened a state-of-the-art scanning facility in Staffordshire earlier this year, significantly extending its capture services in the United Kingdom. Iron Mountain purchased two more ibml ImageTrac® scanners with SoftTrac® Capture Suite for the new facility and, doubling the number of ibml scanners that Iron Mountain has in UK operation. The two ImageTrac scanners are configured with extended software and hardware functionality, including in-line intelligent document recognition capability and multiple sorting pockets. Nicola Travis, European Operations Development Manager, DMS,  commented, "as Iron Mountain increase its focus on business-process-related capture services, we require intelligent capture solutions that not only add high volume scanning capacity, but also provide in-line software recognition to help automate transactional processing. For this requirement, we selected ibml ImageTrac as our strategic capture platform of choice."

Iron Mountain utilise ibml’s ImageTrac and SoftTrac capture solutions in other sites throughout its global network of scanning facilities.

About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain provides information management services that help organisations lower the costs, risks and inefficiencies of managing their physical and digital data. The Company’s solutions enable customers to protect and better use their information – regardless of its format, location or lifecycle stage– so they can optimise their business aand ensure proper recovery, compliance and discovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of information assets, including business records, electronic files, medical data and more for organisations around the world. Visit http://www.ironmountain.co.uk for more information.

About ibml
ibml provides intelligent scanning and document capture solutions that drive business process improvements from the point of capture—whether it’s a high-volume centralissed operation or a remote office. Combining hardware, software and services, ibml's comprehensive solutions automate the most demanding document applications in banking, financial services, healthcare, government services, outsourcing and more. Every day, ibml customers in 41 countries rely on our technology to accurately and efficiently capture millions of document images. For more information, visit www.ibml.com.

o Kodak Scan Station 500 network scanners selected for distributed touch screen professional scanning
o Kodak Capture Pro Software Auto Import Edition used for centralised, streamlined document and data capture, and output
o Kodak i1220 and i160 scanners also bought for high speed historic back scanning

London December 20, 2011 Kodak (NYSE:EK) today announced that South Africa-based mining group, Exxaro, has purchased Scan Station 500 network scanners and Capture Pro Software Auto Import Edition software to underpin the implementation of a strategic electronic document management system (EDMS) in its Namakwa Sands division. Kodak reseller, CSX, based in Sandton, South Africa, was selected as key implementation partner.

Utilising Microsoft SharePoint 2010, the initiative will create a single consolidated document management system to facilitate knowledge sharing, provide easy access to information across multiple sites, promote best practice and guarantee legal compliance in terms of document retention, access and security.    

Exxaro is a diverse natural resources group with a portfolio spanning coal, mineral sands, base metals and iron ore, with operations in South Africa, Australia, Namibia and China.  The world's third largest mineral sands operation, Exxaro's Namakwa Sands business mines rutile and ilmenite - used to manufacture titanium and pig iron – as well as zircon, typically used in the chemical and ceramics industries. 

Dirk Short, Namakwa Sands' IT engineer, projects, explains, We have three main sites in the west coast of South Africa[1] which are about 320 km apart. Our WAN links are good, but even so, there was limited collaboration on a document level, duplication was commonplace and standards were not in place across the business in terms of document naming conventions and control. The project is about bringing everybody together, and creating a system to handle all paperwork from reports, to engineering manuals, and a myriad of office and financial documents.

This is particularly important in South Africa – and in a mining business – where document retention and compliiance rules are complicated and paperwork must be held long term: for example, 7 years for invoices and purchase orders, and 15 years for personnel and medical records from an employee's date of exit. Technical drawings and mine plans must be kept for the lifetime of a mine. 

The project team consulted with two law firms – Base Inc. and Mostert Opperman who advised on the retention periods for specific documents so these could be programmed automatically into Microsoft SharePoint. 

In addition, employees were interviewed across all sites so that it was clear how they use information, the documents created and the paper flow within the business.  This has enabled a taxonomy of documents to be established so a company-wide index structure could be created with standardised metadata and naming conventions – to help with subsequent search and retrrieval. 

In order for Microsoft SharePoint to be populated efficiently, the team wanted to deploy scanners which were easy to use and required very little user involvement. Kodak Scan Station 500 network scanners were chosen as they are rugged, compact, offer centralised administration capability – crucial givven the three sites – and have an easy-to-use ttouch screen which can be set to guide user choices.

Short says, We've set rules per document type and department so importing paperwork using Capture Pro Software Auto Import Edition is easy, staff input is minimised, and accessing information in SharePoint is fully automated.  Staff load in documents, just touch icons on the screen and the document is instantly saved to the relevant folder with metadata immediately generated in the appropriate SharePoint columns.  Capture Pro is a powerful tool to manage and streamline paper documents and related data into SharePoint making them easy to search and process.

Namakwa Sands is applying Capture Pro Software OCR to documents so they become searchable PDFs, with some financial documents automatically imported into its Mincom Ellipse ERP system.  

The Scan Station 500s have been implemented in various departments including HR, engineering, supply chain, training and ISO/quality, as well as mining, laboratories, production, finance, marketing and risk management.

Three Kodak i1220 workgroup and three i160 departmental scanners able to handle A3 paper - have also been bought for high speed historic back scanning, with Namakwa Sands also using a third party bureau service to carry out some digitising. 

Given the business started open pit and surface mining operations in 1994, the project team is scanning personnel records for some 3,000 staff, thousands of historical purchase orders (and associated correspondence like quotations) and 1,200 engineering manuals each containing 100-200 pages for heavy equipment used.

As a multi site, 24/7 operation, historically there was always a risk that pages would go missing if engineers took manuals out into the field to fix a piece of equipment.  With the new EDMS, they search for the appropriate section on screen, find answers quickly and print off the relevant page.

SharePoint runs on resilient HP servers based in Namakwa Sands' datacentre in Saldanah, and given all staff access the system via the web, a Riverbed solution has been deployed to optimise WAN traffic to improve network and therefore application performance.

The benefits of the new EDMS have been quickly realised.  Access to information is far quicker, staff productivity has been improved, compliance rules have been met and knowledge sharing within the company streamlined.  Short adds, Security of information has been improved too. For example, personnel files don't have to be transported between sites as before.  Authorised managers just type in an employee ID number and access is instant.

Commenting on the relationship with reseller, CSX, Short concludes, Our experience with them has been brilliant. CSX has helped with any issues we've had and after sales service has been superb.

David Stephens, Kodak's sales manager for South Africa, says, Our Scan Station 500 scanners are ideal for companies who want to deploy an enterprise scanning solution, coupled with the intelligence of Capture Pro Software Auto Import Edition, to form an ideal solution across multiple sites for knowledge workers who require all the convenience of centralised management and control of document and data capture.  Together with Microsoft SharePoint 2010, we help businesses leverage meaningful data from paper documents for enhanced collaboration, productivity and compliance.

[1] Namakwa Sands has A smelter and its HQ in Saldanha Bay, a mineral separation plant in Koekenaap, and its mine in Brand-se-Baai

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About Kodak
Kodak's Document Imaging business enables customers to capture and use valuable information from electronic and paper documents. Our document imaging solutions include award-winning scanners and capture software, and industry-leading service and support. From small offices to global operations, Kodak has the right solution to feed your business the information it needs.

More information about KODAK Document Imaging Scanners, Capture Software and Services is available at http://www.kodak.com/go/docimaging. (Kodak is a trademark of Eastman Kodak Company)

Comprehensive and Intuitive Dictionary Software Helps Android® Users in their Travel, Business and Study

Moscow, Russia (20 December, 2011) - ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, document capture, and linguistic technologies and services, today announced the first Android-based version of ABBYY® Lingvo® Dictionaries, an intuitive, easy-to-use word translation application.

Lingvo Dictionaries for Android provides fast and accurate on-device translation of words and phrases, helping people communicate efficiently by eliminating the need to carry paper volumes, or have a laptop computer or Internet connection at hand. The new application offers a single access point to more than 250 dictionaries spanning 30 languages, allowing customers to easily select and organise multilingual dictionary content according to their needs.

We are happy to introduce this long-expected version of ABBYY Lingvo. Users of Android devices can now benefit from its smart and intuitive functions combined with high-quality multilingual content, commented Katya Solntseva, Director of Mobile Products Department at ABBYY. We continue developing this product line over time, constantly expanding functionality and range of use and gradually changing the concept of dictionary application to turn it into a versatile and intelligent language tool.

Through partnerships with leading dictionary publishers such as HarperCollins®, Dicoland and Compact Verlag®, as well as its own expertise in linguistics and lexicography, ABBYY ensures outstanding quality of content is accessible via Lingvo app. To provide efficient word look-up and translation, the application automatically combines the content from all available dictionaries for a given language pair into a single wordlist.

Lingvo Dictionaries compiles a single entry for each headword using information from all available dictionaries. Such a combined entry may contain various translation alternatives, phonetic spellings, word-use examples, audio pronunciations recorded by native speakers and inflected forms of words. In addition, the application delivers powerful word look-up capabilities including the fuzzy search functionality that allows Android users to quickly find a word by any of its forms. Even when a word is spelt incorrectly, the application can find it providing a list of spelling suggestions to choose from. For users' convenience, the application also keeps a history of 100 recently viewed entries and supports translation of words from the clipboard.

The basic dictionary set, available for download within the application for no extra charge, includes 58 dictionaries spanning 27 popular languages including English, German, Spanish, French, Russian and more. Additional premium content dictionaries can be purchased anytime directly from within the Lingvo Dictionaries application, allowing users to expand their translation capabilities as their needs evolve. The full list of dictionaries with detailed annotations is available at www.abbyy.com/lingvo_android/dictionaries .

ABBYY Lingvo Dictionaries can be easily installed and managed, with the possibility to remove and restore them on mobile devices. Any uninstalled dictionary can be restored without extra payment. To save memory space on a mobile device, audio files are downloaded separately from general content. They can also be deleted and recovered later, if necessary.

Availability and Compatible Hardware
Lingvo Dictionaries are available for purchase via the Android Market. The application supports English and Russian interface languages. The full list of language combinations available for translation and information about compatible devices can be found at www.abbyy.com/lingvo_android/technical_specifications.

For more information about the product, please visit www.abbyy.com/lingvo_android.

About ABBYY
ABBYY is a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, and linguistic technologies and services. Its products include the ABBYY FineReader® line of optical character recognition (OCR) applications, ABBYY FlexiCapture® line of data capture solutions, ABBYY Lingvo dictionary software, and development tools. ABBYY Language Services provides comprehensive linguistic solutions to corporate customers. Paper-intensive organisations from all over the world use ABBYY solutions to automate time- and labour-consuming tasks and to streamline business processes. ABBYY products are used in large-scale government projects such as those of Australian Taxation Office, Lithuanian Tax Inspectorate, Ministry of Education of Russia, Ministry of Education of Ukraine, and Montgomery County Government of the USA. Companies that license ABBYY technologies include BancTec®, Canon®, EMC/Captiva®, Hewlett-Packard, KnowledgeLake, Microsoft®, NewSoft®, Notable Solutions, Samsung® Electronics and more. ABBYY OCR applications are shipped with equipment from the world's top manufacturers such as Epson®, Fujitsu®, Fuji® Xerox®, Microtek®, Panasonic®, Plustek®, Toshiba®, and Xerox. ABBYY is headquartered in Moscow, Russia, with offices in Germany, the United States, Ukraine, the UK, Australia, Japan and Taiwan. For more information, visit www.ABBYY.com.

ABBYY, the ABBYY Logo, FineReader, ADRT, Lingvo and FlexiCapture are either registered trademarks or trademarks of ABBYY Software Ltd. All other trademarks are the sole property of their respective owners.

20th December 2011 - Ascribe has announced today the Go Live of the Ascribe Symphony Emergency Department Clinical Solution in the University Dental Hospital at Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Ascribes ED solution is an Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system designed to improve patient flow through the department, providing users with simple, yet comprehensive access to clinical information at the point of care.

The Dental Hospital is part of the Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CMFT) and is the latest of the hospitals to Go Live with Ascribe Symphony. It joins the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, Manchester Royal Infirmary and the Saint Mary's Hospital, which are all supported within the same Ascribe Symphony database. The Ascribe Symphony system will support the Trust's Emergency Department which serves over 42,000 patients a year.

The Trust have also invested in the Ascribe document scanning module MIDAs (Medical indexing and document access system), which allows for real time management of paper documents in the Emergency Department. This module enables authorised staff to instantly access records which provides a huge saving in time and a reduction in paperwork within the department.

To ensure the sharing of best practice, nursing staff rotate through the Accident & Emergency Departments at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital and at Manchester Royal Infirmary. Using a central Emergency Department clinical solution, the Trust can provide improved continuity of service and enhance patient safety.

Jackie Kitchen, Information & Development Manager of University Dental Hospital of Manchester, commented on the project:

The go live day went very smoothly with only a few teething problems which were soon sorted, overall it has been received very well by the staff in the department. We now have a paper light system which has significantly reduced the time spent registering patients. We are now able to monitor patients throughout dental casualty and prevent patients waiting longer than necessary. We are using the Midas function which enables us to scan any documents to the patient, again reducing the amount of paper which would have otherwise been filed in case notes.

Stephen Critchlow, CEO at Ascribe, commented on the project: This is the latest in a series of successful Go Lives from Ascribe at the Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and we are delighted that they can now benefit from having a truly integrated Emergency Department solution. At Ascribe, our integrated approach helps Trusts such as CMFT to improve health outcomes by enhancing their use of treatment and response data.

Birmingham, United Kingdom – March 12 - 16, 2012

Ann Arbor, Michigan ­ December 14, 2011 ­ CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) management consulting and research firm announces that the first European CIMdata PLM Certificate Program of 2012 will be held in Birmingham, United Kingdom from March 12 - 16. The CIMdata PLM Certificate Program is the flagship offering of CIMdata PLM Leadership, the PLM industry’s most comprehensive non-biased education and training offering available for today’s PLM professionals.
 
The CIMdata PLM Certificate Program prepares PLM professionals at several levels to successfully address the challenges inherent in PLM implementations. This assessment-based certificate program includes an intimate classroom experience, individual and team-based exercises, and individual evaluations of achievement. Additionally, the program provides participants with intensive and extensive exposure to a team of CIMdata experts. Upon successful completion of the program, each participant receives a CIMdata PLM Certificate and becomes a member of CIMdata’s global PLM Leadership community.
 
According to James McKinney, CIMdata’s PLM Leadership Practice Manager, “We have designed our 2012 schedule to address the needs of PLM professionals throughout Europe and North America and are excited to bring the first European program of 2012 to Birmingham.”
 
The CIMdata PLM Certificate Program is built on CIMdata’s more than 28 years of extensive worldwide experience guiding industrial companies in successfully defining and implementing best-in-class PLM strategies and tactics. The program is available to industrial companies who are considering or implementing PLM, and to PLM technology and service suppliers. PLM Certificate Program participants may register online for either the 3-day or 5-day program. For more detailed information about the CIMdata PLM Certificate Program, and how to register visit CIMdata’s website at http://www.cimdata.com/services/education/plm_certificate.html.
 
Contacts
 
James Watch
Tel: +1 (734) 668-9922
j.watch@cimdata.com
 
James E. McKinney
Tel: +1 (734) 668-9922
j.mckinney@cimdata.com
 
 
About CIMdata
 
CIMdata, a leading independent worldwide firm, provides strategic management consulting to maximize an enterprise’s ability to design and deliver innovative products and services through the application of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions. Since its founding in 1983, CIMdata has delivered world-class knowledge, expertise, and best-practice methods on PLM solutions. These solutions incorporate both business processes and a wide-ranging set of PLM enabling technologies.
 
CIMdata works with both industrial organizations and suppliers of technologies and services seeking competitive advantage in the global economy. In addition to consulting, CIMdata conducts research, provides PLM-focused subscription services, and produces several commercial publications. The company also provides industry education through PLM certificate programs, seminars, and conferences worldwide. CIMdata serves clients around the world from offices in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. To learn more about CIMdata’s services, visit our website at www.CIMdata.com or contact CIMdata at: 3909 Research Park Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA. Tel: +1 (734) 668-9922. Fax: +1 (734) 668-1957.

Field-proven, security-hardened key management appliance delivers robust high availability

Weston, FL and Cambridge, UK – 14 December 2011 –“ Thales, leader in information systems and communications security, announces keyAuthority 3.0 – combining high availability and hardened seccurity to deliver a field-proven high assurance key manager. keyAuthority enables organizations to manage their ever-increasing number of encryption keys with confidence that they will not become lost, stolen or unavailable. This simplifies data loss prevention, accelerates regulatory compliance and facilitates auditing of security controls.

keyAuthority is an easily-deployed key management solution that consolidates and automates the management of encryption keys across multiple classes of encryption devices. The high availability appliance together with automated key replication gives controlled and continuous access to keys, ensuring that business continuity and data recoverability requirements are met. The attack-resistant, hardened security ensures that sensitive key data is protected from compromise. Centralized key lifecycle management unifies and automates administration of multiple classes of encryption devices, and market-leading scalability of up to 25 million keys and thousands of managed devices enables organizations to confidently deploy a consistent global solution. The appliance supports a standards-based approach as well as legacy interoperability with leading data storage products and encryption devices.

As a pioneer in storage encryption, IBM provides an integrated layer of hardware storage security that helps organizations meet the stringent internal and external privacy compliance mandates that require strong protection of stored data, says Marc van Zadelhoff, VP Strategy and Product Management, IBM Security Systems. For clients that require a truly high-assurance key management solution we chose to partner with Thales. Not only is keyAuthority a well proven platform that fully satisfies those stringent requirements, it is also highly complementary with IBM Tivoli Lifecycle Key Manager (TKLM), giving customers a choice of deployment models and assurance levels.

Protecting our data from various external and internal risks, protecting integrity and confidentiality of our data is of utmost importance to LGT to maintain the trust and confidence of our customers, says Rolf Knzler, chief technology officer at LGT Financial Services AG. The best way to guarantee that our encryption keys will never be lost or stolen is to protect them in a hardened, independently certified appliance. As a user of IBM storage encryption, we were able to deploy Thales keyAuthority 3.0 to meet our needs for a high assurance key manager – both to protect our encryption keys and too ensure that those keys are always available, a critical business continuity issue when encrypting data archives and backups.

Encryption is rapidly becoming a ubiquitous security technology, but the management of those encryption keys remains the dominant deployment challenge. The process of encryption shifts the attacker's attention from the data itself to the keys that protect it. Similarly the inability to access encryption keys when that data needs to be accessed renders that data inaccessible – negating all efforts to establish high availlability for that data. This puts the process of key management under an operational and security spotlight, says Franck Greverie, Thales vice president in charge of information technology security activities. The prevalence of data privacy requirements such as PCI DSS has highlighted the key management challenge, most prominently in the storage market; but there is no question that ultimately this is an enterprise-wide issue. Thales is proud to be at the centre of that revolution both as a technology provider and also as one of the original co-authors of new key management standards (OASIS KMIP) that will help unify the often proprietary and silo-oriented approaches to key management.

KeyAuthority, previously known as Thales Encryption Manager for Storage (TEMS), was originally launched in 2008 and is designed to meet FIPS 140-2 Level 3 – the most widely adopted security beenchmark for tamper-resistant cryptographic solutions in government and commercial enterprises. Independent certification of a product's security properties is vital in order to provide customers with a high level of confidence and auditors with tangible benchmarks with which to assess these critical security components.

keyAuthority is available immediately from Thales and Thales authorized channel partners.

·   keyAuthority product page

·   keyAuthority datasheet

·   Key Management for Dummies Guide

·   Thales Key Management Insights blog for overviews of key management issues, industry news and comment

About Thales e-Security

Thales e-Security is a leading global provider of data encryption and cyber security solutions to the financial services, high technology manufacturing, government and technology sectors.  With a 40-year track record of protecting corporate and government information, Thales solutions are used by four of the five largest energy and aerospace companies, 22 NATO countries, and they secure more than 70 percent of worldwide payment transactions.  Thales e-Security has offices in Australia, France, Hong Kong, Norway, United Kingdom and United States.  For more information, visit www.thales-esecurity.com    

About Thales

Thales is a global technology leader for the defence & security and the aerospace & transport markets. In 2010 the company generated revenues of €13.1 billion, with 688,000 employees in 50 countries. With its 22,500 engineers and researchers, Thales has a unique capability to design, develop and deploy equipment, systems and services that meet the most complex security requirements. Thales has an exceptional international footprint, with operations around the world working with customers as local partners. www.thalesgroup.com

Insurance Broker uses independent MPS to reduce print costs, consolidate devices and integrate new devices with document management system

London and Manchester, UK – 13 December 2011 – The international group of risk specialist aand employee benefit consultants, the Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT) Group, has agreed a five-year contract renewal with M2, the UK's leading independent managed print IT services (MPS) company. JLT chose M2 to streamline its print requirements to one supplier that could provide reduced costs, while being able to service and support multiple hardware and software solutions through the benefits of independence.

The JLT Group began work with M2 four years ago with the main drive to reduce print expenditure. Following an M2 site survey, JLT was provided with a MPS that included the consolidation and introduction of new devices.

Phil Reeves, Commercial Director at JLT Management Services said, We wanted to embrace the new print technology that was available on the market, while reducing the amount of devices we had throughout our London and regional offices. M2 was able to cut the number of devices we used by 25 per cent through the site survey and a thorough understanding of our business requirements.

M2's focus on innovation was proven through the bespoke development of a scanning solution that enabled JLT to utilise barcode scanning to ensure all electronic documents are incorporated into the document management system. John Taylor, CEO of M2 said, Document management is mission critical for JLT so having a MPS provider that could tailor the right software and devices to ensure essential materials could be incorporated into the system set M2 apart.

The recent contract renewal will provide JLT with solutions that include secure and mobile printing as well as the provision of hours with the M2 Innovation Forum. M2’s technical architects will be embedded within JLT to understand the business needs and make recommendations on creative and resourceful ways to improve the print environment.

Taylor continued, With multiple vendors for hardware and software, often businesses miss out on the benefits available from a vendor agnostic approach. Working with JLT, we have enabled cost reductions through many sources, amongst them, the provision of centralised support and services by the M2 team, as well as the advantage of having a comprehensive overview of the print needs of the business. Based on this knowledge, we can continuously provide new and innovative ways for JLT to improve its print function.

Reeves concluded, We have come to depend on the specialist knowledge and market insights of the team at M2. Its broad range of partners, technologies and innovative solutions has enabled us to keep our technologies current while managing our cost base extremely effectively.

About M2

M2 is the UK's leading independent managed print IT services company. Offering a proactively managed ranged of office print strategies, infrastructures and document processes, M2 helps organisations reduce office print costs, waste and risk. Through an audit and assessment process, M2 provides organisations with a customised best practice solution that benefits from the company's vendor agnostic approach. The company's professional account management teams helps secure sustained benefits and provides a continuous improvement programme.

M2 operates the four leading hardware brands including Xerox, HP, Canon & Ricoh, as well as the leading software providers such as Equitrac, Safecom and Uniflow. M2 provides all its own expert resources including engineering break-fix services to IT consultancy and support services. M2 provides a national UK service and specialises in the mid to large corporate market. Customers include Atkins, LSBU, Kings, Manchester Airport, Moorcrofts, Westwood College and Shoosmiths. For more information visit www.m2.uk.com.

About Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc

Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc (JLT) is an international group of risk specialists and employee benefits consultants and one of the largest companies of its type in the world. JLT offers a distinctive choice to clients and partners through our combination of independence, scale and specialism.

The Jardine Lloyd Thompson group is quoted on the London Stock Exchange and employs over 6500 people worldwide and through the JLT International Network provides services in more than 130 countries. http://www.jltgroup.com/

Most account payable staff want automated document systems but delay ROI by putting off purchasing, says AnyDoc Software

Millions of working hours will be wasted in 2012 by a continued reliance on outdated manual data entry as accounts payable professionals delay their purchase of automated document systems, AnyDoc Software has warned.

Jason Cropper, UK Business Development Director at AnyDoc Software, said that while paper documents such as invoices, purchase orders and remittances were comforting and familiar, the inefficiencies and lost productivity associated with paper will make businesses even more vulnerable in an already uncertain economy.

One of the key drains upon staff resources is the time-consuming and repetitive manual task of dealing with paper documentation, said Cropper. Most organisations recognise this, with recent research showing that the vast majority intend to implement automated invoicing at some point in the future.

But while businesses are striving to reduce costs and inefficiencies today, most of them are only considering implementing automated invoicing in several years time. Given that automated documentation systems can bring a genuine return on investment (ROI) in as little as six months, these organisations are delaying the opportunity to make significant savings and making themselves even more vulnerable at this critical time.

Cropper pointed to a survey conducted by the International Accounts Payable Professional (IAPP) earlier this year, which found that almost half (44.5 per cent) or respondents intend to introduce automated invoicing within two or three years, while a further 25 per cent say it will take them longer. Only 11 per cent of those polled were already processing all payments electronically.

Paper might be comfortable and familiar, but a medium-sized enterprise might handle more than a million documents a year, continued Cropper. Without systems such as data capture and workflow processes, that translates as thousands of hours a year spent by accounts staff on repetitive tasks that could instead be applied to more productive work.

Research by the IAPP shows that only one in 20 organisations have moved away from cheque-based business-to-business payments, while more than three quarters of those polled said the majority of their invoices are paper-based.

Automated documentation systems are proven to deliver demonstrable ROI, and lead to other significant operational benefits, said Cropper. A good illustration is our new case study on AnyDoc Softwares work with Calor Gas. We implemented an automated invoicing system that reduced manual sorting and transactional errors, slashed the number of duplicate payments, improved customer service through better communication and enabled them to strengthen their negotiating position with suppliers and so improve payment terms.

In a recession, more than ever, it's vital to that organisations are given the maximum operational advantage. Businesses must ask if they can afford to have potentially productive staff deal manually with millions of documents – or if there is a more efficientt use of available time and resources, concluded Cropper.

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Over 250 Free PC Apps Available Such as OpenOffice and Adobe Acrobat Reader

Maidenhead, United Kingdom – December 6, 2011 — Embarcadero Technologies, a leading prrovider of database and application development software, today announced AppWave, a free platform that provides self-service, one-click access to PC software within organisations for business PCs and personal employee laptops that fall under "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD) initiatives.  Available via a free download, the AppWave platform gives users instant access to more than 250 free PC productivity apps such as OpenOffice, Adobe®  Acrobat Reader, 7Zip, FileZilla, and more.  AppWave users also have the ability to add internally developed and commercial software titles, such as Adobe Creative Suite products and Microsoft Visio, for on-demand access, control, and visibility into software utilisation to software titles they already own.

AppWave is supercharging the PC software experience by giving business users instant access to software tools they need to be successful, when they need them, said Michael Swindell, senior vice president of marketing and products for Embarcadero.  AppWave is about self-service where users can discover and run PC apps within an organisation, without delay or process hassles.

Swindell added As the consumerisation of IT trend shows, the traditional PC desktop software experience is in desperate need of modernisation. While consumers understand how to instantly solve problems "on the go" with mobile apps, business users continue to struggle with finding and running the right PC software as needed. AppWave is the modernisation tool that helps users find and run the right software when they need it.

250+ Free PC Productivity Apps on the AppWave Platform and Growing

AppWave users have instant access to more than 250 free apps on the AppWave platform for general business, marketing, design, data management, and development including:

OpenOffice, Adobe Acrobat Reader, 7Zip, and FileZilla FTP Client, TweetDeck, Ventrilo, Blender 3D, PhotoWipe, ImageMagick, Thunderbird, ModelRight Viewer, PSPad, and Inno Setup, Celestia, MySoftwareSuite, TuxPaint and more are being added every day.

The AppWave platform provides business users ways to quickly build productivity, and speed-to-value benefits for PC-based apps. Such approaches form an important advance as organisations pursue more efficient ways to track, manage, and deliver their worker applications, and bill for them based on actual usage," said Dana Gardner, president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. "The AppWave platform converts valued, but often cumbersome business software into easily consumed and acquired 'apps' so business users dont have to wait in line for IT to order, install and approve the work tools that they really need without delay. Gardner said.

Bring Your Own Software (BYOS) onto AppWave

Business users can bring their own software into AppWave, be it commercial or custom in-house applications. AppWave works with many popular commercial software titles such as:

Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Altova XMLSpy, and more

Embarcaderos own database and development tools, such as ER/Studio and DB Power Studio, can also be accessed and tracked through AppWave.

With AppWave, companies have a consumer-like app experience with the software they commonly use. With rapid, self-service access to apps, and real-time tracking and reporting of software utilisation, the end result is a boost in productivity and lowering of software costs. Pricing to enable commercial and custom software applications to run as AppWave apps starts at $10 to $400 per app.

Inconvenient Truth About Software Delivery Models

Increasing demand for consumer-like technology experiences at work has forced enterprises to face some inconvenient truths about traditional application delivery models," said Gardner. "Rather than wait many months for dated applications that take too long to install manually on request, business managers and end users alike are seeking self-provisioning alternatives akin to the consumer models they know from their mobile activities."

Customers using a beta version of AppWave represent a variety of industries such as utility and energy, financial services, health care, retail and marketing services. 

I have found applications serviced by AppWave to be fast and reliable beyond my expectations, said Clayton Buss, senior database administrator from Lincoln Electric. “I am impressed with the straightforward ease by which applications can be packaged and deployed.

About Embarcadero Technologies
Embarcadero Technologies, Inc., a software management and delivery company, is a leading provider of database and application development software tools.  By using Embarcadero's award-winning products, professionals can design systems right, build them faster and run them better, regardless of their platform or programming language.  Three million users worldwide and 90 of the Fortune 100 companies rely on Embarcadero products to increase productivity, reduce costs, simplify change management and compliance, and accelerate innovation.  Founded in 1993, Embarcadero is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices located around the world.  Embarcadero is online at www.embarcadero.com

An invest to save initiative with huge return on investment realised from lower operational costs and a more productive use of estate Scan-on-demand approach adopted to digitise 45 million pages.

December 5, 2011 –“ Kodak (NYSE:EK) today announced that Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has implemented an electronic medical records (EMR) system throughout the whole organisation using CCube Solutions electronic document management system with outsourced scanning services provided by Capita Total Document Solutions powered by Kodak production scanners and Kodak Capture Pro Network Edition imaging software. 

The EMR system will enable the Trust to increase access to patient information, guarantee case note availability at the point of patient care, improve efficiency, and reduce the costs, security risks and space associated with paper handling and storage.

The Trust has invested £1.5 million in software, scanning hardware, and scanning bureau services and expects to save £750,000 annually based on reducing labour, transport and storage costs.  In addition, it has released 30% of a brand new £40 million Elective Care Centre recently built on the hospital site which is now being used for clinical activities rather than paper storage.  This is a £12 million estate benefit to the Trust as a whole floor has become available.

Providing acute healthcare to a population of 330,000 in North Merseyside and surrounding areas, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust operates from two sites - Walton Hospital and University Hospital Aintree – and iss the teaching centre for the University of Liverpool. Predominately serving three Primary Care Trusts in South Sefton, North Liverpool and Kirkby,  specialist support such as respiratory disease, ophthalmology and cancer services are also provided to a wider population of 1.5 million in the midlands and North Wales. 

With 850 beds, the Trust caters for 86,000 emergency admissions ever year, along with 330,000 outpatient visits and 77,000 inpatient day cases. 

While isolated standalone scanner solutions were installed three years ago in the patients appointment centre and A & E, legal and pathology departments, it was felt that a Trust-wide solution was required to improve the way patient related case notes are handled across the organisation. 

The decision also involved clinicians who felt that the quality of case notes needed significant improvement as finding information often took too long, and delays were experienced in case notes actually arriving for patient consultations. 

Ward Priestman, Aintree University Hospitals director of informatics, says, The Trust has an aggressive IT strategy and wants to invest in and use technology to drive service improvements. The EDM solution is a major step towards digitizing the patient record.

The solution from CCube Solutions comprises EDMS and eForms software along with a bespoke built front-end portal which clinicians use to navigate around patients case notes from their desktop PCs, laptops or trolley-based computers. 

Further to a formal request for proposals by the Trust and the completion of standard procurement procedures, CCube Solutions was chosen as it offered the most cost effective EDMS solution, and was responsive and willing to tailor the software to meet the Trusts needs.

Archie Menzies, CCube Solutions NHS sales director, says, Our approach is very much applying our EDMS technology to solve business issues.  By linking to line of business systems, we ensure that the accessing, sharing, and storing of information in all systems is sensibly integrated which means that EDMS doesn't just become an archive for documents, but directly contributes to improving sharing and collaboration among staff and enhancing organisational efficiency.

Staff will access the EDMS via the Trusts Patient Management System (PMS) once a user logs in which is in effect the front end to a full electronic patient record.  Various other IT solutions are also integrated covering pathology and radiology results, pharmacy, prescribing and theatre systems.  All information pertaining to a patient can therefore be accessed by one route – the PMS - which gives one view of a patient and their medical history and means the Trust avoids having information silos.

Priestman says, Clinicians have been actively involved in helping define the look and feel of the system which CCube Solutions has incorporated in the user interface design work.

