Document delivery solutions

Now that the acquisition of Captaris by Open Text is no longer an intention but a fact, what does the Enterprise CMS giant plan to do with this Washington-based provider of document management and delivery solutions? Captaris Acquisition is Final The merger was completed last week. Captaris is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Open Text Inc. Shares of Captaris’ common stock, which prior to the merger traded on NASDAQ under CAPA, are in the process of being delisted from trading.

American Tire Distributors is a $1.4 billion tire, wheel, automotive equipment and services company with 74 distribution centers nationwide. But with success and growth came a problem: Invoices and proofs of delivery were stored haphazardly at each center, creating headaches and delays when a particular document was needed. AnyDoc Software's OCR for AnyDoc, the leading software for automated document and data capture, was the solution. Submitted by AnyDoc Software

ScottishPower plc is an international energy business. Through its subsidiaries, ScottishPower generates electricity, operates and maintains large power delivery networks, and provides a full range of energy supply services. ScottishPower turned to LizardTech to provide their utility workers with a means to take 100 gigabytes (GB) worth of map data with them into the field on laptops. Submitted by LizardTech

Starting at AIIM, FileNet (www.filenet.com, Booth #841) is rolling out a new vertical market solution focus called FileNet Edge."We're launching it as an initiative, but it is really taking advantage of what FileNet has been doing over the years," said Lewis Carpenter, senior VP of worldwide marketing.The first focus will be telecommunications--a market not often associated with FileNet but one in which the company has about 100 customers. Among the recent telecommunications deals, Lucent Technologies (www.lucent.com) selected the Panagon IDM software for long-term storage and fast, cost-effective access to all document information.

With more than 1,500 deployments worldwide, Gesser is already a leader in the enterprise credit management software market. However, with increasing competition and lower customer IT budgets, Gesser turned to Esker to enhance its ALTISYS product offering by adding multichanneldocument delivery capabilities directly into its solution.

Seeking to streamline operations and reduce the IT resources required to support sales processes, Raven Industries decided to implement Salesforce, a leading CRM solution delivered on-demand, via a Web browser. While Salesforce enabled Raven to better formalize sales processes, end users found Raven's incumbent fax solution to be a bottleneck to the sales process. The company wanted to leverage the full benefit of the Salesforce solution by finding a quicker, more efficient method to fax documents. Submitted by Esker

Fatwire FatWire Software is the leading provider of content management and delivery solutions for deploying persuasive Web sites and applications.FatWire's Content Server platform gives business users complete control over the creation and presentation of content, and provides a scalable architecture for dynamic content delivery and multi-site deployment. Unlike other Content Management products that focus on simply getting content under control, FatWire's solutions enable organizations to put content to work by delivering highly-targeted experiences to customers, partners, and employees.For more information about how FatWire helps over 450 of the world's leading companies and government organizations, visit www.fatwire.com.