AIIM is the international authority on Enterprise Content Management (ECM) - the tools and technologies used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents related to organizational processes. ECM enables four key business drivers: Continuity, Collaboration, Compliance, and Costs.

For over 60 years, AIIM has been the leading non-profit organization focused on helping users to understand the challenges associated with managing documents, content, records, and business processes. Today, AIIM is international in scope, independent, implementation-focused, and, as the representative of the entire ECM industry - including users, suppliers, and the channel - acts as the industry's intermediary.

Business Solutions magazine inspires executives of IT channel companies (VARs, integrators, and solution providers) to grow their businesses by teaching them how to sell new IT products and services, penetrate thriving vertical markets, and integrate complementary technologies. Business Solutions delivers its insight through channel success stories and advice from industry analysts, vendors, and our expert technology editors.

Böwe Bell + Howell Scanners is always adding value to its full line of document scanners.  Healthcare, transportation, finance, insurance and government organizations rely on Böwe Bell + Howell for fast, dependable, easy-to-use scanners to convert documents into high-quality digital images.  With high-end, midrange and entry-level scanners, Böwe Bell + Howell can help any-size business meet its document management needs.

Brooktrout is the leading supplier of media processing, network interface, call control and signal processing products that enable the development of applications, systems and services for both the New Network (tm) (packet-based) and traditional telephone (TDM) network.  Brooktrout Technology is the worldwide market leader of intelligent fax boards for the LAN fax market with its industry leading TruFax®, TR114™ and TR1034™ series intelligent fax boards.

Canon U.S.A. Inc., headquartered in Lake Success, New York, has been ranked Number 41 on the Business Week list of “Top 100 Brands.”  Canon is a top patent-holder of imaging technologies, consistently ranking in the Top Ten Corporations receiving U.S. patents. 

With a corporate philosophy of kyosei, living and working together for the common good, Canon’s strives to develop diversified, environmentally conscious products that meet the demands of its customers.

Canon’s extensive product line enables businesses and consumers worldwide to capture, store and distribute information with an impressive high-speed document scanner line-up.  Canon’s document scanners offer innovative, high-performance solutions at affordable prices.  The lineup includes Workgroup, Departmental and Production Level scanners as well as a universal document scanner with flatbed and automatic document feeding capability.

Canon U.S.A., Inc. employs 12,000 people at more than 30 facilities throughout North, Central and South America and the Caribbean.

Computhink offers ViewWise, for feature-rich imaging/electronic document management. ViewWise is engineered to facilitate compliance with current and emerging operational and regulatory compliance requirements for document imaging, capture / indexing, searching / retrieval, archiving and records management, while incorporating simplicity and ease of installation/use, complemented by robust reliability and minimal administration.

Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Content Analyst® is a leader of advanced classification and search tools and technology. Content Analyst’s software, which includes patented Latent Semantic Indexing technology, provides advanced, conceptual-based classification, search and document analysis for a wide range of customers, from highly-classified intelligence installations to world-class publishers to cutting-edge eDiscovery providers.  Content Analyst’s classification technology is now available in Infiniworx®, AnyDoc Software’s data capture, document classification and workflow engine.

Content Analyst’s technology exponentially reduces the time needed to discern relevant information from large volumes of documents and data. To learn more about how Content Analyst helps organizations improve productivity and speed the discovery, analysis, and delivery of information, visit their website at www.contentanalyst.com, or email info@contentanalyst.com.

Founded in 1988, DocuWare ranks among the worldwide leading Integrated Document Management software companies with more than 5,500 installations and tens of thousands of users in over 50 countries.

DocuWare is an Integrated Document Management software solution that can automate business processes by managing any type of document, regardless of format or source, in a central document pool allowing authorized access worldwide.  The software is distributed by over 400 resellers creating a worldwide independent authorized reseller network.  DocuWare AG is based in Germering near Munich, Germany with subsidiaries in New York and London.

Dunord designs and manufactures electronic interface cards for production speed document scanners. Since 1989, Dunord has built an installed base of several thousand cards to customers on all continents.

Dunord interfaces scanners from several manufacturers. Images coming from scanners can be captured in black and white or, subject to scanner capability, in up to 256 levels of gray, or 24 bit color. Dunord's unique TwinStream™ technology allows capture of both bi-tonal and gray images in a single pass at scanner rated speed.

