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Kofax Maintains Dominant Position

Clive Walker — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:26:29 +0000

The report 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

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Nintex Workflow 2010 Released

Clive Walker — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:42:09 +0000

Nintex Workflow adds a drag-and-drop workflow designer, connectivity and advanced workflow features to the Microsoft SharePoint document management and collaboration platform, empowering business users and IT professionals to automate business processes as easily as using a web browser.

Nintex Workflow 2010 builds on SharePoint 2010 platform improvements, such as the Fluent ribbon interface, reusable workflows, site workflows, content type workflows, InfoPath forms and the ability to export workflows to Visual Studio® 2010. Nintex Workflow 2010 can be easily extended and customized with User Defined Actions, which allows workflow segments to be packaged and shared within other workflows and custom workflow actions developed in Visual Studio.

The release announcement was made at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference which commenced in Washington DC in July 2010. The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference was chosen as the announcement venue to acknowledge the role partners have had in the success and ongoing development of Nintex Workflow. A close relationship with Microsoft was fundamental in affording Nintex early access to Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and ensured Nintex was able to tightly integrate Nintex Workflow with SharePoint 2010.

“Nintex Workflow 2010 builds on the workflow capabilities in SharePoint 2010 and helps make simple or complex processes more efficient,” said Jared Spataro, director for SharePoint at Microsoft Corp.

Download Nintext 2007 vs. 2010 version comparison sheet

Deltascheme/Nintex Partnership

Deltascheme is a leading provider of solutions based on SharePoint and uses Nintex to provide workflow capabilities. Please contact us to discuss your SharePoint and workflow requirements.

Freedom of Information Solution

Clive Walker — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:52:33 +0000

FOI / RFI SharePoint Solution

The purpose of the Deltascheme RFI solution is to allow the pro-cessing of RFIs in accordance with the Data Protection Act (DPA), Freedom of Information (FOI) Acts and Environmental Information Regulation (EIR).

The solution is built on the Microsoft Office SharePoint Services platform, providing a robust and highly-configurable web-based solution for the central storage and collaboration of documents and information. With Microsoft SQL Server hosting the data and Microsoft Internet Information Services hosting the logic / business intelligence and user experience, the solution provides a solid and proven staging platform.

Benefits & Advantages

The Deltascheme RFI solution significantly eases the process of managing and dealing with RFI requests and most significantly it is built on the Microsoft SharePoint platform. In addition it has the following benefits

Case File Creation. Automatically create a case file with pre-defined rules applying to it depending on the legislation the enquiry relates to. This ensures the right information is collected at the start of the process and correct time lines are followed.
Costs. Manage the expenses and costs associated with an RFI. Dependant on the type of legislation, different costs may apply to the RFI.
Timelines. Automatically manage time-lines dependant on whether the enquiry relates to the DPA, FoI or EIR legisla-tion. This includes managing extensions if it is deemed by the Data Controller to be in the public interest.
Parallel Workflows. Manage parallel workflows if a request requires information from several different departments.
Reporting. Provide reporting on all RFIs across the organisa-tion, detailing what was completed within the allocated timeframe and identifying those that fell outside of it.Control. Control and ensure the right processes are followed with an auditable log of activities.
Security. Automatic creation of roles and security enabling strict control of access and privileges to controlled infor-mation.
Help. Have help information available to users.

To find out more and download the brochure, please click here.

OnePlaceMail Release 4 Available

Clive Walker — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:52:25 +0000

OnePlaceMail

OnePlaceMail provides a powerful mechanism to drag/drop Outlook emails directly to SharePoint, capturing essential email attributes automatically and optionally allowing the completion of additional destination Column information at the point of upload. Emails are stored in their native .msg format with the full integrity of the email and attachments maintained.

OnePlaceMail Office Productivity Tools enables the user to save files direct from Office applications (Word/Excel/Power) into SharePoint and complete the destination SharePoint upload information at the point of upload. Therefore, promoting SharePoint and as the natural destination to save and manage files. These capabilities are provided in 2003, 2007 and going forward in 2010.

OnePlaceMail further promotes the adoption of SharePoint and drives efficiency with capabilities such as Send & Save emails to SharePoint and Windows Explorer ‘Send To’ SharePoint capabilities. OnePlaceMail exposes the full capabilities of SharePoint within Microsoft Outlook to enhance and secure your organisation’s investment in Microsoft SharePoint.