The Trust has outsourced the huge task of scanning patient files to Capita TDS, a Capita Group company.  Anthony Lamb, Capita TDS operations manager, says, A scan-on-demand service is being delivered from our secure facility whereby each week we are sent a list of clinical appointments and associated files which are then processed and digitised for patients coming in for consultations.  

It is expected that around 282,000 patient files will be scanned which equates to some 45 million pages.  As outpatient case notes are used on average – 2½ times a year, once a personns file is scanned, the work is completed and the notes then subsequently available digitally. 

Capita TDS has standardised on Kodaks high performance production scanners to meet the workload demands with its scanner fleet comprising i700 series, i4000 series and the latest i5000 series scanners.  Lamb says, Kodak scanners are workhorses and the most appropriate products for our particular environment given the capacity they can cope with and the robustness of the equipment.

In addition, Capita TDS uses Kodak Capture Pro Network Edition imaging software to ensure fast, reliable capture. This highly productive process not only makes for the highest quality image first time, every time but also maintains consistent and compliant output while maximising operator productivity.  The images and associated data are then sent via a secure FTP connection directly back to Aintree. 

Colin Labrum, Kodaks UK software sales manager, says, Digitising health records is not only an invest to save initiative, but it gets crucial patient information to the point of care automatically so people have a better clinical experience.  Reliable, well-designed and easy-to-use technology solutions are fundamental in making this all work and ensuring user acceptance.  The Capita TDS, CCube and Kodak solution does just this and means the Trust can remove the laborious process of transporting paper files about and trying to manage an unmanageable logistics operation. 

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About Kodak
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Storage Innovators Scality, Coraid, Crossroads and WhipTail Scrutinize200TB Amazon Cloud Storage Use Case

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Nov. 30, 2011 -The hard costs of storing data in a private cloud have long proved elusive to IT managers.  On Thursday December 1st, a panel at the very first CloudBeat will examine different storage technologies as they relate to particular use cases - so that we might finally "Understand the True Cost of Storage."
 
The panel's expert participants include Scality CEO, Jérôme Lecat who recently made the controversial, although research-backed claim that private cloud storage is cheaper than public for capacity over 100TB. The other panelists include executives from Coraid, Crossroads, and WhipTail Technologies. Representing venture capitalist investment of over US $100 million, these storage innovators will dissect a use case from DNAnexus, a DNA data management and analysis platform - currently using Amazon S3 storage.
 
Guest Andrew Reichman, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, Inc., will moderate the panel, entitled "Understanding the True Cost of Storage" as the panelists debate which cloud storage approach is the most cost effective for a specific use case.
 
According to Forrester Research, Inc., in the report " File Storage Costs Less in the Cloud than In-House" (August 25 2011), Reichman wrote, "Quick storage comparisons don't measure storage costs effectively. [...] An accurate comparison requires a more detailed model." This Forrester report, along with Lecat's views on the total cost of ownership of cloud storage, formed part of the inspiration behind the CloudBeat panel session.
 
Where/When/Who:
"Understanding the True Cost of Storage" will take place in CloudBeat Salon 4 at Hotel Sofitel in Redwood City, California on December 1st from 11:15am to 12:10pm. Panelists include Jérôme Lecat, CEO, Scality; Kevin Brown, CEO, Coraid; David Cerf, Executive VP of Business & Corporate Development, Crossroads; Dan Crain, CEO, WhipTail Technologies; and Andreas Sundquist, CEO & Co-Founder of DNAnexus, a DNA data management and analysis platform. 
 
Panel Debate:
Innovation Unveiled:  The panel will explain how the different storage vendors represented cover the whole scope of storage in innovative and cost-effective ways. The vendors will each have just 60 seconds to present and position their products.
 
Use Case: Andreas Sundquist of DNAnexus will expose his cost for Amazon storage and computing and present DNAnexus' use case.  Sundquist will also share under what circumstances he would move to a Private Cloud or Hybrid Cloud model.
 
Best Fit:  Each vendor will present a use case of one of his company's own customers, highlighting the best fit use cases for their respective solutions.
 
Jérôme Lecat, CEO, Scality, said, "People tend to think that you need to go to a large established player to have the full spectrum of storage, but our panel session will be a chance to see the senior executives of some of the most heavily invested storage startups explain how the combination of their products cover all storage use cases."
 
With a dizzying number of storage options available, it is often difficult to determine which storage technology would be most effective while providing lowest total cost of ownership for a particular situation. Aided by real numbers on the cost of storage, the panelists will get past the hype to answer the difficult questions and identify situations in which their technologies would or would not be best.
 
For more information, please visit http://venturebeat.com/events/cloudbeat2011/, http://www.Scality.com, or follow Scality on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Scality.
 
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Notes to editors:
 
If you would like to schedule a meeting with Jérôme Lecat at CloudBeat, please contact Rose Ross, rose@omarketing.com, US +1 781 519 0275, UK +44 (0)208 255 5225, Twitter: @Rose_at_O.
 
About Scality

Scality is the developer of RING, a software platform enabling cloud storage to easily scale up to exabytes using commodity server hardware with direct attached storage. Scality delivers the performance and reliability of a SAN- or NAS-based architecture without the hassles of volume management at one third to half of the cost.

Scality is used by Service Providers to deploy Storage-as-a-Service offerings, by Email Providers to store emails for millions of users, and by web services managing billions of files with very high performance expectations, either for Web 2.0 or business applications. Scality RING is based on a patented object storage technology, which delivers high availability, ease of operations and total control of your data. For more information, visit: www.scality.com.
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The Metropolitan Police is delighted to have won public sector project of the year 2011 for its pioneering Telecommunication Intelligence Management System (TIMS).

Developed by CCube Solutions, TIMS is a centralised IT solution to manage all communications data requests by police officers from communications service providers (CSPs) who provide a range of intelligence such as subscriber details, call records and location information which is used in a range of criminal investigations.

The first system of its kind in the UK, TIMS was developed 7 years ago to standardise and centralise the whole communication request management and approval process, moving away from a paper-based system given the growth in paperwork, increase in requests and complex process of authorisation.

The award was given as CCube Solutions has completed a project to enhance the TIMS by deploying a new module to manage immediate requests for information from CSPs in fast moving situations where a threat to some-one’s life is present, typically in kidnap or missing person situations.

The new module now processes Urgent Verbal Authority requests by the police for real-time information from CSPs used to confirm the whereabouts of a victim or perpetrator based on their mobile phone signal. It directly supports police operational activities by adding a proactive element to TIMS, whereas previously the system was only used for controlled, slower paced enquiries.

Steve Carter, Detective Inspector, Metropolitan Police’s Telecommunications Intelligence Unit (TIU), says, “An award is a real testament to how TIMS has really become a superb investigative tool for police officers to respond to incidents. Once you introduce a system and people see it working well, it gets used more and more, especially as it’s easy-to-use.”

Communications data in practice - Operation Gulpin

The Metropolitan Police used communications data when investigating a £40 million jewellery robbery at a jeweller in Mayfair, London. Two men entered the shop asking to view a specific diamond ring; both then produced handguns and forced a member of staff to open the display cabinets. The suspects left taking a female hostage at gunpoint and shots were fired towards those giving chase. CCTV captured the suspects just prior to entering the jewellers and this showed one using a mobile phone.  This was later recovered in an abandoned vehicle linked to the offence. Subscriber, service use and traffic data acquired on this telephone identified the following:

• The professional makeup artist who had altered the suspects hair with wigs, skin tone and their features using latex prosthetics,
• A car firm used to hire a getaway vehicle,
• A dress hire company used to ensure the suspects blended into their surroundings,
• The locations of the suspects and persons of interest at relevant times,
• An indication of pre-planning (reconnaissance of the premises)

The communications data acquired was crucial to the investigation. Three men were convicted of conspiracy to rob and received custodial sentences of 16 years. One man was convicted of conspiracy to rob, kidnap and possession of a firearm and received a custodial sentence of 23 years.

About the Metropolitan Police Service

Founded by Sir Robert Peel in 1829, The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) today employs more than 32,500 officers together with about 14,200 police staff, 230 traffic wardens and 4,300 Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs), supported by more than 3,600 volunteer police officers. The MPS covers an area of 620 square miles and a population of 7.2 million.
About CCube Solutions

CCube Solutions is an award-winning provider of enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, comprising electronic document and records management, workflow, electronic forms, portal software, and systems integration.

Founded in 1995, it has a proven track record working with the police, local government, National Health Service and in the private sector providing cost effective and scalable solutions, tailored to meet the individual requirements of customers.  

An AIIM Advisory Board member, CCube Solutions is active in developing and guiding the future direction of the ECM industry, and upholds AIIM’s principles of good information management, know-how applied on every customer engagement.

CCube Solutions is headquartered in Milton Keynes, and is the trading name of OITUK Limited. For further information, please visit www.ccubesolutions.com

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With the extension of compliance regulations and the need for faster and more precise customer communication the role of document management is stepping out of the back office shadows.

Traditionally resellers specialising in document management solutions have found a rich vein of business in the back office archiving and scanning information that needs to be stored.

But according to research carried out by Kofax and the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) there is a growing opportunity at the perimeter of organisations as firms look to capture more information from customers earlier in the process.

The survey showed customers are viewing information capture that will then feed into CRM and ERP systems as something that needs to be happening much earlier in the process.

Martyn Christian, chief marketing officer at Kofax, said that for resellers this shift in customer demand spelt out a much larger opportunity for document management.

"Customers are communicating via multi-channels - emails, letters and forms filled in at retail outlets or trade shows - and this often doesn't get fed back into the business processes until much later," he said.

He added that for a reseller the business process market was one driven by solutions and adding to that with a document management capability made the margin potential even greater.

Doug Miles, director, market intelligence at AIIM, said that getting data through an organisation quicker was a strong ROI argument.

"Automated capture at the front of any business process is likely to produce cleaner data, resulting in higher quality information, less exception handling, and better process management," he said.

-  Latest upgrade supports migration to a new purchasing card system, and real-time disaster recovery -  

Bury St Edmunds, UK – November 15th , 2011 – EASY SOFTWARE UK, Europe’s foremost supplier of document management solutions has today announced that its since implementing EASY ENTERPRISE for SAP™ at Worcester County Council it has been able to eliminate paper from the council’s invoice processing, while improving efficiency and reducing instances of documents going astray.

Worcestershire County Council provides a huge range of services to more than 545,000 citizens living within the county’s boundaries. One of the largest and most progressive employers in the region, the organisation has over 19,500 staff and an annual turnover in excess of £750 million.

Over the last decade, the Council has been a pioneer in electronic invoice processing, a strategy which will now serve the organisation well as the next wave of Government funding cuts take effect, requiring that the public sector operates at maximum efficiency.

In 2001, Worcestershire was one of the first local authorities to implement an integrated business management system, by combining SAP software with a document scanning and archive platform from SAP certified partner EASY Software, EASY Enterprise for SAP. This has had a huge impact on business efficiency and supplier remuneration, given that Worcestershire processes almost 400,000 separate invoices each year.

The process of scanning invoices, which are captured using a Fujitsu scanner, enables simple verification of supplier invoices, supports the approval process within the council, and has improved the visibility and control of expenditure.

Since implementing the system, the Council has been able to eliminate paper from invoice processing, improving efficiency while reducing instances of documents going astray. “All invoice documents come straight into the central revenue section where they are scanned and added to the SAP system,” says Dave Bessant, Worcestershire’s financial systems manager. “From this point on, documents are handled and archived electronically.”

Payments happen swiftly, because the process of reconciling invoices with purchase orders is so quick and easy, that a budget manager is only involved if goods haven’t been received, or prices or quantities don’t tally. “Even then, the budget manager can quickly drill down into the SAP system where he or she can easily see the invoice, enabling immediate follow-up,” Dave notes. “The revenue section no longer needs to send out paper documents to satisfy this type of query.”

The expected benefits of this improved process were so tangible that the business case was self-evident, he adds. “The integration with SAP was particularly popular, because it meant an ability to quickly retrieve an invoice a few months down the line, without having to go down to the basement to dig it out.”

Read the full Worcester County Council case study on www.easysoftware.co.uk

About EASY SOFTWARE UK

EASY SOFTWARE, which was founded in 1990 and is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, is Europe’s foremost provider of integrated document management technologies with more than 10,500 customers worldwide. Global and local companies rely on EASY’s comprehensive suite of scaleable document technologies to automate their businesses, improve productivity and efficiency and to meet increasing regulatory requirements.

EASY SOFTWARE is a Microsoft Gold Partner and the second largest provider of SAP archiving solutions worldwide. EASY promotes it extensive suite of document management solutions both directly and indirectly through a network of 200+ global sales partners. More than 100 software development companies have created interfaces to EASY ENTERPRISE™, the company’s flagship solution.

EASY AG is headquartered in Mülheim a.d. Ruhr, with further offices and subsidiaries throughout Germany, Austria, the USA, Singapore and the UK.  More information on EASY SOFTWARE UK can be found at http://www.easysoftware.co.uk

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Aia Software demonstrates ODF support at 7th ODF Plugfest

Nijmegen, November 17th 2011 – On Thursday and Friday of this week, ddocument management company Aia Software will be one of the participants of the international ODF Plugfest, which this year is organized in Gouda - The Netherlands.

ODF is the open standard for (office) documents. Since 2007, Dutch government bodies have striven to exchange all documents using this standard, which ensures that local government and organizations have freedom in their choice of software packages: every subcontractor is free to deliver ODF-support in their products.

Kitty Ksters, Business Consultant at Aia Software, said: We have been supporting ODF in our product portfolio for years, along with numerous other standards. We understand that governmental organizations like to select an application based on functions rather than to be obliged to make use of an established application. With budget cuts, it becomes even more compelling to consider ODF. Of course, we are delighted to help.

Plugfest is being organized by the Open Doc Society and Nederland Open Bureau in Verbinding (NoiV), with the ODF user group governing bodies and organizations. The ODF Plugfest is aimed at promoting the open standard and offers subcontractors easy document exchange.

On November 17, 2011, Dutch subcontractors will work together on a number of hypothetical scenarios. More importantly, subcontractors will meet and share experiences.

Ineke Schop, program manager at NoiV said: At NoiV we work closely with Dutch subcontractors to find practical solutions for local governments and other authorities to help them manage their IT using open standards. I am happy to see that a number of subcontractors are using ODF Plugfest to refine their products, demonstrating that they are forerunners in supporting the open document format. In this way our host, the Gouda municipality (district council), and other local government bodies, aim to meet the NoiV action plan, and more importantly, help themselves to easily expand and adapt their ICT.

Notes to editors

About the Open Doc Society

Open Doc Society stimulates knowledge and delivers tools for subcontractors by organizing Plugfests.

About NoiV

Program bureau Nederland Open in Verbinding works for the EL&I and BZK authorities to deliver the NoiV action plan, helping authorities, education and the care sector to make use of open standards and raise awareness of the possibilities of open source software.

About Aia Software

Aia Software is a leading global supplier of documentation solutions. Their ITP Documentation Platform helps staff create relevant and personalised business-critical documentation. Over 1,000 organisations use ITP as their integrated total solution for large-scale automated generation of standard documents, individualised snippet-based correspondence, and dynamic form-based data entry. ITP integrates seamlessly with existing business applications. Aia Software is a fully independent company with its head office in the Netherlands and branch offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Australia. www.aia-itp.com.

The ITP Document Platform

The ITP Document Platform provides sophisticated document production services. It helps create structured, on-demand and interactive documents and electronic forms. ITP enables fully automated high volume document production whilst the interactive interview process facility enables electronic forms as well as document creation through a combination of user input and automatically populated fields. All ITP document production is template based and the templates can contain sophisticated logic enabling conditional data retrieval, conditional user input, conditional formatting and derived data fields. The templates are supported by ITP´s powerful data handling facilities that can retrieve data from multiple and various sources, including but not limited to XML data, Web Services and ODBC enabled data sources.

Perforce Streams add control and visibility for complex software projects

Alameda, Calif., November 9, 2011 - Perforce Software's newest version management system is now available. This latest release includes built-in code management workflow called Perforce Streams. The Perforce Streams model and the associated visualization tools give organisations more control and visibility over complicated software development projects. Out of the box, streams offer a predefined branch-and-merge strategy based on Perforce's own best practices. Companies can adopt streams in whole or in part to facilitate their own processes.

As always, we give our customers choices that support however they want to work and streams are no different, said Randy DeFauw, technical marketing manager for Perforce Software. Perforce Streams are based on more than a decade of our own development experience. Customers can adapt them to enforce their own models or choose to use Perforce the same way they always have.

Perforce Streams intelligently organise project modules (such as software libraries) and the policies that govern their workflow. A stream contains metadata about a branch - its location in the depot, its parent branch, its stability (such as release or development) and more. This contextual information makes branching behaviour more intuitive and visual, ensuring that change flows in the right direction, in the right order.

Perforce Streams improve development productivity and reduce risk
Perforce Streams promote code re-use and automate tasks associated with branching and merging. Developers have more time to code because Perforce's technology efficiently performs every-day functions like code merges, workspace updates and context switches.

Perforce Streams provide visibility into development activities. Managers can ensure that changes are implemented in the right places at the right time, anticipate problems that could delay releases, and better allocate developers between tasks.

Perforce Streams also reduce the risk of delayed releases and poor software quality. Clear workflows give managers the tools they need to anticipate problems and improve processes.

Availability & Pricing
Perforce Streams are available now in the 2011.1 Perforce Server and compatible Perforce clients. Interested developers are invited to download and evaluate Perforce free from the Perforce website. This offer includes free technical support during evaluation.

Perforce pricing is all-inclusive; there are no add-on components that require licensing. End-user licences for the complete solution, including one year of support and maintenance, start at $900 per seat; volume discounts are available. For additional price and license information, visit perforce.com/purchase.



About Perforce Software
Perforce Software is a provider of software and solutions that enable teams to create, develop and version everything. The world's most innovative companies and recognised brands trust Perforce to manage all their digital assets from intellectual property to content. The Perforce version management platform is unique in its ability to handle large and distributed collections of content and is backed by a full range of enterprise services.

Founded in 1995, Perforce Software is headquartered in Alameda, California, with international operations in the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. For more information, visit www.perforce.com.

An Easy-to-Use Online OCR Service – now avvailable with Hebrew OCR

Bracknell, UK (10 November, 2011) — ABBYY UK Ltd., a member of thee ABBYY Group and a leading provider of document recognition, document capture, and linguistic technologies and services, today announced a new release of FineReader Online, an online OCR (optical character recognition) and document conversion service. Designed to serve the needs of users who work in and with several languages, ABBYY FineReader Online is now offering OCR for Hebrew.

Online OCR and Document Conversion at FineReaderOnline.com

ABBYY FineReader Online converts scanned or photographed images of documents (e.g. JPG, TIFF, DjVu and others) and PDF files into DOC, RTF, XLS, searchable PDF, ODT and TXT formats. It requires no additional software to be installed and can be accessed by any Web user, no matter which PC, laptop computer, mobile device or operating system he or she uses. It is a cost-effective solution available on pay-per-use basis and is very convenient for people who need high quality OCR from time to time.

Available in more than 40 languages (including complex languages like Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew and Russian), it allows you to transform multilingual document images and scans (up to 3 languages in one document) into editable formats, retaining accurately the document layout.

ABBYY FineReader Online is based on the same ABBYY OCR technology that has received international acclaim from industry experts and editors for superior accuracy of text recognition and layout retention.

A convenient OCR service for users working in several languages – now with Hebrew

The new version of ABBYY FineReader Online allows users to convert scans and photos of documents which contain text in Hebrew (alone or in combination with other languages), thus making a high-quality OCR on-the-fly available to serve the needs of individuals and small businesses, students and teachers, community groups, museum and library employees.

Free pages upon registration

Customers who register for the FineReader Online service will receive free pages as an introductory offer and can immediately start using and benefitting from ABBYY’s OCR and document conversion technologies.

FineReader Online is available at http://finereader.abbyyonline.com

About ABBYY UK Ltd.

ABBYY UK is a member of the ABBYY Group and supports sales and marketing activities in Western Europe. ABBYY is a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, and linguistic technologies and services. Its products include the ABBYY FineReader line of optical character recognition (OCR) applications, ABBYY FlexiCapture line of data capture solutions, ABBYY Lingvo dictionary software, and development tools. ABBYY Language Services provides comprehensive linguistic solutions to corporate customers. Paper-intensive organizations from all over the world use ABBYY solutions to automate time- and labour-consuming tasks and to streamline business processes. ABBYY products are used in large-scale government projects such as those of Australian Taxation Office, Lithuanian Tax Inspectorate, Ministry of Education of Russia, Ministry of Education of Ukraine, and Montgomery County Government of the USA. Companies that license ABBYY technologies include BancTec, Canon, EMC/Captiva, Hewlett-Packard, KnowledgeLake, Microsoft, NewSoft, Notable Solutions, Samsung Electronics and more. ABBYY OCR applications are shipped with equipment from the world’s top manufacturers such as Epson, Fujitsu, Fuji Xerox, Microtek, Panasonic, Plustek, Toshiba, and Xerox. ABBYY is headquartered in Moscow, Russia, with offices in Germany, the UK, the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Cyprus, Australia, Japan and Taiwan. For more information, visit www.ABBYY.com.

Reduce marketing print costs by 20%

Watford, UK, November 2nd 2011: Pitney Bowes has launched its Managed Print service – a core element of the wider Marketing Lifecycle Services www.marketinglifecycleservices.com suite - designed to help marketing departments execute the print process more efficiently, more affordably and with uncompromising quality.

Recent Pitney Bowes research reveals that European private and public sector organisations are overpaying for their printed documents by at least 16%. For marketing departments, managing the print process is often time consuming and complex. The challenge is to keep costs down whilst regulating quality and keeping value high.

Pitney Bowes' Managed Print service leverages a network of global print providers to optimise print buying power, achieving typical savings in the region of 20%. Pitney Bowes’ print specialists manage the entire print process – liaising with design agencies, briefing prrinters, checking live production or planning distribution. This expert support frees experienced marketing professionals to focus more time on core strategic tasks.

The Managed Print service is equipped to handle every type of marketing – whetther hard copy or digital – from advertising caampaigns, direct mail and exhibition materials to websites, e-newsletters and much more.

Reporting tools help businesses to monitor spend in fine detail and provide up-to-the-minute feedback on job specs, supplier costs and comparisons, SLAs and KPIs – keeping marketing professionals fully iinformed and in control.

Managed Print represents just one element of Pitney Bowes new Marketing Lifecycle Services (MLS) suite, designed to cut costs and boost effectiveness at every stage of the marketing lifecycle – from planning campaiggns to securely managing the collateral inventory.

Sally Wright, International Marketing Director, Pitney Bowes comments: Our Managed Print service allows today's time- and budget-stretched marketing departments to generate the best possible quality from available budget. Our experts will work either on-site or remotely to take the entire administrative hassle of campaign and collateral production away from marketers, freeing these professionals to add greater value.

We are already running Managed Print services for major clients in the financial sector and local government who recognise the expertise and purchasing power of the Pitney Bowes brand.

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About Pitney Bowes

Delivering more than 90 years of innovation, Pitney Bowes provides software, hardware and services that integrate physical and digital communications channels. Long known for making its customers more productive, Pitney Bowes is increasingly helping other companies grow their business through advanced customer communications management. Pitney Bowes is a $5.4 billion company and employs more than 30,000 worldwide. Pitney Bowes: Every connection is a new opportunity. www.pbms.co.uk/

A worrying 60 per cent of respondents surveyed by City Lifeline at this year's IP Expo have lost access to the company's IT system following an unexpected incident. The resulting unplanned downtime lasted for more than six hours for 40 per cent of the firms surveyed, leaving employees struggling to access essential business data, run operations or communicate effectively with customers.

Unplanned downtime can have serious financial repercussions. Whether caused by equipment failure, a cyber-attack or something as mundane as road works cutting through a power line, studies show that the loss of access to data and electronic communication systems costs SMEs on average around £7,500 a day in lost business and productivity: ranging from £1,800 for micro-businesses to £14,000 a day for mid-sized enterprises.

In a worst case scenario the lost data can never be recovered. According to the Federation of Small Businesses, 90 per cent of SMEs that lose data following a major incident are forced to shut within two years. Yet research shows that less than half of SMEs bother to back up data every week, and a mere 23 per cent back up daily.

SMEs are by their nature more vulnerable to the impact of data loss, said Roger Keenan, managing director at City Lifeline. Our survey reveals just how many small and medium-sized companies have experienced an IT failure – and for aroound two thirds of respondents, the resulting downtime lasted for at least half a day. Six hours of downtime effectively amounts to a lost working day. This inevitably means reduced productivity, missed business and unhappy customers and suppliers, something many smaller firms simply cannot afford. It is vital that SMEs make sure important files are saved not only on an external hard drive but in a safe and secure offsite location. Colocation data centres are created to avoid disasters or at least able to cope with them protecting the equipment and servers hosted inside. Most importantly, they are designed to protect a business' critical IT systems.

[i] City Lifeline surveyed 105 senior IT professionals at IP Expo 2011 (19-20 October 2011)

[ii] 2011 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey, Symantec, 2011

[iii] 2011 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey, Symantec, 2011

About City Lifeline

City Lifeline is the leading independent carrier-neutral colocation data centre in central London. Lifeline House is situated in an ideal location, just outside the central London Exclusion zone, in the emerging Silicon Roundabout / Tech City district.

With some of the best connectivity in London, City Lifeline provides a secure, reliable and resilient home for telecoms, networking and server hosting. Its customers have access to the fastest, carrier diverse networks in the UK connecting across the world.

The data centre offers a first-class, flexible and personal service coupled with the security, reliability and engineering teams to match.

For further information about City Lifeline visit: www.city-lifeline.co.uk

Bracknell, UK (01 November, 2011) - ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, document capture, and linguistic technologies and services, today announced ABBYY TextGrabber + Translator, the new, extended version of ABBYY TextGrabber for the Apple iPhone, a popular on-device solution that turns the iPhone into a multifunctional mobile scanner. The application now allows users to quickly translate snippets of texts captured from various printed materials and information sources by using Google Translate™ technology. Captured and translated texts can be instantly shared with friends or colleagues via e-mail and SMS, or posted directly to the user's account at Facebook, Twitter™ and Evernote.

With the new full-text translation function and the direct integration with the most popular social media, TextGrabber + Translator enables people to further increase their efficiency when working with text, saving time and a lot of effort otherwise spent on manual search and retyping, commented Olga Tolstunova, deputy director of the Mobile Products Department at ABBYY.

ABBYY TextGrabber + Translator for the iPhone can automatically extract text from a variety of sources - such as books, magazines, ads, timetables, etc. - while on the go by using the device’s camera, or retrieve data from images stored in the devices memory. Based on ABBYY's own award-winning Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, the utility delivers highly accurate text recognition results for 61 languages and helps users easily edit, search, translate and share information wherever they are. Via integration with Google Translate, the application supports full-text translation from 43 starting languages into more than 50 languages.

ABBYY TextGrabber + Translator also supports integration with ABBYY Lingvo Dictionaries for iOS installed on the same device. In that case, users can access the comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary content from authoritative publishers and additional linguistic information to better understand and translate unfamiliar words and terms.

The new ABBYY TextGrabber + Translator provides a range of interface updates for user convenience, including the ability to easily turn the crop feature on the viewfinder and flashlight on and off.

ABBYY TextGrabber + Translator currently supports two interface languages: English and Russian. The user interface language support will be significantly extended in the next update of the program with the addition of Chinese (both traditional and simplified), German, Korean, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), and Spanish.

Availability
ABBYY TextGrabber + Translator for the iPhone is available via the App Store SM (accessible through iTunes). The compatible devices include the Apple iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 (iOS 4.0 or later). For more information about the product, visit http://www.abbyy.com/mocr_utilities/textgrabber/

About Mobile OCR Utilities
ABBYY TextGrabber is a flagship app of the ABBYY Mobile OCR Utilities series for the Apple iPhone that also includes ABBYY StreetGrabber, ABBYY LinkGrabber, ABBYY PhoneGrabber, and ABBYY MailGrabber. Each of them enables users to capture specific type of data and transfer it directly to the iPhone for further use, saving and easy sharing. For more information, visit http://www.abbyy.com/mocr_utilities/

About ABBYY UK Ltd.
ABBYY UK is a member of the ABBYY Group and supports sales and marketing activities in Western Europe. ABBYY is a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, and linguistic technologies and services. Its products include the ABBYY FineReader line of optical character recognition (OCR) applications, ABBYY FlexiCapture line of data capture solutions, ABBYY Lingvo dictionary software, and development tools. ABBYY Language Services provides comprehensive linguistic solutions to corporate customers. Paper-intensive organizations from all over the world use ABBYY solutions to automate time- and labour-consuming tasks and to streamline business processes. ABBYY products are used in large-scale government projects such as those of Australian Taxation Office, Lithuanian Tax Inspectorate, Ministry of Education of Russia, Ministry of Education of Ukraine, and Montgomery County Government of the USA. Companies that license ABBYY technologies include BancTec, Canon, EMC/Captiva, Hewlett-Packard, KnowledgeLake, Microsoft, NewSoft, Notable Solutions, Samsung Electronics and more. ABBYY OCR applications are shipped with equipment from the world's top manufacturers such as Epson, Fujitsu, Fuji Xerox, Microtek, Panasonic, Plustek, Toshiba, and Xerox. ABBYY is headquartered in Moscow, Russia, with offices in Germany, the UK, the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Cyprus, Australia, Japan and Taiwan. For more information, visit www.ABBYY.com.

Oct. 31, 2011 – Xerox has been placed by Gaartner, Inc., in the Leaders Quadrant in the Magic Quadrant for MFPs and Printers.

A proprietary research tool developed by Gartner, the Magic Quadrant offers visual snapshots of a market's direction, maturity and participants, and evaluates companies on completeness of vision along with the ability to execute.

Xerox offers the broadest product portfolio, services and solutions for SMBs to large enterprises. Specific offerings include desktop printers, such as the Phaser 6010 colour printer and multifunction systems like the WorkCentre 6015 colour MFP and Xerox ColorQube 9300 Series.

We feel being named a leader reaffirms our commitment to helping companies simplify processes, increase productivity and reduce costs so they can focus on what they do best – serving theeir customers, said Rick Dastin, president, Enterprise Business Group, Xerox Corporation. Our global presence and the ability to customise and improve workflows with our Extensible Interface Platform sets Xerox apart from the competition. With our technology and services-led focus, we're helping organizations of all sizes achieve their business goals.

In the report, Gartner defines a leader as:

· the most capable in providing MFPs (including Smart Multifunction Products), printers and the associated printing solutions and services, regardless of customer location;

· providers of the most extensive product portfolio relative to their peers, and the broad channel capability to deliver the products to customers where they want to procure them;

· holders of consistently high market share worldwide and capable of delivering consistent service levels in the regions where Gartner customers are located;

· tending to have the deepest global capability and the inventiveness and resources, skills and vision to deliver superior levels of support to existing and future customers globally;

· possessing a proven track record of channelling R&D initiatives into products and solutions that customers need.


About Xerox Europe

Xerox Europe, the European operations of Xerox Corporation, markets a comprehensive range of Xerox products, solutions and services, as well as associated supplies and software. Its offerings are focused on three main areas: offices from small to large, production print and graphic arts environments, and services that include consulting, systems design and management, and document outsourcing. Through ACS, A Xerox Company, which Xerox acquired in February 2010, Xerox also offers extensive business process outsourcing and IT outsourcing services, including data processing, HR benefits management, finance support, and customer relationship management services for commercial and government organizations worldwide. The 134,000 people of Xerox serve clients in more than 160 countries.

Xerox Europe also has manufacturing and logistics operations in Ireland, the UK and the Netherlands, and a research and development facility (Xerox Research Centre Europe) in Grenoble, France.

For more information visit http://www.xerox.com.

Research shows managed print services can reduce buried expenses by 30%, freeing up IT resources

DUBLIN, Ireland, Oct. 28, - Recent research by global research firm IDC says businesses that tackle five “hidden” costs stand to reduce enterprise printing costs by up to 30 percent, freeing up money to fund other IT projects.

The Europe-wide research was presented during an executive roundtable hosted by Xerox in association with IDC on 27th October at the Westbury Hotel, Dublin. According to IDC, printing costs typically consume 1 to 3 percent of a company’s annual revenues, and most organisations are unaware of this spend. IDC said the ability to control printing costs often lies in five areas not always perceived as print-related:

· Storage / Footprint

· The IT service desk

· Procurement and administration

· Environmental sustainability

· Organisational productivity


Organisations that fail to understand their total enterprise printing costs miss a significant opportunity to cut overhead and liberate funds for innovation and business transformation initiatives,” Arnaud Gagneux, Director IDC told the assembly. “Since that level of print management usually is not a core competency, outsourced managed print services offer the best solution for companies challenged with getting more out of constrained information management budgets.

Organisations often focus on reducing direct print costs – commercial printing hardware, maaintenance and supplies – which account for onlly a fraction of the total cost of printing. Also identifying the hidden costs and engaging a professional MPS supplier can reduce overall print expenditure by up to 30 percent, releasing IT budget and time to focus on urgent IT projects.

Over 65 CIOs and IT directors attended the half-day event, Cost Saving and Innovation: How to Deliver Both, part of the Xerox Real Business Live event series.

