Alpharel brings document management on-line for Metropolitan Archives.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 11, 1995--Alpharel (NASDAQ/NMS:AREL AREL Acute Reference Exposure Level (EPA) ), a principal supplier of enterprisewide imaging application software, announced the successful integration of its FileFolder product with the Metropolitan Archives Document Processing Processing text documents, which includes indexing methods for text retrieval based on content. See document imaging. System (MADPS), a unique facilities management system. Now fully on-line, Metropolitan Archives, equipped with a bulk research license, can search the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Department of Buildings, reducing the document distribution time from days to seconds, as well as the costs associated with distributing archived documents needed by building owners, managers, real estate brokers and architects. By storing and distributing engineering, facilities and architectural drawings and documents from a computer database, overall maintenance costs are dramatically reduced and accountability is greatly improved. Alpharel tailored its FileFolder application to accommodate Metropolitan Archives' index system, which is based on the Department of Buildings' document reference numbers. Large (E-sized 36- x 48-inch) and small (A- and B-sized) documents are scanned. Images are captured electronically and matched to the correct index number. Additional applications allow users to view, mark-up, edit, control quality, fax and print. The Metropolitan Archives database has the capacity to store and distribute a half-million documents. "Metropolitan Archives enthusiastically embraced our document management solution from the start," stated Stephen Gardner, president and chief executive officer. "They looked at other Alpharel facilities management installations and saw first-hand the outstanding ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). potential. The FileFolder System is ideal for paper-intensive industries." Alpharel and Metropolitan Archives recently participated in the Buildings/New York trade show, attracting considerable attention from facilities and building managers, as well as architectural and engineering firms interested in the benefits of automated document management. With headquarters in San Diego, Alpharel is the primary supplier of open imaging software for enterprisewide solutions. The company excels in meeting the challenges of complex environments -- managing access to high volumes of engineering and office documents by many users spread across diverse locations. Alpharel's client/server software components are available on a variety of platforms including UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (Sun, HP, SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. , DG and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) ), DEC VAX (Virtual Address eXtension) A venerable family of 32-bit computers from HP (via Digital and Compaq) introduced in 1977 with the VAX-11/780. VAX models ranged from desktop units to mainframes all running the same VMS operating system, and VAXes could emulate PDP models , Macintosh and PC, and operate efficiently across both local and wide area networks. Client operating environments include X Window OSF/Motif, Microsoft Windows and Apple System 7. Alpharel's software products easily integrate with customers' existing applications, providing departmental or corporatewide document management. CONTACT: Alpharel, San Diego Stephen P. Gardner/John W. Low, 619/625-3000 |
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