Kofax Wins the Fujitsu ISV Innovative Leadership Award for Work with the State of New Mexico.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 2004 Kofax Honored for Providing Innovative Information Capture Technology to the Oil Conservation Division of New Mexico's Department of Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources, Enabling Web Access to More Than 5 Million Public Documents Kofax (LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor :DCM DCM abbr. Distinguished Conduct Medal ), the world's largest information capture vendor, today proudly announced that it won the ISV (Independent Software Vendor) A person or company that develops software. It implies an organization that specializes in software only and is not part of a computer systems or hardware manufacturer. Innovative Leadership Award from Fujitsu Computer Products of America Inc., for the company's information capture solution for the Oil Conservation Division of New Mexico's Department of Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources. Fujitsu gives Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and hardware providers the Innovative Leadership Award which recognizes significant contributions to content management solutions that streamline business processes and positively impact their customers' bottom lines. "Kofax enjoys a very strong working relationship with Fujitsu and is honored to receive this award, which reflects the innovative spirit we bring to all of our customers' information-driven business processes," said Rick Murphy, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. at Kofax. "The integration of our information capture software with Fujitsu's scanners played a key role in the Oil Conservation Division's solution and enabled the processing of vast amounts of paperwork that were becoming too overwhelming for the state to manage effectively." The state of New Mexico New Mexico, state in the SW United States. At its northwestern corner are the so-called Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet at right angles; New Mexico is also bordered by Oklahoma (NE), Texas (E, S), and Mexico (S). selected Kofax to assist in cataloging more than 70,000 oil wells throughout the state. With four separate offices maintaining more than 5 million related documents, maps, photographs and legal transcripts, the New Mexico Department of Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources deployed Kofax Ascent Capture and VirtualReScan (VRS (Video Relay Service) A communications service for the hearing or speech impaired. A VRS is the video counterpart of a TTY relay service, in which the user types on a terminal, and the relay operator speaks the messages to the recipient (see TDD/TTY). ) technology in a distributed system See distributed computing. distributed system - A collection of (probably heterogeneous) automata whose distribution is transparent to the user so that the system appears as one local machine. that automatically captured information at each office and delivered it into a custom library application that enabled worldwide access to the documents. The new system replaced more than 100 filing cabinets in each district office and eliminated the need for users to travel hundreds of miles between offices to retrieve documents from each district. The system includes Fujitsu fi-4750 scanners equipped with VRS, enabling division workers who are not scanning professionals to easily capture a wide variety of documents directly into the central repository. From there, documents become available to users around the world through the division's OCD OCD obsessive-compulsive disorder. OCD abbr. obsessive-compulsive disorder Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) online system (http://www.emnrd.state.nm.us/ocd/). "Our ISV Innovation Leadership Award honors valued partners that use Fujitsu technology in innovative, industry-leading ways to solve business problems that affect the profitability or effective operations of their customers," said Don McMahan, vice president of sales, Imaging Products Group, Fujitsu Computer Products of America. "Kofax's information capture solution for New Mexico is a prime example of technology leadership replacing a decades-old manual process with a streamlined, cost-effective solution that scales with the customer's needs." About Fujitsu Fujitsu is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace. Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. (FCPA FCPA Foreign Corrupt Practices Act FCPA Fairfax County Park Authority (Virginia) FCPA Fujitsu Computer Products of America FCPA Fair Campaign Practices Act FCPA Fellow of CPA Australia FCPA Florida Concrete & Products Association ) conducts engineering and marketing activities in 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., and sales operations throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . FCPA's current product and service offerings include hard disk drives, tape drives, magneto-optical drives, scanners and scanner maintenance. For additional information, visit: www.fcpa.fujitsu.com. About Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. (FCPA) conducts engineering and marketing activities in San Jose, Calif., and sales operations throughout the United States. FCPA's current product and service offerings include scanners and scanner maintenance, hard disk drives, and magneto-optical drives. FCPA is located at 2904 Orchard Parkway, San Jose, CA 95134. For more information about Fujitsu products and services, call us at 800-626-4686 or 408-432-6333. For additional information, visit: www.fcpa.fujitsu.com. About Kofax Kofax, a division of DICOM (medical, standard) DICOM - (From Digital Imaging and COmmunications in Medicine) A standard developed by ACR-NEMA (American College of Radiology - National Electrical Manufacturer's Association) for communications between medical imaging devices. Group plc (LSE:DCM), is the world's leading provider of information capture solutions, according to research by Strategy Partners. Kofax products accelerate business processes and reduce their cost by collecting paper documents, forms and e-documents from throughout organizations, transforming them into retrievable information, and delivering it all into line-of-business applications, databases and archives. The company's Ascent platform is the most popular information capture application worldwide, and its VRS (VirtualReScan) is the de facto standard Hardware or software that is widely used, but not endorsed by a standards organization. Contrast with de jure standard. de facto standard - A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO, for scanning productivity. Kofax products are widely used in finance, government, insurance, healthcare, and a broad range of companies and agencies that must capture critical business information from paper and electronic documents and forms. Note to Editors: Kofax, VirtualReScan, Ascent and Ascent Capture are registered trademarks of Kofax Image Products Inc. Fujitsu and the Fujitsu logo are registered trademarks of Fujitsu Limited. All other trademarks and registered trademarks belong to their respective owners. |
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