Cornerstone Announces First Shipments of InputAccel; InputAccel Ships, First Customers Announced.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 1995--Cornerstone Imaging, Inc., a provider of hardware and software components for document image processing See document imaging. Document Image Processing - (DIP) Storage, management and retrieval of images. , announced that InputAccel(TM) begins shipping today. InputAccel is an open integration platform for the technologies and products used in the document capture process the conversion of paper documents into electronic images. The company also announced the first three customers: CTB-McGraw Hill, CADPAC -- an Ohio-based service bureau, and Stanford Health Services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract of Palo Alto, California “Palo Alto” redirects here. For other uses, see Palo Alto (disambiguation). Palo Alto (IPA: /ˌpæloʊˈʔæltoʊ/, from Spanish: palo: "stick" and alto: "high", i.e. . InputAccel is an open integration platform for designing, controlling, and managing the document capture process. Its compatible "building block" approach makes it easier for system integrators See systems integrator. and application developers to integrate, maintain, and upgrade robust, flexible systems for the conversion of paper documents into electronic images and data. Cornerstone cornerstone Ceremonial building block, dated or otherwise inscribed, usually placed in an outer wall of a building to commemorate its dedication. Often the stone is hollowed out to contain newspapers, photographs, or other documents reflecting current customs, with a view to provides functional "plug-in" modules that can be integrated into the system without programming. Only the modules required for the specific application need to be installed. Cornerstone's InputAccel products include: --InputAccel/Server --InputAccel/Scan --InputAccel/Image Processing --InputAccel/Image Processing for Seaport --InputAccel/Interactive QA --InputAccel/OCR --InputAccel/OCR Adapter A device that allows one system to connect to and work with another. An adapter is often a simple circuit that converts one set of signals to another; however, the term often refers to devices which are more accurately called "controllers. for Caere M/Series --InputAccel/Image Export --InputAccel/Index Export InputAccel-compatible modules (clients) are available from other suppliers. The following leading technology vendors have announced plans to develop and market InputAccel-compatible products: --Scanner Products BancTec Technologies Eastman Kodak Company Electrocom Automation Fujitsu Computer Products Improvision Research Ricoh Corporation --Image Processing Products Dunord Technologies Picture Elements, Inc. Seaport Imaging/a Sequoia sequoia (sĭkwoi`ə), name for the redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) and for the big tree, or giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum), both huge, coniferous evergreen trees of the bald cypress family, and for extinct related species. Data Corporation/a T.i.S. --OCR/ICR Products Caere Corporation/a ElectroCom Automation Mitek Systems/a Nestor/a Prime Recognition, Inc. --Forms, Data Entry Products Comspec Corporation Datacap, Inc./a GTESS Corporation Recognition Research, Inc. TeraForm Corporation TextWare Corporation Wheb Systems --Special Modules Diamond Head Software, Inc./a ICONOVEX Corporation IMR IMR - Internet Monthly Report , Inc. --Applications Adobe Incorporated DMAC DMAC Direct Memory Access Controller DMAC Data Management and Communications DMAC N,N-Dimethylacetamide DMAC Downtown Media Arts Center (Orlando, Florida) DMAC Direct Memory Access Control DMAC Direct Machining and Control Excalibur Technologies, Inc. Image Architects, Inc. Imagery Software, a division of Novell Lotus Development Corporation (company) Lotus Development Corporation - A software company who produced Lotus 1-2-3, the Symphony spreadsheet and Lotus Notes for the IBM PC. Disliked by the League for Programming Freedom on account of their lawsuits. Quarterly sales $224M, profits $10M (Aug 1994). BancTec/Recognition International, Inc./Plexus ViewStar Corporation Zylab Note (a): indicates vendor is charter member of the InputAccel Developer Program "System integration of the document capture process has historically been very difficult for integrators," stated Kimra Hawley, Vice President and General Manager of InputAccel Subsystems. "Companies that wanted to automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. document capture were faced with two choices, they could choose a shrink-wrapped, one-size-fits-all solution that did not necessarily meet all of their unique requirements. Or, they could design a custom solution that required a long development cycle. In both scenarios, a system upgrade required completely reconfiguring the system and tackling a whole new set of problems. InputAccel provides an open solution that is simple to integrate and easy to upgrade as the system grows and needs change." First Customers Announced The first customers include: CTB-McGraw Hill, CADPAC, an Ohio-based service bureau, and Stanford Health Services of Palo Alto, California. CTB-McGraw Hill Sees Improved Customer Service CTB-McGraw Hill is the nation's leading elementary and secondary school test publisher. The company provides a wide variety of assessment, scoring, and reporting services for schools, school districts, and state education agencies. Tests are now electronically captured with InputAccel and exported into FileNet workflow The automatic routing of documents to the users responsible for working on them. Workflow is concerned with providing the information required to support each step of the business cycle. software. The tests are forwarded to test scorers who correct specific questions, and then are automatically