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Esker Debuts New FlyDoc Release, Adding Capabilities to Leading Online Faxing and Postal Mail Service.


Enhanced Contact Management, Document Pre-Formatting, on-the-Fly Inbound Fax Scalability and Advanced Job Tracking Options Top List of New Features

MADISON, Wis. & LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States.  -- Esker esker, long, narrow, winding ridge of stratified sand-and-gravel drift. Eskers, many miles long and resembling abandoned railway embankments, occur in Scandinavia, Ireland, Scotland, and New England; they arose from deposition of sediment in the beds of streams , the leader in business document delivery solutions, today announced a new release of FlyDoc, the company's on demand service that enables organizations to send invoices and other business documents via email, fax or postal mail directly from user desktops and enterprise applications. Because the service does not require capital investment in fax servers or mailroom equipment, nor a commitment to minimum document volumes, FlyDoc represents a highly cost-effective way to equip an organization with high capacity fax and mailroom capabilities. New enhancements to FlyDoc include advanced contact management, the addition of the ability to store pre-formatted documents online, 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.  mail merge Printing customized form letters. A common feature of a word processor, it uses a letter and a name and address list. In the letter, Dear A: Thank you for ordering B from our C store..., A, B and C are merge points into which data are inserted from the list.  capabilities and a host of advanced administrator options.

"The fax services industry will grow at a 16.8% CAGR CAGR

See: Compound Annual Growth Rate
 growth rate from 2005 to 2009, ending up being a $1.4 billion market. Esker, with FlyDoc, is well-positioned to grab a share of this pie," said Peter Davidson Peter Davidson can refer to:
  • Peter Davidson (architect) - co-founder of Lab Architecture Studio
  • Peter Davidson (artist)
  • Peter Davidson (football player) - AFL football player
  • Peter Davidson (comedy actor) - actor who appeared in The Goodies
, Davidson Consulting.

With FlyDoc, electronic documents are sent directly from the user's desktop applications such as Microsoft Office Microsoft's primary desktop applications for Windows and Mac. Depending on the package, it includes some combination of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook along with various Internet and other utilities.  or from enterprise applications such as ERPs and CRMs. Documents enter the FlyDoc worldwide network of mail and fax facilities, where they are transformed into postal mail and faxes and sent automatically. Esker on Demand Centers, which handle FlyDoc mail and fax documents as well as documents from customer-premise Esker DeliveryWare servers are now processing 2 million pages per month. This represents a four-fold increase compared with the same period last year, also coinciding with a 400% growth rate within the FlyDoc customer base. Swiss Colony The Swiss Colony is a mail-order catalog gift company that is known for its cheese, chocolates, fruitcakes, and other confections. The company has been family-owned since 1926, when an entrepreneur from Monroe, Wisconsin, a town known for its Swiss immigrants and Swiss cheese, Ray , Business Pricing Systems, ARPAC ARPAC Army Pacific Command  and Slade Gorton are just a sampling of organizations that Esker has added to its client roster in 2006.

"We've seen incredible demand for the FlyDoc service, as shown by the fact that both our document volumes and number of customers have quadrupled in the last year alone," said Hugo Embert, FlyDoc Product Manager at Esker. "Organizations love the idea of using the tools they already have while adding nearly unlimited capacity without overhead. And the latest version of FlyDoc is even more powerful."

The new version of FlyDoc includes enhancements to both user and administrator options. With the addition of a contact management database, users save steps during preparation of faxes, letters and emails. Users can also create background pages for pre-formatted documents such as letterhead and store them online for faster and easier document handling. They can also conduct mail merges with PDF documents, allowing them to be mailed without cover pages.

Organizations using FlyDoc can monitor progress via a web interface available 24/7/365 and can call upon live technical support at no additional charge. With new additions in this version, users can set up FlyDoc accounts for individuals, creating hundreds of accounts in a few clicks. From there, tools for validating jobs and reporting on traffic allow administrators to monitor and control traffic volumes by user or by group. New enhancements also allow administrators to order and configure inbound fax numbers online, adding on-the-fly scalability to accommodate expected periods of high incoming fax volume.

In addition to significant time savings, on average, organizations using FlyDoc can reduce their out-of-pocket costs out-of-pocket costs Managed care Health care costs that a covered person must pay out of pocket–eg, coinsurance, deductibles, etc. See Copayment.  for sending traditional mail by as much as 45%, and by as much as 90% when transmitting faxes.

About Esker

Esker is a recognized leader in helping organizations streamline manual, paper-intensive processes and reduce the use of paper by automating the flow of documents into, within, and outside the organization. With patented document delivery automation software (Esker DeliveryWare) and hosted document delivery services (FlyDoc), Esker offers a total solution to automate every phase and every type of business information exchange. Customers gain significant and immediate operational efficiencies, cost savings and measurable ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot).  in as little as three to six months. Founded in 1985, Esker operates globally and has over 80,000 customers and millions of licensed users worldwide. Esker has global headquarters in Lyon, France and U.S. headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. It is also home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

The 2006 population estimate of Madison was 223,389, making it the second largest city in Wisconsin, after Milwaukee, and
. For more information, visit www.esker.com or www.flydoc.com.

[c] 2006 Esker S.A. All rights reserved. Esker and FlyDoc are registered trademarks or service marks of Esker S.A. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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