Captaris Announces New Capture and BPM Solutions for Microsoft SharePoint at AIIM Expo 2008
March 03 2008 - 7:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Story Highlights - Four new products bring world-class capture and
BPM capabilities to SharePoint 2007 customers at affordable prices
BOSTON, March 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Captaris, Inc.
(NASDAQ:CAPA), a leading provider of software products that
automate document-centric business processes, today announced a new
suite of capture and business process management products for
customers who are using Microsoft's Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Using the theme 'Do It the Right Way', Captaris will demonstrate in
booth #2045 at the AIIM Expo 2008 how customers can now add
powerful document classification, recognition and distribution
capabilities to their Microsoft infrastructure at affordable costs.
Additionally, the large installed base of Captaris customers will
benefit because the new products extend their existing investment
in Captaris document distribution and management solutions. The new
products also include technology that Captaris recently acquired as
part of the January 2008 purchase of Oce Document Technologies GmbH
(now Captaris Document Technologies GmbH). "Enterprise customers
are quickly adopting Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Search
Server for business process management, compliance, e-discovery,
and records management applications, all of which require them to
capture, manage and process large collections of scanned business
documents," said Paul Yantus, executive vice president of Marketing
and New Product Development for Captaris. "Our new products
transform these documents into intelligent documents, so the vital
information contained in those documents can easily be shared with
other people, processes and applications to drive business process
automation and enable document lifecycle management." New Products
Overview The following is a brief roundup of the new product
announcements: -- RightDocs -- the flagship release of the new
suite of products enables customers to accelerate business
processes, to support compliance initiatives by controlling and
tracking documents from the point of origin, and to easily share
document information for better collaboration and enterprise
search. RightDocs facilitates document capture from any imaging
source, performs document classification and data extraction from
structured, semi-structured and unstructured documents, then sends
the documents and information into SharePoint 2007. RightDocs
intelligently recognizes the document type and extracts vital
information to automatically drive business process automation and
enable document lifecycle management. The RightDocs system consists
of several services which can be mixed and matched to a customer's
needs: distributed batch scanning; capture; document
classification; intelligent extraction; and a validation client.
RightDocs also supports Captaris RightFax and Alchemy. -- RightStar
-- the next generation of intelligent document distribution,
RightStar is ideally suited for the rapid adoption of MFP devices
as document on-ramps into the enterprise. RightStar eliminates
human errors, improves security and compliance by reducing the
number of people handling sensitive information, and reduces the
labor costs normally associated with sorting and distributing
documents. Going far beyond simple routing products, RightStar uses
document metadata and powerful rules based on the Microsoft(R)
Windows Workflow Foundation (WinWF) engine to automatically sort
and deliver documents via SharePoint 2007, fax, e-mail and to
business process and document management solutions. RightStar is an
open system based on XML and WinWF standards, and Captaris is
inviting other software vendors to develop extensions to their LOB
or ECM applications. -- RightFlow -- providing business analysts
with the high-level tools necessary to rapidly build and deploy
effective Business Process Management (BPM) solutions on Microsoft
WinWF, RightFlow helps with compliance by creating secure,
auditable and repeatable processes. It increases productivity by
identifying and removing organizational and system bottlenecks, and
turns knowledge into a business asset by facilitating collaboration
through effective process management. RightFlow manages document
driven processes, prioritizes tasks, escalates problems and
maintains visibility to key performance indicators at all times.
RightFlow is an extensible and configurable product available as a
stand-alone solution or as an add-on module for other Captaris
products. RightFlow will be offered in an entry-level, affordable
configuration. Captaris will also rebrand its existing Workflow
product to RightFlow Enterprise and offer a migration path for the
installed base. -- TIFF iFilter for Microsoft Office SharePoint
Server 2007 and Search Server 2008 -- Simultaneous with AIIM Expo,
Captaris and Microsoft jointly announced a new capture solution at
the Microsoft SharePoint 2008 Conference in Seattle. Based on
Captaris OCR server technology, the TIFF iFilter fills a hole in
the current SharePoint and Search Server environment by enabling
enterprise search of scanned documents alongside all the electronic
documents. As a result, knowledge workers and managers can find all
the information they need with a single search operation, improving
business decision-making and increasing their productivity. The
Captaris TIFF iFilter integrates within a SharePoint or Search
Server environment and automatically extracts the full-text from
scanned documents and enhances image quality. "Our recent
acquisition of ODT is paying immediate dividends by expanding our
capture product offerings and significantly increasing our
capability to serve the rapidly evolving distributed capture
market," stated David P. Anastasi, President and CEO of Captaris.
"AIIM Expo 2008 marks a key inflection point for Captaris as we
continue to execute on our strategic transition plan from a fax
server company to a leader in intelligent document capture,
distribution and process management solutions." Availability
Captaris plans to release the new products to the public in the
second quarter of 2008. For more information, please visit the
Captaris website at http://www.captaris.com/. About Captaris, Inc.
Captaris, Inc. is a leading provider of software products that
automate document-centric business processes. Captaris specializes
in document capture, recognition, routing, workflow and delivery.
Captaris integrated solutions provide interoperability with leading
line of business applications and technology platforms. Captaris
products include RightDocs, RightStar, RightFlow, RightFax,
Captaris Workflow, Alchemy, FaxPress, DOKuStar, RecoStar, Single
Click Entry and ID-Star, which are distributed through a global
network of leading technology partners. Captaris customers include
the entire Fortune 100 and the majority of Global 2000 companies.
Headquartered in Bellevue, WA, Captaris was founded in 1982 and is
publicly traded on NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol CAPA. The
following are registered trademarks and trademarks of Captaris:
Captaris, Alchemy, RightFax, FaxPress and Captaris Workflow.
RecoStar, DOKuStar, ID-Star and Single Click Entry are trademarks
of Captaris Document Technologies GmbH. All other brand names and
trademarks are the property of their respective owners. DATASOURCE:
Captaris, Inc. CONTACT: Mark Littrell of Captaris, Inc.,
+1-425-455-6000, ; or Barrie Locke of Ripple Effect Communications,
+1-617-536-8887, , for Captaris, Inc. Web site:
http://www.captaris.com/
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