excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 99% 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. 92% Plexus teams with Diamond Head Summary: Plexus teams with Diamond Head. Plexus (Sunnyvale, CA), a division of BancTec (Dallas) and Diamond Head (Richardson, TX), will develop a line of Visual Basic components based on the Plexus family of imaging and workflow products. Diamond Head will expand its ImageBasic components to include imaging and workflow Active-X controls specifically built around the Plexus ObjectServer, StorageManager... 89% A trio of toolkits for the Plexus developer Summary: (Posted: Wednesday, April 23, 1997, 7:51 AM) The three separate toolkits in Monarch's Express line extend existing Plus functions while maintaining the look of the Plexus environment. 89% Expressly for Plexus Summary: Expressly for Plexus. A trio of developers' toolkits. Three new developers' toolkits from Monarch Imaging Systems (Iselin, NJ) offer Plexus (Dallas) developers access to a wider range of hardware. Philip Basile, director of product development for Monarch, explained to IW, "Monarch has developed Plexus toolkits for years." An Express display toolkit allows Plexus developers to deploy... 87% The Buzz Summary: Imaging World, September 1st, 1996 The Buzz. Caere, it was said, was heading south, and ViewStar wanted to go north, financially speaking. Well, for a company on its way down, Caere would seem to be surprisingly healthy. Hard to believe John wouldn't call The Buzz right up if he knew something. Wondering how much it costs to set up a Web site? 87% 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. 87% Plexus promotes Callahan Summary: (Posted: Tuesday, April 15, 1997, 8:24 AM) Plexus Software (Sunnyvale, CA), a division of BancTec, announces the promotion of Arthur Callahan to the position of VP of sales for North American. 86% Monarch Imaging Systems Summary: Monarch creates document imaging software and tools to enhance the Plexus, NCR and Visioneer development environments. 86% Forms processor marries document manager Summary: Forms processor marries document manager. (Monday, January 13, 1997, 9:49 am) Addressing the combined needs of data collection and document management, Cardiff Software (San Marcos, CA) and Optika Imaging (Colorado Springs, CO, http://www.optika.com) are offering a direct link between Cardiff's forms processing tool, TeleForm, and Optika's document management solution, FilePower. The first... 86% 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?" 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% Wall Street activity Public offerings challeng... Summary: Public offerings challenge managers. Finally, being part of the public arena increased the visibility of the industry and its participants. Being public raises the performance bar. There is now a universe of investable stocks through which investors can participate. Investors' perspectives on the industry are in the process of being determined. 83% 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. 83% 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. 83% 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... 83% Maturing market clarifies document capture choi Summary: "We saw that there were a lot of places to get equipment, and lots of companies that wanted the technology, but most system integrators and VARs were doing enterprise systems," he says. "But there weren't that many people in between, doing departmental systems." Where Cornerstone comes in, she says, is when the user wants to do unique things with its systems. The veteran of the three, the company... 82% The Buzz 3-3-97 Summary: 1 Buzz in which we questioned her scanner industry forecast numbers. A proper analyst would just throw the dart and stand behind it." There is a new generation of document management vendors coming out with Web-based products. One of them is IntraNet Solutions (Eden Prairie, MN). Just wondering. 81% Component Imaging Summary: Standalone applications and toolkits emerge. Those that sell a more standalone application approach are represented by Kofax and Cornerstone (San Jose). Cornerstone's Pixel Translations products fit more into the toolkit category. COMPONENT IMAGING MARKET. The market moves toward components. 81% The Buzz 3-17-97 Summary: Don't shrink-wrap workflow management. "Workflow management can't be shrink-wrapped," he says. Document Manager, the Web-based document management groupware package that was scheduled for release Feb. The aforementioned Ian Campbell agrees, saying, "Document management and groupware are coming together. Campbell also has some interesting thoughts on the "dark side" of document management. 80% The maturation of recognition technology How ... Summary: How OCR evolved and how the Web is changing source documentation. Some areas of OCR are more mature than others. Machine-print OCR on clean documents is fairly mature. OCR increases productivity and automates office processes. The Web and intranet are slowly changing the source of documents.
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