Wustenrot Bausparkasse Selects Captiva's FormWare for Mortgage Information Capture; German Financial Leader Expands Relationship with Captiva Software.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FREIBURG, GERMANY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 28, 2003 Captiva Software Captiva Software is now part of EMC Software Group, a division of EMC Corporation.[1] Captiva makes software solutions for document information processing and data capture from paper and electronic documents and provides related services. Corp. (Nasdaq: CPTV CPTV Connecticut Public Television ), a leading provider of enterprise input management solutions, today announced that Wustenrot Bausparkasse, the mortgage subsidiary of Wustenrot & Wurttembergische AG, one of Germany's largest banking and financial groups, has selected to capture and process the 1.3 million mortgage applications, forms and documents it receives every year with FormWare(TM), Captiva's award-winning information capture software that automates data and image capture from paper and electronic documents. The contract expands the relationship between Captiva and Wustenrot, which since July of 2000 has captured digital images of its mortgage documents with InputAccel(R), Captiva's flagship document capture software solution. By integrating FormWare and InputAccel, Wustenrot will be able to capture and automatically extract the data contained in mortgage applications directly into its mortgage processing system. The combined document and information capture system is expected to go into production next month. "Having been so successful with InputAccel over the past two years, we look forward to gaining the additional benefits of adding FormWare to our workflow," said Michael Stams, project manager for Wustenrot Bausparkasse. "FormWare's flexibility, open architecture and ease of deployment were key drivers in our decision to integrate it with InputAccel, which has provided superior performance and an impressive return on our investment." Stams added that Wustenrot Bausparkasse's 2001 merger with Leonberger Bausparkasse created the need to combine and modernize two disparate mortgage processing systems. FormWare's optical character recognition optical character recognition (OCR), method for the machine-reading of typeset, typed, and, in some cases, hand-printed letters, numbers, and symbols using optical sensing and a computer. (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. ) capabilities are expected to greatly accelerate the processing of handwritten hand·write tr.v. hand·wrote , hand·writ·ten , hand·writ·ing, hand·writes To write by hand. [Back-formation from handwritten.] Adj. 1. and machine-printed mortgage documents, and cut application turnaround times (1) In batch processing, the time it takes to receive finished reports after submission of documents or files for processing. In an online environment, turnaround time is the same as response time. by roughly one third. "We're pleased to be expanding our relationship with Wustenrot Bausparkasse," said Mark Lewis, Captiva's vice president of European Operations. "The integrated strengths of InputAccel and FormWare should maximize the accuracy of Wustenrot's mortgage data, speed the capture process, increase productivity and significantly reduce the cost of manual capture operations." About Wustenrot Bausparkasse Wustenrot Bausparkasse helps its clients finance, build and buy homes, and extend and maintain existing properties. It also offers debt restructuring Debt Restructuring A method used by companies with outstanding debt obligations to alter the terms of the debt agreements in order to achieve some advantage. Notes: and comprehensive real estate consulting. With financial offerings such as home loans, personal and non-life insurance and investment and banking products, Wustenrot & Wurttembergische Group is able to support its customers with every aspect of financial planning Financial planning Evaluating the investing and financing options available to a firm. Planning includes attempting to make optimal decisions, projecting the consequences of these decisions for the firm in the form of a financial plan, and then comparing future performance against , wealth creation and risk protection. Further information is available at www.wuestenrot.de. About Captiva Software Captiva Software Corp. (Nasdaq: CPTV) is a leading provider of enterprise input management software solutions. Since 1989, the company's award-winning products have been used to manage business critical information from paper, faxed and scanned forms and documents, Internet forms and XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. data streams into the enterprise in a more accurate, timely and cost-effective manner. These products automate the processing of billions of forms and documents annually, converting their contents into information that is usable in database, document, content and other information management systems. Captiva's technology serves thousands of users in insurance, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , government, business process outsourcing Business process outsourcing (BPO) is the contracting of a specific business task, such as payroll, to a third-party service provider. Usually, BPO is implemented as a cost-saving measure for tasks that a company requires but does not depend upon to maintain its position in , direct marketing and other markets. For more information, visit www.captivasoftware.com. InputAccel is a registered trademark, and FormWare is a trademark of Captiva Software Corp. 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