Ascent Capture Voted Favorite Document Capture Application by Transform Magazine Readers.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PC EXPO A trade show for resellers, corporate managers and technical professionals from CMP Media LLC, a subsidiary of United Business Media. First held in New York in 1983 with 120 exhibitors and 9,600 attendees, the show grew from the personal computer's early years to 550 vendors and more than 2003 IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 2003 Kofax, the world's largest information capture vendor, today announced that its flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Ascent Capture, has received top honors from the readers of Transform magazine. Ascent Capture was selected by readers as their favorite product in the document capture category. The awards were presented this week at CMP CMP (cytidine monophosphate): see cytosine. (1) (CMP Media LLC, Manhasset, NY, www.cmp.com) Part of United Business Media, CMP is a leading integrated media company that offers a wide variety of publications and services in the information Media's TechXNY, a week-long business technology showcase incorporating PC Expo and taking place at the Javits Center in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . "More and more businesses are turning to information capture to cut time and cost out of processing paper documents and Ascent has been the platform of choice for more companies than any other application," said Rick Murphy, Kofax president. "Kofax is honored that Transform readers have named Ascent as the most powerful tool for information capture." Kofax's Ascent platform provides powerful production capture technology. Ascent enables companies to collect large volumes of forms and documents, transform them into useful, retrievable electronic information, and deliver it all into a variety of workflow and document management systems. It can also capture e-documents, XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. streams, and it enables front-end integration with enterprise applications. More than 50,000 Transform readers were eligible to vote for their favorite products through a secure Web ballot system. The voting system Noun 1. voting system - a legal system for making democratic choices electoral system legal system - a system for interpreting and enforcing the laws used unique subscriber identification numbers that eliminated any chance of readers voting multiple times using the Web-based form. Transform readers include business and IT managers implementing content and collaboration products and strategies. "Until now, our editors have presided over all of our award programs," said Doug Henschen, Transform Editor-in-Chief. "This year we decided to let our readers choose their favorite products. The Transform Readers' Choice Awards honor the most appreciated products addressing content and collaboration management challenges. We congratulate all the winners on their achievement." The Transform award is the latest of a series of awards recognizing the innovative features and capabilities of Kofax products. Ascent Capture received KMWorld magazine's "Top 21 Products of 1999" award, and Imaging and Document Solutions magazine named it as the "1999 Product of the Year." Kofax VRS (Video Relay Service) A communications service for the hearing or speech impaired. A VRS is the video counterpart of a TTY relay service, in which the user types on a terminal, and the relay operator speaks the messages to the recipient (see TDD/TTY). (VirtualReScan) received the "Best of AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management International, Silver Spring, MD, www.aiim.org) A membership organization founded in 1943 devoted to creating industry standards and disseminating information about the document management industry. " award in 2001 and a "Product of the Year" award in 2001 from Transform magazine. In addition, Ascent Ricochet A wireless Internet service from Ricochet Networks, Inc., Denver, CO (www.ricochet.net). Originally developed by Los Gatos, CA-based Metricom, Inc., Ricochet was the first high-speed, wireless Internet service for commuters. was named "Best of AIIM" product in 2002. About Transform Magazine Transform (www.transformmag.com) is a print and online publication read by more than 60,000 business leaders and IT managers implementing content and collaboration products and strategies. The publication focuses exclusively on technologies for the capture, storage, management, delivery and sharing of business content. These technologies include enterprise content management; document and records management; business process management; portal-based collaboration; data and document capture software; scanners and scanning multifunction machines; forms processing and electronic forms software; enterprise report and output management; taxonomy, search and retrieval; and enabling toolkits, storage and peripherals. About Kofax Kofax Image Products Inc. (www.kofax.com), a division of the DICOM (medical, standard) DICOM - (From Digital Imaging and COmmunications in Medicine) A standard developed by ACR-NEMA (American College of Radiology - National Electrical Manufacturer's Association) for communications between medical imaging devices. Group plc, is a leading developer of application software and image-processing products for the Electronic Data and Document Capture (EDC EDC See: Export Development Corp. ) market. According to research by Strategy Partners, Kofax is the largest capture software vendor in the world. EDC is essential to helping document-intensive organizations economically, reliably and securely collect, transform and deliver information from all sources into their electronic business processes and archives. Note to Editors: Kofax, Ascent, Ascent Capture, VirtualReScan and VRS are registered trademarks of Kofax Image Products Inc. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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