Dunord products provide access to a wide range of flexible solutions. Drivers supplied with the cards will link your Windows™ application in Dunord's native mode, or through industry standards ISIS™ and TWAIN. Dunord's scanner interfaces show performance better than or equal to comparable products at a much lower cost. Gray, TwinStream, and our new color interfaces provide features unequaled by other currently available solutions.

ECM Connection is the premier site for enterprise content management news and solutions. Our goal is to help ECM end users and integrators find the information and solutions they’re looking for. Our supplier directory introduces you to prominent technology providers. Our product showcase reveals a range of available products. We also offer a searchable, content-rich archive of white papers, case studies, and other educational resources. If you’re facing a specific project or challenge, tell us what you’re working on, and we’ll help guide you to solutions.

FileNET markets a complete integrated document management (IDM) solution based on a scaleable, open product family that can address an organization's entire document management needs. The Panagon™ product family operates in both Internet and client/server environments and includes best-of-breed electronic document management, workflow, computer report management, and document-imaging capabilities.

As an SAP Full Service House and SAP Special Expertise Partner, FIS is a real one-stop provider, i.e. all software products and technologies as well as their licensing and live operations are provided by one supplier only. Besides distributing/consulting/implementing and supporting SAP solutions, FIS develops separate products completing the SAP standard for specific functionalities, focusing on technical wholesale. 
 
All FIS solutions and products at a glance:

• FIS/wws - Retailing and technical wholesale solution for SAP ERP
  
• FIS/xee - XML-engine and EDI for SAP ERP
  
• FIS/edc - all-in-one solution for document scanning and processing in SAP ERP
  
• FIS/eSales - online shop for B2B and B2C
  
• FIS/mpm - integrated Material & Price Management for SAP ERP
  
• FIS/hrd - Safe testing in HR with live data. Quality assurance for SAP HCM
  
• FIS/oss - Comprehensive Online Support System
  
• FIS/kis - Customer Information System for the field service

FIS/intcom – Integration software for external systems

Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. has provided peripheral solutions such as hard drives, magneto-optical drives, and scanners since 1968.  As one of the largest overseas subsidiaries of Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitsu Computer Products of America benefits from Fujitsu Ltd.'s annual investment in research and development by translating Fujitsu innovative technologies into products and solutions for the U.S. marketplace.  Its vast experience in product areas and advanced research and development of the industry's latest technologies has all contributed to its accelerated growth and success in recent years.

Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. is the industry leader in document imaging scanners. Focused on quality and reliability, Fujitsu provides scanning solutions from 15 to 90 pages per minute. The extensive product offering has a scanner that meets customer's functionality needs at an affordable price point. Standard features include duplex and color scanning, image enhancement, and durable document feeders. Recently, the Fujitsu ScanSnap fi-5110EOX2 won the PC Magazine Award and the Fujitsu first ever Mac compatible scanner ScanSnap fi-5110EOXM won the MacWorld Eddy Award.

For more information, please call 1-800-626-4868 or visit www.fcpa.fujitsu.com.

Hyland Software, established in 1991, is a leading provider of rapidly deployable enterprise content management solutions. Hyland develops OnBase, enterprise-class software that combines integrated document management, business process management and records management in a single web-enabled application. OnBase manages virtually every kind of document (images, reports, statements, application files, web pages, HTML forms, video, etc.) as well as every stage of the document lifecycle (creation/input, storage, retrieval, revision, distribution and publishing), and seamlessly integrates with hundreds of line-of-business applications. OnBase is used by thousands of commercial organizations and government agencies to streamline operations, reduce costs and share information with employees, partners and customers.

As a customer-driven organization committed to providing world-class service and support, the company is dedicated to developing integrated document management solutions that are deployable at both the departmental and enterprise levels. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Hyland has offices located throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe and Japan. Visit www.onbase.com for more information.

IBM DB2(R) Content Manager Enterprise Edition provides a flexible system that you can use to manage unstructured content according to the needs of your business.  DB2 Content Manager provides a complete solution to the problem of storing and retrieving documents or content in almost any format.  It is scalable to fit the needs of small, medium, and large-scale businesses. This scalability is possible through its unique architecture and components.