Release 4 Highlights

Enterprise/Managed Keywords with full support for Outlook/Office 2003, 2007 and 2010
Folder Level Defaults in SharePoint 2010
Custom List Level & Column Validation support
Full API for Custom Integration

OnePlaceMail at a Glance

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Document & Records Management with SharePoint 2010

Clive Walker — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:52:54 +0000

SharePoint 2010 was launched on the 12^th May 2010 and is Microsoft’s latest release of the hugely successful SharePoint range, which has become their largest ever selling server product. Kofax Capture 9.0 was released in January 2010. Kofax will be used to accelerate business processes by efficiently capturing high quality images of paper documents and forms into SharePoint 2010 against the organisations’ information management policies.

Duncan Williams, Sales and Marketing Director at Deltascheme, said, “We believe that SharePoint 2010 provides a fully competent, capable and robust solution for organisations to implement a corporate document and records management system. SharePoint 2010 has significant enhancements over previous versions and will cement Microsoft’s dominance in this area. The use of Kofax will provide The Aztec Group with a very flexible, easy to use and cost effective solution to enable paper content across their multiple sites to be quickly scanned and referenced into SharePoint for subsequent processing and retrieval.”

The Aztec Group is a Fund Administrator and operates over multiple sites across Europe. They have experienced all of the traditional issues around managing, accessing and controlling their unstructured content in a distributed environment. Much of their corporate content is currently being held in a paper format, electronically on network file stores or in the corporate email system. As the business has continued to expand with new clients, staff and offices around Europe, the need to manage corporate content effectively has grown significantly.

Why SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 was chosen as it was recognised as the industry standard for document management. Aztec decided to implement version 2010 as it is:

cost effective and low risk
functionally very rich
highly scalable
easy to use
able to deliver good integration with Office and Outlook
compliant with their strategy to standardise on Microsoft products and technologies.

Why Deltascheme

Having completed a formal procurement process Deltascheme was selected to work with Aztec as their implementation partner due to their:

extensive expertise and track record in implementing document and records management systems
in‐depth knowledge of Microsoft SharePoint (Microsoft Gold Partner)
competitive pricing
implementation methodology for successfully delivering the overall solution
completeness of solution, offering a range of additional products and services for document scanning, workflow and data migration, etc. to deliver a total solution to Aztec.

About Deltascheme

Established in the UK in 1986, Deltascheme (www.deltascheme.com) is a leading provider of Electronic Content, Document, Records and Process Management solutions in Microsoft SharePoint. The company has an extensive track record of successfully delivering solutions to organisations across many market sectors who need to manage their unstructured corporate content more effectively to improve productivity, automate processes, reduce operating costs, ensure compliance and increase standards of service.

Deltascheme’s Kofax Export Connector

Clive Walker — Tue, 25 May 2010 13:44:35 +0000

With our specialisation in delivering ECM and BPM solutions using SharePoint and Kofax, we have developed a sophisticated Export Connector to link Kofax Capture and SharePoint. This has been deployed across a number of client sites managing hundreds and thousands of scanned images into SharePoint repositories.

The Export Connector is is now certified for use with SharePoint 2010.

Export Connector Unique Features

We have developed the Export Connector to work specifically with SharePoint and within a Document and Records Management setting. Features include.

‘Offline Mode’ enables the Site URL and Library to be dynamically linked to Kofax Capture Fields. It is therefore possible to release to different Sites and Libraries using Business Rules defined in the validation script.
Documents can be released to existing SharePoint folders, or have the release script create new folders on the fly. Folder names can be build dynamically using a combination of Kofax Capture fields or static values.
‘Offline Mode’ enables the Content Type to be dynamically linked to a Kofax Capture Field.
Deltascheme Upload Web Service provides an advanced document release using a custom Web Service installed on the SharePoint Server. This Web Service can be customised to perform additional tasks such as the updating of line of business applications with the document URL. It also provides a robust mechanism for the upload of very large documents (>150MB).
Create document filename using Kofax Capture and static values.
Link SharePoint Columns to Kofax Capture values including concatenate multiple values to create new values.

More information

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