Captaris Announces New Capture and BPM Solutions at Microsoft(R) SharePoint Conference 2008
March 03 2008 - 11:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Story Highlights SEATTLE, 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 Office SharePoint
Server 2007. At the SharePoint Conference 2008, Captaris will
demonstrate how customers can now add powerful document
classification, recognition and BPM capabilities to their Microsoft
ECM infrastructure at affordable prices. With Captaris products,
document-based information can now be easily shared with other
people, processes and applications to drive business process
automation and enable document lifecycle management. 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 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. (See the joint
Captaris-Microsoft press release for more information.) Earlier
this year, Captaris shipped two other capture solutions for
SharePoint 2007. Captaris Single Click Entry automates data entry
from scanned documents stored in SharePoint document libraries, by
reading and identifying the data needed for a business application
and with a single click automatically populating InfoPath forms or
other Windows applications. The RightFax Connector for SharePoint
2007 automatically delivers images from any fax-enabled MFP or fax
machine in the world into document libraries. Once there, data can
be extracted using Single Click Entry to drive workflows, LOB
applications or records retention; documents can be processed for
enterprise search using the new TIFF iFilter; or the documents can
be sent into business process management applications created with
RightFlow. 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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