Turning cost and liability into enterprise value.

Successful leaders know that without quality information, quality decisions are practically impossible. They acknowledge that there are costs to properly managing their documents and data, but also admit they're wary of the potential price they might pay if they don't.

What leaders are saying is that there's both an offensive and defensive value in how they capture, manage, store and preserve, deliver, and maintain information, and that profit margins hinge on the quality of information that can be created, archived and retrieved on demand,

For strategic leaders, whose decisions create the vision, strategies and tactics for the enterprise, Anacomp offers complete cost-effective document solutions for every step--all steps--in the critical document lifecycle.

The first challenge in document management is how to capture critical business information regardless of the origin, source documents (paper office documents, forms, microfilm), or last technology utilized. The challenge grows with the need to manage revisions, multiple input sources, indexing, categorization and security for that information. Anacomp, together with its strategic partners, offers both analog and digital scanning services and electronic transmission and capture services to maximize capture capabilities, regardless of the genesis of the source document, data or image--and that includes old archived paper documents, data in legacy systems, obsolescent optical disk repositories, or outputs from the latest daily transaction system. Anacomp's capture services are purposely structured to unify and extend the life of all installed systems, regardless of their technology or disparity.

The next challenge is managing this captured information, moving it around the enterprise and providing the tools and techniques needed to accelerate and optimize business processes. Far beyond mere creation and revision, document management necessarily includes filing, retrieval and increasingly important the recording of document activity and access history, plus the security systems to ensure the ability of only authorized personnel to access the repository. Anacomp's docHarbor[R] Web Presentment Services provide around-the-clock, secure and authorized admission (including self-service customers, if you want) to documents, reports, images and archived e-mail and IM using the familiar, intuitive Internet browser-based access paradigm.

Anacomp's docHarbor solution is a massively scalable, tailorable suite of content management technologies that leverages the power and familiar ease-of-use of the Internet. Captured documents are encrypted and uploaded to Anacomp's secure data center, thereafter any time, day or night, authorized personnel can access the indexed documents, data and images, having an exact view of the original.

The power of docHarbor lies in its simplicity, ease of use, minimal capital and personnel investments, rapid implementation time and secure, web-based technology.

The next challenge is developing a compliant strategy to store+preserve essential information for the long-term. Most topical is the need for auditable security and access in the new age of legal compliance. The docHarbor solution provides secure audited retrieval for every online document from any web portal. Also available are Anacomp's CD and microfilm solutions for standalone access, long-term preservation, and delivery, to remote end-users, single-user access or, in the case of CD, local area networks. Every Anacomp store+preserve option is fully compliant over the entire document lifecycle.

The ultimate business process value is the delivery of the right information to the right user on the right device. That requires the capability to accurately deliver and possibly transform or repurpose information between and among diverse technologies, all the while keeping it secure, intact and compliant. Web. CD, micrographics, print or fax, Anacomp can integrate existing business applications, add value with features like report mining, all in a fully functional, integrated document management suite that supports the enterprise business process.

Finally, there's maintaining focus and proficiency. Unless one is in the business of technology, maintaining technological proficiency can quickly and very expensively lure an enterprise away from its core business focus. Anacomp serves as an ever-evolving document process technology partner, continually advancing document and content management processes using the latest in technology, tools and human know-how, deploying technology and infrastructure developed and supported by Anacomp. Anacomp's business is to know your business, so you never have to face a challenge that takes you away from your core mission.

Anacomp's outsourced document management capabilities create added-value for your document centric business processes by speeding storage and retrieval turnaround, increasing customer satisfaction, reducing expenditures, leveraging existing technology, unifying disparate systems, establishing a compliant central repository, and streamlining information distribution. Anacomp helps its partners gain market advantage by achieving mid maintaining document compliance and ensuring enterprise continuity in the event of a natural or manmade catastrophe.

If there were only ONE REASON to join forces with Anacomp for document process management it would be simple economics. An Anacomp decision ensures your enterprise of current, customer driven technology, industry-specific solutions for your business, with minimal capital equipment or staff costs, and focuses your company assets and resources on the core mission and vision.

Richard (Rich) Keele serves as Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President, Global Marketing. He oversees all technology and marketing activities, including formulating and directing overall strategic planning, coordination and implementation. Previously, Mr. Keele was Senior Vice President of Product Development and President of the Data/Ware Group. He has 30 years experience in high-technology development and general management.