Xerox is a global leader in managed print services placed by Gartner, Inc., in the Leaders Quadrant in the 2010 Magic Quadrant for Managed Print Services Worldwide. Xerox has also been recognised as a leader in IDC's Worldwide and U.S. Outsourced Print and Document Services Forecast and Analysis, IDC's 2010 MPS MarketScape report and Quocirca's European Vendor MPS Comes of Age report, 2010.

With a still challenging economy, an ever faster pace of change in business and growing global competitiveness, enterprises need to compete by concentrating on what they do best, said Mark McPhillips, Xerox Director Ireland & UK. At Xerox, our core competency is performing the back office tasks that enable our customers to sharpen their focus on their real business.

The Dublin event is one of 22 being held by Xerox and IDC in 12 countries during 2011. To attend a virtual version of the Cost Saving and Innovation: How to Deliver Both workshop and to download a copy of the Xerox sponsored IDC white paper: Beneath the Surface: The True Cost of Enterprise Printing visit http://www.xerox.ie/idc.

Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for Managed Print Services, Worldwide, Ken Weilerstein, Cecile Drew, Yulan Li

IDC Worldwide and U.S. Outsourced Print and Document Services Forecast and Analysis Doc #224913, September 2010.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Managed Print Services 2010 Hardcopy Vendor Analysis. Doc # 222872, April 2010.

About Xerox Europe

Xerox Europe, the European operations of Xerox Corporation, markets a comprehensive range of Xerox products, solutions and services, as well as associated supplies and software. Its offerings are focused on three main areas: offices from small to large, production print and graphic arts environments, and services that include consulting, systems design and management, and document outsourcing. Through ACS, A Xerox Company, which Xerox acquired in February 2010, Xerox also offers extensive business process outsourcing and IT outsourcing services, including data processing, HR benefits management, finance support, and customer relationship management services for commercial and government organisations worldwide. The 134,000 people of Xerox serve clients in more than 160 countries.

Xerox Europe also has manufacturing and logistics operations in Ireland, the UK and the Netherlands, and a research and development facility (Xerox Research Centre Europe) in Grenoble, France.

For more information visit http://www.xerox.com.

Weekly prize draws open to new, existing and prospective ScanSnap customers
· Will run until December 22, 2011
· Win £130 with PFU promotion under www.celebratescansnap.com

London ,October 28, 2011 – High-performance document imaging with Fujitsu scanners has always been a winning proposition. Now new, existing and prospective ScanSnap users can win even more. Customers, who recently purchased a Fujitsu ScanSnap, are an existing ScanSnap user, or who are planning to purchase a ScanSnap scanner, can take part in the Celebrate ScanSnap promotion and win 130 pounds sterling. The promotion will run until just before Christmas. There will be two prizes awarded every week.

Entering the prize draw is as easy as scanning with ScanSnap scanners. Just go to www.celebratescansnap.com , fill in the short questionnaire and – with a little bit of luck – you may be among the winners.

There are two prize draws per week. The first is for customers who have purchased a qualifying model during the promotional period and register their ScanSnap scanner between October 17 and December 22, 2011 for the draw. The second is for existing and prospective customers. They just need to tell PFU about their business scanning requirements and then enter the draw for free. Qualifying scanners for the first draw are the following ScanSnap models: S1100, S1300, S1500, S1500M and N1800, both standard and deluxe versions.

Get started now and make today your lucky day! And remember: even if your ticket doesn’t win, working with Fujitsu ScanSnap document scanners is always a winning proposition.

Please visit www.celebratescansnap.com for more details.


About PFU
PFU Limited (Japan), a Fujitsu company, is the maker of Fujitsu scanners. The company is a globally active IT provider that designs, manufactures and markets computer hardware, peripheral products and enterprise software. PFU offers the broadest portfolio of document scanners for professional personal, desktop, workgroup and high-volume production environments and is one of the world's leading document scanner companies. PFU has been engaged in the document imaging scanner business for more than 20 years and generates an annual turnover of $1 billion. www.pfu.fujitsu.com/en/

Operating in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), PFU Imaging Solutions Europe Limited is responsible for marketing and sales of the Fujitsu document scanners. The European company was established in the United Kingdom in 1981 and has subsidiaries in Germany and Italy. www.fujitsu.com/emea/products/

The smallest scanner ever offered by Kodak with a footprint about half the size of an A4 page

London September 13, 2011 – Kodak (NYSE:EK) today announced that it is launching its latest SmartTouch scanning solution - the ScanMate i920 Personal Scanner. The smallest scanner ever offered by the company, its compact-size is ideal for SoHo and other business users requiring easy and fast high-quality scanning.

The ScanMate i920 Personal Scanner is designed for Microsoft Windows, compatible with TWAIN and ISIS scanning applications, and generates PDF, JPG, TIF and more file formats as well as MS-Word and RTF. The new colour duplex scanner features Kodak’s Perfect Page image processing for automatic image quality, delivering outstanding results even on the most challenging documents, all backed by a 3 year warranty.*

Fast SmartTouch scanning

The ScanMate i920 provides fast scanning, ease of use, and outstanding connectability. The scanning process is simplified through Kodak’s unique SmartTouch feature: a scan-job can be selected by the scanner display and the GO-Button, or via the desktop.

For daily correspondence, business cards, receipts or colour brochures, the i920 scans documents at speeds of up to 20 DIN-A4 pages per minute in simplex or up to 40 images per minute in double sided mode, with a recommend daily volume of 500 pages per day.

With a very small footprint of 288 mm wide and 107 mm deep – that’s about half the size of an A4 page - the ScanMate i920 fits comfortably on any desktop, and provides users with an outstanding imaging solution for efficient day-to-day scanning whenever needed. To create a digital copy of a valuable paper document is as simple as pressing a button.

Fit for your documents

ScanMate i920 includes a 20-sheet Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) for consecutive batch scanning, and supports feeding for business cards, hard cards, DIN-A4 and even long-length documents. Document formats with different sizes such as travel expenses can be scanned in mixed document batches.

Hauke Fast, EAMER Product Marketing Manager Document Imaging, Kodak™ Business Solutions and Services Group, comments, Kodak™ new ScanMate i920 Personal Scanner combines a stylish design with a functional device – easy to use and combined with a worry-free 3 year Advance Unit Replacement Warranty (AUR).

Link your documents to the cloud

The ScanMate i920 Personal Scanner provides automated office functions for scan-to-email, scan-to-SharePoint, scan-to-folder or scan to cloud applications, all at the touch of a button.

The scanner creates outstanding images with Kodak™ integrated Perfect Page image processing functions including blank page detection, auto de-skew, automatic image orientation, auto colour detection, auto cropping and many, many more.

A powerful integrated document viewer for scanned images allows for the editing of images before saving. For Windows operating systems, the ScanMate i920 comes with TWAIN and ISIS drivers for built in connectivity to any professional scanning software.

Intelligent Software Functions

In addition to automatic PDF file creation, ScanMate i920 users can also generate searchable PDF files. The ScanMate i920 is also bundled with the NEWSOFT PRESTO! BIZCARD 6.0 software, for easy business card scanning and efficient organisation of card details.

With Kodak's ScanMate i920 Personal Scanner, document scanning is easy, and a part of daily life. Users also have the option of purchasing KODAK Capture Pro Software with the scanner.

Price and Availability

The ScanMate i920 is available in the EAMER distribution channel with immediate effect with 3 years AUR warranty for €395 plus VAT. To learn more about the KODAK SCANMATE i920 Scanner, visit: www.kodak.com/go/i920.

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About Kodak

As the world's foremost imaging innovator, Kodak helps consumers, businesses, and creative professionals unleash the power of pictures and printing to enrich their lives.

To learn more, visit http://www.kodak.com and follow our blogs and more at http://www.kodak.com/go/followus.

More than 75 million people worldwide manage, share and create photo gifts online at KODAK Gallery—join today at www.kodakgallery.com

Kodak's Document Imaging business enables customers to capture and use valuable information from electronic and paper documents. Our document imaging solutions include award-winning scanners and capture software, and industry-leading service and support. From small offices to global operations, Kodak has the right solution to feed your business the information it needs.

More information about KODAK Document Imaging Scanners, Capture Software and Services is available at www.kodak.com/go/di

New president Kiyoshi Hasegawa will continue to expand the company’s lead in the scanner business
· PFU in Europe has been the number one provider of high-speed personal, desktop and workgroup scanners since 2008 according to research institute infoSource
· The global goal is to become a leader in the new "cloud and mobility era

Munich, September 16,2011 – Kiyoshi Hasegawa has been appointed president of Fujitsu company PFU Limited. In his new function, Hasegawa aims to continue the successful pioneer work of his predecessor, Fujio Wajima, who assumed chairmanship of the board of directors. In times of drastic changes and new trends such as cloud and mobile computing, Hasegawa wants to lead the company with a sense of speed and smartness and the motivational spirit of its 4,500 employees. On this basis, he is looking at making PFU a leader also in the new era of cloud and mobility.

In the 50 years of its existence, PFU has always focused on its innovative power to build customer-oriented technology that has been keeping the company at the forefront of the industry. Today, PFU is a major player in its markets with over one billion US dollar in sales revenues. PFU Imaging Solutions Europe Limited, which is responsible for marketing and sales of the Fujitsu document scanners in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), has been the number 1 provider of high-speed personal, desktop and workgroup scanners since 2008 according to research institute infoSource.

About PFU
PFU Limited (Japan), a Fujitsu company, is the maker of Fujitsu scanners. The company is a globally active IT provider that designs, manufactures and markets computer hardware, peripheral products and enterprise software. PFU offers the broadest portfolio of document scanners for professional personal, desktop, workgroup and high-volume production environments and is one of the world's leading document scanner companies. PFU has been engaged in the document imaging scanner business for more than 20 years and generates an annual turnover of $1 billion. www.pfu.fujitsu.com/en/

Global BPO provider introduces AP Master SaaS solution, based on the PaletteArena suite, to the UK

October 10, 2011 ­ BancTec, a global leader in business process outsourcing (BPO) for financial transaction automation and document management, has announced it will use PaletteArena, from enterprise purchase-to-pay specialist Palette, to power its AP Master SaaS solution which is launched in the UK today.

BancTec's AP Master software suite is a comprehensive and fully automated web-based SaaS Accounts Payable solution. AP Master was launched by BancTec in the US two years ago and is now available in the UK to provide additional benefits in managing the complete accounts payable cycle for corporations and businesses operating in the UK and Europe. Powered by PaletteArena, the solution is offered to customers as either a hosted environment or licensed for customers to deploy in-house.

AP Master addresses the entire value chain from purchase to payment with services such as invoice receipt and data capture, resulting in faster implementation times, improved productivity and reduced costs.

David Ogden, sales director for BancTec said: With our established partnership with Palette already benefiting businesses across the US, we wanted to extend the benefits of AP Master to the UK. We will be able to offer businesses of any size an automated, paperless processing solution to help improve customers' accounts payable efficiency and reduce costs.

Using Palette's web-based architecture enables us to give users secure access to invoice workflows in the cloud and complete visibility of their supplier ledger. Our accounts payable automation solution reduces the time and money spent on AP processing, allowing staff to focus on business matters by eliminating time-intensive administrative tasks.

Lucy Beck, sales director for Palette UK said: Working with partners such as BancTec enables us to provide customers with a fully integrated AP automation solution that delivers real efficiency gains and a strong ROI. Banctec's launch of AP Master in the UK will undoubtedly strengthen our already fruitful partnership, and extend the benefits of our combined expertise to new customers.

BancTec press contact: Mike Crosby, BancTec, +44 (0)1753 778715
Palette press contact: Craig Coward, Context PR, +44 (0)1625 511996,

About BancTec
BancTec is a global leader in business process outsourcing (BPO), providing financial transaction automation and document management services for organisations seeking to drive efficiency in their financial and back-office processes. Headquartered in Dallas, U.S.A., with offices in London and across Europe, BancTec has clients in 50 countries and leverages its proprietary IP and deep expertise to provide flexible, focused solutions across the financial services, insurance, manufacturing, healthcare, utility, transportation and government sectors. The company operates 19 BPO centers in Europe and worldwide, utilising a common technology platform to deliver reliability, security, and consistently high levels of performance. To learn more, visit http://www.banctec.co.uk or call +44 (0)1753 778888

About AP Master
AP Master is a complete enterprise purchase-to-payment suite, enabling users to achieve significant, measurable cost savings and efficiency gains in processing supplier invoices and purchase orders. It includes the Invoice, Buyer, Contract and Supplier Portal products, giving a web-based end-to-end solution that improves invoice management from receipt to payment. It integrates easily with accounting, information and business systems to automate and streamline accounts payable activity across the organisation. Visit http://www.banctec.co.uk/products/ap-master/

About Palette
Palette is a market leader in solutions for enterprise purchase-to-pay and automated processing of supplier invoices. The company’s accounts payable product suite, PaletteArena, offers the most automated approach to supplier invoice matching and straight-through-processing. This helps customers achieve significant, measurable cost savings and efficiency gains across their accounting and business operations. Palette was founded in Sweden in 1993, and has sales offices across Europe and in the US, with 800 customers in 33 countries. Visit www.palette-group.com or www.palette.se

Turn your paper into pixels and recoup up to 10 per cent of revenue

London, UK. October 4, 2011 – Iron Mountain, the information management company, has opened one of Europe’s largest document scanning and indexing centres to help organisations across Europe protect, process and make the most of their information in the face of increasingly stringent national and EU regulation. The centre in Stafford expands Iron Mountain’s network of European imaging facilities to 56 in 19 countries.

Using the latest technology, the centre provides a suite of document management services for organisations of all sizes, from across all business sectors and European locations. With a production environment of just under 25,000 square feet, the centre can deliver up to 250 million documents per year at full capacity. Customer mail, including items such as invoices, application forms and HR files, comes directly to the site where it is sorted, prepared and digitised, with the required data pulled out and delivered in a format that is ready for customers to use in their systems. The strictest security features are built into the site, allowing Iron Mountain to process highly sensitive and confidential information. All the services provided are fully compliant with European national and international law.

“According to IDC, companies waste between five and 10 per cent of annual revenue on creating, sharing, searching for and protecting paper documents,” said Mark Duale, President of International at Iron Mountain. “This is because the use and distribution of paper documents is almost impossible to track. Filing them uses up valuable space and resources, and they can easily be lost or damaged. The case for scanning is therefore overwhelming, and many businesses are beginning to digitise their documents.”

For many organisations, the step to wholesale digitisation is daunting. Fears exist about information security and access, the impact on paper-based business processes, compatibility with paper and electronic archives and the minefield of rapidly changing national and European regulation.

Iron Mountain’s approach builds on 60 years of expertise in operational management and compliance. The new scanning centre offers customers more than just a hub for digitising documents. It also allows them to extract the full value of that information, whether it is customer details for financial processes or valuable intellectual property. This ensures that information management becomes a vital business process.

Services provided by the new centre include logistics (secure document collection and delivery); intelligent scanning; information extraction, indexing and validation; secure storage; rapid data retrieval (for example for legal disclosure or auditing purposes); and end-of-life, legally compliant shredding or destruction.

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About Iron Mountain:

Iron Mountain provides information management services that help organisations lower the costs, risks and inefficiencies of managing their physical and digital data. The Company’s solutions enable customers to protect and better use their information—regardless of its format, location or lifecycle stage—so they can optimise their business and ensure proper recovery, compliance and discovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of information assets, including business records, electronic files, medical data, emails and more for organisations around the world. Visit www.ironmountain.co.uk for more information.

In June 2011, the National Library of Scotland installed two public use book2net Kiosks to allow an enhanced book scanning service for their users. This installation highlights the increasing shift towards digital capture systems and offering users a faster, higher quality and modern scanning option.

We interviewed Preservation and Conservation Manager, Rab Jackson, on the key reasons for implementing these modern, next generation book scanners.

About Genus

UK based specialists in imaging, document, archive and print management throughout the world.We advise on and provide solutions for document and image archiving/access for many sectors such as Libraries, Banks, Defence, Engineering, Financial, Government, Health, Nuclear and Pharmaceutical.

Genus is a solutions provider for the entire life-cycle of documents, books and microfilm, dealing with their creation, access, scanning, archiving, and retrieval.

Our document management and data storage services, archiving hardware and software, document imaging, microfilm and archive document retrieval systems are all detailed on our website.

Leading purchase-to-pay specialist introduces new, rapid-deployment cloud solution for more efficient invoice handling from receipt to payment

25 October 2011 – Palette, the leading enterprise purchase-to-pay specialist is launching a new cloud-based solution, PaletteOnline, to give companies fastest possible access to easier and more efficient invoice processing, with minimal set-up and configuration.

The new invoice management service will enable businesses of any size to benefit from an automated, paperless invoice processing solution in a matter of days, helping to improve customers’ accounts and reduce costs.

The service uses PaletteInvoice’s flexible web-based architecture to give users secure access in the cloud to their invoices for checking, authorisation and detailed reporting. This gives businesses complete visibility of and access to their supplier invoices from any location with an internet connection.

PaletteOnline is available in three versions, PaletteOnline Unplugged, PaletteOnline Express, and PaletteOnline Arena:

PaletteOnline Unplugged is aimed at smaller companies, companies in the process of changing financial systems, or those wanting to trial an automated service. Integration with ERP is done by exchanging information with file(s) in standardised format, which gives the fastest possible deployment, without limiting product functionality.

PaletteOnline Express uses the most optimised setup of PaletteInvoice with readymade web service integration to the market’s most popular finance and ERP systems. PaletteOnline Express manages the entire invoice scanning and authentication process securely in the cloud. This service deploys within a few days, and is aimed at users processing between 2,000 and 25,000 invoices per year.

PaletteOnline Arena is the complete package, which includes the features from Express and Unplugged to provide a comprehensive system, aimed towards companies that require a bespoke process to meet their needs. With PaletteOnline Arena, the customer can use all the functions and modules of the Palette product family including line level matching, and Buyer for purchase management.

Lars Ola Petters, Palette’s CEO, said: “For many companies, it’s a big decision to introduce an automated invoice processing system because of the costs and deployment time required by traditional solutions. PaletteOnline removes this threshold and make the transition to automated invoice processing as easy as possible.

“Our cloud-based solution gives customers a truly seamless method for managing their supplier invoices more efficiently, delivering real, ongoing savings in both costs and time.”

Getting started with PaletteOnline is simple: users select the package they require, choose how they wish to receive invoices, then provide basic company information to enable Palette to configure the customer solution. Functions including on-line scanning of invoices and connections to customer ERP systems are then tested, and the system is made live.

User subscription is simple and efficient, as customers are charged per invoice, so only pay for what they use. PaletteOnline can process e-invoices or handle paper-based invoices via the following methods:

· Self-scan and verification by the user with any commercially available systems such as Readsoft and Kofax

· Scan locally but verify in the cloud (no local installation necessary)

· Use a service bureau that takes care of incoming invoices, from receiving to sorting and scanning. Customers will then receive the invoices in the PaletteOnline system.


This helps to streamline administrative duties, resulting in a more efficient, and effective all-round AP system. The solutions link to customers’ ERP systems through a secure web service, giving seamless, safe communication between the two. Once approved, all incoming invoices are securely stored with the corresponding postal information.

Finance departments will also experience a wide range of instant benefits, such as reduced workload, better control, and reduced costs.

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Palette contact: Petra Hagman +46 8 763 092 25 email: petra.hagman@palettegroup.com

EMC has launched EMC Documentum Mobile app for the Apple iPad, which will provide users with access to EMC Documentum anytime, anywhere.

Documentum Mobile is available free for customers with existing EMC Documentum client licenses from Apple iTunes. It will provide secure access to information for workers to make informed decisions, quickly search for required information and participate in business processes.

Enables “New User” of Post PC Era to Securely Search, Browse, and Interact - With Enterprise Information - from Anywhere

September 12, 2011—EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced availability of the new EMC Documentum Mobile app for the Apple iPad, providing users with true enterprise capabilities from anywhere. Documentum Mobile is available free for customers with existing EMC Documentum client licenses from Apple iTunes. It provides secure access to information for workers to make informed decisions—quickly search for required information and participate in business processes – regardless of location. This is the first proof-point of EMC’s commitment to supporting ‘Choice Computing,’ which enables users to access, share and collaborate on their preferred device.

New Documentum Mobile offers users increased mobility for form-factor appropriate use-cases and is compatible with Documentum 6.6 and 6.7 versions. It extends the power of the EMC Documentum platform to improve information worker productivity with fast access to information including business documents and rich media. It provides a simple iOS native interface to perform common tasks such as browsing the repository, searching and previewing information, downloading content, gaining offline access, and collaborating and approving workflow tasks from anywhere. Documentum Mobile leverages a set of RESTful services on top of Documentum platform to offer mobility without compromising security and information governance policies, leveraging the enterprise-strength security synonymous with the Documentum brand.

Documentum Mobile is designed for the “new user” of the Post PC era, which is the impetus driving the user interface strategy for EMC’s Information Intelligence Group (IIG).The strategy includes making the user experience compelling, fast and modern; expressing it on a variety of end-point devices including tablets and smart-phones and finally enabling agile composition of new information enabled solutions.

“The iPad has truly revolutionised the way work gets done,” said Rohit Ghai, Vice President and General Manager, Content and Case Management Group, EMC Information Intelligence Group. “EMC is delighted to deliver a key component of our strategy to empower the ‘new user’ in the Post-PC Era, who’s far more mobile, social and thrives on instant access to business-critical information. Organisations can now realise a higher return on their investment through increased end user adoption of content and case management solutions.”

“We've seen the use of tablets in the enterprise just explode over the past year or so –whether as a laptop replacement for executives on the go, or as a platform for mobile apps for sales and field service personnel,” said Melissa Webster, program vice president for Content and Digital Media Technologies at IDC. “All of these users need access to their content – and to the enterprise repository that manages that content – in a seamless, easy-to-use way that nonetheless provides comprehensive security to safeguard the enterprise’s intellectual property and most confidential information.”

To access Documentum Mobile, visit Apple iTunes. For more information, visit http://www.emc.com/DocumentumMobile

About EMC

EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyse their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com.

London, August 26th, 2011 – Datafinity announced today that Haulfryn Group Ltd is achieving significant time savings since deploying a new document capture and document management system to handle their accounts documents. The system, which was installed earlier this year as part of a major IT overall, consists of PSIGEN PSI:Capture software for scanning and data extraction and Microsoft SharePoint 2010 for document management. The system has increased the speed of the whole process, which involves indexing and storing thousands of invoices and contracts every week, and provided faster and easier access to information through SharePoint.


Datafinity, UK distributor of PSI:Capture, was introduced to Haulfryn Group through their Microsoft solutions provider, Total Enterprise Solutions who have implemented a new ERP system based on Microsoft Dynamics NAV. By combining leading capture software from PSIGEN and proven document management and ERP solutions from Microsoft, Haulfryn Group have a system which is able to streamline their business today and into the future.

Haulfryn decided to deploy PSI:Capture as their SharePoint 2010 document capture solution because of its flexibility in handling many different document types and its unrivalled interface with SharePoint. Using PSI:Capture in conjunction with Kodak document scanners, they now have an end to end capture solution that provides unmatched speed and automation, along with a simple, yet powerful user interface. “PSI:Capture has made our whole scanning process robust,” said Stephen Lattimore, IT Implementation Project Manager for Haulfryn. “We can now quickly reference our documents in SharePoint 2010 for audit and service.” Along with the current scanning process, Haulfryn plans to add the processing of survey forms and other documents in the near future.

About Haulfryn Group Ltd

Haulfryn Group Ltd, founded in 1935, operates holiday and residential mobile home parks in England and Wales. The holiday parks are mainly in North Wales and include The Warren, one of the best known and highest quality parks in the UK. Others are in South Devon and on the East Sussex coast. Residential home parks are situated in the Home Counties, Cheltenham, Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire. The business includes substantial redevelopment and upgrading of parks. Haulfryn is one of the industry leaders, particularly in raising the standards both of the parks and of the homes provided on them.


Top Image Systems™ (TIS™) Ltd. (Nasdaq: TISA) announced today that its eFLOW™ platform was selected as the data & content management solution for the 2011 German Census. The project will entail the digital capture and processing of approximately 180 million questionnaire pages by seven statistical offices. The largest project in the Company’s history to date, it will involve not only high-volume, high-speed automated document scanning and recognition, but tailored scanning integration and data-processing security applications.

With this project TIS is recognized by Germany as a leading provider of census data management solutions, following similar census projects it has executed in 17 countries over the last twelve years.

• Canon Europe, world-leader in imaging solutions, today announces the launch of uniFLOW Version 5.1, extending the industry's first single platform to manage print and scanning processes to mobile devices including smartphones, tablets and netbooks
• The solution has been developed in partnership with customers in response to specific business requirements, and is completely flexible
• Users can print remotely without connecting to a company's local network
• Ideal for visitors to an organisation, for printing in hotels and airports when travelling for business, or for students in a university
• Organisations can measure and track usage, charge back costs and identify misuse due to the uniFLOW platform's cost management and measurement features

• uniFLOW V5.1 supports all internet enabled mobile devices and enables jobs to be printed across full range of devices from desktop through to MFDs and large format printers
• Goes beyond simple wireless printing, providing businesses with flexibility, scalability and complete control over mobile printing across their organisation
• uniFLOW V5.1 provides one central platform for all traditional PC-based and mobile print requirements offering organisations of all sizes the ability to cost-effectively and securely link mobile workers, contractors and even visitors to their print network
• Delivers potential revenue-making opportunities for organisations looking to charge for mobile printing on site (e.g. airport business lounges, universities and hotels)

• Ad hoc usage, whereby customers submit a document to the uniFLOW printer and pay per print job
• Mobile printing as a service, for example in an airport lounge where it is offered as a complementary service to frequent flyers
• Internal / departmental usage, for example in a corporate environment or university where users have an account

• Users can send jobs to a uniFLOW enabled printer as easily as they can from their normal PC, without needing to download a new application or drivers
• Users can either download the uniFLOW app and submit print jobs via email or web browser
• Alternatively uniFLOW can create a print job from the body text of an email, as well as from attachments
• Neither require any drivers to be installed on a mobile device

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Paul Rowntree, European Product Marketing Director, Canon Europe:
Recent research found that over half of workers using smartphones can't print from their device, but want to. With uniFLOW Version 5.1, organisations can offer their staff flexible ways of working, including mobile printing.

uniFLOW Version 5.1 is more comprehensive than other mobile print offerings available on the market. It goes beyond simply offering mobile printing; providing the same security, cost-control safeguards and multi-vendor device finishing options that organisations expect from networked devices – all in one integrated platform.

uniFLOW v5.1 helps businesses work more flexibly without compromising corporate security or opening themselves up to unmanaged costs. It provides an effective solution to optimise an organisation's MFD and to provide innovative services like remote printing for visitors or for managing student printing.

- Implementation of Invu Document Management Systems offers Milner Boardman a swift ROI, reducing admin and filing space, as well as improving customer service whilst bringing confirmed savings of £30k in the first year -

25th October 2011: Milner Boardman, has implemented Invu Document Management Software to digitise over 7,000 client files and improve document access and retrieval. With staff no longer spending an average of 15-30 minutes a day on filing, the accounting firm benefits from an opportunity cost of nearly £60,000 pa, which was previously put down to lost chargeable fees.

Milner Boardman is an independent firm of Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers based in Altrincham, South Manchester. The practice provides a range of compliance and planning services for a mixed client base and is a member of the 2020 Innovation Group. The firm has also developed additional lines of business with financial and HR services arms.

The firm chose to move to a centralised document management system as the ability to respond quickly to clients and work remotely was undermined by the intrinsic inefficiencies of the previously mixed electronic and paper-based document storage system. In contrast, rapid document retrieval through Invu now allows clients to receive fast responses, while remote workers can access any document as easily as office- based staff.

Further benefits and opportunities have been found concerning filing and office space - hidden costs that most practices take for granted. It was estimated that on average each staff member spent 15-30 minutes a day on filing and locating files, resulting in an opportunity cost to the practice of nearly £60,000pa in lost chargeable time. Also, with plans to expand the practice, the release of approximately 800 sq. feet of floor space from legacy filing cabinets will be used to house another 6-8 fee earners, offering a potential contribution to the practice bottom line in excess of £300,000 pa.

The introduction of Invu Document Management also resulted in a rapid ROI in printing costs within the first seven months. The £16,000 annual print contract has been swiftly renegotiated and the fee halved due to the significant drop in reproducing documents. Stationary costs are also reduced by an estimated £10,000 pa. Filing clerk costs are eradicated, saving a further £14,000.

Commenting on the ROI, Managing Partner Tony Collier comments, “We have confirmed savings of over £30K a year without even considering any ‘softer’ efficiency savings.” It became clear that the level of printing was considerably short of that factored into the existing print contract and that is “at least 90%” due to implementing Invu.

Finally, compliance has been a key consideration throughout the introduction of Invu to Milner Boardman. The firm undertakes an independent annual compliance review and the results since the implementation and changes to the way the firm works have been praised. The compliance reviewer said that “the file structures were excellent, easy to follow and 100% available.”

Tony concludes, “The practice is in good shape – staff tell me that going paperless was the best thing we’ve ever done. Invu gives us a competitive advantage by keeping a lid on costs, improving service and meeting ICAEW audit regulations – it makes sense to leverage our investment as we expand.”

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About Invu

Invu develops software that incorporates document management, content management, workflow, automation and collaboration specialising in solutions for the mid-market and smaller businesses.

Also known as the paperless office, Invu typically gives a return on investment in under six months, allowing companies to see efficiency savings in terms of both money and time.

Over 4,500 organisations use Invu. From professional services (such as accountants, IFAs and insurers) to education; from housing associations to manufacturing and engineering; from transport & logistics to construction and charities.

Invu’s Open Search integration allows SharePoint users to utilise fully the benefits of WSS/SharePoint Foundation or MOSS/SharePoint Server whilst retaining the functions of specialist document and content management.

Invu’s solutions enable automated scan, capture and management, processing and output transformation.

Invu also integrates with all major accounting systems including IRIS and Sage, as well as ERP and CRM systems.

More Information: www.invu.net

SHAWNEE, Kan. ­ (18 Oct. 2011) Perceptive Software, creator of enterprise content management (ECM) products, including ImageNow document management, imaging and workflow solutions, announced today that the company has partnered with AssureSign LLC, an electronic signature provider based in Altamonte Springs, Fla.

The primary purpose of the partnership is to give users the ability to share content electronically with other ImageNow customers and external partners, allowing them to review, approve, authorize and sign documents, returning the documents directly to ImageNow for further processing, counter-signing and storage. Seamless integration between the solutions will allow users to efficiently and accurately capture, review, version, sign and store documents.

Electronic signatures open up many opportunities to sign documents, at the time of submission or at any time throughout the process, allowing users to interact with documents for processes in HR, contracts management, healthcare, higher education and any other line of business, said Darren Knipp, chief technology officer, Perceptive Software. Like Perceptive Software, AssureSign is focused on customers and developing a product with superior functionality that is elegant and easy to use, while being fully compliant.

AssureSign is excited to partner with Perceptive Software as our electronic signature software is integrated with ImageNow, said David W. Brinkman, president and chief executive officer of AssureSign LLC. This integration will streamline the document execution process leveraging the strength of two industry leading applications for an exceptional user experience.

About Perceptive Software (www.perceptivesoftware.com)

Perceptive Software, a stand-alone business unit within Lexmark International, builds enterprise content management software to help organizations effortlessly manage the entire lifecycle of their documents and information, fueling greater operational efficiency. Organizations in more than 30 countries rely on Perceptive Software and its flagship product ImageNow® to simplify their business processes through cost-effective content management solutions that create immediate and lasting impact.

BRACKNELL, UK. September 21, 2011 – HP today announced its
HP Exstream customer communications management solution has been recognised by Forrester Research, Inc. as a leader among top vendors in The Forrester Wave™: Document Output For Customer Communications Management (DOCCM), Q3 2011.

HP achieved top scores and top rankings in the Current Offering and Market Presence categories for HP Exstream 8.0, which is designed for strategic enterprise management of multichannel customer communications.

Many of the UK’s leading financial institutions, utility providers and other companies and organisations use HP Exstream’s software to enhance customer communications.

According to the Forrester report, “HP Exstream leads with great overall balance. HP leads the pack with top numbers across needed capabilities as well as a continued strength for high-volume applications and a growing customer installed base.”

HP was additionally noted by Forrester for its much-improved interactive capability and continued strength for structured and batch applications. The company’s top ranking in the Market Presence category reflected a strong market presence and excellent strategies to meet emerging DOCCM needs.

“HP Exstream’s placement as a leader in the Forrester Wave report is substantiation that our strategy and focus on meeting customer needs is working,” said Tony Beynsberger, UK Sales Manager, Exstream, HP. “More than 700 enterprises around the world are using HP Exstream to build loyalty and form lasting customer relationships, while driving top-line revenue growth.”

The report defines DOCCM as software used to compose, format, personalise and distribute content to support physical and electronic customer communications and improve the customer experience. The independent research firm places vendors into four “waves”: leaders, strong performers, contenders and risky bets. The DOCCM product landscape includes enterprise-level solutions that can potentially support structured, interactive and on-demand segments of customer communications.

