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Captaris Announces New Capture and BPM Solutions at Microsoft(R) SharePoint Conference 2008

Tuesday 04. March 2008 - - Four new products bring world-class capture and BPM capabilities to SharePoint 2007 customers at affordable price - Image-based documents are transformed into intelligent information to drive business processes and enable document lifecycle management - Business analyst tools add BPM value to Windows Workflow Foundation - Comes shortly after the introduction of two other capture solutions for SharePoint

Captaris, Inc. (NASDAQ:CAPA), a leading provider of software products that automate document-centric business processes, today announced a new suite of capture and business process management products for customers who are using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. At the SharePoint Conference 2008, Captaris will demonstrate how customers can now add powerful document classification, recognition and BPM capabilities to their Microsoft ECM infrastructure at affordable prices. With Captaris products, document-based information can now be easily shared with other people, processes and applications to drive business process automation and enable document lifecycle management. The new products also include technology that Captaris recently acquired as part of the January 2008 purchase of Oce Document Technologies GmbH (now Captaris Document Technologies GmbH).

“Enterprise customers are quickly adopting Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Search Server for business process management, compliance, e-discovery, and records management applications, all of which require them to capture, manage and process large collections of scanned business documents,” said Paul Yantus, executive vice president of Marketing and New Product Development for Captaris. “Our new products transform these documents into intelligent documents, so the vital information contained in those documents can easily be shared with other people, processes and applications to drive business process automation and enable document lifecycle management.”

New Products Overview
The following is a brief roundup of the new product announcements:
— RightDocs — the flagship release of the new suite of products enables
customers to accelerate business processes, to support compliance
initiatives by controlling and tracking documents from the point of
origin, and to easily share document information for better
collaboration and enterprise search. RightDocs facilitates document
capture from any imaging source, performs document classification and
data extraction from structured, semi-structured and unstructured
documents, then sends the documents and information into SharePoint
2007. RightDocs intelligently recognizes the document type and
extracts vital information to automatically drive business process
automation and enable document lifecycle management. The RightDocs
system consists of several services which can be mixed and matched to
a customer’s needs: distributed batch scanning; capture; document
classification; intelligent extraction; and a validation client.
RightDocs also supports Captaris RightFax and Alchemy.
— RightStar — the next generation of intelligent document distribution,
RightStar is ideally suited for the rapid adoption of MFP devices as
document on-ramps into the enterprise. RightStar eliminates human
errors, improves security and compliance by reducing the number of
people handling sensitive information, and reduces the labor costs
normally associated with sorting and distributing documents. Going far
beyond simple routing products, RightStar uses document metadata and
powerful rules based on the Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation
(WinWF) engine to automatically sort and deliver documents via
SharePoint 2007, fax, e-mail and to business process and document
management solutions. RightStar is an open system based on XML and
WinWF standards, and Captaris is inviting other software vendors to
develop extensions to their LOB or ECM applications.
— RightFlow — providing business analysts with the high-level tools
necessary to rapidly build and deploy effective Business Process
Management (BPM) solutions on Microsoft WinWF, RightFlow helps with
compliance by creating secure, auditable and repeatable processes. It
increases productivity by identifying and removing organizational and
system bottlenecks, and turns knowledge into a business asset by
facilitating collaboration through effective process management.
RightFlow manages document driven processes, prioritizes tasks,
escalates problems and maintains visibility to key performance
indicators at all times. RightFlow is an extensible and configurable
product available as a stand-alone solution or as an add-on module for
other Captaris products. RightFlow will be offered in an entry-level,
affordable configuration. Captaris will also rebrand its existing
Workflow product to RightFlow Enterprise and offer a migration path
for the installed base.
— TIFF iFilter for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Search
Server 2008 — Simultaneous with AIIM Expo, Captaris and Microsoft
jointly announced a new capture solution at the Microsoft SharePoint
2008 Conference in Seattle. Based on Captaris OCR server technology,
the TIFF iFilter fills a hole in the current SharePoint and Search
Server environment by enabling enterprise search of scanned documents
alongside all the electronic documents. As a result, knowledge workers
and managers can find all the information they need with a single
search operation, improving business decision-making and increasing
their productivity. The Captaris TIFF iFilter integrates within a
SharePoint or Search Server environment and automatically extracts the
full-text from scanned documents and enhances image quality. (See the
joint Captaris-Microsoft press release for more information.)




Earlier this year, Captaris shipped two other capture solutions for SharePoint 2007. Captaris Single Click Entry automates data entry from scanned documents stored in SharePoint document libraries, by reading and identifying the data needed for a business application and with a single click automatically populating InfoPath forms or other Windows applications. The RightFax Connector for SharePoint 2007 automatically delivers images from any fax-enabled MFP or fax machine in the world into document libraries. Once there, data can be extracted using Single Click Entry to drive workflows, LOB applications or records retention; documents can be processed for enterprise search using the new TIFF iFilter; or the documents can be sent into business process management applications created with RightFlow.

Availability

Captaris plans to release the new products to the public in the second quarter of 2008.