Captovation and Westbrook Technologies, Developers of Fortis Document Management, Announce Distributor Agreement.MINNEAPOLIS & BRANFORD, Conn. -- Captovation, a developer of document and check capture software, and Westbrook Technologies, a leader in enterprise document management software for the mid-market, today announced a strategic partnership that provides Westbrook with worldwide distribution rights to Captovation's award-winning document capture system - Captovation([R]) Capture. Under the terms of the agreement, Westbrook will distribute Captovation Capture through its existing channel of value added resellers See VAR. (company) value added reseller - (VAR, or "value added retailer") A company which sells something (e.g. computers) made by another company (an OEM) with extra components added (e.g. specialist software). (VARs), and will have the ability to resell re·sell tr.v. re·sold , re·sell·ing, re·sells 1. To sell again. 2. To sell (a product or service) to the public or to an end user, especially as an authorized dealer. Captovation Capture directly to end-user clients. Westbrook's professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. division will provide system consulting, design, implementation, integration, and training for Captovation Capture installations. "Establishing strategic partnerships is very important in this industry, and Captovation's reputation for delivering innovative, reliable and customer-friendly capture software make them an excellent company to partner with," said Brent Wesler, Westbrook's director of professional services. "I feel this agreement creates new revenue generating opportunities for both companies and further strengthens each company's stance amongst other document imaging software providers." This business relationship was formed after Westbrook conducted extensive research to find a third-party document capture software system that not only complemented their Fortis document management system, but most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent" above all, most especially , provided both distributed capture and check imaging functionality. 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. Harvey Spencer Associates, a leading document capture research firm, the batch and distributed capture segment grew by 23% in 2005 and 2006 in a capture market worth an estimated $1.3 billion. Westbrook will now be better positioned to respond to the rapid growth of distributed capture by offering Captovation([R]) Web Capture to its VARs and end-users under the following remarketed product: * Fortis Remote Capture: a browser-based scan and index module requiring no manual software installation. Fortis Remote Capture supports TWAIN-compliant scanners or other input devices, and provides three methods of remote capture: scan documents, scan and index documents, or scan and index batches. Fortis Remote Capture features database linking and database linked pick lists to help reduce remote data entry requirements. Westbrook's success in implementing Fortis document management within accounts receivable accounts receivable n. the amounts of money due or owed to a business or professional by customers or clients. Generally, accounts receivable refers to the total amount due and is considered in calculating the value of a business or the business' problems in paying (A/R) departments across many different verticals helped them uncover the business need for check imaging and remote deposit capture. Remote deposit capture, which is covered by the Check 21 Act, gives organizations the ability to scan their checks and electronically submit the check images and associated data to their bank for deposit. Captovation([R]) Check Capture provides this functionality, and Westbrook will remarket the product under the following name: * Fortis Check21: enables accounts receivable, finance and banking customers to optimize their check processing procedures. Fortis Check21 provides one system for check image capture, encoding See encode. via CAR/LAR technology, image cash letter (ICL (International Computers Ltd., London) The former name of Fujitsu Services, the European-centered arm of the global Fujitsu Group and one of the leading IT services companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. ) creation, and facilitating the electronic transfer of checks to a check clearinghouse for payment or a bank for electronic deposit. Integration between Captovation Capture and the Fortis document management products are accomplished through a Westbrook provided integration. "Westbrook and Captovation bring together a wealth of industry and product knowledge as well enabling, complimentary technologies that will help our joint customers effectively manage and control all the content that enters their workplaces," said Ken Peterka, president and chief executive officer of Captovation, Inc. "We are very excited about the new opportunities this relationship will uncover, and we look forward to strengthening and growing our relationship with such a respected document management solutions provider as Westbrook." About Westbrook Technologies Westbrook Technologies provides enterprise document management software solutions for mid-market companies that need to maintain their competitive edge. The Company develops Fortis document management, Web-imaging (Fortis PowerWeb), ERM (Enterprise Relationship Management) An umbrella term with many shades of meaning over the years. It may refer to the management of information from any or all of an organization's customers, suppliers, business partners and employees. and workflow (Fortis Inflo) software in use at thousands of customer sites in 52 countries. Businesses across every vertical market depend on our comprehensive document management solutions and use them to capture, index, store and retrieve their critical information from anywhere -- instantly and securely. For more information, call (203) 483-6666 or visit www.westbrooktech.com. About Captovation, Inc. Since 1994, Captovation has designed and developed document-capture products for electronic document management systems (EDMS (Electronic Document Management System or Enterprise Document Management System ) See document management. EDMS - Electronic Document Management System ). 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. , Captovation([R]) Capture, is a suite of full-featured document-capture modules that provides paper-intensive organizations the ability to capture, classify clas·si·fy tr.v. clas·si·fied, clas·si·fy·ing, clas·si·fies 1. To arrange or organize according to class or category. 2. To designate (a document, for example) as confidential, secret, or top secret. , and archive business documents. The scalable modules provide: production-level scanning; production-level indexing; browser-based capture; check capture and electronic check exchange; automated bar code recognition; universal document conversion; and efficient, reliable archiving. Captovation Capture is sold through Captovation certified See certification. resellers and integrated with OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and partners' software under private-label licensing agreements. For more information, visit www.captovation.com. |
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