HP Exstream enables enterprises to streamline document creation processes and produce more effective, relevant communications of most types for delivery including print, web, SMS and email. Recently, HP Exstream launched its latest version of the software, HP Exstream 8.0.

More information on HP Exstream 8.0 and the report is available at www.hp.com/go/ExstreamV8 and www.hp.com/go/CCMLeader, respectively.

About HP

HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure at the convergence of the cloud and connectivity, creating seamless, secure, context-aware experiences for a connected world. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.

Customers Increase Efficiency and Reduce Costs

IRVINE, Calif. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Kofax plc (LSE: KFX), a leading provider of capture driven business process automation solutions, today announced its continued leadership in helping to optimize Microsoft enterprise applications.

As an independent software vendor, Kofax and its solutions enable capture driven business process automation, delivering content to Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007, Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft SQL Server. Capture driven business process automation represents the progression of a document through scanning or ingestion, classification, separation, content extraction, data validation, communication and delivery. By automating what would otherwise be labor intensive, manual processes needed to enter information into SharePoint and other Microsoft enterprise applications and repositories, Kofax solutions increase efficiency and reduce costs.

For example, the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority (CHFA), which provides financial assistance to residential and commercial property buyers and developers, deployed a Kofax capture solution to scan, classify, separate, extract content, validate data and deliver results to a proprietary enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and a SharePoint repository. The information can now be more easily accessed by employees across the enterprise to initiate business processes. As a result, CHFA's paper processing times were reduced from one day to 15 minutes, and information retrieval times were also reduced from more than 12 minutes to three seconds, saving CHFA $150,000 on paper based storage costs in the first year.

Kofax continues to demonstrate its commitment to the Microsoft community though its capture solutions for SharePoint, said Jared Spataro, Senior Director, Product Management for SharePoint at Microsoft Corp. Working together with Microsoft, Kofax can focus on increasing accuracy and helping maximize productivity for our mutual customers.

Kofax capture driven business process automation solutions offer scalable and flexible capabilities to optimize SharePoint, allowing organizations to fully utilize their knowledge sharing investment, said Martyn Christian, Chief Marketing Officer at Kofax.

Kofax will be demonstrating its capture driven business process automation solutions for SharePoint and Office 365 in booth 264 at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim. To learn more about how Kofax's solutions help optimize SharePoint, visit: www.kofax.com/solutions/microsoft.asp.

About Kofax

Kofax plc (LSE: KFX) is a leading provider of capture driven business process automation solutions. For 25 years, Kofax has provided award-winning solutions that streamline the flow of information throughout an organization by managing the capture of business critical information arising in paper, fax and electronic formats in a more accurate, timely and cost effective manner. These solutions provide a rapid return on investment to thousands of customers in banking and financial services, insurance, government, business process outsourcing and other markets. Kofax delivers these solutions through its own sales and service organizations, and a global network of more than 800 authorized partners in more than 70 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific. For more information, visit www.kofax.com.

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- Programme open to existing resellers and new partners

September 1, 2011 – Kodak today announced a new channel programme designed to attract new partners in Europe to sell its award winning range of scanning solutions.

Called the Reseller Rewards Programme, it replaces the Kodak Reseller and Kodak Reseller Club Programmes and existing members will be able to register automatically in their Partnersite account. It is open to any reseller wishing to sell Kodak scanners, software and service, with registration entitling them to:

- Benefit from promotions and incentives,

- Entitlement to exclusive demo unit offers,

- Access a Partnersite for a broad range of marketing collateral: brochures, images, press releases, sales handbooks, presentations, competitive information, flash movies, etc,

- Use a “Reseller Rewards Programme” logo on their web pages, adverts, event graphics etc

- Participate in Kodak Document Imaging webinars,

- Receive regular news and information about products and services and promotions.

Odile Di Mascio, Channel Marketing Manager EAMER, Kodak Document Imaging, explained “The objectives of this new programme are to reward resellers’ loyalty and make it easier for them to partner with Kodak. Based on feedback from our partners, we have simplified the programme and diversified the content of our promotions.”

The Reseller Rewards Programme is being introduced with a promotion on Kodak i4000 Series Scanners available on all sales until December 31, 2011. Resellers will receive great prizes including an Xbox & Kinect pack! All products must be purchased through a Kodak Authorised Distributor.

Companies who sign up to the new Reseller Rewards Programme can also benefit from selling Kodak Service and Support contracts with its hardware and software. Kodak Service and Support is an award winning organisation made up of more than 3,000 professionals in more than 120 countries. The largest and best trained service organisation in the world, Kodak Service and Support is a leading multi-vendor integrated services provider, delivering consulting, installation, maintenance and support services for the commercial printing, graphic communications, document imaging and data storage industries. Kodak Service and Support professionals are uniquely qualified to provide services that control costs, maximise productivity, and minimise business risk.

For more information visit https://kodak.doldemedien.com/partnersite

Geographical limitations and currency restrictions apply.
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About Kodak

As the world's foremost imaging innovator, Kodak helps consumers, businesses, and creative professionals unleash the power of pictures and printing to enrich their lives.

To learn more, visit www.kodak.com, and our blogs: 1000words.kodak.com, and 1000nerds.kodak.com. Kodak corporate news releases are now offered via RSS feeds. To subscribe, visit www.kodak.com/go/RSS and look for the RSS symbol.

In addition, Kodak podcasts are viewable at www.kodak.com/go/podcasts. Podcasts may be downloaded for viewing on iTunes, Quicktime, or other PC-based media players. Users may also subscribe to Kodak podcasts via the iTunes Store by typing “Kodak Close Up” in the search field at the top of the iTunes Store window. Kodak is a trademark of Eastman Kodak.

The Magic Quadrant is a proprietary research tool developed by Gartner that offers visual snapshots of a market’s direction, maturity and participants, and evaluates companies on completeness of vision and ability to execute.

Still the market leader in MPS, Xerox continues to save businesses of all sizes up to 30 percent of operating costs with new features such as print governance – aautomated guidelines that direct users to the most cost-effective, energy-efficient option. By adding business process and IT outsourcing services from ACS, A Xerox Company, and working with partners like Cisco, Xerox is helping customers use MPS as a way to simplify print and IT management.

We believe Xerox maintains its leadership position in MPS by understanding what our customers need most – from supportingg the mobile workforce, to a simplified approach for small businesses,” said Stephen Cronin, president, Xerox Global Document Outsourcing. “We’re racing ahead of our competition because we continue to innovate on behalf of our clients, providing technology and services that not only save time and money but also add incremental value to their real business.

Xerox earns customer confidence using Lean Six Sigma-based assessments to evaluate daily work processes and design MPS strategies that guarantee significant cost savings based on specific data and observations. Xerox also extends its offering to small and mid-sized businesses via the company's global network of channel partners, who build their own branded MPS programme for clients with Xerox support and training.

About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2011 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for Managed Print Services, Worldwide, Ken Weilerstein, Cecile Drew, Yulan Li, October 25, 2011

About Xerox Europe
Xerox Europe, the European operations of Xerox Corporation, markets a comprehensive range of Xerox products, solutions and services, as well as associated supplies and software. Its offerings are focused on three main areas: offices from small to large, production print and graphic arts environments, and services that include consulting, systems design and management, and document outsourcing. Through ACS, A Xerox Company, which Xerox acquired in February 2010, Xerox also offers extensive business process outsourcing and IT outsourcing services, including data processing, HR benefits management, finance support, and customer relationship management services for commercial and government organisations worldwide. The 134,000 people of Xerox serve clients in more than 160 countries.

Xerox Europe also has manufacturing and logistics operations in Ireland, the UK and the Netherlands, and a research and development facility (Xerox Research Centre Europe) in Grenoble, France.

For more information visit www.xerox.com.

DataStoreDSX delivers cost effective end-to-end enterprise content and compliance control

1st September 2011, Slough -- Hitec, a leading provider of enterprise content, risk and compliance management solutions, has today launched DataStoreDSX enterprise content management platform.  It is highly scalable and easy for users to learn, with a flexible modular licensing model enabling close and cost-effective alignment to each customer’s specific needs. DataStoreDSX can index and manage content from any source and delivers powerful and fully configurable search capabilities at the user’s desktop, and flexible integration with other enterprise systems enables consolidated reporting and aids compliance.

DataStoreDSX represents the next stage of evolution of Hitec’s DataStore document management products which have been relied upon for more than 20 years by hundreds of customers in over 30 countries and across many industry sectors.  It is the 4th generation of a product which has been continually developed in response to customers’ evolving needs. Enhanced functionality ensures that DataStoreDSX meets today’s growing content challenges.

DataStoreDSX helps organisations capture, preserve, store, process, re-use and deliver content across the organisation regardless of whether its source is a scanned document, a spreadsheet, word document, a print stream or email.  It incorporates the full functionality of a traditional document management solution, overlaid with advanced tools to index, search and deliver enterprise content. DataStoreDSX also unlocks the potential for automation of business process management and workflow models, electronic document delivery to customers, and much more.

DataStoreDSX features include:

• Modular format comprising document management and output management enables companies to implement enterprise wide solutions, or point solutions to address specific requirements.

• Scalable for use as a departmental, enterprise-wide or global solution

• Familiar user interface shortens the learning curve for users and speeds time to value

• Configurable Search window can present users with the combination of content required for the task - from delivery notes, to passport images, to an MRI scan – and provides users with the ability to personalise desktop for favourite or regular content tasks and set up personalised search profiles

• Powerful Multi-level Indexing and search and text mining tools to not only create a single repository but ensure that information searches return highly relevant results

• Sophisticated Document Imaging.  Index and manage content from any source including document scanning and capture via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of text document, human-marked data on forms via Optical Mark Recognition (OMR), handwriting via Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) or barcodes

• Report Mining. Integrate and index computer-generated outputs from other enterprise systems for report mining, consolidated reporting, compliance or e-presentment

• Powerful ‘crawler’ provides Full Text Search capabilities for deep searching of entire content repositories, or sections specified using particular parameters

• Published APIs enable full and straightforward integration with Microsoft SharePoint and other ECM and DM solutions, common enterprise repositories and storage management systems as well as complete MS Office integration and archiving

• Integration with Microsoft Active Directory enhances security of information through automated user management and single sign-on capabilities for user authentication

• Automated Information Lifecycle Management to enable the management of information according to data retention policies and on-time compliance with disposal regulations

• Can be fully installed on-premise or available off-premise as a hosted service.

The solution and its supporting licensing model have been designed to be modular and so can be implemented in a tailored way that suits the organisation - as a total ECM solution or as a clear upgrade path to ECM for current users of DataStore document management.

Commenting on the launch Jeremy Crame, Hitec CEO said “We have spent over twenty years listening to our customers and responding as new pain points emerged. Today the overwhelming demand is to help them manage the risks associated with uncontrolled information, and to help them drive efficiencies and optimise business performance.
Compliance with regulations and the demands of corporate governance as a whole mean that unmanaged corporate content is becoming a risk they cannot afford, and there is a growing recognition that organisational information is central to disaster recovery planning too.”  

Organisations face increasing volume and complexity of information to manage, and the challenge of dealing with the unstructured variety is increasing.  Unlike structured data which can be managed in an orderly way, unstructured data has no boundaries. It spans the infinitely variable information contained within documents from different applications, web pages, spreadsheets, emails, print and  multimedia files and beyond. It is becoming more expensive and harder to manage for businesses, harder to search and utilise for staff, taking more and more time and directly impacting efficiency. Organisations must not only manage this, but also manage the increasing cost and constraints of that content which is not yet in electronic format. To release the power of the information held in hard copy through image capture has been a core component of Document Management. However, to gain true end to end control over this content requires more than traditional DM systems can offer.  End to end ECM is the next step.

About Hitec

For more than 20 years Hitec has been helping customers in the financial, public and private sectors to address some of their most pressing business and operational challenges. Hitec develops, customises and delivers solutions that help organisations of all sizes to reduce cost, improve efficiency and protect their reputations. Its solutions span enterprise content, risk and compliance management. Hitec helps companies enhance their business effectiveness and drive the organisational efficiencies they need in this highly competitive and tough economic environment. Hitec creates close and long-lasting customer relationships which start with building a deep understanding of the client’s business, followed by an implementation process that ensures tight and seamless integration with existing systems. In addition to regional offices, Hitec have appointed a global network of authorised and fully trained Business Partners, who market, implement and support solutions around the world. More information can be found at www.hiteclabs.com

Seasoned Enterprise Software Professional Brings Extensive Experience

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kofax plc (LSE: KFX), a leading provider of capture driven process automation solutions, today announced it has hired Phillip Jones as its Vice President of Field Enablement. The creation and staffing of the position, which will focus on optimizing the success of field sales and service roles, reasserts Kofax’s commitment to both its direct and indirect channel as part of its strategic growth initiatives.

Mr. Jones joins Kofax with more than 20 years of experience in sales and marketing operations within the enterprise software sector. He has held executive leadership roles with IBM and FileNet in channel marketing and partner solutions, as well as positions in sales enablement, education and performance in Europe and the United States. Mr. Jones is based at Kofax’s operating headquarters in Irvine, Calif.

“Kofax is experiencing a tremendous amount of growth, making this an exciting time to join the sales team and help contribute to its continued success,” said Mr. Jones.

“Phillip is a proven innovator and leader in the enablement field,” said Alan Kerr, Executive Vice President of Field Operations at Kofax. “As we continue to move forward in our strategic growth initiatives, he’ll be a valued addition to our team.”

About Kofax

Kofax plc (LSE: KFX) is a leading provider of capture driven process automation solutions. For 25 years, Kofax has provided award-winning solutions that streamline the flow of information throughout an organization by managing the capture of business critical information in paper, fax and electronic formats in a more accurate, timely and cost effective manner. These solutions provide a rapid return on investment to thousands of customers in banking and financial services, insurance, government, business process outsourcing and other markets. Kofax delivers these solutions through its own sales and service organization, as well as through a global network of more than 700 authorized partners in more than 60 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific. For more information, visit www.kofax.com.

“Kofax” is a registered trademark in the US, the EU and other regions. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

www.scality.com

San Francisco, CA and Rome, Italy - August 30, 2011 - Scality today announced that Aziende Italia, one of the top web-hosting and internet service providers (ISPs) in Italy, has deployed the Scality RING cloud storage platform with TwinStrata CloudArray®. The seamless integration of Scality's RING organic storage platform into the TwinStrata family of CloudArray virtual and physical appliances was announced last November.

The combined solution is used by Aziende Italia to offer unlimited-capacity business email along with a new online backup service for its B2B customers.

Aziende Italia's CTO, Federico D'Ormea, said, "The unlimited scaling possible with Scality RING, at a very low production cost, represents for us a definitive solution for all of the cloud services we're going to deploy this year. After an extensive evaluation of various storage technologies, we chose Scality RING's easy-to-manage architecture because it has 'no single point of failure' and because it will give us the ability to deploy our new unlimited Business Class Mail service in a secure environment with very high availability and performance -- two of our customers' greatest expectations. With the help of Scality's technologists, we chose TwinStrata CloudArray, which presents the cloud storage as traditional block storage, to allow our customers to leverage our cloud storage service without any change to their infrastructure."

Ann Doyle, VP Sales, TwinStrata, added, "By using Scality RING with TwinStrata CloudArray, Aziende Italia is now able to meet customers' data storage demands in a secure, economical and easy-to-deploy cloud storage architecture."

Adoption of Scality's patented RING technology is steadily increasing among business and cloud storage companies throughout Europe. Scality is already the leading cloud storage vendor in Germany, and the company now has several customers in Italy.

"Twinstrata CloudArray coupled with Scality RING organic storage technology offers a complete solution that delivers the best of both worlds - compatibility with legacy applications and a radical decrease in cost. We are glad to see Aziende Italia, one of the most visionary players in Italy, be the first to provide our combined offering in an integrated package", said Jérôme Lecat, CEO of Scality.


CloudArray technology explained

CloudArray® data storage and data protection software enables businesses to instantly expand their available storage capacity using public and private storage clouds. CloudArray seamlessly integrates into existing on-premise storage environments and delivers cost-effective enterprise-class storage services optimized for performance, multi-site availability and elastic unlimited storage capacity at a substantial cost-savings over traditional storage solutions.

CloudArray Software is available as a virtual appliance supporting all the market-leading hypervisors: VMware ESX/ESXi, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V and Amazon EC2. It is also available in a physical appliance for customers that prefer dedicated purpose-built hardware.

For more on Scality: http://www.scality.com
For more on Aziende Italia: http://www.aziendeitalia.com
For more on TwinStrata: http://www.twinstrata.com

ENDS

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Laura Nelson/Bree Bolognese, (for TwinStrata)
SVM Public Relations
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Mario D'Ormea (for Aziende Italia)
Tel:+39 06 452215460
info@aziendeitalia.com
www.aziendeitalia.com


About Scality

Scality is a VC backed, Silicon Valley-based company delivering Scality RING Organic Storage, the ultimate solution for the storage of unstructured data at petabyte scale with zero downtime and no data migration.

The organic design creates a scale-out system with distributed intelligence, which has no single point of failure and is resilient and self-healing. Customers achieve high availability, ease of operations and total control of their data at a fraction of the cost of traditional storage. Built with patented technology, Scality RING easily scales to exabytes using x86 commodity server hardware with direct attached storage.

Typically used for private clouds (especially backup, video and file sharing, media archive, healthcare, genomics and geophysics), for public clouds (StaaS), for SaaS applications (webmail) and for Web 2.0 services, Scality RING is the first object-based storage technology to deliver the performance required for primary application storage.

For more information please visit www.scality.com or follow Scality on Twitter: @Scality.


About TwinStrata, Inc.

TwinStrata is an innovator in enterprise-class data storage, data protection and disaster recovery/business continuity solutions using cloud storage. With TwinStrata CloudArray®, companies of all sizes can simply and economically leverage the scalability and efficiency of cloud storage while maintaining the availability, performance and security of local storage. CloudArray software and hardware solutions support all file and operating systems, and deliver substantial advantages over traditional off-site storage solutions, including a pay-as-you-go model, unlimited elastic capacity, local performance, in-cloud snapshots and disaster recovery, dynamic caching, automated policies, AES256 encryption, and continuous access to data. For more information about TwinStrata and CloudArray software, visit www.twinstrata.com or follow CloudArray on Twitter: @CloudArray.

About Aziende Italia Srl

Aziende Italia S.r.l, based in Rome and Prague, offers a huge variety of web hosting services to the Italian and Czech markets. Online since 1999, was one of the first companies to have internet services as its core business in Italy, taking its share of the market by offering performing and reliable Web Hosting services and building strong relationships with customers from business and consumers markets.

www.aziendeitalia.com

Partnership provides government municipalities and educational institutions with instant purchasing access for a complete document management solution straight from the NJPA schedule.

Winter Haven, FL - August 26, 2011 - DocuLex, Inc., creator of award-winning, business-ready document management software, announced today that the company was recently awarded a contract from NJPA as a preferred provider of Electronic Document Management Software solutions with its Archive Studio Content Management Software Suite. With DocuLex listed as a contract holder with NJPA, NJPA members and future members can now source a Cloud or Server-based document management solution without having to go through an expensive and time consuming RFP process. NJPA has met their member's procurement requirements as a result of a national competitive contract process. The Archive Studio Suite from DocuLex provides a streamlined approach to indexing, capturing and managing paper based and electronic files.

NJPA is a Member-driven service cooperative with a membership exceeding 35,000. NJPA offers a multitude of products, equipment and service opportunities to education, government and other non-profit entities. Nationally and even beyond NJPA offers Contract Purchasing Solutions that enable businesses and organizations to work smarter, bolder and better. NJPA empowers and enables a business and service alliance between buyers and suppliers to drive successful purchasing programs.

The Archive Studio Software Suite is a 100% secure, browser-based solution that is an easy-to-use, productive electronic document management system for any business seeking instant document access. The Suite and its components enable collaboration, email archiving and compliance, customized workflow and records retention.

Stated Bruce Ogrodnik, NJPA Contract Manager, "Our mission is to provide our members and future members one place to source what they may need in terms of quality equipment and software, eliminating a lot of hassle for them in the purchasing process. We follow a strict protocol when evaluating new companies and products to add as contract holders to our schedule, and DocuLex surpassed our requirements with ease. We are proud to offer our members and future members an approved solution for complete document and content management with the DocuLex Archive Studio Software Suite."

"We are very pleased to have been awarded this contract from NJPA," said David Bailey, DocuLex President. "Partnering with a highly-regarded organization such as NJPA allows DocuLex further reach in to the government and not-for-profit communities. This partnership also allows DocuLex to educate these communities about NJPA if they are not familiar, to show them a more streamlined way to purchase solutions through the NJPA schedule by becoming an NJPA member."

About NJPA

The National Joint Powers Alliance (NJPA) is a Municipal Contracting government agency established through legal statute in 1977. NJPA serves over 35,000 member agencies throughout the nation with competitively bid and awarded purchasing solutions from industry-leading vendors.

About DocuLex

Established in 1996, DocuLex offers years of experience in the field of document and content management software development. DocuLex serves over 1000 customers with its award-winning Archive Studio Sofware Suite, which encompasses document capture, indexing, data conversion, security, 100% browser access, email archiving, workflow, word processing document control and records retention management. Archive Studio is an easy to use, productive content management solution for any business environment seeking secure document access, and is available as a server-based product or an on-demand, cloud-based software as a service. See DocuLex for program information, access to your local dealer and demonstrations.,

Media Contact:

Erin Dempsey
(863) 297-3691 x 260

Weybridge, June 09, 2011 – Whether working in production, retail, service, government, health care, finance or any other industry – 10,000 customers have elected to use DocuWare’s integrated document management system since the company’s founding in 1988. Around 550 of these customers are found in Great Britain and Ireland.

The client base of DocuWare is constantly growing – now reaching more than 10,000 customers encompassing over 100,000 actual users. The German software company was founded in 1988. From the very beginning, the product was designed to be sold exclusively through an international network of Authorised DocuWare Partners. Today, DocuWare’s commitment to markets worldwide is at the heart of its success. DocuWare Corporation, the first foreign subsidiary, was established ten years ago in the US. In 2005, DocuWare Ltd was added in the UK with additional subsidiaries in Paris (DocuWare SARL/2008) and Barcelona (DocuWare S.L./2009) soon thereafter.

Available in 17 Languages

Half of the over 10,000 customers are based in German-speaking countries, approx. 3,500 are based on the North American continent, and the rest are found throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Worldwide success has been possible by offering the software in 17 languages, including versions, for example, in Arabic and Japanese.

“We started with the goal of developing software that would enable users to manage all of their documents in one central document pool – regardless of the document type or their industry", remembers DocuWare co-president, Juergen Biffar. “This core idea remains the same today as it did the beginning; and we continue to develop our software using the latest technologies – to meet the ever changing ways people do business. An example of this would be that all of the key document management features of our Windows Client are now also available in the Web Client of the newest version, DocuWare 5.1c.”

Rapid Expansion of Customer Base

With DocuWare Online for Enterprise, the company will be offering its first Cloud solution in the second half of this year. Administrative tasks are drastically reduced and the leasing model helps companies react more flexibly to organisational changes. Company founder Juergen Biffar sees a big chance in Cloud Computing to expand DocuWare’s customer base. “Our Partners are generally focused on organisational consulting and configuration. By eliminating installation, they see tremendous possibilities for forging new deals more quickly.”

DocuWare – The Company
Founded in 1988, DocuWare has over 10.000 installations and over one hundred thousand satisfied users daily in over 70 countries. This Integrated Document Management Systems (IDMS) producer offers solutions that target small to mid-sized companies, government agencies and departments in large organizations. Over 400 Authorized DocuWare Partners make up a worldwide independent reseller network, employing over 1000 DocuWare experts who bring DocuWare close to its customers.

DocuWare AG is based in Germering near Munich, Germany. The company’s US subsidiary, DocuWare Corporation, is located in Newburgh, New York and is responsible for all activities in North, Central and South America. DocuWare Ltd., its subsidiary in Weybridge, Surrey, handles all activities for Great Britain and Ireland. DocuWare S.L. located in Barcelona is responsible for the market in Spain and DocuWare SARL is located in Paris and attends to France and francophone Africa.

DocuWare – Software for Integrated Document Management
DocuWare is an integrated document management solution that can automate business processes by managing any type of document, regardless of format or source, in a central document pool – for example paper records, letters, faxes, drawings, PC and other electronic files including e-mail.  DocuWare supports all forms of electronic signatures. Integrated records management ensures that all access is secure, controlled, and logged. Using the Internet, the central document pool is available around the clock to any authorized user, no matter where they are located in the world.

A wide range of customizable DocuWare add-on modules equip DocuWare for, among other things, automatic indexing, COLD applications and enhanced workflow features. Other software applications are easily integrated with a set of standard tools. Numerous interfaces exist for ERP systems (including a certified SAP interface) and Groupware (like Exchange, Groupwise or Lotus Notes/Domino). DocuWare incorporates all components needed for powerful Enterprise Content Management. Processes in every company can be automated and improved with DocuWare.  DocuWare solutions are known for their easy installation, administration and operation, as well as an exceptionally low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

DocuWare software is available in 17 languages. Enhanced with workflow functionalities, Web Content Management, and universal integration functions, DocuWare provides powerful Enterprise Content Management (ECM) functionality for enabling expansion throughout an organization.

For more information on DocuWare or photographs visit our website at www.docuware.com or contact annette_schmidt@docuware.com

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DocuWare AG – Public Relations UK
Annette Elizabeth Schmidt
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82110 Germering, Germany
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, For Immediate Release ­ CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM management consulting and research firm announces the release of the CIMdata 2011 Executive PLM Market Report, the first of five modules of the CIMdata PLM Market Analysis Report Series. The MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during 2010. It contains analyses of major trends and issues, leading PLM suppliers, revenue analyses for geographical regions, industry sectors, and historical and projected data on market growth. The CIMdata PLM Market Analysis Report Series is packaged as five modules:

1.        The CIMdata 2011 Executive PLM Market Report provides an overview of CIMdata’s complete global analysis. It includes key charts on PLM market investment statistics through 2010, forecasts of investments for 2011 through 2015, and a summary of PLM suppliers’ performance in 2010.

2.        The CIMdata 2011 PLM Industry Review and Trends Report is mainly qualitative in nature, and focuses on key issues facing the global PLM ecosystem of solution providers and end user organizations. It highlights changes that occurred in 2010, what effects those changes may have in the short and medium term, and what is on the horizon in the years to come.

3.        The CIMdata 2011 PLM Market and Solution Supplier Analysis Report details measures of and forecasts for the overall PLM market and key segments, including Tools, cPDm, and Digital Manufacturing. The Tools section has additional details on sub-segments, including MCAD, NC, S&A, EDA, and AEC. It also includes CIMdata’s estimates of PLM solution supplier revenues in these segments and sub-segments for 2011 through 2015.

4.        The CIMdata 2011 PLM Market Geographic Analysis Report provides an additional view of the 2010 market results, by major geography. CIMdata’s 2010 estimates and market forecasts for PLM and the major PLM market segments are provided for the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific. In addition, the report includes estimates and forecasts for the cPDm segment within specific European and Asia-Pacific countries and regions.

5.        The CIMdata 2011 PLM Market Industry Analysis Report provides an industry segmentation view of the 2010 market results. CIMdata’s 2010 estimates and market forecasts for Mainstream PLM and cPDm are provided for eight different industry sectors: aerospace and defense; automotive and other transportation; electronics/telecommunications; fabrication and assembly; process-packaged goods; process­petrochemical; utilities; and construction, infrastructure and shipbuilding.

“After a down year in 2009, the global PLM market came back strong in 2010,” according to Stan Przybylinski, CIMdata’s Director of Research, “Not only did the PLM market return to overall growth in 2010, many segments grew back to the levels achieved in 2008. With the world’s economies still in recovery mode this bodes well for continued PLM investment growth. CIMdata expects the market to continue to grow in 2011 and beyond.” This analysis provides CIMdata’s perspective on PLM across a variety of industry and geographic sectors. It includes investments in PLM-related software and services during 2010, and forecasted PLM investments for 2011 through 2015. The forecasts are based on data available through the first quarter of 2011. “It is important to note that the data and revenue information presented in this report are CIMdata’s estimates of the PLM revenue performance of the various suppliers.” Mr. Przybylinski added.

The CIMdata PLM Market Analysis Report Series is available as a five-module set or each module can be purchased separately. It is also available as part of the CIMdata PLM Community Gold Membership. Further details and pricing information about the report and Community Memberships are available at www.cimdata.com.

About CIMdata

CIMdata, a leading independent worldwide firm, provides strategic management consulting to maximize an enterprise’s ability to design and deliver innovative products and services through the application of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions. Since its founding in 1983, CIMdata has delivered world-class knowledge, expertise, and best-practice methods on PLM solutions. These solutions incorporate both business processes and a wide-ranging set of PLM enabling technologies.

CIMdata works with both industrial organizations and suppliers of technologies and services seeking competitive advantage in the global economy. In addition to consulting, CIMdata conducts research, provides PLM-focused subscription services, and produces several commercial publications. The company also provides industry education through PLM certificate programs, seminars, and conferences worldwide. CIMdata serves clients around the world from offices in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. To learn more about CIMdata’s services, visit our website at www.CIMdata.com or contact CIMdata at: 3909 Research Park Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA. Tel: +1 (734) 668-9922. Fax: +1 (734) 668-1957; or at Oogststraat 20, 6004 CV Weert, The Netherlands. Tel: +31 (0)495 533 666.

ProcessFlows has recently been appointed a distributor for Equitrac Office® and Equitrac Express® print management software and the ProcessFlows services team are fully ‘tooled-up’ to implement, integrate and support Xerox/Equitrac solutions.

Consequently, ProcessFlows’ Xerox Concessionaire Partners and Channel Partners focused on Managed Print Services (MPS) can now procure Equitrac software and all associated services from a single source – ProcessFlows.

Xerox Concessionaire Document Workflow Solutions (DWS) has recently joined the ProcessFlows Channel Partner Programme.

Phil Britton, Technical Director at DWS explains the reasons why:

“DWS has been selling Xerox print hardware and Equitrac print management for several years. It is a good business model. Customers like Equitrac; it helps them to simply manage and control the use of all copiers, printers, multi-function devices and fax machines; so they can keep a lid on costs and reduce their carbon footprint.”

“Xerox provides an award winning national support service for our hardware solutions and partnering with ProcessFlows enables us to provide the high level of customer service that we strive to deliver.”

“ProcessFlows have the experience in all elements of technical support for Equitrac, and can quickly and efficiently help us deal with any support queries. This provides a truly excellent experience for our clients.”

Franca Cognata, ProcessFlows Channel Partner Manager said; “As a ProcessFlows Channel Partner, DWS gains access to full end-to-end support for Equitrac from our technical support team - from pre-sales assistance to post implementation, ongoing technical back-up – without having to invest in additional support staff. Channel Partners are also able to able to earn a margin on these professional services, which all helps to boost their bottom line.”

Further information about ProcessFlows and Equitrac can be found at:
http://www.processflows.co.uk/technology/equitrac-print-management
http://www.documentworkflowsolutions.com/partners-and-suppliers
and DWS at http://www.documentworkflowsolutions.com

Enterprise search is falling far short of expectations, according to a survey of more than 2,000 directors and managers in the US, UK, Germany and France from MindMetre Research and Smartlogic.  Enterprise search is defined as finding the information you need from within your company, quickly and accurately.  Yet over half (52%) of US and European businesses cannot find the information they seek within an acceptable amount of time, using their own enterprise search facility.

Nearly two-thirds of those surveyed (65%) defined a ‘good search’ as taking less than two minutes to find what they were looking for, but only 48% reported being able to achieve that result in their own organization – a 17% gap between their expectation and their enterprise search reality.  Nearly 90% of respondents report that taking four minutes or more to find the information they want does not constitute an acceptable experience, and yet more than a quarter (27%) say this is the case within their own enterprises

The UK, along with Germany, had the biggest ‘findability’ gap – the difference between search expectation and reality: 69% of respondents define the ‘two-minutes-to-find’ result as the benchmark for a ‘good search’, but only 48% actually find what they want in that time using their own search facility – a 21% gap. And only 9% of UK respondents find a search of over four minutes to be acceptable.

The research, commissioned by Smartlogic and conducted by MindMetre, also showed that 68% of respondents think having a ‘did you mean?’ facility as part of their enterprise search platform would enhance their ability to zero in more precisely on what they need. UK mangers and directors were slightly more inclined to look for such a mechanism to aid them, with 69% indicating they think it would be useful.

 Jeremy Bentley, Chief Executive at Smartlogic, one of the world's leading specialists in improving information ‘findability’ within enterprises, comments: “There is evidently a substantial gap between expectation and reality – ‘enterprise search’ often doesn’t mean ‘enterprise find’.  That’s a serious strategic challenge for organisations that learnt from the recent economic downturn that they have to improve employee productivity and information efficiency if they are to take full advantage of the coming wave of economic growth.

