Captaris Points to Document Capture and Automation as Key Drivers for Collaboration and Business Process Management BELLVUE, Wash., July 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- There is movement afoot -- a groundswell of office workers are now sharing, collaborating and streamlining everyday business interactions. Their platform of choice is Microsoft SharePoint, which today has logged in over 17,000 user companies and exceeded $1 billion in sales. Put another way, more than 100 million users are tapping the benefits of a collaborative work environment. In an age of social networking where the keyboard and the mouse are the gateway to information, sharing and connecting, it is no wonder that SharePoint has been embraced with such fervor. Work can be organized and processed efficiently and co-workers, managers and other stakeholders have access to what they need when they need it. The only thing missing from this virtual world of optimum productivity comes from the brick and mortar world: paper. Paper documents remain a mainstay from department to department in businesses around the globe. Captaris, Inc. (NASDAQ:CAPA), an innovative software company focused on document automation, believes SharePoint is the ideal platform for collaboration and views it as a springboard to widespread adoption of document capture solutions. According to Paul Yantus, executive vice president of marketing and product development for Captaris, "Now that we have this incredible platform in SharePoint, all we need to do is automate paper to be part of this interactive world. That's where Captaris comes in. We specialize in capturing paper documents and converting them into electronic data that can be searched, sorted, shared and accessed. In fact, nearly every company in the Fortune 2000 uses our Right Suite products, our ubiquitous software that captures and delivers paper documents in a shared electronic environment." Historically, document automation has either been the domain of large, complex enterprise applications or simply a replacement to the file cabinet where documents are captured electronically and stored. Captaris envisions documents as a central component to collaboration and sees the SharePoint platform in the same light as Microsoft, who calls it a business productivity server. With SharePoint, Microsoft is providing the infrastructure and Captaris is providing the document capture, routing, distribution, retrieval and process management. The synergy between Microsoft and Captaris sets the stage for a new level of collaboration. According to Yantus, "Collaboration is the foundation for process management, which we believe is the ultimate goal. When workgroups can gain operational efficiencies by streamlining business processes, then huge gains can result in both productivity and quality." Business Process Management is all about aligning an organization to meet objectives by improving processes so that the business is effective and efficient. It is often said that behind every piece of paper is a process. Captaris' solutions enable paper documents to be part of the process by automating them within SharePoint to become shared, accessed and processed. The trend for document capture is shifting from centralized to decentralized capture where departments are driving the application. This is an area where SharePoint has gained traction as it offers IT managers the ability to standardize technology, yet deploy it one department at a time. While SharePoint is an open environment and many third-party software developers are designing connectors that bridge the gap between SharePoint and other systems -- the biggest benefit comes when all applications are operating within the SharePoint platform for seamless information management. This is an approach that Captaris supports as it is the only way to truly achieve an environment of collaboration. Yantus commented that together Captaris and Microsoft foster and enable process management through collaboration -- and that often process management evolves naturally once users are on the system and can see how easy (and beneficial) it is to automate business processes. "You might say it is an organic process where workgroups adapt to the tools they have and begin to optimize their tasks." About Captaris 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 RightFax, Captaris Workflow, Alchemy, FaxPress, DOKuStar, RecoStar, Single Click Entry and IDStar 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, Washington, Captaris was founded in 1982 and is publicly traded on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol CAPA. http://www.captaris.com/. (C)2008 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form by any means without the written permission of Captaris. The following are registered trademarks and trademarks of Captaris, Inc. and its subsidiaries: Captaris, the Captaris logo, Alchemy(R), Captaris Workflow(TM), RightDocs(TM), RightFax(R), RightFlow(TM) and RightStar(TM) in the US and/or other jurisdictions. FaxPress(TM) is a registered trademark of Castelle. RecoStar, DOKuStar, DOKuStar Capture Suite, Single Click Entry, and Invoice CENTER are registered trademarks and trademarks of Captaris Document Technologies GmbH. All other brand names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. DATASOURCE: Captaris, Inc. CONTACT: Bob Menzies of Lages & Associates Inc., +1-949-453-8080, , for Captaris, Inc. Web site: http://www.captaris.com/

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