routed to the next scorer. At peak times the scan volume is estimated to go up to several hundred thousand pages a day. "With InputAccel as the document capture solution, we are now well on the way to significantly improving our scoring operations and better serve our customers," said Anagh Chatterjee, CTB's Director of Technology. "Use of this and other such enabling technologies will facilitate maintaining and enhancing our position as a full service test publisher offering both testing products and scoring services." Service Bureau Captures 8-10,000 Images a Day At CADPAC, the Ohio-based service bureau and system integrator, the company uses InputAccel as the front-end document capture solution to daily convert 8,000 to 10,000 paper documents into electronic images for customers like Rockwell International's Automotive Division. InputAccel was installed, CADPAC personnel were trained, and the system was put into full production in just 2 days. "As a scanning bureau and system integrator our applications require a document capture system flexible enough to support both efforts," noted Steve Naghshineh, Manager, Imaging Solutions. "We were also looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a system that would help us provide the best possible quality of output in the least amount of time, to keep our costs to a minimum. InputAccel met these requirements and more. We were able to write our own reporting applications to interface with InputAccel. InputAccel allowed us to use our different paper scanners, and integrate film scanners See slide scanner. into our production system." Health Services Site Captures Images at Distributed Locations The Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. Hospital site is a model for managing a scanning project where source documents need to be captured and exported into one system from many locations. In phase one of Stanford's pilot system, they captured upwards of 1000 pages a day of tests and services performed in the hospital's labor and delivery unit. As the capture of documents was completed, the images were exported into and managed by FileNet workflow software. Now in phase two of the pilot, the system is being distributed throughout the hospital for scanning 10,000 to 20,000 pages a day in 15-20 locations. "InputAccel was chosen because it allowed us to capture document images throughout our institution, at various physical locations, while maintaining quality control over the images," stated Bill Hester, Stanford's Technical Project Leader For Business Process Re-engineering See reengineering. (business) Business Process Re-engineering - (BPR) Any radical change in the way in which an organisation performs its business activities. BPR involves a fundamental re-think of the business processes followed by a redesign of business activities to . "The product's scaleability and support from a stable and well-known company provide enormous benefits to the end customer as well as the 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. ." Product Available Through InputAccel Business Partners "InputAccel was designed specifically to be sold by the Solution Provider channel. Cornerstone offers two Business Partner Programs - InputAccel Reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers. and InputAccel Developer," stated Bill Chiocchi, Director of Marketing for InputAccel. "With InputAccel, Solution Providers can focus resources on high value tasks that uniquely improve their offerings." Pricing InputAccel pricing is based on the volume of images scanned daily and the number of clients attached to the InputAccel Server. This provides customers with a cost-effective means of implementing their pilot systems. As the applications expand and volume increases, companies simply plug-in new modules. "Our installation at Stanford is an example of a production site that took advantage of InputAccel's powerful functionality without paying high dollars to get started. Our pricing structure allowed Stanford to start their pilot program, realize the benefits and cost-effectiveness of the system, and then expand the application throughout the facility," stated Bill Chiocchi, Director of Marketing for InputAccel. About Cornerstone Cornerstone Imaging, Inc. headquartered in San Jose, is the technology and market leader in image display products for DIP. Cornerstone engineers and markets hardware and software system components to enable the use of document images in computer systems based on open industry standard architectures. The company's products address the display, scan, print, storage and application development functions of document imaging and are designed to simplify system integration. Cornerstone's InputAccel(TM) is an open integration platform for the technologies and products used in the document capture process. InputAccel makes it easier for System Integrators and imaging or workflow application A workflow application is where various applications, components and people must be involved in the processing of data to complete an instance of a process. For example, consider a purchase order that moves through various departments for authorization and eventual purchase. vendors to develop production document capture systems. Cornerstone Imaging, Inc. is a publicly held company traded on The 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 National Market under the CRNR CRNR Center for Really Neat Research (Syracuse University) symbol. -0- Note to Editors: Cornerstone, the Cornerstone logo, and InputAccel are trademarks, servicemarks, or registered trademarks of Cornerstone Imaging, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Cornerstone Imaging, Inc., San Jose Bill Chiocchi, 408/325-3824 fax: 408/435-8998 e-mail: bchiocchi@pixtran.com |
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