“The information within an organisation – including documents, web pages and other content – should be under control, easily accessible and rapidly retrievable when needed. Otherwise such information assets are being wasted.  Platforms such as Google Search Appliance, Microsoft Sharepoint and Apache Solr have opened the door to enormous content management and search potential within the enterprise. However, it is quite clear that additional specialist contextual applications (or ‘semantic’ applications) need to be bolted on to these platforms to enable real ‘findability’. Rapid, accurate information access is key to competitiveness, and will contribute to who emerges as the winners and the losers in the Information Economy, across the rest of the decade.”

Expands Nuance’s Document Imaging Portfolio with Secure Print Solutions for Enterprises, Healthcare Organisations and Mobile Office Workers

LONDON, UK., May 11, 2011 ­ Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced an agreement under which Nuance will acquire Equitrac Corporation, a leading provider of intelligent print management and cost recovery software. Equitrac solutions have been adopted by more than 25,000 organisations worldwide to implement secure and managed printing for enterprise, global and mobile workforces.

The acquisition expands Nuance’s document imaging portfolio, adding Equitrac’s market-leading print management products to Nuance eCopy ShareScan® scanning and workflow solutions, and to Nuance OmniPage, PaperPort and PDF Converter Professional desktop applications. The addition of Equitrac also strengthens Nuance’s global channel partnerships with multifunction printer (MFP) vendors, including Canon, Xerox, Konica Minolta, Ricoh and HP – each of whom currently sell both Equitrac print management and Nuance eCopy scanning solutions through their dealers or as part of their Managed Print Services (MPS) portfolios.

“Equitrac expands our ability to provide our customers and MFP partners with solutions that deliver even higher levels of cost savings and office productivity,” said Robert Weideman, senior vice president and general manager of the Nuance Document Imaging Division. “Equitrac delivers proven value in healthcare, financial, legal and educational organisations, and provides secure print capabilities to desktop and mobile global office workers. This complements Nuance’s strengths in mobile and office productivity, and aligns well to Nuance’s key verticals, especially healthcare.”

Equitrac increases the productivity and document security of office workers with the Follow-You® printing solution. Users print documents from their desktop as usual, then use card-swipe or log-in identification at a networked MFP to view and select their documents for on-demand printing. No matter where they go in their organisation – an MFP around the corner from their office or at office locations across the globe – the user’s personalized on-demand document selections are instantly available from the MFP touch-screen. In a hospital setting for example, care providers can securely access and print standardised forms or specific patient reports from any MFP or printer on the network – a nurse’s station, physician’s office or emergency room.

“There’s a long history of customers selecting Equitrac as their MFP print management solution and Nuance eCopy as their MFP scanning solution. From day one, the combination of Nuance and Equitrac delivers the best of scanning and best of print management to our customers and partners worldwide,” said Michael Rich, president and CEO, Equitrac Corporation. “Even better, Nuance’s leadership in speech recognition, healthcare solutions and intelligent touch-screen interfaces provide a fertile ground for innovations that promise to deliver breakthrough increases in cost savings and office productivity.”

The combination of Nuance and Equitrac results in:

Products that Increase Cost Savings and Office Productivity – Nuance eCopy and Equitrac solutions are both integrated with the touch-screens of MFP devices, and are leading solutions for automating and optimising document processes within organisations of every size. Customers need and want both secure print and scanning solutions; an estimated 25 percent of Nuance eCopy installations already have print management software – many of them from Equitrac. In addition to providing an integrated offering, Nuance will continue to offer eCopy and Equitrac as standalone products that support both print and scan partners, such as NTware, NSi, Omtool, GlobalScan and SafeCom.

Strengthening of Global OEM Partnerships – Nuance has strong revenue-based channel relationships with Brother, Canon, HP, Kodak, Konica Minolta, Ricoh, Visioneer, Xerox and more. Equitrac has strategic ties with HP, Konica Minolta, Ricoh, and Xerox – and expanding relationships with Canon, Fuji-Xerox, Lexmark, Samsung and more. The combination of Nuance and Equitrac will provide the OEM community with the largest and most experienced team dedicated to providing MFP partner sales, professional services, support and customer service worldwide.

Unmatched Application Connectivity – Nuance and Equitrac are leaders in connecting MFPs to back-end enterprise applications. Nuance eCopy connects to over 200 applications, including content management, database and financial software. Equitrac connects to over 50 cost recovery, auditing and financial systems, expanding Nuance’s capabilities to include support for important enterprise applications such as SAP and others.

Expanded Solutions for Key Verticals – Equitrac has significant penetration in healthcare, finance, legal, government and educational vertical markets, providing a strong complement to Nuance’s strong position in finance, legal, education, government and especially healthcare, where Nuance solutions are used in over 4,000 hospitals and by over 100,000 care providers.

Innovation in Managed Print Services

As the office equipment industry continues the migration to a services-led delivery model for printing and document processing, Equitrac and Nuance document imaging solutions are important components of ensuring OEM success in the MPS market. The integration of Equitrac with Nuance eCopy will provide innovative, integrated, cross-platform MFP-based document solutions to deliver on the promise cost reductions that will drive the adoption of MPS solutions across enterprises.

Under the terms of the agreement, consideration for the transaction is $157 million in cash. The transaction is expected to close late in the fourth quarter of Nuance’s fiscal year 2011, ending September 30, 2011. Nuance expects the acquisition in fiscal 2012 to add between $58 million and $60 million in non-GAAP revenue; $27 million and $29 million in GAAP revenue after adjusting revenue lost to purchase accounting; non-GAAP earnings between $0.04 and $0.05; and a GAAP loss between $(0.05) and $(0.06). See “Discussion of non-GAAP Financial Measures” below for further information.

About Equitrac Corporation

Equitrac Corporation is the global leader of intelligent print management and cost recovery software solutions for the corporate, legal, education, healthcare and financial services markets. Equitrac’s solutions are mission critical to all enterprises that are looking to more effectively manage their printing environments, reduce printing costs, increase security and lessen their environmental impact. The company is backed by an unmatched R&D program and is a preferred technology partner with all leading providers of multifunction devices. Equitrac is has been in business for 30 years and has more than 25,000 customers in 70 countries. Equitrac’s solutions are deployed in Global 500 companies, AMLAW 200 legal firms, and leading colleges, universities and school districts. For more information, visit www.Equitrac.com.

Nuance Communications, Inc.

Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) is a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with information and how they create, share and use documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications. For more information, please visit www.Nuance.com.

Germering, near Munich, May 12, 2011 – “Maximize Your Potential with DocuWare!“ – That was the slogan for this year’s Partner conferences held by integrated document management specialist DocuWare. About 600 sales Partners and employees from around the world participated to learn all about DocuWare’s new product developments and strategies for 2011.

Approximately 600 participants helped to once again make the annual Partner conferences hosted by DocuWare a complete success. Nearly 170 Partners came from Germany, Austria and Switzerland to attend DocuWorld D.A.C.H., which took place for the third consecutive time in Mallorca, Spain. With 280 registrations, DocuWorld Americas in Orlando achieved a new event participation record. The final DocuWorld in the series attracted about 140 DocuWare specialists from around Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) to Berlin.

DocuWare Co-President Thomas Schneck, responsible for Sales & Marketing, was able to report about the company’s worldwide success – 19 percent growth for 2010 and a very strong start into the new fiscal year. In the first quarter, the company enjoyed 20 percent growth in revenue over the same period in 2010. He also added that the company continues to drive the development of web-based products for document management as well as mobile clients to ensure this growth into the future.

Juergen Biffar, DocuWare Co-President responsible for Products & Finance, presented a Product Roadmap for 2011, emphasized the opportunities for participants that are inherent in the new DocuWare Version 5.1 c, new module Smart Connect (for simple integration in external applications), iPhone and iPad apps as well as an optimised SaaS palette. With a comprehensive Smart Connect campaign, Biffar sees broad possibilities for the company’s Partners to significantly expand their customer base.

Both Presidents view the large number of participants as a clear vote of confidence in DocuWare from its sales Partners. New product developments received a tremendously positive response, further reinforcing their view that their integrated document management business will continue to grow at a fast clip.

For more information on DocuWare or photographs visit our website at www.docuware.com or contact annette_schmidt@docuware.com

London, 16 May 2011 – The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which is one of the largest teaching hospitals in Europe, announced today that it has selected SRC as its chosen partner to deliver integrated clinical dictation technology. SRC’s solution will transform the Trust’s clinical document creation, production and distribution processes, with targeted savings of 10,000 hours per year.

The agreement is the largest contract of its type in Europe, with a value in excess of £1million, and is a major win for SRC against competitors.

SRC’s solution is powered by the Epro clinical toolkit which integrates Winscribe digital dictation and Dragon speech recognition with advanced workflow and templates. More than 2,500 clinicians and medical secretaries across the Trust’s five hospitals will benefit from a simplified automated dictation and transcription process, extended to include speech recognition, online document approval, retrieval and distribution functionality.

“We selected SRC because they are proven leaders in implementing and supporting digital dictation and speech recognition systems, and offered a solution which addresses our current requirements and provides options to meet future challenges around the creation and sharing of clinical documentation,” said Alison Dailly, Director of Informatics at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. “This investment represents a significant milestone in our vision of innovative and cost effective technology playing a key role in the provision of more effective patient care.”

The SRC solution leverages the flexibility of the Epro clinical toolkit to bind together digital dictation, speech recognition and provide users with access to patient data, consolidated from the hospital’s existing medical systems. Among other benefits, SRC’s Epro integration automatically transfers patient and clinic context, which is vitally important both for patient safety and productivity. Dr. Adam Towler, CEO at Bluewire Technologies, the developers of Epro commented: “We're delighted that Leeds Teaching Hospitals recognized the value of Epro to combine data and functionality from different systems, further extending the range of benefits offered by traditional digital dictation.”

“SRC are extremely proud to have been selected by Leeds Teaching Hospitals. We now look forward to working closely with the Trust to deliver this key contract quickly and smoothly,” said Chris Hart, CEO at SRC.

Today, market leading solutions provided by SRC are used by more than 60 NHS Trusts throughout the UK.


For further information please visit www.src.co.uk.

An Office on the Go

Weybridge, May 17, 2011 – Integrated Document Management specialist DocuWare is premiering its mobile solution for the Apple iPhone. The App DocuWare Mobile, supports search dialogs, task lists and any document workflow on the Apple iPhone. In seconds, users can access their information making the most of their time by staying connected, wherever they are.

Maximize every minute – DocuWare Mobile makes it possible. Users can now call up information from a central document pool without even turning on a laptop. All it takes is a touch on the new DocuWare App to view any kind of documents in any format right on the touch screen. No matter what format the original document was stored in – it will be displayed in a DocuWare Viewer that was specially adapted for iPhone functionality.

Not only can documents and files of every format be opened on the mobile device, users can also be integrated into the office-based workflow even while travelling. For example, invoices can be authorised by using a DocuWare stamp that belongs to a user without the need for a notebook. Time spent waiting at an airport, before a meeting or while in a line can be used in a meaningful way now – if you have your office on the go. As with all DocuWare solutions, maximum security is ensured through HTTPS-encryption.

For more information on DocuWare or photographs visit our website at www.docuware.com or contact annette_schmidt@docuware.com

Allied Images is offering a free Plustek MobileOffice S400 A4-sized document scanner with every new purchase Colortrac SmartLF scanner.  Alternatively, customers can get a SmartOffice PS286 plus or a SmartOffice PS406 at half-price.

Northampton.  For a limited period, Allied Images is offering a free Plustek MobileOffice S400 A4-sized document scanner with every new purchase Colortrac SmartLF scanner.  To take advantage of the offer customers must purchase a new Colortrac SmartLF wide format scanner.  All new purchase Colortrac SmartLF scanners qualify.  With each scanner purchased customers have the option of taking a Plustek MobileOffice S400 A4 sheet-fed document scanner, MSRP £110, absolutely free, or alternatively, they can get a SmartOffice PS286 plus A4 desktop scanner or a SmartOffice PS406 A4 high-speed scanner at half price.

SmartLF range goes from the 24” wide Ci24 right up to the super-wide Gx+56 with a 56” scan width.  SmartLF Ci24 is a compact lightweight production scanner ideal for architects, construction, building services, facilities management, technical & CAD drawing and many similar applications.  The super-wide SmartLF Gx+56, which can scan an A0/E-size document in landscape format, is ideal for specialist reprographics, copy shops, graphics design, mapping, GIS, AEC, aeronautics and automotive. SmartLF range also includes Ci40, Cx40, Gx+28 and Gx+42 scanners.   To choose the SmartLF scanner that best suits your needs please look at the selection now at http://www.allied-images.com/colortrac.

Plustek’s MobileOffice S400 scanner mates perfectly with a laptop as it is power-cable free using a USB cable for both data and power.  And, it is rugged enough to be used in any application that needs an easily transportable, mobile scanner. MobileOffice S400 has an MSRP of £110 but is available absolutely FREE.

Plustek’s SmartOffice P286 Plus, is ideal for office use small and medium enterprises offering duplex scanning, automatic document feeder, scanning speed of up to 25 sheets/minute and the ability to scan plastic cards such as ID cards.  PS286 Plus has an MSRP of £385 but is available at an offer price of £192.50.

SmartOffice PS406 offers a powerful scanning solution featuring speeds up to 80 images per minute and a daily duty cycle of up to 4,000 sheets.  PS406 delivers outstanding price/performance in a compact, desktop scanner.  With an MSRP of £510 users get these benefits at an offer price of £255.

Steve Morin, Allied Images MD, said that “Plustek MobileOffice and SmartOffice scanners are excellent small document scanners to use on their own or with other applications including document management solutions such as M-Files. Using M-Files all incoming paper documents be they invoices, orders, letters or other material can be scanned and stored securely.  They can then be shared distributed for action via a workflow.  This improves the overall office performance by reducing filing cabinet space needed, preventing loss of documents, speeding document searches, ensuring speedy forwarding for action or approval and providing a secure paper-trail (history) for compliance.”  More information on M-Files is on the Allied Images web site at http://www.allied-images.com/m-files.

For more information contact John Bennett at Allied Images Ltd on +44 (0)1604 670679 or e-mail info@allied-images.com

Version One has signed a strategic partnership with Infor business partner, Cocoon. Cocoon is re-selling Version One's end-to-end document management software solutions tightly integrated into Infor FMS SunSystems financial management software The solutions enable Cocoon's Infor FMS SunSystems customers to electronically create, deliver, authorise, store, manage and process financial documents directly from SunSystems, reducing the time and costs associated with printing, photocopying, authorising, posting and filing paper documents.
www.versionone.co.uk

OITUK Ltd. have now launched their new website, as part of the brand-refresh programme to promote CCube Solutions as the company's brand for products and services. The new website was designed to be more informative, based on modern web site designs and will be further developed to support greater interactivity and online demonstrations.
www.ccubesolutions.com

Chiorino UK Ltd, part of a worldwide manufacturing company specialising in conveyor and process belts, is achieving significant cost savings since deploying a new document management system to handle all accounting and HR documents.

The system, which was installed at the end of last year, is comprised of PSIGEN PSI:Capture software and DocuWare document management software, has reduced the amount of manual data entry required and improved access to documents across the company.

Datafinity, UK distributor of PSI:Capture, formed a partnership with Document Dynamix in 2010 to offer advanced document management solutions to their customers. By combining leading capture software from PSIGEN and proven document management solutions from DocuWare, Document Dynamix is able to offer users a highly functional, yet easily affordable solution.
www.datafinity.co.uk

The National Archives has launched the first ever public sector directory of commercial services and solutions to help secure the survival and usability of digital information. Most public sector information is created digitally and the government is faced with the challenge of managing a mountain of digital data. Active intervention is needed to ensure key digital information remains accessible and useable in the long term.

The National Archives is a world-leader on digital continuity. Without usable digital information, government cannot operate transparently, legally, or accountably and The National Archives cannot safeguard the public record of government. Core to this project has been the development and delivery of The National Archives' Digital Continuity Framework, launched in partnership with Buying Solutions, the national procurement partner for all UK public services. The framework provides access to guidance that can help public sector bodies understand and manage their information assets and technical environment. The services and solutions in the framework include data conversion and migration services, data storage consultancy and digital archiving solutions. 

Jessie Owen, Head of Digital Continuity at The National Archives, said: "The public sector has a duty to operate transparently, legally and accountably. It can't do that without usable information and keeping information usable is much more of a challenge in this digital age. That's why we created the Framework." 
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/digitalcontinuity

New from Canon, the compact, robust imageFORMULA DR-3010C is now capable of scanning at rapid speeds of 40ppm in black and white, compared to 30ppm on the previous version. The same speed and performance level is maintained even when scanning at 300dpi resolution, often a requirement for accurate OCR scanning.

The scanner is positioned as Canon's flagship workgroup scanner offering high speed reliable performance while keeping its user friendly and compact design. The DR-3010C is perfect for handling both mission critical paper-intensive scanning as well as simple ad-hoc tasks; these applications can be commonly found in busy office departments as well as remote branch offices in industries such as  finance, insurance, transportation, legal, government departments, and healthcare.

The new version DR-3010C includes Canon's user friendly CaptureOnTouch software, designed to simplify the scanning process for users, and incorporates useful file sending and distribution options. Trevor Dodsworth, Head of Product Marketing, Business to Business, says, "Our new enhancements to our DR-3010C scanner offer excellent value-performance and return on investment for our customers."
www.canon.co.uk

Moving into 2011, the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) technology marketplace has split into two distinct and separate segments, according to buy-side analyst firm, The Real Story Group (formerly CMS Watch):

1. ECM Infrastructure Vendors, that position their platforms as a set of lower-level technology services to manage high-volume, process-centric needs, such as processing insurance claims

2. Document Management Application Vendors, that configure their products to accommodate specific needs ECM infrastructure deals are large, but less common, as complexity and cost limit their appeal and usefulness. ECM infrastructure vendors Autonomy, Oracle, OpenText, IBM, and EMC have been acquisitive and are likely to remain so in 2011. As a result, these vendors often represent a relatively higher risk to buyers  

In contrast, the marketplace for departmental and process-specific Document Management products is a blend of a diverse set of players, ranging from vertical and horizontal options (e.g., patient billing in healthcare), to broader, open source and low-cost cloud offerings. Example vendors include Hyland in the US, Perceptive in Australasia, and Fabasoft in Germany. With mature product and service offerings and strong vertical expertise, these vendors often represent a relatively lower risk for buyers.
www.realstorygroup.com

Kofax has declared its Transform 2011 EMEA event, hosted in Barcelona, Spain a success. Attended by more than 600 customers, partners and industry thought leaders from across vertical industries, Transform 2011 EMEA commenced with a keynote address from John Mancini, President of the Association of Information and Image Management (AIIM).

Mancini's presentation introduced the findings of a new AIIM study that illustrate how document capture, the critical first step in the content management lifecycle, serves as the crucial foundation for the development of electronic content beyond basic "systems of record" to empowering higher value "systems of engagement."

"As the role of document capture and business process automation continues to evolve rapidly, Transform 2011 EMEA provided attendees with the tools, resources and best practices around information capture and transformation that are easy to use and can immediately be integrated to automate and accelerate business practices," said Mancini.

Transform 2011 EMEA also saw the introduction of Kofax Customer Connect, a new customer reference program designed to help Kofax customers showcase their innovation and success with Kofax solutions.
www.kofax.com

Top Image Systems has been chosen to process the documents for the Czech Republic census. TIS' eFLOW will process 16 million documents within a five-month period. On this project, TIS will work in partnership with scanservice, a leading provider of automated input, processing, operating and management of documents and data, based in Central Europe. TIS and scanservice have a long history of working together, including working on census projects, such as the 2001 census for the Slovak Republic.

Renata Telinova, President of scanservice explains, "We have worked successfully with TIS for many years. TIS' eFLOW is a superior technology which we rate for its high recognition rates, speed of processing, stability, and open architecture."
www.scanservice.com

Sharp has announced the world's first MFPs with a finger-swipe touch control interface, as part of its continuing drive to improve productivity in the office.

The new MX-2610N and MX-3110N feature a 10.1" control panel, on which users can touch icons then tap, flick or slide a finger to access every document, function and setting. Sharp believes that the technology will revolutionise the way in which people interact with MFPs, just as it did for cell phones.

"This type of control interface is truly intuitive. That's why it has become so popular with other devices," said Marc Brion, product marketing manager for information systems hardware. "You don't need to work out how to do something - just touch the panel and slide your finger. For many people, it will be a very familiar experience."

The MX-2610N and MX-3110N were designed for maximum ease of use and a minimum learning curve. The control screen, for example, with its large, clear text and icons for controlling every single feature and function can be tilted up or down for easy viewing.

Scanned pages can be previewed on the screen as 1-Page, 3D or thumbnail images, and entirely controlled by the finger-swipe interface.  The user simply touches and slides to rotate them, change their order, add or delete pages, and then print, file or distribute as required.
www.sharpnews.co.uk

Leading ferry operator, transport and travel service company has cut invoice processing days by 50%, with automated web-based solution working both on ships and on land

3 February 2010 – Stena Line, the leading ferry operator, has streamlined and optimised its financial management across the company’s operations in Europe using PaletteInvoice, the advanced, web-based invoice automation solution from enterprise purchase-to-pay specialist Palette.

Operating in three business areas including Scandinavia, the North Sea and the Irish Sea, Stena Line is the world's leading ferry operator and an international transport and travel service company.  The company currently processes over 160,000 complex, multipage invoices annually using PaletteInvoice, part of the PaletteArena suite of AP automation solutions.

By automating its invoicing processing, Stena Line has almost halved the number of days taken to process unapproved, aged invoices and has closer control over authorisations.  With 1200 people across the group using PaletteInvoice, the solution has also eliminated the paper trail between the company’s offices and ships, accelerating AP operations within the business.

With PaletteInvoice, Stena Line processes both ship-borne transaction invoices for passenger retail sales and for vessels’ operational supplies, and invoices received at local offices.  This gives the company closer control over its invoice workflow management, helping to maximise staff productivity.

PaletteInvoice integrates with Stena Line’s JD Edwards ERP and finance platform, with the systems automatically synchronising in real time to provide an up-to-date and accurate view of the company’s active invoices, enabling easier financial analysis and management.

Carol Griffiths, Stena Line UK’s Internal Control Coordinator said: “Before we deployed the Palette solution, invoices were processed manually by staff and the complexity of the paper trails involved often led to delays, reducing productivity.  With PaletteInvoice, we have closer control over authorisations, as well as the added advantage of being able to keep track of transactions both on the ship and at local offices.

“In addition, because the solution integrates directly with our JD Edwards finance system, we can be confident that workflow and processes are fully up to date.  The solution has met all our requirements and we are now considering other Palette modules to support a transition to e-invoicing.”

Stena Line initially piloted PaletteInvoice in Holland in 2006.  After an initial valuation of five suppliers, the solution was rolled out across the group and was chosen for its scalability, full integration with the JD Edwards ERP system, and ease of use across multiple sites and locations.

Palette’s flexible architecture enables it to work smoothly over both ship-to-shore satellite links and conventional IP networks, supporting automated invoice processing both on vessels and at Stena Line’s offices.

Paper invoices are scanned using a variety of methods across the Stena Line Group group.  In the UK, scanning is done using ReadSoft;  offices in other countries use partners or bureau services.  Once scanned, invoices are sent to PaletteInvoice for verification, processing and authorisation.

In the next 18 months, Stena Line plans to extend its e-invoicing capability (currently used in its Swedish offices), and to evaluate the PaletteArena Purchasing module to expand its purchase order matching capability.

PaletteArena is a complete enterprise purchase-to-payment suite, enabling users to achieve significant, measurable cost savings and efficiency gains in processing supplier invoices and purchase orders.  It includes the PaletteInvoice, PaletteBuyer, PaletteContract and PaletteSupplier Portal products, giving a web-based end-to-end solution that improves invoice management from receipt to payment.  It integrates easily with accounting, information and business systems to automate and streamline accounts payable activity across the organisation.

http://www.palette-group.com/

Northampton, 24th January 2011 – Improved employee productivity and cost reductions were just two of the benefits realised by St John Ambulance after implementing the Invu Document Management system at its new state-of-the-art training and conference facility in Humberside in May 2010.
Reviewing the project six months in, the results have been impressive; “Invu Document Management allows us to concentrate on what we do best - saving lives – rather than searching for information” explains Richard Wright, Executive Director, St John Ambulance Humberside. Rapid access to documents has enabled staff to concentrate on operational activity as well as more cost-effective tasks.
Prior to Invu’s implementation it took an average of six minutes to find a document in the St John physical storage. Invu document management enables the charity to search, filter and find documents within 10-12 seconds, equating to over six weeks saved every year on document retrieval alone.
Storage space and leasing more space was considered wasteful by the management team. Transporting and storing documents in the new premises was therefore not an option and this made for a clean start for the St John team.
Copying and printing are substantially reduced with paper costs down by a third.  Richard acknowledges the benefit of reductions in print consumables improving the charity’s carbon footprint. “We’re aware of our environmental obligations – we always try to adopt a green alternative if possible and Invu’s been a positive story for us here too.”
Colin Gallick, CEO of Invu “The Humberside branch is just one of five St John Ambulance branches using Invu Document Management. The support provided by our partner, in this case IT@Spectrum, was exceptional ensuring a smooth transition of documents and systems to the new facility creating.”

Latest release offers enhanced integration with ‘best of breed’ capture technologies to deliver state-of-the-art digital mailroom and process automation solutions.

London, January 10th, 2011 – Datafinity Ltd, sole UK distributor for foxray products, today announced the availability of the latest release of the xbound document processing platform.
                                                                                              
xbound’s unique platform approach to document capture allows customers and system integrators to utilise the latest document classification, OCR and ICR technologies available on the market today. xbound 3.0 builds on this unique integration capability with new plug-in modules from OpenText Recostar professional, Abbyy FineReader, TCG FreeFormStar, Kodak Capture Pro as well as the latest release of Kofax KTM, v5.0.

By using one, or a combination, of these plug-in modules xbound is ideally suited to many business applications including invoice processing, high-volume capture and multi-stream digital mailroom implementations. Back-end integration to most ECM and ERP systems is also available as standard.

xbound 3.0 includes a new configuration and control centre: the xbound management centre. This offers administrators and production managers an entirely new perspective on their data. It provides customers with advanced management tools such as throughput and performance statistics and SLA (Service Level Agreement) reporting with web-based client access.

“Business Process Outsource (BPO) providers, that need to manage large volumes of documents for multiple clients, have already shown great interest in xbound’s SLA reporting functionality”, said Andy Dawson, managing director at Datafinity.

Shared documents needed for shared services

Capita Software Services today announces its partnership with IDOX, a provider of information and workflow management solutions.

This latest addition to Capita Software Services’ range of partners offers a greater choice to for local authorities to deploy electronic document management (EDM) systems in individual departments or authority-wide.

Research has shown that nearly three quarters of local authority financial directors are investigating shared services arrangements or an outsourcing approach1. A key part of maximising the operational efficiency of shared services, however, is the ability to store live documents centrally and share them electronically between a variety of front and back office teams. 

The use of an EDM system will increase customers’ speed of access to files, as they are held electronically on a secure central repository. It also reduces the time spent on filing and retrieving documents and increases office floor space by removing the reliance on paper-based files.

“Our partnership has the flexibility to cater for any requirement,” says Paul Millard, operations director, Capita Software Services. “We can either support customers in single departmental implementations, such as a revenues and benefits platform, or in authority-wide transformations. As local authorities look towards shared services arrangements as a way to manage the financial settlements outlined by the government, efficient accessibility of documents across multiple departments, multiple locations or even mobile workers will become a big consideration.”

“Our revenues and benefits customers have seen the difference that a document management system can make in improving efficiency, with one unitary authority improving efficiency and cutting costs by 30 per cent,” said Andrew Riley, Sales and Marketing Director. “Joining forces with Capita will enable more departments within local authorities and shared services arrangements to benefit from the efficiency savings that EDM systems can deliver.”

1 http://www.localis.org.uk/article/775/75-Of-Council-FDs-Looking-To-Implement-Shared-Services-Or-Outsource.htm

Canon UK, world leader in digital imaging, today announced the results of its wide ranging pan-European workplace study, ‘Technology’s Role in Evolving Business Relationships,’ * conducted by ICM.  The research analysed the ways that companies communicate with customers, how trends and habits have changed in the last five years and the potential impact on relationships in a business environment.
The results show a significant uplift in digital communications in pan-European organisations compared to five years ago, with 8 out of 10 respondents (78%) using more online platforms such as IM, email social networks, online collaboration tools and video conferencing. This is in contrast to traditional forms of communication, some of which are unsurprisingly in decline – 22% making fewer desk-based phone calls; 15% fewer face-to-face meetings; 32% attending fewer or no lunch meetings and 34% cutting back on time spent out or spending no time out of the office at conferences.  
With less face-to-face interaction with customers, email has become a key driver for this growth in conversations but there is evidence of businesses hitting saturation point – 35% of respondents stated that email usage had not increased and for some had actually declined compared to five years’ ago.
This has paved the way for the adoption of a new wave of digital communication platforms. However, the findings show significant variations in how businesses adopt these, indicating a lack of joined up thinking when it comes to engaging with customers and prospects:

• Exactly half of respondents (50%) now use social networks as communication channels at work and 25% use Instant Messenger (IM) more than they did 5 years ago.
• The frequency of use of workplace collaboration tools, such as Microsoft SharePoint and Huddle, have increased by 24% over the last five years and now 57% of all businesses have used them at some point to communicate more effectively.
• However, a smaller proportion of respondents use video conferencing more frequently (21%) with almost half (47%) never having used this facility.
• There was an even smaller rise in webinars (13%) with a surprising 58% never having used this online medium to connect with customers. 

As communications technologies become more fragmented and businesses struggle to cope with the increase in digital content (both information and media), organisations need to find ways of managing their communications strategy or risk damaging business relationships with customers, partners and even colleagues.
Dr Graeme Codrington**, author, speaker and expert on the new world of work said: “The promise of any form of communication technology, whether it was paper, the printing press or a PC, has always been to help humans connect more effectively.  On this measure, the explosion of information technology in the last two decades has been somewhat disappointing.
“More data than ever is being transferred, but it feels as if our human connections have become less meaningful, less satisfying, less significant.  We cannot blame the technology.  The fault lies in our inability to adapt quickly to new methods, new opportunities and new styles of communicating.”  
Gary Horsfall, Head of Consultancy Services, Canon Europe, said: “Today’s business environment compared to even five years ago is a dramatically different place. Organisations now are faced with the challenge of maintaining strong relationships with customers but doing so in the most efficient way, using the latest technologies. There is a collision point where traditional information is merging with new media and managing and mining these vast quantities of digital content is essential to keep in sync with your customer and is also the key to creating and maintaining personal, meaningful relationships.”
In addition to managing fragmented communications channels, the study also highlighted pan-European organisations’ fear of the impact that digital technologies are having in contributing to the information explosion. 39% of all decision makers said that managing the increase in data is slowing down business processes stating that cumbersome and inefficient internal processes are the main barrier to business success in 2011, especially amongst larger companies (46%).
“Canon launched Consultancy Services to help customers unlock the value of their information and the one area where this value is at its greatest is through communication with customers,” continues Horsfall. “Managing the point at which all of these new digital technologies collide is a challenge. Get it right and companies can add significant value to their business. Get it wrong and companies could end up with a fragmented approach to internal and external communications and be paying the costs for a long time to come.” 

Veteran software industry executive and current Managing Director of company’s Finnish subsidiary Rainer Puittinen to become CEO on March 1, 2011


Rijswijk, The Netherlands � January 26, 2011 � BlueCielo ECM Solutions, a leading global software company offering Engineering Content Management (ECM) solutions, announced today the appointment of Rainer Puittinen as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) following Luuth van der Scheer's interim CEO appointment that came to an end on December 31, 2010.

Puittinen will assume his new role at corporate headquarters in Rijswijk, the Netherlands, on March 1, 2011. BlueCielo ECM Solutions supervisory board member Bas Wiersma is serving as acting CEO in the interim. Martijn Janmaat remains as President.

Puittinen is being promoted to CEO of the global organization from his current role as Managing Director of BlueCielo ECM Solutions Oy (the company’s Finnish subsidiary that was acquired in March last year), in which he is responsible for the global business around the BlueCielo Kronodoc product line. Puittinen has 15 years’ hands-on management and leadership experience in the software industry. Among other achievements, he successfully led BlueCielo ECM Solutions Oy through a complete turn-around during 2007-2010 to a respected enterprise-level Project Document Control solutions supplier to global industrial customers.

"BlueCielo ECM Solutions has a very strong, established role as an Engineering Content Management solutions supplier to owners and operators of production assets worldwide. We have an extraordinary customer base that testifies of the value that we create daily for our customers,” says Puittinen. “I am excited about the opportunity to develop our products and services offering together with our customers and partners to streamline and improve the efficiency of engineering content-intensive processes across the entire lifecycle of production facilities. The business value that we are able to provide to our customers fundamentally drives our growth."

