excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 100% Systems integrator Metters buys Blueridge Technologies Summary: buys Blueridge Technologies. In another significant step toward its goal of becoming a leader in document management, Metters (McLean, VA) has acquired Blueridge Technologies (Flint Hill, VA). The acquisition follows Metter's recent purchase of the microfilm scanner company Mekel Engineering (Walnut, CA). Samuel Metters, "Blueridge is already the leader in Internet-based document management... 91% July DealMakers Summary: School system makes the (up)grade. The upgrade will provide users with more flexible indexing. Partnership makes ImageBASIC even more ABLE. Move over, I'll drive. "It makes sense for us to move quickly and provide developers and content creators with an integrated suite of products and technologies." 88% MostImportantProds96 Summary: The most important products of 1996 (so far). Lava Systems' Lava 4.3 release has all three functions available in one software product. Its indexing module creates pointers to any kind of document the same way it creates pointers to scanned images. It's 4.6 GB, 5.25 inches and is rewritable! It was available before, but this year it has really turned into a full-function product. 87% The product beat Summary: Imaging World, June 1st, 1996. The product beat. No manual intervention or rewriting of code is necessary. ScreenScan Systems released Image Processor Version 2.3 software and Image Handler Software Version 2.3. The new software expands the current capabilities of ScreenScan as an add-on microfilm or microfiche scanner to include full electronic folder support. Symbus Technology announced... 85% 1996: the year in business Summary: Component imaging. Document management explodes. Also, several different approaches are maturing, such as a component imaging "build" approach, vs. An NT option has. Storage options:. 84% IW World Class Solutions Summary: It's a valuable synergy of need,. Bank officials were so amazed when the project was finished in just two weeks that they decided to create a full-scale application for employee personnel records. Both projects use ImageBASIC from Diamond Head. Employees were justifiably excited when they learned that 10,000 documents could be stored on one CD. It took about two weeks for approval. 84% Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, Colorado Imaging Solutions Summary: Each server has a 26-GB RAID subsystem and 160 MB RAM. Records for educators already holding certification are on microfilm. The workstations all have 24 MB of RAM. There also have been reductions in the cost of temporary staff and office space. Collins grows, so will its document. 84% Microsoft buys WebTV Summary: Microsoft buys WebTV. Gates determined to become digital broadcaster. "This partnership with WebTV underscores our strategy of delivering to consumers the benefits of the Internet together with emerging forms of digital broadcasting," said Microsoft CEO Bill Gates. "WebTV Networks has developed the state-of-the-art user experience for accessing Internet content on the TV," Microsoft VP Craig... 83% Imaging Expo'96 Turnout Summary: Imaging World, October 21st, 1996. IMAGING EXPO'96. "I expect to see strong sales for a TELEform/Watermark solution." Other responses to Cornerstone's dominance came from the display side. At this price, Matrox is ushering in a new era of non-premium prices for display solutions. 83% 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. 82% 40 companies to watch in 1997 Summary: They are: R.E. Ray Edwards, Apex D.E. Dan Elam, IMERGE B. T.S. Robert Smallwood, Image Associates S. 82% Forms processing A market takes shape As the... Summary: In fact, the paper forms industry now refers to itself as the forms and systems industry. The forms automation marketplace. Pricing: the new differentiator. There is also an annual maintenance fee of 15% of system cost. Prices vary. 82% News Shorts 12-16-96 Summary: .. Giga doles gold. PC Docs partners have ESP. Each of the software companies is delivering solutions that integrate with DOCS Open. ISIS not lacking Imagination. IMAGinE with Pixel engines is available from Imagination Software at prices starting at $1,000. 82% Vendors to visit at Imaging Expo '96 Summary: com.com/scanners. Available in 21-in. Microsystems Technology. and 21-in. 82% 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. 81% Scanner/Web/VAR Beats Summary: Intrafed continues on the scene. BancTec announced a distribution agreement with TextWare. The Web beat. "We believe that publishing on- and off-line go hand in hand on the Web and CD, and we believe that automating the process is critical to the success of the project." Now they are asking how to solve problems." 81% News Shorts 3-17-97 Summary: Ricoh to market CD-RW hardware. Quickly adopting the new CD-Rewritable (CD-RW) media that can be re-recorded thousands of times, Ricoh (San Jose) has introduced the first CD-RW-capable CD-Recordable (CD-R) drive. Certifiably Artist VARs. Artist Graphics (St. There's an Acrobat in the file cabinet. 81% September 1996 Hot Products Summary: New features include: compound document support, multi-library searching and the ability to store multiple forms of the same document. processing support. TeleForm Standard, Elite and Filler applications include features such as existing form support, networked reader and verifier modules, and management reporting tools. processing support. TeleForm Standard, Elite and Filler applications... 81% NCS buys Nestor ICR Summary: NCS buys Nestor ICR. IS giant acquires Nestor's character recognition unit. The agreement gives NCS exclusive use of Nestor's character recognition and intelligent character recognition (ICR) technology. While Wright doesn't foresee an ICR product with that kind of accuracy, ("a 4 will always look like a 9"), he acknowledges the advantage of NCS' superior resources. With resources like that,... 81% News Shorts 2-3-97 Summary: In other IBM news, Visual Warehouse, IBM's data warehouse software, is becoming a part of the Swedish software firm Intentia's enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. "The Certified Document Imaging Architect (CDIA) Program: What's In It For You?". StorageTek partners. Lucent drives Ford's new messaging service. New optical storage solution.
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