excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 97% 1996 the year in review Summary: This turned out to be a nightmare­on the good days. Wang ascends ... to somewhere. Long-term impact: Not to worry. Long-term impact: CDIA is just too good an idea to flop, and it won't. Long-term impact: The virtual potential here is so great that it's hard to figure out where to start. 93% Anacomp out of Chapter 11 in just six months Summary: Anacomp out of Chapter 11. in just six months. Anacomp filed for Chapter 11 on January 5, 1996. Even before the Chapter 11 filing was complete, Anacomp had introduced Alva, a new CD services solution. For Anacomp, these other solutions are digital. 92% Boyle Associates Summary: Boyle Associates provides systems and customized solutions excelling in complex applications and hybrid media usage for document management needs in financial, insurance and commercial applications. 91% Viewstar confidently goes public Summary: Imaging World, October 21st, 1996. Viewstar confidently goes public. The workflow and imaging company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 5 to conduct an initial public offering. Optika recently found out just how cold those public waters can be when it went into its IPO hoping to fetch between $9 and $11 per share of common stock, and ended up having to settle for $6.... 91% The Buzz 1-1-97 Summary: Nice Guy. By Bruce Hoard This month--The All-Good News Department. Looking for a comprehensive report on what's going on in the imaging, workflow document management and text retrieval markets? Nice idea, Mark Ruport. Another good, but belated idea. 91% It's too hard. It's not hard enough. Stuck i... Summary: The Buzz. In the last issue, we posed the question, what's wrong with the CDIA (Certified Document Image Architect) program? According to Lynne Leahy, the exam is too vigorous. She believes there should be several levels of CDIA certification leading up to the full credential. Both Wasner and Leahy think the program will gain momentum in the near future. 91% It grabbed my attention Ienjoyed the new forma... Summary: 3, 1997, issue. AS/400--In or out?. I would like to point out that Gordon Hoke's article in the Feb. 3, 1997, issue of IW was misleading and incorrect. In fact, none of those vendors have solutions based on the AS/400. 91% Power vs. philosophy: the conflicting strategies of FileNet and Cornerstone Summary: Power vs. philosophy: the conflicting strategies of FileNet and Cornerstone. The differences between Cornerstone and FileNet can be described as a clash of power vs. philosophy--FileNet has the power and Cornerstone has the philosophy. Power vs. 91% No company is an island Summary: Wang also has a seat on Microsoft's ISV advisory council that no other imaging vendors have. jukeboxes. ViewStar was the first of the enterprise image and workflow vendors to forge a relationship with Microsoft and port its software to NT. Capture and component imaging. The hot area in storage is CD jukeboxes. 90% For $260 million, Kodak enters imaging softwar... Summary: For $260 million, Kodak enters imaging software with a bang. By Bruce Hoard, IW executive editor Industry watchers largely agree that Kodak's $260 million purchase of Wang's software business is money well spent. In addition, Yockelson believes Kodak is better positioned to make the software business a success than was Wang. "Kodak is emotionally committed to the technology, where Wang was... 90% Optika IPO: good idea, bad timing Summary: Imaging World, September 1st, 1996. Optika IPO: good idea, bad timing. By Bruce Hoard, IW executive editor Call it a case of very bad timing. Fortunately, the 1996 numbers have bounced back. "No," says Ruport. 90% 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. 90% IW Special Report From The Channel Summary: The users just don't know what they need." "I don't know of any vendor that does that well," he comments. Just as vendors are obliged to educate their resellers, so too are those resellers responsible for educating their users, the experts declare. * "Distributors are not set up to support software, and they end up in the middle between you and the vendor," says Johnson. Johnson believes good... 90% Adobe and 20 vendors team for paper-to-Web so... Summary: Adobe and 20 vendors team. for paper-to-Web solutions. By Tony McKinley On March 31, Adobe Systems (San Jose) announced teaming arrangements with more than 20 vendors to capitalize on Acrobat Capture to bring paper documents to the Web. DOCUMENT CAPTURE. What's completely new and different about the announcement is that huge numbers of Adobe Acrobat users are already in place. 90% InterTech plays with the big boys Eli Gruber, ... Summary: The goal: enterprisewide document management. It goes beyond document management and document imaging. EG: Document imaging and document management basically deal with files. EG: DocuPACT 3.0 is the first software that was developed from the ground up for NT and integrated document management and document imaging. We would like to have a VAR that has some knowledge of document imaging and... 90% Vendors--They're not just for breakfast anymor... Summary: I was a vendor and I took care of my clients and had pride in my work. Vendors are people too. And guess what, they are good people. Ever play word association? They are good people, and in most cases, very knowledgeable, respectable people. 90% Industry in the mirror Summary: "Despite some success stories, there are a lot of reasons to say that imaging is on more of a decline than an upswing. Clearly, these technologies have had an impact on imaging, but we have seen it more in the document management space. You could also say that even as imaging becomes more mass market, there have been other impacts from neighboring technologies. COLD is a technology that has a leg... 89% Wang takes a Vantage Summary: Wang takes a Vantage. Wang's Service Business Unit will continue to partner with PC Docs, providing services to DOCS Open software customers. But everyone thought it would be PC Docs." "Wang got the technology they were after," said Frappaolo, "and they got a vendor strong in the standards arena." Standards-based Wang is committed to open architecture. 89% News Shorts 3-3-97 Summary: Plasmon VARs check out Double-Checked. TASC allies with Sybase. Document management provider TASC (Reading, MA) has teamed up with Sybase (Emeryville, CA) to join TASC's COLD technology with the Sybase System 11 relational database. As a Sybase application partner, TASC will market and distribute Sybase products in conjunction with TASC-COLD. First Data takes Kodak's COM. 89% FileNet & Companies partner integrators, vendors, and VARs Summary: ValueNet program selects premiere group of preferred authorized resellers. The ValueNet Business Partner Program classifies and recognizes those resellers that meet FileNet standards for customer service. FileNet defines its ValueNet partners as those resellers providing consulting, application and project management services to their customers. "We want to make it easier for the customer to do...
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