About BlueCielo ECM Solutions
BlueCielo ECM Solutions is a world leader in sophisticated software solutions in asset information management (AIM) and engineering content management (ECM) for capital-intensive owner/operators and engineering, procurement and construction or architectural (EPC/AEC) projects. With over 300,000 satisfied users worldwide, BlueCielo’s independent AIM and ECM solutions integrate with virtually all mainstream document or content management systems and operational business control systems. The company is headquartered in the Netherlands and has offices in America, Brazil, Finland, Germany, Russia and the UK, together with an international network of well-established vending solution partners, ensuring global service and support for its best-of-breed software solutions BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise, BlueCielo ImandrA, BlueCielo Kronodoc, BlueCielo ProjectForce and BlueCielo TeamWork. One of the first to develop software to manage engineering data, BlueCielo has been a software technology pioneer since 1983, with unparalleled knowledge in the field of ECM. For more information, please visit www.bluecieloecm.com.

ImageNow® enterprise content management (ECM) software products, including ImageNow document management, imaging and workflow, announced today that AMC Entertainment Inc. (AMC) will deploy ImageNow in its accounts payable department.

Headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., AMC is a leading theatrical exhibition and entertainment company. With a history of industry leadership and innovation dating back to 1920, the company today serves hundreds of millions of guests annually through interests in 380 theatres with 5,325 screens in five countries.

Complete ImageNow and Oracle integration will enable users to create reports for all invoices, allowing financial directors throughout the organization to quickly review financial information without the hassle and costs associated with duplicating and distributing large paper files, particularly during an audit process.

ImageNow will provide us with the opportunity to centralize and streamline the invoicing process, said Jennifer Regas, director of accounting systems and analysis. ImageNow will also help reduce the amount of paper used during the invoice approval process in our Kansas City-based home office and throughout our circuit of theatres.

About Perceptive Software (www.perceptivesoftware.com)

Since 1995 Perceptive Software has built enterprise content management software, including ImageNow®, to help organizations effortlessly manage the entire lifecycle of their documents and information, fueling greater operational efficiency. More than 2,500 organizations in 30 countries rely on Perceptive Software to simplify their business processes through innovative ECM solutions that create immediate and lasting impact.

29th September - 1st October 2010
www.pdfa.org.

20 September 2010 - The PDF/A Competence Center, the international association to promote long-term archiving in accordance with ISO 19005 (PDF/A), will be holding its 4th International PDF/A Conference later this month in Rome, Italy. The conference will host a gathering of the world’s experts on PDF/A and has an array of Keynotes, workshops, case studies and an exhibition to discuss current trends and issues including  the latest part of the standard, PDF/A-2.

“I’m looking forward to some interesting and challenging discussions on how to promote PDF/A”, said Gary Hodkinson, Manager Director, LuraTech UK. “It’s a particularly exciting time as the ISO standard PDF/A is generating enormous interest in the market and we will be launching a UK chapter of the PDF/A Competence Centre in the autumn to further educate about the standard in here in the UK”

PDF/A has been an ISO standard since 2005, governing the use of PDF format for the long-term archiving of electronic documents. The PDF/A standard is the result of more than three years of committee work by business representatives and members of different associations from around the world.

The PDF/A Competence Center was founded as an international association to address the high demand for information about PDF/A and to promote the exchange of ideas and experience. The combined knowledge of numerous PDF/A experts is, therefore, available to interested parties in one package. The association conducts events and seminars and contributes to further standardisation.

A UK chapter of the PDF/A Competence Centre will launch in the autumn.

If you would like to attend the 4th International PDF/A Conference in Rome please contact PRPR at the number below.

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About LuraTech
LuraTech provides software, services and outstanding support for document conversion. LuraDocument PDF Compressor Enterprise is a production-level application for compression, conversion to PDF and PDF//A, OCR, classification and form data extraction. DocYard is a complete, centrally managed platform that integrates all functions of document conversion into seamless workflows. LuraTech has been a leading provider of document and image compression solutions based on open and ISO standards since it was founded in 1995.

LuraTech is the initiator and founding member of the PDF/A Competence Center - a global association with more than 100 members. LuraTech is also a member of AIIM, ARMA, NIRMA and TAWPI and contributes to the consortium for economic administration.

The company headquarters are in Berlin, with additional locations in Remscheid, Germany; San Jose, California and Swindon, UK. For more information, please visit www.luratech.com.

Combination Accelerates Invoice Processing for Oracle E-Business Suite Users

MOSCONE CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, SEPTEMBER 20, 2010 – Kofax plc (LSE: KFX), the leading provider of document driven business process automation solutions, today announced that its MarkView for Accounts Payable solution has achieved Oracle Validated Integration with the Oracle E-Business Suite release 12.1, a fully integrated suite of business applications for the enterprise. The announcement comes in conjunction with Kofax’s participation at Oracle OpenWorld 2010, taking place this week in San Francisco.

The MarkView for Accounts Payable solution automates the receipt and capture of paper and electronic invoices, performs data extraction and perfection, and manages workflows for routing transactions through approval and exception handling processes, significantly reducing cycle times and costs while optimizing control and cash flow management. Such automation accelerates invoice processing, implements best practices and leverages the power of the Oracle E-Business Suite.

“Oracle Validated Integration applies a rigorous technical review and test process,” said Kevin O’Brien, Oracle’s Senior Director of ISV and SaaS Strategy. “Achieving Oracle Validated Integration through the Oracle PartnerNetwork gives customers confidence that the integration between Kofax's MarkView for Accounts Payable and the Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1 has been validated and the products work together as designed. This can help reduce risk, improve system implementation cycles, and provide for smoother upgrades and simpler maintenance.”

“Our partnership with Oracle has been instrumental in helping customers realize a rapid return on investment by reducing costs through consistent, efficient automation for accounts payable processes,” said Martyn Christian, Chief Marketing Officer at Kofax. “We are proud to achieve Oracle Validated Integration with this latest version of the Oracle E-Business Suite, which provides us significant advantage over our competitors.”

The MarkView for Accounts Payable solution is part of the MarkView Financial Suite, a comprehensive, capture-enabled financial process automation platform for accounts payable and other functions. More information is available at http://www.kofax.com/markview/index.asp

Oracle Validated Integration applies a rigorous technical process to review the integrations of third-party software to Oracle Applications products, including productized repeatable integrations from system integrators. Oracle provides access to Oracle Applications software, tools, technical resources and training to assist partners in developing integrations based on Oracle standards and best practices. Partners who have successfully validated their integrations are authorized to use the “Oracle Validated Integration” logo. For more information, visit http://www.oracle.com/us/partnerships/solutions/index.html.

Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized is the latest version of Oracle's partner program that provides partners with tools to better develop, sell and implement Oracle solutions. OPN Specialized offers resources to train and support specialized knowledge of Oracle products and solutions and has evolved to recognize Oracle's growing product portfolio, partner base and business opportunity. Key to the latest enhancements to OPN is the ability for partners to differentiate through specializations. Specializations are achieved through competency development, business results, expertise and proven success. To find out more, visit http://www.oracle.com/partners.

About Kofax
Kofax plc (LSE: KFX) is the leading provider of document driven business process automation solutions. For more than 20 years, Kofax has provided award winning solutions that streamline the flow of information throughout an organization by managing the capture, transformation and exchange of business critical information arising in paper, fax and electronic formats in a more accurate, timely and cost effective manner. These solutions provide a rapid return on investment to thousands of customers in financial services, government, business process outsourcing, healthcare, supply chain and other markets. Kofax delivers these solutions through its own sales and service organizations, and a global network of more than 700 authorized partners in more than 60 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific. For more information, visit www.kofax.com.

Hamrick Software, the developer of VueScan, the world's most widely used scanning software, has added support for new Canon scanners and support for using multi-core processors for increased scan speed.

Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) September 17, 2010 - Hamrick Software, the developer of VueScan, the world's most widely used scanning software, has released its latest version 8.6.58 – with support for 8 recently announced Canon scanners. This brings the total number of supported scanners to over 1550. VueScan also adds support for using multi-core processors to increase scan speed.

"Canon has produced some excellent multi-function scanners over the last few years. We have been watching their growth in popularity as more and more of our customers use VueScan with them, in particular for document scanning. The document scanning business is growing rapidly, which is one of the reasons we recently released searchable PDF support “ says Ed Hamrick, President of Hamrick Software.

“We added support for 5 new Canon multi-function scanners – MP280, MP495, MG5100, MG5200, MG6100 and MG8100.  We also added support for two new scanners from the popular LiDE scanner series – LiDE 110 and LiDE 220.  We have many customers who love using VueScan with Canon scanners, so we always try to quickly support all the latest Canon scanners, along with older Canon scanners.”

“We’ve been looking for ways to improve scan speed - and this latest version is a big improvement in speed and responsiveness. Because many people have multi-core computers, we use parallel programming to make scanning as fast as is physically possible.  Our customer base is wide ranging - photographers, companies and home users – but everyone will notice the improvement in performance.” says Ed Hamrick.

VueScan is available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. VueScan offers a full range of advanced features; including options for scanning faded slides and prints and automatically adjusting images to optimum color balance that reduces the need to manually do it in Photoshop. It includes built-in IT8 color calibration of scanners, producing colors that look true to life, batch scanning and other advanced and powerful scanning and productivity features, including PDF output.

For a detailed listing of VueScan features, see: http://www.hamrick.com/abo.html.

VueScan is available in two editions, Standard Edition ($39.95 USD) and Professional Edition ($79.95). The Professional Edition adds unlimited free upgrades, advanced IT8 color calibration and support for raw scan files. Multi-user licenses are available. A fully functional, trial copy of VueScan can be downloaded from http://www.hamrick.com/.

Based in Phoenix, AZ, Hamrick Software was founded in 1991. Its first product was VuePrint, an easy to use JPEG viewer for Windows that for many years was the recommended image viewer for AOL, with more than 100,000 users. In 1998, the company first released VueScan, a program for scanning with flatbed and film scanners, there are now more than 200,000 users all over the world.

There have been two generations of Invu’s document management product since 2007. Earlier adopters taking the version 5 product have had a choice to stick with a two year old version or move to the .NET application, Series 6.

The uncertain future of version 5 has led to rumours of its imminent demise. However, Invu has now announced a version 5 upgrade and plans further improvements based on customer input.

Colin Gallick, Invu CEO, clarifies, “Both generations of product have large numbers of users and we’re committed to them. We’ve spent over a year developing this upgrade. This investment is a sign of our commitment to customers and we aim to continue with improvements based on what they tell us they want.”  Invu will be writing to all its version 5 customers with details of the upgrade, which is now available from customers’  Invu partner.

AIIM Research Report Highlights Enterprise Need for better Adaptability, Functionality and Integration in Case-driven Customer Service and Collaboration

(DALLAS and BOSTON) Sept. 14th, 2010 – Enterprise software provider ISIS Papyrus (www.isis-papyrus.com) announces that a new research report from AIIM reveals strong demand for better case management functionality and
integration among ECM and CRM systems.

The AIIM report entitled “Adaptive Case Management - comparing document-centric and customer-centric approaches,” details research conducted among the AIIM community to explore how well the IT infrastructure currently used by customer-centric, process-driven suppliers in the real world matches the actual demands of case management, as well as to look at their planned strategies for the future.

“The evolution of case management is increasingly important and relevant to enterprise professionals managing the information needs of competitive organisations,” said Doug Miles, Director of AIIM Market Intelligence. “While case management seems to be well understood and valued, real-world solutions for interaction between critical content, process and data systems are not widely implemented – and those in place are lacking in functionality, integration, usability or all of the above. It’s clearly a major pain point for service-oriented organisations to optimize their case management systems to better meet customer needs.”

Key findings from the AIIM report indicate a need for broad-based improvement in case management:
• 60% of organisations are using case files for one-third or
  more of their business processes
• Email alerts are still a primary workflow driver for three-quarters
  of organisations
• Nearly two-thirds of organisations rely on manual processes to
  capture 75% of customer communications
• 40% cite difficulty of adding and changing processes as the
  biggest issue with current case-handling mechanisms
• Only 10% have case management supplied as standard with their
  ECM or CRM system

“Case management has shifted toward ensuring the best experience for the customer, rather than merely achieving operational efficiency and process automation,” said Annemarie Pucher, CEO of ISIS Papyrus Software. “The
increased complexity of enterprise content and service environments has fueled the requirement to enable easier sharing and integration and empower knowledge workers to control process changes, communications and decision-making for better customer satisfaction and case resolution. This desire to react and adjust to improve the outcome is the driver for advances like Adaptive Case Management.”

The Papyrus Business Communications and Process Platform empowers enterprise business users and knowledge workers to optimise processes, tasks, communications and documents across a wide range of case-driven activity in service-based organisations. Papyrus Adaptive Case Management (ACM) further supports business applications from claims management and account opening to contract management and purchase-to-pay (procurement).

Released June 30, the report’s results were generated from 290 responses from individual members of the AIIM community received April 15th-May 4th as part of the research conducted by AIIM and sponsored by ISIS Papyrus. Individuals from enterprise companies with 500-5,000 employees represented 68% of the respondents in the research.

The new AIIM report, “Adaptive Case Management - comparing document-centric and customer-centric approaches,” is available for download from the ISIS Papyrus Web site, as well as at the AIIM Resource Center when you register.

A longtime proponent of adaptive processes for the enterprise, ISIS Papyrus has also contributed a chapter titled, “The Elements of Adaptive Case Management” to a new business book for executives and managers of knowledge workers – “Mastering the Unpredictable” – which recently ranked as a business Bestseller at Amazon.com.

About AIIM
AIIM (www.aiim.org) is the community that provides education, research, and best practices to help organisations find, control, and optimise their information. For over 60 years, AIIM has been the leading non-profit organisation focused on helping users to understand the challenges associated with managing documents, content, records, and business processes. Today, AIIM is international in scope, independent, implementation-focused, and, as the representative of the entire ECM industry - including users, suppliers, and the channel – acts as the industry’s intermediary.

About ISIS Papyrus Software
ISIS Papyrus (www.isis-papyrus.com) offers integrated enterprise software for personalized customer communications and process optimisation solutions in the financial, insurance, utility, telecom, healthcare and public sectors. With 16 offices, 14 subsidiaries and three development centers, ISIS Papyrus supports more than 2,000 enterprise customers worldwide who use Papyrus standard software for business applications to manage customer communications & billing, business correspondence, case/claims management, multichannel delivery, ADF, indexed capture and transpromo. Based on a proven application platform for consolidating ECM, BPM and CRM, the Papyrus defined business architecture enables flexibility, efficiency, collaboration, quality and continuous improvement of customer-focused content and processes across systems and applications. As a Trade Member of AIIM and a Foundational Member of OASIS, ISIS Papyrus maintains a commitment to support and promote technology and standards benefiting the business user.

DMS expert DocuWare certifies Data Capture Specialist ABBYY's FlexiCapture Exporter

Bracknell, UK (16 September, 2010) - ABBYY Europe, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, and DMS pioneer DocuWare have announced the certification of the ABBYY DocuWare Connector to the document management system DocuWare. The cooperation strengthens their relationship by sharing expertise and enhancing the competitive capacities of both companies.

Organisations everywhere still grapple with the flood of incoming documents produced by their daily correspondence. To deal with this problem an integrated solution which offers an efficient implementation and administration of these documents into the company's workflow is crucial. Data capture systems like ABBYY FlexiCapture are able to automatically classify and extract the relevant information out of paper documents such as invoices or delivery slips. The extracted data can be fed to a document management system and integrated into relevant business processes.

"By certifying the connector between ABBYY FlexiCapture and DocuWare, we give customers confidence that their important data will be securely and reliably delivered to the DMS," states Jupp Stoepetie, CEO of ABBYY Europe GmbH. "For many customers, a seamless integration of their digital archive into other applications and components is a crucial criterion. The certification clearly demonstrates to the market that we offer an integrated solution with secure investment."

Certified for version 5.1b SP3, the ABBYY DocuWare Connector uses the GAPI interface implemented in DocuWare in order to transfer the captured data to the DMS.

"Because our certification program is strictly subjected to a set of quality guidelines, we can ensure that both solutions are 100% compatible," emphasises DocuWare President Juergen Biffar.  "Customers can optimise their business processes through automated capture, processing and archiving of their records. Additionally, partners have the opportunity to expand their business by implementing document and data capture."

About DocuWare
Founded in 1988, DocuWare has over 7500 installations and over one hundred thousand satisfied users daily in over 70 countries. This Integrated Document Management Systems (IDMS) producer offers solutions that target small to mid-sized companies, government agencies and departments in large organisations. Over 400 Authorised DocuWare Partners make up a worldwide independent reseller network, employing over 1000 DocuWare experts who bring DocuWare close to its customers.

DocuWare AG is based in Germering near Munich, Germany.  The company's US subsidiary, DocuWare Corporation, is located in Newburgh, New York and is responsible for all activities in North, Central and South America. DocuWare Ltd., its subsidiary in Weybridge, Surrey, handles all activities for Great Britain and Ireland. DocuWare S.L. located in Barcelona is responsible for the market in Spain and DocuWare SARL is located in Paris and attends to France and francophone Africa.

DocuWare - Software for Integrated Document Management
DocuWare is an integrated document management solution that can automate business processes by managing any type of document, regardless of format or source, in a central document pool - for example paper records, letters, faxes, drawings, PC and other electronic files including e-mail. DocuWare supports all forms of electronic signatures.  Integrated records management ensures that all access is secure, controlled, and logged. Using the Internet, the central document pool is available around the clock to any authorised user, no matter where they are located in the world.

A wide range of customizable DocuWare add-on modules equip DocuWare for, among other things, automatic indexing, COLD applications and enhanced workflow features.  Other software applications are easily integrated with a set of standard tools.  Numerous interfaces exist for ERP systems (including a certified SAP interface) and Groupware (like Exchange, Groupwise or Lotus Notes/Domino).  DocuWare incorporates all components needed for powerful Enterprise Content Management.  Processes in every company can be automated and improved with DocuWare.  DocuWare solutions are known for their easy installation, administration and operation, as well as an exceptionally low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). DocuWare software is available in 15 languages. Enhanced with workflow functionalities, Web Content Management, and universal integration functions, DocuWare provides powerful Enterprise Content Management (ECM) functionality for enabling expansion throughout an organisation.

About ABBYY UK Ltd. and ABBYY Europe GmbH

ABBYY UK Ltd. and ABBYY Europe GmbH are members of the ABBYY Group supporting sales and marketing activities in Western Europe.  ABBYY is a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software. Its products include the ABBYY FineReader line of optical character recognition (OCR) applications, ABBYY FlexiCapture line of data capture solutions, ABBYY Lingvo dictionary software, and development tools. Paper-intensive organisations from all over the world use ABBYY software to automate time- and labour-consuming tasks and to streamline business processes. ABBYY products are used in large-scale government projects such as those of Australian Taxation Office, Lithuanian Tax Inspectorate, Ministry of Education of Russia, Ministry of Education of Ukraine, and Montgomery County Government of the USA. Companies that license ABBYY technologies include BancTec, Canon, EMC/Captiva, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, NewSoft, Notable Solutions, Samsung Electronics and more. ABBYY OCR applications are shipped with equipment from the world's top manufacturers such as BenQ, Epson, Fujitsu, Fuji Xerox, Microtek, Panasonic, Plustek, Toshiba, and Xerox. ABBYY is headquartered in Moscow, Russia, with offices in Germany, the United States, Ukraine, the UK, Japan and Taiwan.

• Accounts Payable department saves 10 days processing expense claims every month
• Expense claims project builds on invoice system already successfully installed
• Cash flow improved by better supplier invoice management

September 15, 2010 – C Cube Solutions, a specialist document management and workflow provider, announces that it has completed a project with Centaur Media Plc, one the UK’s leading specialist B2B publishing groups, to install its online eForms technology to automate the whole process of employee expense claim management.

Building on an electronic document management system (EDMS) deployed in 2002 to manage purchase invoices, the new system means that Accounts Payable staff are saving 10 days a month to process 250 credit card and cash expense claims – time which is being far better used to run the business.   The system delivers 100% correct nominal code costing, improves reporting and has improved organisational effectiveness by making a laborious clerical task quick and easy for staff so they can focus on their core job roles.

Centaur Media employs 650 staff in four office locations.  Operating a paper-based expense claims system was inefficient, slow and costly as paperwork had to be couriered between buildings or sent in the internal post which often resulted in delays or lost forms which would then need to be resubmitted.

With a paper system, staff would receive their monthly credit card statements and have to manually enter all items and attached receipts – a laborious process for some who had 60 to 70 purchases to input per month.
Alan Dixie, Centaur Media’s head of accountancy services, explains, “We make a direct debit payment to our credit card supplier and things could get quite pressurised before a payment deadline to get expenses back, and items allocated to the right nominal codes.”

The business wanted to resolve these issues by introducing an online claims solution to save time and make processing quicker.  The project goals were to:

• Improve the efficiency of the whole process;
• Make filling in claims quicker for staff, particularly sales people so they could focus on selling rather than a laborious process of form filling;
• Provide a direct feed into its Microsoft Dynamics SL (Solomon) accounting system to avoid manual input;
• Provide more accurate recording of expenditure by staff – first time - without AP staff involvement.

Initially, Centaur Media reviewed various online expense solutions on the market but rapidly realised they were expensive and would require extensive modification to make fit in its environment. Jacques Bruyns, Centaur Media’s financial system reporting accountant, says, ”We decided it would be better if we just built the system ourselves and once we did this, C Cube Solutions was the obvious choice.”

 This was based on its experience using C Cube Solutions’ EDMS solution to index and then automate the approval of over 1,000 supplier invoices received each month - a system implemented in early 2002. Alan Dixie says, “Our invoice approval process is complex because any given invoice may require approval by various users spread across several departments in different physical locations.  The system has worked well and means we scan, index and workflow invoices for approval and sign off by publishers and ad managers which are then uploaded into our accounting system.”

The invoice system has meant that Centaur Media knows precisely where invoices are in the approval cycle with suppliers paid far more efficiently – the ‘knock on’ effect being better relationships established with them. Ultimately cash flow has been improved as AP staff can see when direct debit payments will be taken by suppliers – a facility which was previously difficult to do in its accounts package.  

C Cube Solutions advised Centaur to utilise its eForms technology for the expense system which sits on top of the existing EDMS solution already in place.  The same web-based portal is then used for access.  In other words, both expense and invoice systems utilise the same underlying technology and the bespoke built portal front end.

The expense system sits on two HP Proliant servers [one web and one application] running Windows Server 2003 which both share a SCSI-based HP Storageworks RAID storage platform.  Staff use Windows-based Dell or HP desktop PCs or Apple’s G5 Power Macs to access the system.  The three offices are connected via a fully resilient WAN provided by Centaur’s voice and data network provider.

C Cube Solutions’ eForms technology has provided Centaur Media a cost effective, simple to use solution which is delivering a range of benefits, summarised below:

• The new system has been designed to mimic the old paper process so familiar to staff. It shows date, expense, supplier, category, and amount. Indeed, once expenses are entered into the system, a PDF print out is produced which looks similar to the old form. Staff then attach receipts which have to be physically sent to the AP department for VAT and auditing purposes.
• The solution now automatically allocates the correct nominal code for each expense claim. eForms is populated with credit card statements each month – staff now don’t have to rekey this - so that all they have to do is fill in why the expenditure was made, select the country and whether the expense should have VAT applied. This means expenses are allocated correctly, with workflow routing the form to appropriate publishers or managers for approval [and then back to the AP department for loading into the accounting system.
• Accurate cost coding means that at month end, Centaur Media’s financial managers don’t have to spend much time reviewing nominal codes
• The new system has freed staff to cope with additional work without the need for additional headcount. For example, Centaur Media purchased a new business, Tax Briefs, in 2010 and the additional expense claims have been easily incorporated.
• Staff have accepted the system because it is intuitive. Alan Dixie says, “On the whole people don’t like change and the fact that we’ve had very few problems or complaints is a good sign.”
• Reporting has been improved and is far more accurate which means Centaur Media can now control expense claims far better.
• As the system is available via a VPN connection, it allows finance staff to work from home.

• NextScan Eclipse 300 Rollfilm and Kodak i1860 production scanners selected as digitisation work horses
• Around 45,000 microfilm images converted each day

London September 14, 2010 Kodak (NYSE:EK) today announced that the National Archives of Norway has scanned around 13 million microfilm images as part of an innovative project to digitise a considerable part of its holdings and make all information contained on microfilm readily available to the public via the Internet. 

Three NextScan Eclipse 300 Rollfilm production level scanners, exclusively distributed and supported by Kodak in EMEA[1], are being used to digitise microfilm information stored in the archive, with one Kodak i1860 high volume scanner purchased to scan paper records. The equipment was supplied by long standing local Kodak reseller, Kibi Norge AS.

In total, it is expected that around 15 million microfilm images will be scanned with the project expected to be completed soon. A huge and varied range of records will be made available online including probate and court records, parish church registers which list births, baptisms, still births, death and burial records, along with marriage registers, immigration and vaccination information.

Able to scan up to 300 microfilm images per minute, the Eclipse rollfilm scanners were purchased following detailed evaluation of the various high speed microfilm scanners in the market and references provided by the United States Library of Congress in Washington and the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints inUtah who also use Eclipse scanners. The church has over 2 million rolls of microfilm stored in its Granite Mountain records vault. The National Archives of Norway was the first organisation in Scandinavia to deploy Eclipse technology.

With 250,000 linear metres of documents in its possession, the National Archives of Norway holds information dating back to the Middle Ages right up to the present day.  Based in Oslo, it has eight branches throughout the country, and employs 250 staff. 

Svein Warberg, the National Archives of Norway’s digitisation projects advisor, explains, “We wanted to make the most popular records, the parish church registers, available online first so researchers, genealogists and members of the public could access them for free. That’s where we started and the project has evolved from there.”

The service has proved hugely popular and each day hundreds of thousands of documents are downloaded by around 50,000 unique users. 

Initially 12,000 parish church registers dating back over 300 years from 1920 to the mid 1600s were converted. Raw 200 dpi tiff files are created which are then converted into PNG files which compress the file size by 50%, and from there reformatted into JPEG images.  This allows images to be sharpened, indexed and then uploaded to bespoke written software used to display pages online which users can then navigate like they would do a traditional book.

The National Archives of Norway is digitising on average around 15 rolls of microfilm per Eclipse scanner every day each which contain around 1,000 images - in other words 45,000 images in total daily from the three machines in use.  The digitisation team has been impressed by the equipment’s image quality, speed and features like its wide range of reduction ratios [7x to 72x] and the fact that automatic focussing is offered. 

Warberg says, “After the church books, we then followed up with other popular records such as census, probate, court and property records which will all be converted in the next couple of years.”

To support his process given a lot of these documents are A4 paper-based, the archive purchased a Kodak i1860 production scanner last year.  Able to scan over 100 pages per minute at 300 dpi colour output, the i1860 is being used to scan around 10,000 images per day.

Images from both the Eclipse and i1860 scanners are then stored on a storage area network (SAN) which has a capacity of 150TB.

Kodak Service and Support in Norway has played an active role on the project providing technical assistance to the in-house scanning team.  Warberg says, “The working relationship has been good and we’ve had a very positive experience working in tandem with Kodak engineers.”

Moving forward, the National Archives of Norway is considering offering third party organisations and government departments microfilm conversion services to further utilise the investment made in its digitisation equipment. 

Richard Broden, Kodak’s EMEA products marketing manager, says, “Norway is probably the first country to make historical church records available online using a web-based, simple-to- use interface.  It is a testament to the scanning equipment’s speed and image quality features that they have been able to process so much so quickly.”

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To view National Archives of Norway records examples, please click on the two links below
Church books : http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read
Probate records : http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:sk_read

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Global data capture specialist DRS has been contracted by the Ministry of Finance and National Planning of the Republic of Zambia, on behalf of the Central Statistics Office, to deliver the next population census of Zambia.

The contract was awarded following a successful pilot exercise earlier this year and is subsequent to DRS’ delivery of Zambia’s last population census, in 2000, that involved capturing vital data from 13 million people and four million households.

The latest contract will see DRS print five million specially designed census forms and conduct staff training for the handling and completion of questionnaires and in the use of its technologies, as well as providing project support for the planning and implementation of the scanning process.  DRS will capture and process the census data using Optical Mark Recognition, Intelligent Character Recognition and keying from image technologies, including its award winning PhotoScribe® scanners and census software.

The eighth population census in Zambia will provide critical information on the size of the population, its distribution and composition, as well as establish the number of eligible voters in the country and provide important information in the distribution of national resources.  The enumeration will take place from October 2010.

DRS has been processing sensitive data capture projects around the world for the past four decades and has been involved in the successful delivery of past population censuses in Australia, Bangladesh, Tanzania, Cameroon, Nigeria, Sudan, Ethiopia and Malawi.

Additional Information
DRS was established in 1969. Its reputation has grown to become the name to trust for delivering time-critical and large-scale one-off contracts for exercises such as censuses, examinations, voter registration and elections – implementing complete solutions for logistically challenging projects in these markets.  DRS designs and manufactures its own range of award winning Optical Mark Recognition (OMR), Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) and Imaging recognition technologies that can all seamlessly be integrated into any organisation’s IT infrastructure.

DRS has the skills and expertise to manage data capture projects of any size or complexity around the world.  Complete solutions are implemented using the Company’s extensive expertise in document design, printing, forms scanning, software, logistics, project management and consultancy.  Visit www.drs.co.uk for more details.

London, UK 13th September 2010 – PFU Imaging Solutions Europe Limited, within Fujitsu, responsible for document scanners, today announced the availability of its latest production scanner for high performance applications - the Fujitsu fi-5950. With speeds up to 270 images per minute (135 pages), the Fujitsu fi-5950 is the ideal product for high volume customer needs. Equipped with the latest VRS image processing technology and new paper transport technology, the Fujitsu fi-5950 can tackle large projects of forms or mixed batches with minimal operator intervention.

New intelligent functions for efficient operation
Working closely with the Kofax VRS Software Development team, this new scanner provides the latest VRS image processing technology with increased throughput when using intelligent page rotation and intelligent blank page detection. Additional improvements have been addressed in dramatically reducing the time and effort it takes to recover from the multifeed errors; now, if a multifeed occurs, scan operators are offered an option of accepting the current scan or repeating the process. Further, the fi-5950 offers an improved VRS user interface: VRS scanning settings and other scan characteristics can be saved under one profile. The high speed performance and the combination of advanced image functionalities minimize total operation time required to scan predefined document volumes.

Smooth operation through new transport rollers
To ensure a reliable paper transport when scanning complex or mixed batch (size) documents and increased productivity, the fi-5950 features Fujitsu’s latest roller design which consists of complete new materials allowing for reduced operator intervention and cleaning. “The new fi-5950 production scanner processes paper efficiently, smoothly and quickly, whilst at the same time minimizing the pre- and post-processing tasks for the operator”, explains Klaus Schulz, Manager Product Marketing EMEA. “Equipped with the latest VRS image processing technology it is actually the fastest VRS-scanner in the mid volume production market. It helps streamline processes and reduce capture related cost, making document processing an increasingly valuable asset in every enterprise.”

Strong heritage
The new document scanner succeeds the fi-5900C, which has a strong position in the market and accounted for catapulting Fujitsu up to the second place in the European MVP market.

Price and Availability
The Fujitsu fi-5950 is available immediately through our regular EMEA distribution channels for a recommended retail price of Euro 24.998 / GBP 20.823 / USD 32.497 (plus VAT).

For further information about our products please visit our web site at http://www.fujitsu.com/emea/products/

About PFU Limited
PFU Limited, a subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, is a $1 billion global enterprise that designs, develops, manufactures and markets globally computer hardware, peripheral products, enterprise software and systems. PFU Limited has been engaged in document imaging scanner business over 20 years. For more information, please visit www.pfu.fujitsu.com/en/

December 15, 2010

Enterprise Capture Specialist certifies more than 80 partners in past 12 Months

Bracknell, UK (9 December, 2010) - ABBYY UK, a member of the ABBYY Group, and a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and language software, today announced that ABBYY UK and ABBYY Europe have certified over 80 FlexiCapture 9.0 Solution Partners in Western Europe, among them 63 new partners, in the past 12 months alone. FlexiCapture's momentum points to the growing demand for a single platform for transactional data extraction that can be applied to all types of documents and clearly demonstrates ABBYY's success in providing the right product to fulfil business requirements.

ABBYY Europe has recorded a steady increase in the number of new partnerships consolidated in the twelve months since FlexiCapture 9.0 was introduced. Notable new partners in the UK include Invu, Cashbook Ltd. and Vulcan Solutions. With the help of ABBYY FlexiCapture 9.0 these companies are now in a position to take advantage of the exponential growth and interest in enterprise capture software and platforms as organisations seek to digitise paper content in order to streamline workflows and content management processes.

ABBYY FlexiCapture 9.0 delivers high performance extraction of data from documents via a flexible and expandable architecture designed to meet throughput needs of virtually any scope, ranging from small, departmental tasks to high-volume enterprise and governmental projects. It offers a full range of functionalities for document classification, indexing, data capture and document conversion.  ABBYY FlexiCapture 9.0 enables customers to streamline forms and other paper-based processes, dramatically reducing costs spent on manual paper routines, and speed up access to business-critical data.

