November 2005

Certified SAP Integration

Datacap Joins SAP Partner Program

If your organization uses SAP as its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)system for invoice payments, Datacap Taskmaster for Invoices can now perform lookups inside SAP as well as deliver verified invoice data directly to SAP. With the availability of Capture Link for SAP® NetWeaver®, Datacap provides seamless integration with SAP. Datacap also announced acceptance into the SAP Software Partner Program.

Taskmaster for Invoices eliminates the manual data entry of supplier invoices to speed processing and reduce costs. With Capture Link for SAP Netweaver, all incoming invoices can now be scanned, identified, matched against order data, and entered directly into SAP.

This more open exchange between Taskmaster for Invoices and SAP results in faster processing, which helps customers avoid late payments and take advantage of early discounts.

To learn more, click here.

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FileNet P8 and Capture 5.0 Support

Greater Flexibility, Improved Performance

Convergence between applications and systems is one of the strongest trends in business software. For FileNet, the P8 platform is represents a unification of its Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Business Process Management (BPM) applications onto a single platform.

Continuing Datacap's commitment to tight integration with FileNet, Datacap Taskmaster now supports P8. Datacap's latest integration means that FileNet users can rely on a completely integrated solution, from capture to storage. Datacap customers, such as Georgia-Pacific and Hawaii Department of Tax, are using Taskmaster for document scanning and data capture, delivering images with index values directly to FileNet Content Manager and Image Manager residing on the P8 platform.

But Datacap didn't stop with P8. We also made sure that Datacap Components run inside FileNet's latest release of Capture (version 5.0). Datacap Components are native FileNet components that add forms processing capabilities to FileNet Capture. Filenet customers use Datacap Components to add optical character recognition (OCR), intelligent character recognition (ICR), automated data validations, export formatting, and other forms processing technologies to a FileNet Capture Path. Customers, including Nationwide Insurance and Orange County Courts of California are using Datacap Components, running inside FileNet Capture, to automate the processing of documents to speed processing time, reduce cost and enhance accuracy.

"FileNet and Datacap share many customers as a result of its valued and extended partnership. With every new release, we have worked closely together to ensure that FileNet solutions are optimized for integration with Datacap's robust capture solutions," says Datacap CEO Scott Blau. "As our many FileNet customers migrate to the P8 platform, as well as to FileNet Capture 5.0, they'll find that their Datacap applications will continue to support them with accelerated processing results, reduced cost and increased accuracy."

To learn more about Datacap and FileNet, view the free webinar "OCR/ICR For FileNet".

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New Survey Report On Distributed Capture

Sponsored by Datacap, Canon and TAWPI

The study identified the key factors driving organizations to distribute scanning and capture across their facilities, partner networks or customers.

Datacap partnered with Canon U.S.A, Inc. and The Association For Work Process Improvement (TAWPI) to conduct the industry's first customer data-driven survey exclusively focused on distributed capture benefits, success factors and barriers.

The online survey was completed by more than 300 document management professionals. Survey results were analyzed by Power Decisions Group, a marketing research firm based in San Francisco, and a report will be published November 15.

Some of the results may be surprising. For example, cost reduction is NOT the leading factor in implementing distributed capture. In fact, it's not even in the top three. While there are some implementations with more than a 1,000 dispersed scanning sites, most organizations involved in distributed capture are spreading scanning around to just 5 sites or less. And contrary to what some experts are saying about the prevalence of Multi-Function Peripherals (MFPs), less than a quarter of respondents are using MFPs to scan documents.

To request a free copy of the Survey report, here.

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Capitol-Image Specializes In Claims Processing

Two union pension funds select Taskmaster for Medical Claims

Capitol-Image, a Los Angeles-based Datacap reseller and partner, is implementing two systems to automate the data entry of medical claims for union-based pension funds. This summer, Operating Engineers Funds of Pasadena, California and the Carpenter's Southern California Administration Corp. selected Taskmaster for Medical Claims to move from manual data entry of CMS 1500 and UB-92 claims to automated.

Operating Engineers Funds Inc. is a non-profit corporation that administers the employee benefit programs for members of the International Union of Operating Engineers (I.U.O.E.), Local 12, and their dependents and beneficiaries. Most of Local 12's members work in construction as heavy equipment operators, mechanics, concrete pumpers, soil testers, inspectors, and surveyors.

Capitol-Image linked Bowe Bell + Howell scanners with Taskmaster for Medical Claims, integrated with a Hyland OnBase document management system.

Likewise, for the Carpenters Southern California Administrative Corp., a non-profit pension fund serving carpenters and other laborers and their families in southern California, Capitol-Image recommended Bowe Bell + Howell scanners. Their document management solution for secure storage and retrieval of claim images, is Captaris Alchemy.

Both Taskmaster applications will be installed, tested and in production by the end of the year.

For more information, contact marketing@datacap.com .

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Bonus Link

Read about Datacap customer Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona and Datacap reseller Cutting Edge Solutions in the November 7 issue of Computer Reseller News.

For more information, contact marketing@datacap.com

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