excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 100% Autodesk acquiring Softdeskagreement... Summary: Autodesk acquiring Softdesk. A merger agreement has been signed between Autodesk (San Rafael, CA) and one of its largest software developers--Softdesk (Henniker, NH). Pending approval of shareholders, Softdesk will be integrated into Autodesk's AEC market group for a one-time charge of approximately $11 million. The merger is consistent with Autodesk's strategy to bring AEC vertical market... 85% EDMPDM Image files, unite! Summary: Raster images are composed of dots. Vector images (CAD drawings and models) are composed of objects defined by mathematical coordinates. That means you can edit both raster and vector simultaneously. So who needs vectorization? The answer is that with the new technology, you'll vectorize raster files only when you need to extract information from them. 82% NovaSoft gears up to break out Summary: NovaSoft gears up to break out. A company focus on products, sales. The company has recruited a new CEO, Bruce Cohen, with expertise in sales and rapid growth. He adds a strong sales and marketing background to the company's technically oriented management team. "NovaSoft has more than four times as many users outside of pharmaceutical," he said. 82% Bottom Line 1-1-97 Summary: Net income of $430,000 compares with a net loss of $387,000 in Q2 '96 and income of $2 million in Q3 '95. Net income of $169,000 compares to a net loss of $60,000 in Q3 '95. The company saw a net loss of $1.7 million as compared with net income of $108,000 in the corresponding quarter of 1995. Net income of $1.2 million represents a $3.6 million increase from the third quarter of 1995. Revenue of... 81% Merger creates new DocuCorp The automated ente... Summary: Merger creates new DocuCorp. The automated enterprise document production companies Image Sciences (Dallas) and FormMaker Software (Atlanta) have signed an agreement to merge and create DocuCorp International. Image Sciences shareholders will receive approximately 52% of DocuCorp's stock. The new company will be headquartered in Dallas and also will maintain operations in Atlanta, Silver... 80% Two giants battle over infrastructure Summary: Two giants battle over infrastructure. By moving up the application curve, Lotus and Microsoft (Redmond, WA) will create a market that is more document management-, forms software-, imaging- and workflow-aware. In our opinion the battle between Microsoft and Lotus is over infrastructure, and they are picking application features simply as a way to differentiate themselves from one another.... 79% ISVs compete for desktop with Microsoft and L... Summary: ISVs compete for desktop with Microsoft and Lotus. Inevitably, as Lotus seeks to differentiate Notes from Exchange, Lotus has no alternative but to move up the application curve and offer capabilities such as forms, imaging, document management and, perhaps in the future, real workflow! After all, the alternative is for Lotus to compete on a price basis with Microsoft--that is clearly something... 78% Microsoft complies with ODMA task force API sp... Summary: Imaging World, December 16th, 1996. Microsoft complies with ODMA task force API specification. Microsoft's support of the ODMA specification marks an important step in the work of AIIM's ODMA Task Force, because it encourages software vendors to adopt open document management standards. "Microsoft supports the efforts of AIIM and its ODMA task force," said Dennis Tevlin, a Microsoft product... 78% Bottom Line 4-7-97 Summary: Net income of $306,000 includes a one-time charge of $410,000 and compares with a net loss in Q4 '95 of $12.71 million. A net income of $9.9 million compares with a net loss of $61.8 million in the same period of 1995. Net income for the business software company of $284.74 million compares with $227.18 million in Q3 '95, an increase of 25%. Results compare with revenue of $21.3 million and net... 78% EDMPDM: An IW Summary: EDM--engineering document management--refers to managing all the documents and data used by engineers, while PDM--product data management, a newer manifestation--encompasses product-related data that originates with the engineer and makes links to other industrial systems. In mechanical engineering, for instance, where product data management is an essential part of the engineering database,... 77% Kodak set to buy Wang's software Summary: Imaging World, October 21st, 1996 Kodak set to buy Wang's software. For Kodak, it's a missing piece, for Wang it's $$$ and focus. On the other hand, he continued, "Kodak may be offering a reasonable sum, which Wang can then turnaround and subsequently complete an acquisition of its own." David Yockelson, director of the Meta Group is skeptical, and hopes Kodak holds its offer below $200 million.... 75% Multimedia meets the office Summary: and 17-in. So what's the hold-up? But it's more the deployment of it that's the hold-up as opposed to the technology." or 17-in. The 17-in. 72% Netting new gains from earlier document capture Summary: with "document creation." Document capture is no longer relevant because the document was created as part of the destination application in the first place. The value of earlier document capture. Following are several advantages of merging document capture with creation. Much of that work will be transferred to service bureaus as companies realize that digitizing documents is not part of the... 71% The Buzz 4-21-97 Summary: Imaging World, April 21st, 1997. Talking alliance turkey. "It would make sense for FileNet and NCR to talk," Ray observes with the tone of a man who knows more than he says. Two cases in point: FileNet and Documentum. "Are Wang and FileNet worth the same?" 70% Opinion & Editorial Summary: Imaging World, June 1st, 1996. More on SCS in July 1st's IW. Imaging is dead. But the world is changing. I do agree with you that some imagers won't thrive in the new world. 70% Users create demand for imaging Desktop documen Summary: Desktop document image. The fact is, the demand for desktop image management originates from a market segment that is not composed of traditional document imaging users.. DOCS Imaging gets. DOCS Imaging challenges Watermark. In comparison, Watermark only notes-edits. 69% Streamlining corporate business processes Summary: Streamlining corporate business processes. By Roger K. Sullivan, VP of Marketing. Workflow empowers corporate professionals from a variety of industries to apply their expertise to design efficient business processes that can be used by anyone within their department or across the entire corporate enterprise. When approval for the PC is given within marketing, control of the workflow passes to... 68% With service in mind, a new vendor emerges Summary: With service in mind, a new vendor emerges. The total value of the transaction is approximately $80 million. ViewStar is calling off its impending IPO and will become DSI's Enterprise Applications Group. It expects to generate $110 million in 1996. Lest you assume call centers are all about voice calls, think again. 68% CCIM and the banking enterprise Summary: Mainly because this technology produces positive effects in the customers' back office while being more cost and time effective for the bank. Now is the time to look at alternative distribution channels and find ways to move their customers to a cheaper, more customer-centric way of making transactions." Customers should have one place they can call and find out anything they need. * Making card... 67% Hot Products Summary: Mass production CD-ROM system. The MPS system is available for more than 25 Unix platforms. *. So much in store. Windows NT storage strategies are being formulated by most storage vendors. In addition to the storage options themselves, there is a wide range of storage management products is available.
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