ImageNow 6.2 Creates Context for Documents Within Business Processes
Features and Enhancements Improve Usability, Integration,
Scalability and Affordability
SHAWNEE, Kan., Oct. 20, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Perceptive Software today announced the general availability of ImageNow 6.2, the latest version of the company's flagship document management, imaging and workflow software suite.
ImageNow is designed to further simplify business processes by creating context for documents across the enterprise, with new features that improve usability, enhance integration, add scalability, and increase the business value of the solution and return on investment.
Customers worldwide have rewarded Perceptive Software with industry-leading growth because ImageNow deploys quickly, with minimal disruption, within the customer's business environment. ImageNow 6.2 presses this advantage by introducing new features and enhancements that further its leadership in capturing and presenting content -- such as printed documents, emails, faxes, media files and other unstructured data-in the context of business processes.
Perceptive Software President and CEO Scott Coons said, "Enhanced functionality was added without compromising the user-friendly interface, non-programmatic integration, ease of administration and cost-effective deployment options ImageNow users have come to expect. This major release furthers Perceptive Software's quest to engineer the complexity out of our enterprise content management software, making it even simpler to install, configure and expand."
Of the hundreds of new features in ImageNow 6.2, many came directly from the ImageNow user community. "ImageNow 6.2 was specifically designed to further improve business processes based on feedback from our customers-those who use ImageNow every day to create efficiencies in organizations around the world," Coons said.
Key enhancements in ImageNow 6.2 include:
Enhanced User Experience
ImageNow 6.2 enhances users' ability to store and retrieve content precisely where and when they need it without having to create queries or navigate complex user interfaces.
* New view functionality supplements ImageNow's unique access to
documents directly from a line of business application by
providing user-specific content access via customized, predefined
views that are accessed with a single click.
* Enhanced support for Microsoft Office with ImageNow Interact
provides users with a scalable document management environment
that works directly within Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and
Visio.
* Improved web-based document capture allows users to easily capture
documents on the fly with the browser-based client, WebNow.
Enhanced Business Process Support
ImageNow 6.2 provides process-adaptive workflow technology that effortlessly matches a customer's existing business processes.
* Task-based Workflow provides the ability to direct users to the
right activities through virtual to-do lists that help ensure
users -- from clerks to physicians -- are automatically directed
to the appropriate tasks.
* Enhanced Output Support allows users to package and output a group
of documents to file, printer, fax or e-mail.
* Automatic Form Recognition allows users to classify scanned
documents automatically, saving time and money.
Enhanced Integration Capabilities
ImageNow 6.2 greatly reduces integration complexities by enhancing Perceptive Software's patented, non-programmatic integration technology and by providing automated back-end integration capabilities.
* Enhanced non-programmatic integration with existing applications
gives users more options and time-saving features when using the
patented LearnMode integration engine.
* Enhanced web services integration capabilities provide new
functionality for creating back-end integrations to update host
systems with little required programming.
Enhanced Scalability and Performance
New features in ImageNow 6.2 help organizations improve processes and increase efficiencies regardless of the scale of the deployment, ensuring rapid ROI.
* Enhanced workflow processing greatly speeds business process
workflow with the ability to process 20 times more workflow items
per hour.
* Improved document capture speed enhances the data model and
storage parallelization to allow documents to be captured up to 10
times faster.
* Improved performance of files across the network with highly
efficient memory allocation algorithms that improve the flow of
files across the network.
About Perceptive Software (www.imagenow.com)
Since 1995, Perceptive Software has built enterprise content management software, including document management, document imaging and workflow solutions, to help organizations efficiently capture and organize virtually any document, then easily retrieve a precise page at the moment it's needed. More than 2,000 organizations in 30 countries rely on the ImageNow product suite to simplify their business processes.
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