Sigma's OmniDesk 3.0(R) includes new workflow features, advanced user interface, Remote Workstations(TM), and platform flexibility; "Ready to work, wherever your work" technology brings production imaging and workflow to decentralized workplaces.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 1995--Sigma Imaging Systems announces version 3.0 of its OmniDesk workflow and document imaging software. Scheduled to ship in the third quarter of 1995, version 3.0 offers many new workflow features to allow customers to deploy and manage enterprise-wide production systems. In addition to the new features, Sigma's offering includes "ready to work, wherever you work" technology that extends enterprise-wide workflow to remote locations such as satellite or home offices. Sigma's workflow offering consists of three integrated components: RouteBuilder(R), RouteManager, and RouteEngine(TM). RouteBuilder is the graphical workflow design tool used to create workflows without programming; RouteManager is the graphical software used to manage and administer production workflows; and Route Engine is the scalable workflow engine Workflow engine is a software application meant to manage and execute modeled business processes. It is a key component in workflow technology. It will typically make use of a database server. for enterprise-wide systems. 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. Sigma co-founder Mordechai Beizer, "RouteBuilder 3.0 is the third generation of our graphical workflow. Its advanced user interface and features make it even easier for non-technical people to rapidly create and deploy sophisticated workflows. With RouteEngine's proven ability to handle thousands of users, customers can deploy enterprise-wide production workflow systems today. And. with remote workflow processing, OmniDesk customers will reap the cost savings and flexible workforce benefits of the telecommuting telecommuting, an arrangement by which people work at home using a computer and telephone, transmitting work material to a business office by means of a modem and telephone lines; it is also known as telework. environment of tomorrow." New WorkFlow Features of OmniDesk 3.0 Building on Sigma's six years of experience delivering graphical workflow software, RouteBuilder 3.0 makes many new and powerful features accessible with the same ease of use and elegance for which earlier versions of RouteBuilder are known. Highlights of the new workflow software are: - A revised user interface that conforms to Windows 95 conventions and guidelines including context-sensitive right mouse button menus, drag-and-drop, dockable tool palettes, and tabbed dialog boxes. Conforming to Windows 95 user interface helps ensure that users will quickly and easily master the software. - An innovative rules entry feature that simplifies the creation of workflow rules and worksets for both novice and power users. Novice users are guided through step-by-step by context-sensitive drop-down list drop-down list - pull-down list boxes, while power users, who are more familiar with the software, can quickly and rapidly enter rules. - Parrallel workflow simultaneously sends the same item through multiple worksteps. Users can create explicit join worksteps to synchronize multiple legs of a parallel workflow. For ease of understanding, the route map automatically distinguishes parallel routes from conditional routes. The parallel workflow feature allows items to be processed through multiple worksteps without waiting for the completion of other worksteps. - Rendezvous steps automatically match and accumulate incoming items in folders. Users can specify expiration criteria so that items will continue through workflow if incoming items are not received in a timely manner. Rendezvous processing allows users to create worksteps to wait for additional information. - An integrated test facility An integrated test facility (ITF) creates a fictitious entity in a database to process test transactions simultaneously with live input. It can be used to incorporate test transactions into a normal production run of a system. that interactively executes actual workflows. A clean and simple interface displays a hierarchical view of all workitem variables, values of selected variables, and an audit trail. Individual workitem values and the audit trail are updated as items move step-by-step through a workflow. Values can be changed interactively and rules re-executed to confirm that routing rules and worksets function as intended. The integrated test facility greatly reduces the testing effort and helps users ensure that their workflows will achieve the desired results. - Pre-packaged worksteps for archiving, faxing, printing, OCR OCR in full optical character recognition Scanning and comparison technique intended to identify printed text or numerical data. It avoids the need to retype already printed material for data entry. and other common functions that simplify the process of designing and implementing a workflow. By simply dragging and dropping a pre-packaged workstep from the workstep gallery onto a workflow map and then setting the applicable workstep properties, users can easily incorporate standard system functions in a workflow. Remote Workstation is ready to work, wherever you work OmniDesk version 3.0 includes Sigma's patented "ready to work, wherever you work" technology that tightly integrates workflow and document imaging to deliver workitems to remote workstations using ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. phone lines. By steadily pre-fetching workitems in the background the OmniDesk remote workstation provides remote users with sub-second response time as they move from workitem to workitem. Sigma's "ready to work, wherever you work" technology works even with remote workstations running under Windows 3.1, which does not support pre-emptive pre·emp·tive or pre-emp·tive adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of preemption. 2. Having or granted by the right of preemption. 3. a. multi-tasking. The remote workstation permits organizations to decentralize de·cen·tral·ize v. de·cen·tral·ized, de·cen·tral·iz·ing, de·cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To distribute the administrative functions or powers of (a central authority) among several local authorities. their production workforce and achieve the cost savings and flexible processing associated with telecommunting while at the same time ensuring that worker productivity and management control is not impacted. Other OmniDesk 3.0 Enhancements - All OmniDesk 3.1 server software is available for both the Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. and OS/2 operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . In addition to being fully 32-bit, the server software is fully multi-threaded and can take advantage of the symmetrical multi-processing versions of both operating systems. The client software is certified under Windows 3.0, Windows NT, and OS/2 and will be certified under Windows 95 upon its release. - Object level security is now avialble which permits administrators to control access to both archived and work-in progress items. Administrators establish access permissions for classes of objects by user group. Individual users have read, read/write, or no acess to an individual object depending upon the permissions granted to the group or groups to which they belong. - Object Linking and Embedding See OLE. (operating system) Object Linking and Embedding - (OLE) A distributed object system and protocol from Microsoft, also used on the Acorn Archimedes. OLE allows an editor to "farm out" part of a document to another editor and then reimport it. (OLE) support expands the range of markups that can be placed on an image page. Any OLE 2 object can be used as a markup (text) markup - In computerised document preparation, a method of adding information to the text indicating the logical components of a document, or instructions for layout of the text on the page or other information which can be interpreted by some automatic system. thus permitting audio or video annotations to be added to an image document. - Drag-and-drop is supported for many routine workstation tasks. Examples include sending a workitem to workflow or filing a document in a folder. - Full-page OCR has been added to the existing zoned OCR. Image documents can be converted to any of several popular word processing word processing, use of a computer program or a dedicated hardware and software package to write, edit, format, and print a document. Text is most commonly entered using a keyboard similar to a typewriter's, although handwritten input (see pen-based computer) and formats. - TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. has been added as a supported LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. protocol in addition to the NetBIOS and APPC (Advanced Program-to-Program Communications) A high-level protocol from IBM that allows one program to interact with another across the network. It supports client/server and distributed computing by providing a common programming interface on all IBM platforms. protocols that have been available in earlier versions of OmniDesk. Sigma Imaging Systems, Inc. develops LAN-based, state-of-the-art workflow and imaging software that uses a patented, two-tiered architecture and a patented Remote Workstation technology for supporting both corporate-based and off-site high-volume processing. Sigma and its Solution Partners provide production workflow and document imaging solutions for a wide variety of organizations and industries including insurance, banking, finance, utilities, and state and local governments, worldwide. -0- Note to Editors: RouteEngine and the Remote Workstation are trademarks and OmniDesk and RouteBuilder are registered trademarks of Sigma Imaging Systems, Inc. All other brands and products referenced herein are acknowledged to be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Sigma Imaging Systems, Inc. Katherine Askew a·skew adv. & adj. To one side; awry: rugs lying askew. [Probably a-2 + skew. , 212/476-3000 |
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