"Invu Document Management is dealing with increasingly complex real-world requirements and our ability to deliver solutions for customers has been boosted by taking on board ABBYY FlexiCapture. Working with ABBYY, we have the peace of mind that we can offer great solutions enhanced by best-in-class Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities and a robust Data Capture platform. Customer feedback is very positive indeed," said Colin Gallick, CEO Invu. "ABBYY's partner programme gives us first-class support, extended development capabilities and sales and marketing support that give us a head-start in our market.  Our success is based on accountability, technology superiority and consulting expertise, values we know ABBYY also recognises as key requirements."

"We are pleased that we have partners who have deep knowledge of the market and cover a range of sectors including Finance, Legal, Insurance, Government, Consulting and Healthcare. We continuously strive to evolve our products to allow both customers and integrators the flexibility to respond to ever changing market conditions," said Dave Evans, Regional Sales Director UK and Ireland, ABBYY.

About ABBYY UK Ltd. and ABBYY Europe GmbH ABBYY UK Ltd. and ABBYY Europe GmbH are members of the ABBYY Group supporting sales and marketing activities in Western Europe.  ABBYY is a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and language software. Its products include the ABBYY FineReader line of optical character recognition (OCR) applications, ABBYY FlexiCapture line of data capture solutions, ABBYY Lingvo dictionary software, and development tools. Paper-intensive organisations from all over the world use ABBYY software to automate time- and labour-consuming tasks and to streamline business processes. ABBYY products are used in large-scale government projects such as those of Australian Taxation Office, Lithuanian Tax Inspectorate, Ministry of Education of Russia, Ministry of Education of Ukraine, and Montgomery County Government of the USA. Companies that license ABBYY technologies include BancTec, Canon, EMC/Captiva, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, NewSoft, Notable Solutions, Samsung Electronics and more. ABBYY OCR applications are shipped with equipment from the world's top manufacturers such as BenQ, Epson, Fujitsu, Fuji Xerox, Microtek, Panasonic, Plustek, Toshiba, and Xerox. ABBYY is headquartered in Moscow, Russia, with offices in Germany, the United States, Ukraine, the UK, Japan and Taiwan. For more information, visit www.ABBYY.com or contact ABBYY UK Ltd. on +44 (0) 1344 392 610 or sales_uk@abbyy.com.

ABBYY, the ABBYY Logo, FineReader, ADRT, Lingvo, FlexiCapture and PDF Transformer are either registered trademarks or trademarks of ABBYY Software Ltd. Other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners and are hereby recognised.

December 15, 2010

Martin Pain brings over 10 years experience in the IT industry to Visioneer to support further expansion of the Xerox DocuMate Scanner range 

Guildford, UK – 30th November 2010 – Visioneer, a leader in intelligent imaging solutions, has today announced the appointment of Martin Pain as Sales Manager to support the channel following the increasing success of the Xerox DocuMate Scanner range.  Martin will be responsible for maintaining relationships with all current distributors and resellers in addition to looking for new opportunities for the scanner range.

“We are very pleased welcome Martin to the team, he will be a great asset to Visioneer, the channel and our customers.” said Peter Trapmore, EMEA, Sales Director at Visioneer.  ‘As the success of the Xerox DocuMate scanner range continues to grow across Europe and the Developing  Markets, we felt the time was right to introduce a new role which will be focused purely on growing the market to ensure this thriving region receives the attention that it deserves”.

Martin joins Visioneer from Konica Minolta where he had worked for the past 4 years as a Reseller Account Manager, responsible for driving business in the Southern region through product training and account management.  Previously Martin worked in a variety of sales management roles for companies such as IT Databases, Northamber and Ericsson.

Martin joins Visioneer today and can be contacted on the following:
Tel: 0870 774 4482
Mobile: 07983 709768
Email: martin_pain@visioneer.com

About Visioneer
Visioneer provides a broad range of scanning solutions for the desktop, distributed and departmental document imaging markets as well as the mobile and remote business scanning segments.  In 2003, Visioneer combined its leading scanner technology with Xerox brand recognition to develop the Xerox DocuMate product line.  Visioneer and Xerox DocuMate high-performance business scanners and imaging software solutions offer users speed, image quality, advanced paper handling and ease-of-use with exclusive Visioneer OneTouch® technology. For additional information on Visioneer and Xerox scanning solution, visit www.visioneer-europe.com or www.xeroxscanners.co.uk

December 15, 2010

Leading domestic appliance manufacturer’s Swedish operation optimises financial management and cuts invoice processing times by 15 days with web-based solution

19 November 2010 – Miele, the leading manufacturer of domestic appliances and commercial equipment, has deployed an advanced, web-based invoice automation solution from enterprise purchase-to-pay specialist Palette, to optimise financial management across its Swedish business operation.

Miele is using PaletteInvoice, part of the PaletteArena suite of accounts payable automation solutions, to ensure that the 20,000 invoices received annually at its Swedish headquarters are processed, approved and scheduled for payment quickly and efficiently.

By automating the invoice approval process, Miele has virtually eliminated the need for manual processing and has shortened its invoice cycle time from over 20 days to less than 5 days.  PaletteInvoice automatically generates invoice authorisation requests and emails them to relevant staff, enabling them to view and approve invoices quickly and securely.

As PaletteInvoice is accessed in the cloud via users’ web browsers, staff working remotely can access and manage their invoices wherever they have a web connection.  The progress of invoices through the approval process is also easily tracked using Palette’s advanced workflow features, ensuring that a supplier’s payment terms are not exceeded – which in turn avoids any penalty charges.

Uwe Duckart, administration manager for Miele said:  “Before we deployed PaletteInvoice, invoices would be sent manually by mail to staff, but this led to delays and to documents being lost or mislaid.  The solution’s automation and workflow capabilities have helped us to cut processing times by 75%, while ensuring that all purchasing rules and policies are maintained.

“Also, because the workflow and invoice tracking is completely transparent, we can focus more on financial analysis and management, instead of chasing authorisations or lost documents.  The solution has been welcomed by our sales staff because it simplifies their paperwork, too, making it easy for them to check and authorise invoices wherever they are working from,” he added.

Invoices are received at Miele Sweden’s head office in Stockholm, where they are scanned using a ReadSoft solution, then sent to PaletteInvoice for verification and processing.  Invoices with matching purchase orders are automatically sent for authorisation to the relevant person, and then fed into Miele’s ERP system (ASW from IBS) to be scheduled for payment.

Miele chose PaletteInvoice following an evaluation of several solutions.  Palette was chosen for its flexible, scalable web-based architecture, which supports both office-based and remote staff with no need for software to be installed on desktop or laptop PCs, and for its modularity, which enables additional features to be deployed as needed.

According to Uwe Duckart, Miele plans to expand its capability to handle more electronic invoices, reducing the need to scan paper-based documents.  This step, which is fully supported by Palette Invoice, will help to further streamline the company’s invoice processing cycle.

PaletteArena is a complete enterprise purchase-to-payment suite, enabling users to achieve significant, measurable cost savings and efficiency gains in processing supplier invoices and purchase orders.  It includes the PaletteInvoice, PaletteBuyer, PaletteContract and PaletteSupplier Portal products, giving a web-based end-to-end solution that improves invoice management from receipt to payment.  It integrates easily with accounting, information and business systems to automate and streamline accounts payable activity across the organisation.

December 15, 2010

- Content management specialist reaps the organisational, efficiency and green benefits of paper-free approach with improved information access and storage -

04 November 2010: The Content Group, the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) consultancy and solutions provider, has become the UK’s first entirely paperless office, avoiding an extra 10% in annual overheads by running a single, wholly digital office. The ECM specialist has been able to enjoy the benefits of improved efficiency, improved information access and an easier home working structure, due to the entire office-wide removal of paper and by switching to purely digital information.

All paper has been removed from the office, including letterheads and business cards, as invoices, proposals, purchase orders and the like are now all sent electronically and digital business cards are forwarded by email. Any paper-based inbound post is immediately scanned and distributed electronically and even flip-charts have been replaced with digital whiteboards.

Ben Richmond, CEO and Founder of The Content Group explains, “We felt that paper was becoming an ineffective way of storing and sharing information and recognised that moving to digital processes was going to benefit our business. In effect we wanted to ‘practice what we preach’ and prove unequivocally that by removing paper from all office processes – not just certain departments like many companies have done in the past – costs can be dramatically reduced and workforce efficiency can be greatly increased.”

Richmond continues, “Many of our clients have a number of office locations throughout the UK. Were we to rely on paper documents for our projects – which typically entail site visits of days or even weeks – we would require an entirely new second office in order to enable efficient operations for some of our further afield clients, the running of which would add an additional 10% to our annual overheads. By ensuring that absolutely all of our office information is accessible digitally and providing the most efficient possible remote working infrastructure, we are able to entirely avoid that cost with minimal investment of our own.”

Richmond continues, “An office running on a manual, paper-based basis, can suffer severe productivity losses if employees are not able to access the physical documents for whatever reason, be that working remotely or if disastrous or adverse conditions prevent entry to the office. By keeping absolutely everything in a digital format, this is not a problem that we will experience. Should an IT-related disaster occur, such as a power outage or similar, we have also implemented policies whereby all of our documents are 100% accessible and backed up off-site. For instance, our area suffered a power outage that knocked out neighbouring offices for as long as four days – with our remote working and information access capabilities, we were able to return to being fully functional in less than four hours.”

The Content Group is a technology agnostic ECM consultancy and solutions provider whose ‘ECM Expert’ best practice methodology ensures successful ECM projects for its clients across the globe. The expertise and best practice methodology of The Content Group’s ECM Expert ensures its clients receive unbiased advice combined with technology recommendations that result in unparalleled ECM project success.

The Content Group has also enjoyed further benefits from the move from paper to digital including an enormous reduction in office space, allowing them to dedicate the whole of the bottom floor of the office to client activity and workshop facilities.

Richmond concludes, “We hope that this change inspires other companies, as well as our own clients, to follow suit. The anticipation is that the removal of a need for additional office space, the vast reduction in costs in our existing office, and the far greater workforce productivity the scheme creates, will all encourage companies to follow in our footsteps and realise their own benefits.”

December 15, 2010

CHICAGO AND LONDON -  November 2, 2010 - R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company (NASDAQ:RRD) announced today that it has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract by Prudential UK to manage its document management operations to 2021. Prudential UK is part of Prudential plc, an international financial services group that serves approximately 25 million customers in Asia, the US and the UK.

The RR Donnelley solution, to be executed through its Global Document Solutions offering, includes the print management of marketing collateral, the production and delivery of outbound transactional communications, inbound document processing, on-site management of multi-functional devices and print rooms as well as scanning, indexing and archiving. RR Donnelley will also work collaboratively with Prudential in the UK to introduce communication innovations that will continue to help enhance its customer relationships.

Many aspects of the existing customer communication processes will be significantly re-engineered to reduce costs while at the same time enhancing service. Enhancements will include the implementation of new printing, document routing and identification technology and the deployment of new digital communication channels. 

Tulsi Naidu, Operations Director, Prudential UK & Europe said, “Understanding and responding to our customers' needs is at the heart of our business, and we believe that RR Donnelley will add significant value in enabling our communications to be even more effective and efficient in reflecting our deep commitment to our customers.”

“We are very proud to have been chosen to help Prudential continue to transform its customer communications,” said John Paloian, RR Donnelley’s Chief Operating Officer. “Our solution will leverage our comprehensive international platform to enable Prudential to achieve its vision of optimizing its communication processes. We have worked to build a unique capability to deliver more effective integrated communications solutions that incorporate outbound and inbound processes.” 

More information about RR Donnelley Global Document Solutions is available at www.rrdgds.com.

About RR Donnelley
RR Donnelley (NASDAQ:RRD) is a global provider of integrated communications. Founded more than 146 years ago, the company works collaboratively with more than 60,000 customers worldwide to develop custom communications solutions that reduce costs, enhance ROI and ensure compliance. Drawing on a range of proprietary and commercially available digital and conventional technologies deployed across four continents, the company employs a suite of leading Internet based capabilities and other resources to provide premedia, printing, logistics and business process outsourcing products and services to leading clients in virtually every private and public sector.

For more information and for RR Donnelley's Corporate Social Responsibility Report, visit the company's web site at www.rrdonnelley.com

December 15, 2010

Partnership delivers Sage 50 and Sage 200 integrated document management

28 October 2010 - Version One (www.versionone.co.uk) has signed a strategic partnership with Midlands-based business advisors and Sage Business Partner, Smith Cooper. Under the terms of this agreement, Smith Cooper will be offering Version One’s document management and imaging software as part of its Sage 50 and Sage 200 software systems.
Version One’s solutions add real value to Sage 50 and Sage 200 financial management systems, enabling Smith Cooper’s customers to replace the paper-based creation, postage, storage, retrieval, authorisation and management of financial documents with paperless, automated processes.
Richard Brewster, Head of Business Solutions at Smith Cooper, comments, “We identified the need to provide our clients with improved document management and its 20 years’ experience of successfully delivering tailored document management solutions for Sage customers made Version One the clear choice.”
Brewster adds, “The breadth of Version One’s software will fulfil the increasing demand for high quality, end-to-end document management solutions that tightly integrate into Sage 50 and Sage 200.”
Using Version One’s software, Smith Cooper’s customers are able to improve purchase-to-pay efficiency, cut costs, free up document storage space and support their environmental agendas by electronically creating, circulating, storing, retrieving and processing financial documents directly from Sage 50 and Sage 200. Furthermore, Version One’s invoice processing solution, DbCapture, which automatically captures data from incoming invoices, reduces time-consuming manual data entry by up to 90 per cent.
Julian Buck, Managing Director of Version One, says, “Smith Cooper is a welcome addition to our partner network. We look forward to working closely with Richard and his team to help Sage users to cut costs, improve efficiencies within the finance department and to gain a swift return on their investment, typically in six months or less.”

December 15, 2010

UPMC Beacon Hospital has chosen ReadSoft, a leading global provider of software solutions for document automation, to capture and process paper-based research collected across the hospital. ReadSoft FORMS will enable UPMC Beacon to rapidly extract and process data from paper-based questionnaires and feedback forms, to inform its infection control and quality improvement programmes, in real-time.

Ireland-based UPMC Beacon Hospital, operated by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), aims to provide the best in Irish and US healthcare. Quality and patient safety are priorities, so the hospital constantly monitors and assesses its processes for infection control and quality improvement, using paper-based forms to continually gather data from patients, staff and field agents. However, the time taken to collect and enter the data, then run reports was impacting the accuracy and relevance of the information.  

UPMC Beacon Hospital processes many paper-based forms annually, which must be entered manually into its system. Using the ReadSoft solution, UPMC Beacon Hospital will be able to automatically and electronically capture information from every questionnaire and feedback form on the day it arrives and transfer it immediately into the hospital’s system for analysis.

ReadSoft FORMS will be used in conjunction with UPMC Beacon’s SPSS statistical reporting to provide accurate and comprehensive data to instantly inform the hospital’s infection control and quality improvement programmes. 

The ReadSoft contract with UPMC Beacon Hospital was secured by SPSS, a ReadSoft global partner since 2007.  

Fidel Taguinod, Quality and Patient Safety Manager, UPMC Beacon Hospital, said: “One of the main challenges of effective surveillance and infection control is the accuracy of information available to the hospital. By offering the ReadSoft solution, SPSS gave us a way to significantly speed up our data collection, data entry and report production so we can make informed decisions based on real-time evidence. Using ReadSoft FORMS integrated with our SPSS statistical data we will have a complete solution to automate data capture, processing and reporting to prevent infections and drive quality improvements.” 

Simon Shorthose, Managing Director, ReadSoft UK said: “Our partnership with SPSS ensures companies can benefit from a full solution for document automation and statistical reporting. Many companies still rely on manual data collection and entry, but by automating the document process, organisations like UPMC Beacon Hospital can streamline these time-intensive administrative tasks to deliver real-time information to inform their operation.”

For additional information, please contact:

ReadSoft UK
Sarah Courbet, UK Marketing Manager, ReadSoft
Phone: +44 1908 688018
sarah.courbet@readsoft.com

Alizia Walker, Wildfire PR
Phone: +44 208 339 4420
readsoft@wildfirepr.co.uk
               

About ReadSoft
ReadSoft is a leading global provider of software solutions for Document Process Automation. ReadSoft’s software enables companies to automate document processes such as accounts payable processing, document capture, document sorting, and order to cash. ReadSoft is by far the world’s number one choice for automated invoice processing, especially into business systems from SAP and Oracle. Since the start in 1991, ReadSoft has grown to a worldwide group with operations in 16 countries on five continents and a network of local and global partners. The head office is located in Helsingborg, Sweden, and the ReadSoft share is traded on the NASDAQ OMX Nordic Exchange Small Cap list. For more information about ReadSoft, please visit www.readsoft.co.uk

About UPMC for UPMC
UPMC is the largest integrated health care enterprise in Pennsylvania and one of the leading non-profit health systems in the United States. It has appeared eight times on the prestigious U.S. News & World Report Honor Roll of “America’s Best Hospitals.” Widely recognised for its innovations in patient care, research, technology and health care management, UPMC has transformed the economic landscape in western Pennsylvania. The region’s largest employer, with 48,000 employees and nearly $7 billion in revenue, UPMC comprises 20 tertiary, specialty and community hospitals, 400 outpatient sites and doctors’ offices, retirement and long-term care facilities, an insurance plan with more than 1 million members, and commercial and international ventures. About 5,000 physicians are affiliated with UPMC, including nearly 2,500 employed physicians. For more information visit www.upmc.com or www.beaconmedicalgroup.ie

About SPSS Ireland
SPSS Ireland is a leading provider of predictive analytics solutions and services. SPSS Ireland partners with ReadSoft to provide a total solution for survey management and analysis. SPSS Ireland has helped many types of organisations to leverage all of their information assets including survey data to conduct research, make evidence based decisions and enhance performance. Gartner considers SPSS to be the leader in the customer data mining applications, combining the strongest market vision with the best ability to execute. In Ireland more than 2,000 public sector, academic and commercial customers rely on SPSS technology and services to help increase revenue, reduce costs , detect and prevent fraud, fight crime and manage public programs.  SPSS Ireland customers include: Bank of Ireland, O2, Vodafone Ireland, Department of Education, Department of Environment, Department of Justice, An Garda Síochána, Trinity College, University College Dublin (UCD), Health Services Executive (HSE). For additional information, please visit www.spss.com/ie.

• ITP Document Platform seamlessly integrated with SSP’s products for the insurance market

LONDON, 21st October, 2010 - Aia Software (www.aia-itp.com), a leading global supplier of intelligent document composition software today announced that it had signed a worldwide distribution agreement with SSP, a leading global provider of insurance technology.  The ITP Document Platform will be added to the InsureJ suite of web based components for clients in the general insurance (property and casualty) industry, and also to SSP’s other general insurance solutions.
SSP carried out a detailed market evaluation of suppliers of document composition software. Kevin Gaut, Chief Technology Officer at SSP explained, “We wanted to partner with a best of breed supplier and more specifically one that shared our goal of creating a ‘developer free’ approach for all product development.  Aia Software and the ITP Document Platform matched our requirements from a technical architecture perspective right through to the cultural fit between both companies.  We can now offer our insurance customers access to a more robust, scalable and flexible document composition solution that is already proven in the insurance industry.”
The efficient creation of business documents and subsequent distribution via multiple channels is a critical process for insurers.  Document composition processes can be initiated as a business function directly from SSP’s insurance solutions, providing customers with direct access to advanced document creation, management and production functionality.
Mike Davies, Sales Director UK at Aia Software said, “I am delighted that the ITP Platform continues to gain recognition in the insurance market from end-user clients and major software vendors.  The partnership with SSP will enable Aia to extend the global reach of our ITP Platform.  Aia and SSP share a mutual focus on the insurance market and a belief in the business owned, business managed philosophy that empowers business users to manage, control and maintain critical insurance documents without requiring intervention from the IT department.”
There is a great deal of potential and mutual opportunity as a result of this partnership, as SSP provides solutions to over 120 insurance companies across the globe.  Speaking at the signing of the contract, Richard Forrest, Commercial Director concluded, “Aia brings a wealth of knowledge of how document composition should be implemented in the insurance market.  By integrating the ITP Platform into our proven insurance products we can add value to our offering, whilst enhancing the flexibility, business agility and operational efficiency for our insurance customers.  Additionally it will enable insurers to shorten the time to market for new products which is a major competitive advantage in the insurance industry.”
- Ends -
About Aia Software
Aia Software is a leading global producer and provider of document and forms solutions. The ITP Document Platform enables business users to compose high quality, personalized, business-critical documents. Over 1000 organizations worldwide already use ITP as an integrated solution to automate the production of standard documents in high volume, compose sophisticated individual correspondence from pre-defined paragraphs, or to dynamically complete Web forms. ITP can be quickly and seamlessly integrated with customers' existing application and technical platforms. Aia Software has branch offices in North America, the UK, The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and Australia.
www.aia-itp.com

About SSP 
SSP is the international IT company with unrivalled expertise across the entire general insurance supply chain - shaping a better industry.  With the greatest knowledge, talent & technology in our market, we bring value to every client engagement.

• Knowledge: Over 25 years experience
• Talent: Over 750 of the most talented IT professionals
• Technology: The broadest range of capabilities

There is nobody better equipped to deliver business capabilities that improve performance, facilitate greater distribution & enhance customer experience for the best return.
www.ssp-worldwide.com

·           Introducing six easy-to-use, fast and compact models, the Canon i-SENSYS MF4400 and MF4500 series
·           New unique stylish design fits into any home or office environment with three models in each series  
·           All-In-One devices boost productivity and save personal and small business users time and money

LONDON, 19 August, 2010 – Canon UK, world-leader in imaging solutions, announced today the launch of six new black-and-white i-SENSYS All-In-One models, the Canon i-SENSYS MF4400 and MF4500 series. With three models in each series, the devices offer some of the fastest and most cost effective MFPs available for personal and small workgroup settings.

The i-SENSYS MF4400 and MF4500 series offer a range of functionality across the models to meet users’ different printing needs in busy office and home environments. The i-SENSYS MF4400 models are ideal in environments which can benefit from an easy-to-use black-and-white multifunctional device. The i-SENSYS MF4410 and i-SENSYS MF4430 offer print, copy and scan functionality and the i-SENSYS MF4450 adds fax capability. The i-SENSYS MF4430 and i-SENSYS MF4450 also feature Automatic Document Feeders (ADF), which saves the user time by allowing them to copy multiple originals at the same time.

Moving up through the devices, the i-SENSYS MF4500 models help small and home office users cut back on paper and print costs through value-added features including automatic double-sided printing. All of the i-SENSYS MF4500 series are designed with productivity in mind and include print, copy, scan and fax functionality. The i-SENSYS MF4570dn and i-SENSYS MF4580dn include Network capability, allowing small work groups the chance to share the device. The i-SENSYS MF4580dn also features a duplex ADF for double-sided scanning, copying and faxing.

Boasting very small footprints, the i-SENSYS MF4400 and MF4500 models combine compactness with stylish design to sit perfectly in any work or home office environment.  They are ideal for customers looking for quick and easy-to-use devices at a competitive price. Utilising the advantages of laser print technology, they produce a range of professional-looking black-and-white documents with crisp, clear text and images.

All of the models offer Canon’s maintenance free All-In-One cartridges and simple scanning processes along with a new enhanced 5-line LCD display providing easier access to key information and features. Each series has a distinct style to reflect its use – the i-SENSYS MF4400 models have a sleek all black design to fit in with the home office, while the i-SENSYS MF4500 models’ black-and-white styling makes them versatile and ideal for any environment including small and home offices.

Colour scanning is versatile and simple with the models, saving time and achieving great results. The scanned documents can be distributed via email, PDF, or other applications with the minimum of steps. In addition, network capability means the i-SENSYS MF4570dn and i-SENSYS MF4580dn can scan through the MF Toolbox allowing multiple workgroup users access to the quick scan function for increased productivity. 

Both series feature high-rated print speeds, with the i-SENSYS MF4400 models running at 23ppm and the i-SENSYS MF4500 models at 25ppm, and are designed to produce documents with improved detail and exceptional 1,200 x 600dpi enhanced resolution.

With one of the lowest Typical Energy Consumption (TEC)* ratings available, the devices offer low cost, energy efficient operation. Combined with a First Copy Out time of 9 seconds or less and Quick First Print technology that enables printing with the minimum warm up time, the new i-SENSYS models are among the most energy efficient laser products in their class.

Trevor Dodsworth, Head of Product Marketing, Business to Business, Canon UK said: “The i-SENSYS MF4400 and MF4500 series reflect Canon’s commitment to delivering compact products that are quick and easy-to-use whilst delivering high performance. The models also bring value added features that ensure operation is efficient and cost-effective. The compact MFPs are a perfect solution for any small business looking for a stylish, easy-to-use All-In-One to help improve productivity and business processes.”                                                

The Canon i-SENSYS MF4400 and MF4500 series are available across Europe from November 1, 2010.

Harvey Spencer Associates Names Kofax as the Leader in Both the Image and Transaction Capture Segments
IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Kofax plc (LSE:KFX), the leading provider of document driven business process automation solutions, today announced that a new report issued by Harvey Spencer Associates, an independent analyst and research firm, confirms that the company increased its overall share of the capture software and services market to 11 percent during 2009, an increase from 10 percent in the previous year. The report, entitled “The 2010-11 Worldwide Market for Document Capture Software,” projects that this market will expand from $2 billion in 2009 to over $3 billion in 2013, a compound annual growth rate of almost 11 percent. The report also confirmed that Kofax maintained its dominant leadership position in the “Image Capture” segment and, for the first time, named the company as the leader in the “Transaction Capture” segment.
In the Image Capture segment, defined as scanning, indexing and then exporting document images and index data, the report cites Kofax as having a 25 percent market share, more than eight percentage points higher than its nearest competitor. In the Transaction Capture segment, defined as scanning, classifying, and extracting critical business data and then exporting document images and data to downstream business processes, the report names Kofax as the leader with almost a 13 percent market share. These two segments comprise the “enterprise” segments and account for more than 64 percent of the overall market.
“Kofax gained market share, which was impressive considering that the company now derives over 40 percent of its revenues from direct sales, which do not gross up as much as indirect sales in our model. The company turned around a difficult first half of the year and, helped by the 170 Systems acquisition, strongly increased its revenue in the second half,” said Harvey Spencer, Principal of Harvey Spencer Associates. “More significantly, Kofax has started to leverage its user base to successfully move into the higher value transaction capture segment and enterprise sales through augmenting its channel with a direct sales force and focusing more on solutions rather than technology.”
“Kofax’s continued dominance in Image Capture, our new leadership position in Transaction Capture, and our increasing overall market share serve to reinforce our enterprise capture strategy, and that the breadth and depth of our product portfolio is meeting the needs of the market,” said Martyn Christian, Kofax’s Chief Marketing Officer. “The proven capabilities and scalability of our solutions, the global reach of our sales and support operations, and our financial strength and stability have positioned Kofax for continued success now and in the future.”
Founded in 1989, Harvey Spencer Associates, Inc. is a New York-based analyst and consulting firm specializing in document scanning and capture software solutions. Mr. Spencer has extensive background in the information technology industry gained from over 40 years as an end user, VAR, manufacturer and consultant. More information is available at www.hsassocs.com/index.html
About Kofax
Kofax plc (LSE: KFX) is the leading provider of document driven business process automation solutions. For more than 20 years, Kofax has provided award winning solutions that streamline the flow of information throughout an organization by managing the capture, transformation and exchange of business critical information arising in paper, fax and electronic formats in a more accurate, timely and cost effective manner. These solutions provide a rapid return on investment to thousands of customers in financial services, government, business process outsourcing, healthcare, supply chain and other markets. Kofax delivers these solutions through its own sales and service organizations, and a global network of more than 700 authorized partners in more than 60 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific. For more information, visit www.kofax.com.
“Kofax” is a registered trademark in the US, the EU and other regions. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Scottish Natural Heritage’s (SNH) is the government body formed to help care for, conserve and manage Scotland’s wildlife, habitats and landscape. Their primary role is to look after the natural heritage, help people to enjoy it, and encourage people to use it sustainably.

Much of SNH’s work is done in partnership with others � local authorities, Government bodies, businesses, community groups, farmers and other land managers, and a wide range of representative bodies. It operates nationally and locally through a number of “units”, with much of its day-to-day work being carried out by 11 area teams with offices throughout Scotland.

Its priorities are set out in a corporate strategy, which includes the development of policy, provision of grants, conducting research, providing advice and information, handling a wide range of casework, providing licenses and supporting interpretation. It also helps to implement a number of national strategies, such as the Scottish Biodiversity Strategy, which is seeks to reverse biodiversity loss in Scotland.

Improving Information Management
A critical part of SNH’s work is communication with a wide range of organisations and individuals to educate them on the importance of managing the natural environment properly, encouraging them to use it sustainably and supporting them in action. Information created and received from many sources needs to be effectively managed in order to use it in a meaningful way.

In 2005, SNH selected Objective to provide them with an electronic Records and Document Management (eRDM) system. As well as encouraging collaboration across the organisation and giving SNH the tools to be able to disseminate information more effectively, the system was also implemented to facilitate compliance with various Scottish Government information management initiatives.

Alan McKirdy, Head of Information Management, SNH explains: “We are in the information business. Everything we do and say has to be supported by up-to-date, accurate information. eRDM has helped us manage our information flow and ensure that all our records and documents, both high profile and routine, are readily accessible to all who need to consult them.”

Benefits Realised
SNH has developed a corporate memory, or repository, for all its documents, emails and records.  This has been carefully structured in a very logical manner to align closely with the organisation, so fewer resources are required to manage the information, enabling this time and money to be re-allocated to areas of the organisation where they can add more value.

Used by all SNH staff across multiple locations, Objective has also driven significant improvements in operational effectiveness and collaboration, by allowing staff to have authorized access to appropriate information when they need it, Thereby, enabling SNH to deliver more effectively on its corporate and natural heritage goals.

Alan McKirdy explains why this is so important: “Part of our responsibility lies with monitoring the changing natural environment. We can only do this effectively if we preserve information in an accessible way, which has been a challenge for us in the past. Our Objective eRDM solution allows us to perform more effectively by managing information for the future and providing us with a complete corporate memory.”

Transparency with the general public
SNH is now using Objective to make all information, that is not confidential or subject to the Data Protection Act, available to the general public. It is well on the way to achieving this and has been hailed as an example of the way the Scottish public sector should become more transparent.

“Placing a greater emphasis on effective information management enhances the collaborative sharing of information both internally between different teams and externally with the general public.  Enabling us to comply with Freedom of Information legislation and importantly, helping to improve the public’s perception of government handling of data,” continued Alan McKirdy.

Alan McKirdy concludes: “SNH is very proud of the progress we have made in making the majority of our information available to the public and pleased to be demonstrating transparency in dealing with our customers and the wider public. Our hope is that people will be able to use the information, see their natural environment anew and help support us in protecting it.”

BENEFITS AT A GLANCE
·                Improved communication with external parties
·                Increased opportunities to collaborate 
·                Reallocation of resources to value-added areas
·                Improved corporate memory
·                Protection of information for the future 
·                Ability to make information public-facing
·                Enhanced corporate governance

KYOCERA MITA today launched the first A4 colour multifunctional products to benefit from its unique ECOSYS technology. The FS-C2026MFP and FS-C2126MFP are fast, versatile document hubs that support complex document requirements while reducing operational costs and waste.

London, England:  Optial announced today that it has signed contracts with Exeter Friendly Society for the Optial SmartStart OpRisk on Demand solution for Operational Risk Management, Compliance and Audit.

Exeter Friendly has chosen Optial’s OpRisk on Demand/SaaS deployment option of the Optial SmartStart pre-configured system. The system is hosted by Optial in a secure data centre delivering a low cost, rapid deployment solution which will be implemented over the next few weeks. The system will have a broad functional scope that includes incident capture/management, risk registers, operational risk self-assessments, key risk indicators, key performance indicators, internal control monitoring and internal audit functionality.

The increased regulatory focus from the FSA, higher policy holders’ expectations and Solvency II on the horizon are all pointing to the need for improved risk management. Optial provides a proven platform to support strong risk management and compliance with audit assurance, all integrated with the organisation’s business as usual processes, as required by regulation. 

Paul Austin, Finance Director of Exeter Friendly said, “Our intention is make our operational risk management framework more efficient and robust by mapping and automating the processes around the risk registers, risk reviews and compliance monitoring, linking all of these together with the audit function.”

“The key aspects for us in our decision to purchase Optial were the rich functionality, flexibility and proven workflow of the system and that the system can support our immediate needs out of the box. Additionally, the SaaS deployment enables us to implement the system in very short space of time, with no IT involvement and at minimal cost”.

“Optial SmartStart has been packaged and prepared for the Insurance industry to enable such rapid deployments with rich functionality available out of the box, yet delivering all of the flexibility required for future change.  I am delighted to add Exeter Friendly to our customer base” said Chris O’Brien, CEO of Optial.

About Exeter Friendly
Established in 1927, but with links back as far as 1888; we’re here to minimise the cost and impact of ill health for our customers and their families.
If they are ill or injured, we want to help them meet their commitments whilst they cannot work by paying them a regular income in replacement of their bills.
If they need medical treatment, we give them speedy access to private medical treatment to get them back to work quicker.
As a mutual insurer, we focus all of our efforts improving the service and benefits we offer members, not paying shareholder dividends.

