Cardiff Software Announces Availability of LiquidOffice-TM- Connect Agents for IBM Content Manager.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 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) Content Management & WebSphere Portal Technical Conference SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 2003 Integration Between Cardiff's eForm Automation Solution and IBM's Content Manager for Multiplatforms V8.2 and for iSeries V5R1 to Be Demonstrated at IBM Content Management Conference Cardiff Software Inc., a leading global provider of business process-automation solutions, today announced the general availability of two Cardiff LiquidOffice(TM) Connect Agents for IBM(R) Content Manager for Multiplatforms V8.2 and for iSeries(TM) V5R1. The Connect Agents enable LiquidOffice eForms to be automatically sent to IBM Content Manager systems for archival or additional workflow processing. The Connect Agents were developed by ImageTech Systems Inc. using LiquidOffice's Connect Agent API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol. . A certified See certification. Cardiff reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers. and IBM Business Partner, ImageTech will be demonstrating the integrated solution at IBM's Content Management & WebSphere Portal Technical Conference (booth #311) to be held in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., from June 9-11, 2003. ImageTech is a full-service content management solution provider and EDMS (Electronic Document Management System or Enterprise Document Management System ) See document management. EDMS - Electronic Document Management System systems integrator An individual or organization that builds systems from a variety of diverse components. With increasing complexity of technology, more customers want complete solutions to information problems, requiring hardware, software and networking expertise in a multivendor environment. specializing in solutions built around IBM's DB2 Enterprise Content Management portfolio of products. Customers and resellers of IBM Content Manager can now use these two new Connect Agents to seamlessly integrate IBM's popular content management platforms with Cardiff's proven LiquidOffice eForm automation solution. The integrated solution allows customers to create, deploy and automatically manage the routing, tracking and approval processes for electronic forms using LiquidOffice, and then automatically transmit the completed forms into IBM Content Manager systems for instant archival and retrieval. "The integration of IBM Content Manager with Cardiff LiquidOffice combines the productivity gains and operational cost savings achieved by automating form-driven processes with the powerful capabilities of an exceptional enterprise content management system," said Mark Seamans, Cardiff's chief technology officer. "ImageTech's development of the LiquidOffice Connect Agent for IBM Content Manager validates Cardiff's open architecture approach for enabling ultimate enterprise interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. ." The new Connect Agents enable LiquidOffice users to export completed HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. and PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. forms and related attachments into IBM Content Manager systems. LiquidOffice forms exported into IBM Content Manager's centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. document repository are indexed and archived in PDF format along with any attachments in their native format. Once archived, authorized users authorized user Radiation physics A person who, having satisfied the applicable training and experience requirements, is granted authority to order radioactive material and accepts responsibility for its safe receipt, storage, use, transfer and disposal across the enterprise can easily conduct sophisticated searches to retrieve a requested form. Additionally, the Connect Agent for IBM Content Manager for Multiplatforms enables customers to take advantage of existing workflow processes. The integrated solution provides an option for LiquidOffice to release electronic forms directly into an established IBM Content Manager for Multiplatforms workflow. This capability eliminates an added, potentially redundant workflow, while still leveraging LiquidOffice's powerful intelligent eForm features. These features include real-time database validation and calculations to help eliminate errors and an Auto-Fill capability, which minimizes the amount of data needed to be entered by pre-populating form fields with information obtained from automatic database look-ups. ImageTech will be adding similar workflow support into a forthcoming version of the LiquidOffice Connect Agent for IBM Content Manager for iSeries. Availability The LiquidOffice Connect Agents for IBM Content Manager for Multiplatforms and for iSeries are available from Cardiff Software (800/659-8755) and ImageTech Systems (717/697-0329). The agents require Cardiff LiquidOffice v2.1 or later and support IBM Content Manager for Multiplatforms V8.1/V8.2 and IBM Content Manager for iSeries V5R1. About ImageTech Systems Inc. ImageTech Systems Inc. is a certified IBM Content Manager business partner focused on turn-key solutions and/or systems integration, consulting and implementation services with respect to IBM's Enterprise Content Management portfolio. ImageTech was founded in 1994 and has focused exclusively on enterprise-scalable EDMS and workflow solutions for customers in a number of industries, including banking and financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , insurance, state and local government, and pharmaceutical. Visit www.imagetechsys.com for more information. About Cardiff Software Inc. Put Information to Work -- Cardiff Software (www.cardiff.com) is a leading provider of document and form-driven business process automation solutions for Global 2000 organizations. The Cardiff family of integrated software Separate software components or applications that have been combined into one package. See integrated software package. products empowers organizations to automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. existing business processes using technology to capture, process and connect to strategic business information, thereby improving employee productivity, customer service and profitability. In business since 1991, Cardiff has a global distribution network reaching every continent and more than 20,000 customers worldwide spanning every industry. (C) 1991-2003 Cardiff Software Inc. All rights reserved. TELEform, LiquidOffice, LiquidCapture and MEDIclaim Option are trademarks of Cardiff Software Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks belong to their respective owners. |
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