Captaris Announces RightFax 8.5; Enterprise Integration Platform Enables Automation of Core Business Processes.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers KIRKLAND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 27, 2002 Captaris, Inc. (Nasdaq:CAPA CAPA California Alternate Performance Assessment CAPA Captaris, Inc (stock symbol) CAPA Confederation of Asian and Pacific Accountants CAPA Creative and Performing Arts (school) ), a leading provider of unified communications The real time redirection of a voice, text or e-mail message to the device closest to the intended recipient at any given time. For example, voice calls to desk phones could be routed to the user's cellphone when required. and mobile business solutions, today announced RightFax 8.5, the newest suite of the world's market leading e-document delivery software which includes enhanced enterprise fax and universal information exchange capabilities that integrate with enterprise business applications. "The e-document delivery market is expected to grow steadily over the next few years," said Blair Pleasant, President and Principal Analyst, of COMMfusion. "Corporations are demanding a single solution that can seamlessly integrate diverse business applications and process information streams from these applications to customers, vendors and partners. Solutions like those Captaris is offering are providing customers cost-effective ways to increase efficiency for repetitive business processes." RightFax 8.5 Packaging Captaris has repackaged and repriced the RightFax family of products with the release of 8.5 to target several areas of high market growth and customer demand. The first is a single solution that can efficiently pull business-critical data from a variety of business applications and provide more efficient channels of document distribution. RightFax 8.5 renders data from legacy systems, Customer Relationship Management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ) and Enterprise Resource Planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. (ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. ) applications into actual forms that can be processed and distributed to multiple communication channels. The retrieved information is inputted into documents that can be delivered via email, fax, or the Internet to wireless devices, the desktop, or multifunction copiers and printers. Targeting the SMB Market See SMB. The second area of industry growth is the small- and medium-sized U.S. businesses (SMB (1) (Small to Medium-sized Business) Also called "SME" (small to medium-sized enterprise), it refers to companies that are larger than the small office/home office (SOHO), but not huge. ) market and the need for scalable packages for low- to high-volume transaction environments. The RightFax 8.5 suite of products addresses this market by offering the ability to manage a range of transactions to automate repetitive tasks for the purpose of accelerating process cycle times. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Access Markets International (AMI) Partners, Inc., "As of the second quarter of 2002, over one million U.S. SMBs were using one or more business process automation applications (Sales Force Automation Automating the sales activities within an organization. A comprehensive SFA package provides such functions as contact management, note and information sharing, quick proposal and presentation generation, product configurators, calendars and to-do lists. (SFA See sales force automation. SFA - Sales Force Automation ), CRM, ERP or Supply Chain Management (SCM (1) (Software Configuration Management, Source Code Management) See configuration management. (2) See supply chain management. )) -- that figure represents a 114 percent increase over the 489,000 SMBs that were using the apps during the same period in 2001." Right Fax 8.5 Pricing and Availability The RightFax Network and Integration offerings will be available for shipping on September 17 and consist of the following packages ranging from $1,995 to $16,995 MSLP MSLP Mean Sea Level Pressure MSLP Medical Strategic Leadership Program MSLP Multi-Step Linear Prediction MSLP Medium Speed Line Printer MSLP Manufacturer Suggested License Price MSLP Music Sample Library Project which allow customers the ability to leverage their initial investment and add capabilities as their business needs grow: -- RightFax Business Server -- allows individuals or workgroups to send and receive documents from the desktop via fax, email or the Internet; offers a single point of administration to manage RightFax servers on the network and reduces document delivery cost by up to 90 percent -- RightFax Enterprise Server -- enables individuals or workgroups to manage heavy document traffic and is designed for multiple fax server environments (least-cost routing, load balancing/clustering and redundancy features); increases productivity, eliminates manual processes such as printing, mailing or manually faxing documents and scales to support large volumes of transactions -- RightFax Business Integration -- enables applications for information exchange and low-transaction-volume environments to automate business processes at a cost-effective price and allows electronic delivery of critical business documents originating from mainframe, midrange, host or ERP systems -- RightFax Enterprise Integration -- enables applications for information exchange and high-volume environments to automate business processes at a cost-effective price; supports all delivery options available, including print, fax, email, Internet; provides secure and certified document delivery and offers Java Application Program Interface (API) and Extensible Markup Language (XML) interface for additional customization RightFax 8.5 Major Features and Enhancements -- Integration Wizard The easy-to-use graphical interface See GUI. allows customers to more quickly and efficiently integrate RightFax with their enterprise applications. The following configurations are now easily customized: capturing host data, creating forms and templates, processing data, previewing the appearance of forms and testing delivery methods, set up of the delivery methods and notification actions and testing. -- Windows 2000 Certification RightFax is certified on Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server, including support for Windows Cluster Service. Certification provides application reliability, continuity in the user interface experience, decreased cost of ownership, ease of installation and ongoing operation. -- Human-Answered Fax RightFax now provides a variety of efficient methods for handling a voice answer to an outbound fax call. Fax administrators can even record their own voice prompts (in any language) via a telephone interface. "With RightFax 8.5, Captaris now offers customers scalable solutions that seamlessly integrate with business applications to improve workflow productivity," said Chris Davis Chris Davis is the name of a couple of people:
About Captaris Captaris is a leading provider of unified communications and mobile business solutions that allow companies to improve business communications with customers, partners and employees. The company provides access to and control of critical business information from almost any communications device Typically refers to a terminal used to send voice, video or text. Mobile phones, wireless PDAs and personal computers equipped with microphones, speakers and cameras are all considered communications devices. See modem. and enhances communications workflow by improving the way in which company stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. exchange information. The company specializes in developing and marketing CallXpress unified messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. , RightFax fax and communications servers, MediaLinq electronic document delivery services, and the Infinite Mobile Delivery product line. Captaris has more than 80,000 systems installed and over one million users worldwide, with 80 percent of Fortune 100 companies using the company's award-winning products and services. Founded in 1982, Captaris is publicly traded under the symbol "CAPA" on the Nasdaq National Market. Captaris maintains a site on the World Wide Web at www.captaris.com. Captaris products RightFax, CallXpress, MediaLinq and Infinite are trademarks of Captaris. All other company, brand and product names are the property and/or trademarks of their respective companies. |
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