Jane Tweddle
Sales & Marketing Director
www.optial.com

Bury St Edmunds hospital is the latest healthcare provider to deploy Evolve™, Kainos’s flagship integrated EDM solution, to transform efficiency, accuracy
and patient care
London & Belfast, August 10th, 2010 – West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust is to standardise on Kainos Evolve™, in a further substantial healthcare project win for the electronic document and records management (EDM) solutions specialist.
The Trust, using the Kainos (www.kainos.com/evolve) Evolve solution will scan all existing patient notes (approx 250,000 case files with 160+ pages each), within the existing medical records library so that these can be made available electronically to all staff, aiding patient care. All specialties will be included in the roll-out, using a scan-on-demand strategy for clinics. This will promote a structured and controlled project roll-out which will incorporate both in-patient and outpatient services.
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Evolve, developed in conjunction with NHS clinicians and underpinned by Autonomy Records Management™, the world’s most advanced retention and disposition solution, is a massively scaleable EDM solution that addresses the next-generation paper and electronic document demands of NHS Trusts across the UK and Ireland. 
The initial trigger for the project was the overwhelming volume of patient notes and the storage space they occupied within the Trust, explains Danny Collier, IM&T Project Manager for EDM at the Trust. “We wanted to use the space for clinical purposes, while improving the patient experience. There are also risks associated with manual records handling for our staff, and with the deterioration of notes of a certain age.”
Having a state-of-the-art EDM will improve the patient experience by making notes securely available at any time across all specialties. “This will enable clinicians to access high-quality scanned images of previous episodes of care and view these alongside current episodes. Structured scanning and sophisticated search capability will allow clinicians to add new notes if required and find the information relevant to them,” Danny says.

Kainos was selected to deliver the ambitious project after an extensive tender process. Says Danny, “Kainos proved to the Project Board that it had the commitment and long-term vision to support our goals to provide a system that can grow with our expectations and keep improving the patient experience.”

As part of the evaluation process, site visits and shared experience meetings were held with Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust and other Trusts to give the West Suffolk team a broad understanding of what the different suppliers and products offered. Ipswich’s positive experiences of working with Kainos on a similar EDM deployment confirmed that it was the right supplier for the job.
Commenting on the decision to standardise on the Evolve solution, Nick McDonnell, Head of IM&T at the Trust, said, “I saw a supplier who both understood the strategic vision for the NHS and could demonstrate drive and enthusiasm in supporting West Suffolk in implementing the electronic documentation management system. NHS organisations will be expected to deliver more for less through a raft of transformation and efficiency initiatives in the coming years and by working alongside key companies like Kainos we will meet these challenges head on in delivering programmes of change.”

Announcing the project win, Deirdre O’Neill, Head of EDM at Kainos, said, “We look forward immensely to driving through this critical EDM project, which will have a significant impact on patient care and general efficiency at West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust. We are delighted that another major Trust has chosen to standardise on Evolve.”

the Newcastle upon Tyne based supplier of Total Document Management solutions and Datafinity the Surrey based document and data capture experts have today announced the agreement of a reseller partnership relating to DRS DocXP and QuickInvoices data capture products.
The new alliance combines Genisys Technology’s vast expertise in the field of document management and information work-flow, with the data capture skills and experience of Datafinity.
Genisys Technology Ltd has seen a lot of recent success with the deployment of departmental solutions into over thirty NHS Trusts and Hospitals. As well as leading to additional opportunity within this and other sectors, the newly formed partnership with Datafinity will ensure that clients will benefit from true end-to-end, cost-effective solutions.

Gary Sawyer, Divisional Director at Genisys Technology Ltd. comments, “Step one on the partnership roadmap is already completed. Prior to signing the agreement with Datafinity, we have been working on the key areas of integration between Genisys Document Manager and DocXP and our full invoice processing solution is ready for launch. Utilising the QuickInvoices bundle coupled with Genisys Document Management we know we have a solution that offers superb value for money and gives a very quick return on investment.”
“We are delighted to be working with Genisys Technology as they provide both the product and market sector expertise to deliver complete solutions for accounts payable applications, incorporating DocXP for data capture”, explains Andy Dawson, Managing Director at Datafinity Ltd.

Energy, travel and pharmaceutical firms at highest risk

United Kingdom, London, Tuesday 31st  August - 88% of the FTSE 100 are at risk of litigation due to their susceptibility to a number of risk factors, including a history of litigation, operating in litigation-heavy areas, and being directly consumer-facing, according to research by ZyLAB (www.zylab.co.uk), a leading provider of e-discovery and information management solutions, with almost a quarter (24%) found to be ‘high risk’ across industries including energy, travel and pharmaceutical.

The research assessed each FTSE 100 company’s vulnerability to ten key risk factors1, a mix of industry and company-specific considerations previously known to heighten the chance of litigation, and then each company was given a score out of ten. Key drivers for assessing this risk and preparing effectively include the ability to prevent legal and accounting fees which have cost companies like Siemens £850m[1] in a bid to determine whether it had violated anti-corruption regulations.
Other key findings from the research include:

Energy is a Risky Business
Energy companies in the FTSE 100 scored the highest risk rating, averaging 7.75 out of 10, closely followed by travel (7.5) and pharmaceutical companies (7.5), partly driven by the heightened risk of providing consumer services and products and operating in an environmentally sensitive area, which was only recently demonstrated by BP being sued £3bn for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Finance companies also scored highly (7), which could be down to increased market volatility and heavy regulation, following the recent banking crisis.

FTSE 100 ‘Litigation Happy’
Almost two thirds (62%) of the FTSE 100 have previously been sued or initiated legal action, highlighting the increasingly litigious nature of our society, and with 65% of the FTSE 100 having US offices and 88% global operations, this inclination to sue could get worse in line with the highly litigious nature of the US and complexities of international legal requirements.

Complex Channels Cause Confusion
92% of the FTSE 100 were found to have disparate information channels across the business e.g. twitter, email and paper, and with the growing use of non-searchable multimedia platforms like YouTube and technologies which move data outside the organisation, such as cloud computing, organisations could be storing up a huge problem if requested to provide information to meet legal requirements.
Ronald Van Vuure, Director, ZyLAB comments: “It is shocking to see that so many FTSE 100 companies are vulnerable to litigation. As these companies feel the ongoing impact of the recession, the last thing they need is to be faced with a lawsuit which they are ill prepared to handle.
Additional findings include:

Share Price Headaches
Almost a quarter (21%) of FTSE 100 companies have a lower share price today than they did a year ago, indicating increased pressure from shareholders to improve the financial position of the company. In line with Fulbright’s 2009 Litigation Trends Report which revealed that “repercussions from the economic downturn are chief among the reasons for expecting more litigation”, increased financial pressure could imply these FTSE 100 companies are more inclined to take out legal action for cases that otherwise might be more easily resolved. 

Low Risk Lucky Few
Only 12% of FTSE 100 companies were judged to be ‘low risk’, with real estate and retail companies amongst the lucky few. With international budget cuts affecting revenue opportunities and diminishing consumer spending power, these organisations could however find themselves rapidly moving into higher risk categories.
Ronald Vann Vuure concludes: “Improving investigative capabilities to effectively source information across an enterprise will ensure it is protected against costly reactions to discovery requests within court-imposed timelines, potentially saving millions on legal fees. In today’s global business environment, poor information management practices are simply inexcusable.”

A Yorkshire-based document management and secure storage specialist will officially start business from their new facility in the North-East this week, creating up to 15 new jobs.

Magnum Services, which also has offices in Goole, East Yorkshire, acquired a building in Spennymoor, County Durham, earlier this year. The document management firm has just completed a major refurbishment enabling them to receive, scan, store and retrieve confidential documents all under one roof and in a controlled and secure environment. The company has capacity to store in excess of three quarters of a million boxes – put in perspective this equates to enough sheets of A4 paper to stretch to the moon and back.

Justin Welton, managing director of Magnum Services, said: “We have always had strong links within the North East and the new facility means we now have a physical presence in the area. It’s also great to be able restore a building and create new jobs at the same time.

“The new facility obviously represents a considerable investment for Magnum Services and is designed to meet stringent quality standards. Its security diligence includes: internal and external cameras - to digitally record on-site activity, access control, fire suppression systems and temperature/humidity control plus state of the art barcode tracking and scanning technologies.”

Magnum currently provides a diverse range of document management solutions to over 1000 UK clients, specialist areas include financial, legal and healthcare, handling the whole process from collection to storage/digital archiving, retrieval and confidential destruction.

Justin added “Our clients will be provided with the peace of mind that their sensitive business information is highly secure, yet accessible 24/7. As a private company we take a long term view, continuously re-investing in our network, facilities, IT and staff training so that our clients benefit directly from new initiatives and technology.”

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Media opportunity: A photograph of Magnum’s Goole facility is attached.

Objective Corporation today announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with Exalead for the provision of next generation full text and enterprise search technology.

Exalead, a division of Dassault Systemes, is a global leader of information access solutions and search-based applications for the enterprise.

Mr Tony Walls, CEO, Objective Corporation said: "Our customers’ document volumes continue to grow exponentially. By 2020, we anticipate our largest customers will have in excess of one billion documents in their Objective repositories and potentially more than 10 million documents re-indexed every day.

“To support this growth, we needed a search partner that could ensure performance and scalability into the future. Exalead’s technical vision and shared philosophy for delivering beneficial customer outcomes made them our preferred partner."

Exalead is a leading search-based application platform provider to business and government. Today, Exalead is reshaping the digital content landscape with its platform, Exalead CloudView, which uses advanced semantic technologies to bring structure, meaning and accessibility to previously unused or under-used data in the new hybrid enterprise and web information cloud.

Mr Walls said: "As our portfolio of public sector solutions expand, search technology plays a vital role in many contexts. This includes leveraging the rich search indexes constructed by Exalead to reduce the cost and complexity of systems integration, helping to realize Objective's broader connected government vision.”

Exalead's CloudView will be a core technology in the integrated enterprise / software-as-a-service platform that underpins Objective's portfolio of public sector solutions and will be included in the solutions from Q4 2010.

“For our customers, the benefits from this partnership are substantial. Increasingly, our customers are focused on leveraging the value of their growing document repositories,” said Mr Walls.

“The capability and flexibility of CloudView will be delivered to our customer’s in the form of new simple, fast and engaging user experiences.”

Mr Alain Cotte, CEO, Exalead said: "This partnership with Objective is an important one for Exalead. Objective’s vision for bringing efficiency to the public sector is one we are proud to be associated with. Our two companies are synergistic, with a common belief that search is not just technology, it is a solution that can be used to deliver strategic outcomes for customers.”

Mr Walls said: "This is a significant long term investment for Objective and one that we expect will deliver benefits for all of our stakeholders into the future.”

New SDK up to 92 Percent Faster with European Languages and up to 40 Percent More Accurate with Asian Languages

Bracknell, UK - September 7, 2010 - ABBYY, percent faster than previous version*. The product also raises the bar for Asian language OCR (optical character recognition) with up to a 40 percent accuracy increase**, delivers extended image and photo processing capabilities, and an enhanced algorithm for document structure and formatting reconstruction. In addition, its new API based on an intuitive task-specific approach enables for maximum efficiency at minimum time and efforta leading provider of document recognition, document capture, and linguistic technologies and services, today announced ABBYY FineReader Engine 10 for Windows, the next evolution of its software development kit (SDK) to integrate cutting-edge document recognition technologies. FineReader Engine 10 can recognise documents in key European languages up to 92 .

"The true challenge is not just to speed up OCR processing but, at the same time, to keep up the highest level of accuracy customers expect from OCR technology," said Andrey Isaev, director of technology products department at ABBYY. "FineReader Engine 10 represents an ideal balance between those two basic criteria."

The FineReader Engine SDK gives developers and integrators the tools they require to integrate a variety of recognition technologies into their applications. The ABBYY recognition platform delivers award-winning OCR, intelligent character recognition (ICR), barcode, checkmark, field-level/zonal recognition and PDF conversion for transforming scanned documents and images into searchable and editable text files. FineReader Engine 10 features the broadest language support covering 198 languages for OCR and 113 languages for ICR. The key new features and functions of ABBYY FineReader Engine 10 include:

Enhanced Fast Recognition Mode - Delivers up to 92 percent faster page throughput for European languages while maintaining the high level of recognition accuracy. It is designed to optimise processing speed/accuracy balance for good quality images.

Increased OCR Accuracy for Chinese, Japanese and Korean - Improved Asian character classifier providing a considerable OCR accuracy increase on documents in Chinese, Japanese and Korean, as well as, multilingual documents combining Asian and European characters.

New Recognition Mode for Low Resolution Scans - Delivers up to 20 percent accuracy improvement** on low resolution scans and low print quality documents (e.g. old faxes).

New Powerful API for Simpler Development - New API offers a set of pre-defined profiles for the most popular recognition tasks such as "document conversion for archiving," "document conversion for content reuse," "barcode recognition" and more. Profiles include optimal sets of processing parameters to start and the best OCR quality without the need for manual system tuning or a long learning curve. Manual tuning is available for specific custom solutions.

Improved Document Structure and Page Layout Reconstruction - Delivers further enhancements in the analysis of the logical structure of multipage documents via ABBYY's second generation ADRT® (Adaptive Document Recognition Technology). FineReader Engine 10 accurately re-creates complex formatting attributes of original documents in native Microsoft® Office format - now including tables of contents, hierarchical heading structures, picture and table captions, and providing improved reproduction of footnotes and styles. The product also delivers enhanced preservation of document layouts containing background image items with text areas upon them and more accurately reproduces diagrams, graphs and charts in output files.

In addition, the SDK delivers a new Document Structure API, a unique feature-set to easily access and manipulate the document structure attributes such as headings, chapters, page numbers, footnotes, headers and more.

New Achievements in Image and Photo Processing - Enhanced ABBYY Camera OCR technology intelligently corrects image 3D distortions, ISO noise and motion blur. FineReader Engine 10 delivers new binarization technology that ensures entire text retention on the image, preventing the loss of information even in difficult cases. In addition, the solution includes a unique feature to separate colour marks and stamps from the rest of the text on an image, improving recognition accuracy.

Improved PDF Export - FineReader Engine 10 offers predefined PDF export profiles - including MaxQuality, MinSize, Balanced, and MaxSpeed - allowing integrators to achieve better quality PDF conversion projects with a smaller file size.

Availability and Pricing
ABBYY FineReader Engine 10 for Windows is available immediately worldwide via a flexible, modular licensing policy. Developers may select the best combination of tools and pricing options for their projects. Pricing varies according to the number of CPU cores, processing stations and number of pages processed. For information on licensing models and pricing, contact your local ABBYY office or ABBYY partner.
A time-limited trial version is also available for testing. For more information about the product, visit http://www.abbyy.com/ocr_sdk/.

* Based on internal testing of FineReader Engine 9, release 1, vs. FineReader Engine 10, release 1. Tests included standard business document scans in English, German, French, Spanish and Italian.  (Your results may vary based on scan quality, document complexity, and system and application type.)
** Based on internal testing.

Successful product line expands with new desktop scanner that can scan up to 120 ipm

Guildford, UK, 7th September 2010 – Visioneer & Xerox have today announced a colour sheetfed scanner that is small enough to fit on a desktop, optimised to scan ID cards and includes ultrasonic double-feed detection technology.  The latest generation in this award-winning scanning series, the Xerox DocuMate® 3460 scans at 60 pages per minute / 120 images per minute in duplex.

The Xerox DocuMate 3460 is designed for desktop use in any office where scanning plastic ID cards, business cards, documents or other heavy card stock is necessary. It incorporates an exclusively designed front-feed tray that not only increases plastic card scanning efficiency but also reduces roller wear by up to 60% over competing brands, resulting in lower total cost of ownership.  The Xerox DocuMate 3460 also includes ultrasonic double-feed detection technology that will alert the user if double feeding of originals occurs during scanning.  This technology prevents lost images and enables paper of different weights or thickness to be scanned quickly and reliably. 

Germering, near Munich, September 9, 2010 – Now a Windows Explorer Client gives DocuWare Software users a new way to access a central document pool to file documents. In this environment, DocuWare appears as a disk drive in the Windows file directory and DocuWare file cabinets appear as folders. Documents can be stored, searched and edited in the familiar Explorer environment.

Documents are a critical part of every work day – so accessing them needs to be as quick and easy as possible. DocuWare users are able to choose a Windows Client, Web Client or other integrated applications to access documents and data archived in their central document pool. With its new Windows Explorer Client, integrated document management specialist DocuWare offers another option for accessing information – and users never have to leave their familiar Explorer environment to enjoy the benefits of a document management system. This new Client is intuitive to use, offering all the features needed to administer documents in a Windows file directory including storing, searching and editing.
Very User-Friendly
Upon installation of Windows Explorer Client, the Microsoft file directory shows a DocuWare folder that contains individual file cabinets. If a user copies or moves a document into this folder, it will be automatically indexed and archived. Files already residing on the server can be transferred seamlessly into the central document pool. Even entire Explorer directories can be automatically indexed and archived via drag & drop. Users can also easily retrieve documents stored in DocuWare and see them in a document viewer or with a particular application program. Searching, opening or editing files can be handled simply with the usual “Open” dialog.
By integrating DocuWare in Windows Explorer, documents from any Windows application can be stored in a document pool using the standard “Save as” dialog. Indexing takes place by navigating the familiar Explorer file structure, although additional detail may be added with DocuWare‘s store dialog. All DocuWare features, such as fixed fields and select lists, are readily available. Existing index data may also be updated with Windows Explorer Client.
Guaranteed Secure
Since users are moving around in a virtual disk drive, all file cabinet and user rights are upheld. Documents archived via Windows Explorer Client can be accessed by authorized users from any DocuWare Client with Internet connection.

For more information on DocuWare or photographs visit our website at www.docuware.com or contact annette_schmidt@docuware.com 
                                                                                                                           
For more information please contact:
DocuWare AG
Annette Elisabeth Schmidt
Press Relations
Therese-Giehse-Platz 2
82110 Germering, Germany
E-Mail: annette_schmidt@docuware.com (please note new email address)
Phone:  +49.89.33 984 824 (please note new phone number)
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• Document composition software specialist moves to new office to service increased demand

LONDON, 12th October, 2010 - Aia Software (www.aia-itp.com), leading global supplier of intelligent document composition software today announced that it had appointed industry veteran Mike Davies as UK Sales Director.  Aia is also expanding its UK team and moving to larger offices to accommodate growth plans following successful expansion of its partner channel.
Davies joins Aia following a successful career at Printsoft UK and brings an established track record of sales up to board level, a focus on service delivery, strong technical skills and a comprehensive understanding of Document Output Management and Variable Data Document Composition technologies. 

Davies takes over the reins from Christoffel Klimbie, who is moving to a new international business development role where he will build on Aia’s channel partners which now includes IT-Freedom, PinkRoccade, Xchanging, Trace Isys, SDT and Markinson.
Mike Davies, UK Sales Director, Aia Software UK said, “I am excited to be joining the Aia team as they have an enviable industry reputation for outstanding customer service that is backed up by knowledgeable expert consultants.  Whilst there is tremendous potential for the ITP platform in the London Insurance Market, we also have an opportunity to improve our market share in the general insurance, finance, local government and health sectors. Aia has increased its share of the UK market and recent growth has also led to the company relocating to larger office premises as it gears up to service higher levels of customer demand. This will enable Aia to fully resource pre-sales, implementation and training requirements and maintain the high standards of service for which it has become known.

Aia’s ITP Document Platform is an established product in the London Insurance Market for efficient and flexible document composition and production.  The recent introduction of powerful wizards enables business users to manage their own content and templates without requiring support from IT resources. This ‘Business Owned, Business Managed, IT Controlled’ approach enables greater operational flexibility and contributes to a 277% Return on Investment for insurance and financial services organisations.
Paul Dirven, Chief Executive Officer, Aia Software said, “I am pleased that we have strengthened the UK team with an experienced individual such as Mike Davies.  He has an excellent track record in sales and management and I am confident he will deliver success in driving new business sales in existing markets and expanding our presence into new markets.  I would also like to congratulate Christoffel for his efforts over the last two years establishing and expanding our presence in the UK, particularly the partner channel and wish him every success in his new role.”
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About Aia Software
Aia Software is a leading global producer and provider of document and forms solutions. The ITP Document Platform enables business users to compose high quality, personalized, business-critical documents. Over 1000 organizations worldwide already use ITP as an integrated solution to automate the production of standard documents in high volume, compose sophisticated individual correspondence from pre-defined paragraphs, or to dynamically complete Web forms. ITP can be quickly and seamlessly integrated with customers' existing application and technical platforms. Aia Software has branch offices in North America, the UK, The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and Australia.
www.aia-itp.com

Developer of M-Files document management software confirms digital signature solution ready for deployment, enabling businesses of all sizes to streamline processes.

San Francisco, California, August 4, 2010

ARX Inc., the leading provider of digital signature solutions for document management and ECM automation, has joined forces with Motive Systems, the developer of M-Files easy document management software. To enable users to fully automate business processes and approvals, Motive Systems has verified that the ARX CoSign® digital signature solution is now fully compatible with M-Files. ARX’s CoSign makes it easy for M-Files users to approve and audit legally enforceable documents, and reduce paper use within their workflows.

As an increasing number of organizations are deploying document management and document sharing systems through intranets and portals, they are seeking compatible digital signature capabilities that enable full automation, including approvals with legally enforceable digital signatures. With CoSign, enterprises of all sizes can automate and streamline their signature-dependent processes while maintaining proper controls, as well as compliance with regulations, audit requirements, and security policies.

“M-Files has broad applicability in numerous industries, including healthcare, pharmaceutical, banking, finance, legal, and manufacturing. Increasingly, signature approvals are an essential part of document workflow and business processes in these sectors,” said Greg Milliken, General Manager of Motive Systems. “ARX CoSign technology is proven in numerous enterprises and, when coupled with M-Files, brings simple and robust digital signature functionality at an attractive price point. We also share an important common philosophy regarding ease of implementation and use, which means businesses can put both solutions to use in less than a day.”

CoSign’s integration with document authoring applications such as Microsoft® Office, Adobe® Acrobat/Reader, Autodesk AutoCAD®, and Bentley MicroStation, along with its support for M-Files, ensures a rapid deployment and low administrative overhead for any enterprise, B2B or B2C application that requires signature automation.

“ARX is committed to delivering standards-based digital signature solutions that fit with solutions that have been proven in our customers’ IT environments,” said John Marchioni, Vice President of Business Development, ARX. “M-Files provides a very elegant option for CoSign customers that seek a robust and easy-to-use document management solution.”

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ReadSoft Launches REPORTER 5-4 for Real-time Reporting on Accounts
Payable Process

Document Automation specialist launches REPORTER 5-4 to provide
up-to-the-minute information to inform business decisions

Milton Keynes, 28th July 2010 - ReadSoft, a leading global provider of
software solutions for Document Automation, has launched REPORTER 5-4 to
give businesses accurate and real-time information on their accounts
payable process. By providing instant access to statistics and reports
relating to invoice flow, REPORTER 5-4 will enable companies to improve
cost control, increase efficiency and make well-informed business
decisions.

REPORTER 5-4 works with ReadSoft INVOICES, a powerful tool for automated
data capture from invoices. Using REPORTER 5-4, accounts payable teams
can access detailed statistics on their invoice flow, such as how long
it takes to process invoices from certain suppliers and where the
bottlenecks are.

Comprehensive reports will teams to pinpoint the strengths and
weaknesses in the accounts payable process to drive improvements and aid
process planning.

Business users can instantly access any required level of detail on any
item of interest, such as a specific year, supplier or user, and create
graphs, diagrams and reports. REPORTER 5-4 also provides an audit trail
to comply with the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which can impact accounting
teams in UK firms with a global presence.

REPORTER 5-4 also offers the following features and capabilities:

* Covers all parts of the invoice-handling process from input
to the financial-system feed

* Shows whether the system is operating up to its capacity

* Helps you pinpoint the origin of any problems that have
occurred

* Provides instant access to detailed information on production
units

Simon Shorthose, ReadSoft's UK Managing Director, commented: "Companies
are under increasing pressure to reduce costs, improve cash flow and
drive efficiency. REPORTER 5-4 provides all the detailed information
required to improve the accounts payable process, giving real time
access to essential data and statistics to make informed decisions that
will drive improvements and ensure compliance."

Range of software tools provides reporting overview of mail spend and postage behaviours across multiple accounts and multiple sites

Harlow, UK, July 22nd: Pitney Bowes has introduced a range of mail accounting tools giving businesses at every level essential budget and performance management reporting against mailing activity.

Visibility of expenditure around mail usage is essential at a time when businesses are looking to trim spend from every business process. Only with this holistic data in hand can businesses highlight areas of wastage, identify potential discounts and monitor compliance within current mailing processes.

The Pitney Bowes Mail Accounting Portfolio is comprised of four key solutions.

Standard Accounting
• Found on the latest Pitney Bowes digital franking technology, the Standard Accounting tool provides users with a basic set of reports on postage behaviours including total spend and total number of mailpieces processed.

Budget Manager Light
• Budget Manager Light is included as standard on higher volume Pitney Bowes digital meters and is aimed at businesses wishing to provide their finance team with a single report of mailing activity across multiple postage accounts – up to a total of 300.
• Budget Manager Light allows the mailing operation to report on expenditure by department and to add a surcharge onto each mailpiece to cover the mailing operation’s processing costs.

Meternet XE
• Meternet XE makes it easy for businesses to connect multiple franking machines together – even across multiple sites - and to consolidate data. This gives large businesses or high volume postage users the ability to track the total business expenditure for their mail.
• The system offers a comprehensive set of up to thirty standard reports plus the ability to customise reports as needed. Meternet XE also gives users the ability to generate graphs to help visualise expenditure patterns.

INVIEW™ - Total Meter Reporting
• INVIEW™ provides a web-based platform for customers to access information relating to their postage expenditure.
• Available as a module of Pitney Bowes My Account management software, INVIEW™ is perfect for customers wishing to consolidate their data service, administration and financial data analysis to cover their relationship with Pitney Bowes through a single portal (My Account)
• INVIEW™ gives the customer remote access to data and provides an overview of mail expenditures across multiple sites in consolidated form

Phil Hutchison, Tactical Marketing Director, Pitney Bowes, comments: “Mail is an expenditure common to businesses of every size. Often, the true cost of the mail operation is hidden, leading to unnecessary expense and mis-allocation of departmental spend.

“The Pitney Bowes Mail Accounting Portfolio provides visibility and clarity of mail expenditure across multiple accounts and multiple sites, revealing the true cost and efficiency of mail processes. Finance and accounting departments are presented with the clear facts to enable accurate and timely cross-charging.

“Only with these essential facts to hand are businesses able to streamline mail processes and drive towards greater efficiency at reduced costs.”

About Pitney Bowes
Celebrating its 90th year of innovation, Pitney Bowes provides software, hardware and services that integrate physical and digital communications channels. Long known for making its customers more productive, Pitney Bowes is increasingly helping other companies grow their business. Pitney Bowes is a $5.6 billion company and employs 33,000 worldwide. Pitney Bowes: Every connection is a new opportunity™. www.pb.com

Project managers within the construction sector, who are responsible for ensuring tight deadlines are met, will be among those set to benefit from the launch of a flexible software tool from collaborative specialist 4Projects.

Designed to track and manage risk, Milestone Manager is the latest addition to the 4Projects product portfolio. It is specifically designed to control the tracking of information and delivery dates for project tasks, ensuring key information can be accessed quickly and efficiently.

Richard Vertigan, chief executive, 4Projects, said: “4Projects has been delivering solutions to the construction and civil engineering services for ten years and the launch of Milestone Manager is a direct result of listening to the needs of our customers.

“Keeping track and meeting deadlines on big projects can be extremely challenging. Given the current economic climate and the pressure that places on all those involved in delivery, it’s more critical than ever that everything runs to time and is within budget. Milestone Manager provides essential support in this area.

“It can be applied to any project and used an infinite number of times, making it incredibly cost-effective. In much the same way that existing 4Projects technology allows users to track projects in ‘real time’, Milestone Manager can save valuable time and money on planning and review processes.”

The system works by allowing managers to upload specific tasks for any given project using ‘milestone schedules’. All the information can be accessed on one easy to use and convenient ‘summary page’. Users can link the tasks to relevant information already stored within the 4Projects system and then position that task within a timeline to chart progression.

Three varieties of date tag can be used; forecast, planned and actual delivery. Tasks can also be flagged with different warnings; approaching, overdue and complete to inform users of pending delivery dates. Notifications are also sent out to users informing them of the status of tasks in either a chronological, dated or consolidated view.

Once tasks are complete reports can be compiled to show what has been delivered, when it was delivered and what percentages of deliveries were on time compared to the planned delivery dates. By providing a flexible but controlled set of tools to track and manage risk in addition to identifying ‘key’ information quickly and efficiently, Milestone Manager can help to ensure keeping to deadline is cost-effective and hassle-free.

4Projects, The Teleport, Doxford International Business Park, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR3 3XD. Tel: 0191 525 2451

BlueCielo Releases BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise 2010 Product Family
Updated Engineering Content Management software suite provides enhanced,
powerful Asset Information Management functionality, integration with
Microsoft SharePoint and support for latest CAD software versions

Rijswijk, The Netherlands “ July 20, 2010 “ BlueCielo ECM Solutions, a
leading global software company offering Engineering Content Management
(ECM) solutions, announced today that it has released the latest version
of its best-of-breed ECM solution for owner/operators, BlueCielo Meridian
Enterprise 2010, and the solution’s optional modules.

BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise provides powerful Asset Information
Management functionality to companies mainly within the process and power
industries looking to optimize plant safety, economic efficiency and
regulatory compliance. BlueCielo’s solutions aim to optimize business
processes in which engineering data is crucial, with focus on the entire
Management of Change process, collaboration with contractors and
suppliers, and providing as-built technical documentation to Operations
and Maintenance.

The BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise 2010 release provides strengthened
functionality in practically every aspect of its Asset Information
Management capabilities. Besides a sleek new user interface, usability is
highly improved for the various stakeholders within the organization
working with Meridian Enterprise. Next to that, access to the Meridian
Enterprise environment through Microsoft SharePoint is now possible,
besides the traditional access through the Microsoft Windows client or the
web client.

The 2010 release of BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise supports the latest
versions of authoring applications such as Microsoft Office, AutoCAD,
Autodesk Inventor, MicroStation, SolidWorks and others. Further
improvements in BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise 2010 are:

- Explorer scopes, where the user has a specific scope to the vault
content and only specific data and menu options applicable for that scope
are available, depending on the access rights of the user. Scopes can be
created for the archive, project environment or master data.
- Search related to Explorer scopes, supporting lookup lists and
filtering
- Support for AutoVue 20, including support of hotspots (hyperlinks
with additional functionality)
- New read-only web client
- Enhanced reporting functionality

The following modules that can be added to expand specific functionality
in BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise are available with this release:

Berlin, July 16, 2010 The Supervisory Board of Beta Systems Software AG (BSS, ISIN DE0005224406) made the decision in its meeting today to appoint JÃŒrgen Herbott (51) as the new Chief Executive Officer of Beta Systems Software AG on July 19, 2010. in addition, the Supervisory Board renewed the contract of Gernot Sagl (41), Chief Financial Officer, in the same meeting.

JÃŒrgen Herbott has more than 25 years of experience working in the IT industry, gathered first and foremost in large corporations in the software sector. Before joining Beta Systems, Mr. Herbott, who holds a degree in business administration, was Vice President Central Europe at Torex Retail Solutions. Prior to this, he headed up the Central European organizations of Hyperion Solutions and Siebel Systems and worked in a number of different sales and management functions at IBM. Here he took over the building up and expansion of Tivoli s software business in the capacity of director, was branch manager in Saarbruecken, and division director of all activities in the utility companies segment.

Beta Systems was founded in 1983, has been a listed company since 1997, and has a workforce of around 400 employees. The company s principal place of business is Berlin. Beta Systems operates through Centers of Competence in Cologne and Calgary, as well as 18 subsidiaries worldwide and cooperations with numerous partner companies. Throughout the world more than 1,300 customers use the products and solutions of Beta Systems to improve their processes and security in more than 3,200 running installations. At present, Beta Systems generates 50 percent of its sales from international business. Around 200 of its customers are based in the USA and Canada.

More information on the company and its products can be found under
www.betasystems.com.

London, UK 13th July 2010 - PFU Imaging Solutions Europe Limited,
responsible for the sales and marketing activities of Fujitsu document
scanners, today announced the appointment of Doug Rudolph as General
Manager of Marketing and Katarzyna Chentko, as Country Manager for
Eastern Europe to build on its existing success in EMEA markets.

Doug Rudolph - General Manager Marketing

Based in the UK, Rudolph will assume responsibility for driving business
growth and profitability in PFU's EMEA document imaging sector. Rudolph
will oversee marketing strategies across Europe in order to achieve
productivity and improve PFU brand recognition and reputation in the
EMEA markets. He will also be responsible for aligning the marketing
strategies to sales within Europe.

Rudolph brings over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, with the
last 17 years focused in the document imaging market to Fujitsu Computer
Products of America, Inc. in his role as Vice President, Product
Management and Business Development.