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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