Captiva's InputAccel for Invoices Enhanced to Offer Advanced Automated Data Capture; Version 1.1 Features Line-Item Detail Capture, Integration With SAP.SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. -- Captiva Software Captiva Software is now part of EMC Software Group, a division of EMC Corporation.[1] Captiva makes software solutions for document information processing and data capture from paper and electronic documents and provides related services. Corporation, (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CPTV CPTV Connecticut Public Television ) a leading provider of input management solutions, today announced the availability of InputAccel for Invoices(TM) 1.1, a new, more powerful version of its automated invoice capture solution. This version of InputAccel for Invoices recognizes information from up to ten of the most common invoice data fields and line item details - without the use of templates and requiring no system training, learning or other vendor-specific set-up. Two new SAP connectivity offerings have also been added: Archive Export(TM) for exporting images to any image repository using the SAP(R) ArchiveLink(R) HTTP HTTP in full HyperText Transfer Protocol Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol. protocol; and A/P A/P Airport A/P Accounts Payable A/P Advanced Placement (education) A/P Anterior/Posterior A/P Active/Passive A/P Assessment & Plan (medical) A/P Automatic Pilot A/P Aircrew Personnel Connect(TM) -- a SAP-certified integration for two-way communication of vendor, purchase order and invoice data with R/3(R) -- SAP's 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. ) platform. "The automated processing of invoices has traditionally posed a significant problem for organizations because solutions typically are unable to capture invoice data without tedious set-up and system training on the geometries of each vendor's invoices," said Jim Nicol, Captiva's Executive Vice President of Product Development. "The new features we've added to InputAccel for Invoices advance the state-of-the-art in template-free invoice data capture, enabling customers to speed invoice workflow, reduce costs and improve the accuracy of financial reporting statements as mandated by regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley. In addition, our integration products for SAP, one of the world's leading ERP software providers, should make our solution extremely attractive to a vast audience of potential customers." InputAccel for Invoices transforms paper invoices into a digital image that can be exported into any image repository or enterprise content management (ECM (1) (Enterprise Change Management) See version control and configuration management. (2) (Error Correcting Mode) A Group 3 fax capability that can test for errors within a row of pixels and request retransmission. ) system. It employs concurrent forms processing and intelligent document recognition technologies to capture data such as the invoice number and date, the vendor, the purchase order number, the account number, the total amount and now shipping, tax and line-item information. The system then exports this information to ERP, accounts payable (A/P) and other back-end systems. By utilizing connectivity to accounting data, InputAccel for Invoices automatically compares and validates the invoice information against purchase order and vendor data. The new version of InputAccel for Invoices also includes the ability to match invoice line items to line items on the purchase order, or assign the costs directly to general ledger General Ledger A company's accounting records. This formal ledger contains all the financial accounts and statements of a business. Notes: The ledger uses two columns: one records debits, the other has offsetting credits. (G/L (General Ledger) G/L is often the acronym for the general ledger application in an organization. The general ledger maintains a summary of financial accounts for the business. ) accounts. Completed invoices are then exported to the A/P or ERP system where it appears as a "parked" invoice, ready to be processed via the workflow or paid directly, without further processing. Built on InputAccel(R) and utilizing capabilities from FormWare(R), InputAccel for Invoices is a flexible solution that can dramatically reduce the amount of manual intervention typically required to process invoices. It empowers users to streamline and accelerate the processing of invoices, reduce errors and increase financial reporting accuracy. By accelerating invoice processing through automation, organizations can realize immediate benefits and a return on investment in the form of less manual data entry, discounts for early payments and eliminating penalties for invoices paid late. About Captiva Software Corporation Captiva Software Corporation (NASDAQ:CPTV) is a leading provider of input management software solutions. Since 1989, the company's award-winning products have been used to manage business critical information from paper, faxed and scanned forms and documents, Internet forms and 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. data streams into the enterprise in a more accurate, timely and cost-effective manner. These products automate the processing of billions of forms and documents annually, converting their contents into information that is usable in database, document, content and other information management systems. Captiva's technology serves thousands of users in insurance, financial services, government, business process outsourcing Business process outsourcing (BPO) is the contracting of a specific business task, such as payroll, to a third-party service provider. Usually, BPO is implemented as a cost-saving measure for tasks that a company requires but does not depend upon to maintain its position in , direct marketing and other markets. For more information, visit www.captivasoftware.com. InputAccel for Invoices, Archive Export, and A/P Connect are trademarks, and FormWare and InputAccel are registered trademarks of Captiva Software Corporation. SAP, ArchiveLink, and R/3 are registered trademarks of SAP AG. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. This press release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. 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