Some of the many features offered by DB2 Content Manager are:

• Support for multiple operating systems
• JavaTM-based tool for managing the system
• Client options
• Browser access
• Support for business documents of almost every kind
• Efficient methods for keeping the system secure
• Document routing to manage the flow of work through the system

Imaging Business Machines (IBML) is the world’s foremost expert in applying technology to paper with its advanced ImageTrac® Scanning Platform.  Highly successful installations result when ImageTrac document scanners and SoftTrac® rules based application software are combined with our professional services expertise.  IBML was the first to develop a high-speed, unlimited duty color scanner capable of handling  inter-mixed documents of varying size and thickness. With the ImageTrac’s unique open track design, IBML provides the highest unassisted throughput rate of any scanner in the industry. As the industry’s leading innovator, IBML takes you past simple image capture and equips your business to surpass standard document processing.

Let IBML show you how we can help you accelerate your business process, like you never thought possible.

Covering front end to back end enterprise technology integration, Integrated Solutions shows growing organizations how to capture, generate, and retrieve data at all points of work and service. Integrated Solutions educates technology decision makers about leading-edge technologies and applications that drive business performance - and revenue - by eliminating boundaries of time, distance, and scale.

IXOS SOFTWARE AG, a company of the Open Text Group, is a provider of enterprise-wide software applications with which enterprises can optimize their business processes and ensure secure, long-term archiving of all business documents in a highly scalable document storage system. IXOS is the leading provider of ECM solutions for seamless integration in SAP applications. IXOS software is used by more than two million users all over the world. You can find more information on our website at www.ixos.com.

Document Imaging products capture, store, retrieve and send information in every form – paper, film, digital and more. We are number one in the market in high-speed production document scanning and micrographics. And a technological leader in integrated imaging, linking the analog and digital worlds.

As long as the world needs to store, access and share information, Document Imaging will find a way to capture and preserve it in sharp, high-contrast images – 50 years from now, or 500 years from now.

From the world’s fastest scanners to integrated imaging products to service and support, we create solutions that meet real-world customer demands. Today, we’re meeting the need for high-speed color output, plus integrated imaging technologies that convert digital files to film … and back.

Color conveys information with the greatest possible accuracy – and does a beautiful job of picking up highlights, written annotations, stamps and subtle background variations. Color simply makes people more productive. Important details are easier to see. Image adjustments are unnecessary.

Kodak also leads the industry in solutions for digital document preservation. While documents in digital form offer indispensable flexibility, this is not a secure or stable way to store data long term. Film, however, is a proven technology that lasts up to 500 years or more, when properly processed and stored.

More information is available by calling the Document Imaging division of Eastman Kodak Company at 1-800-944-6171 (U.S. and Canada) or http://www.kodak.com/go/docimaging

Founded in 1992, NewWave Technologies, Inc. is a nationally recognized, full-service distributor focusing in document imaging, media duplication and data storage solutions. Together, NewWave and its channel partners deliver integrated solutions that capture, store, manage, protect, and share business critical information. NewWave markets its products and services exclusively to Value Added Resellers, System Integrators, Service Bureaus, and OEM's.

NewWave offers nationwide on-site maintenance programs for its hardware products. 800-536-5222 or www.newwavetech.com.

Open Text and IXOS
Open Text acquired 88 percent of IXOS in February 2004. The merger created the world’s leading vendor of ECM solutions with 13,000 customer installations, 20 million users, and estimated revenues of up to $450 million.

Open Text
Open Text™ is the market leader in providing Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions that bring together people, processes and information in global organizations. Throughout its history, Open Text has matched its tradition of innovation with a track record of financial strength and growth. Today, the company supports almost 20 million seats across 13,000 deployments in 114 countries and 12 languages worldwide. For more information on Open Text, go to: www.opentext.com

IXOS
IXOS SOFTWARE AG, a company of the Open Text Group, is a provider of enterprise-wide software applications with which enterprises can optimize their business processes and ensure secure, long-term archiving of all business documents in a highly scalable document storage system. IXOS is the leading provider of ECM solutions for seamless integration in SAP applications. IXOS software is used by more than two million users all over the world. You can find more information on our website at www.ixos.com.

OPEX Corporation is the recognized leader in mail automation solutions. For more than 30 years, OPEX has developed the most innovative, efficient, and reliable document processing equipment in the industry. Our goal is to offer products that embrace the latest technology, are affordable, and deliver the finest customer experience. OPEX systems can be found in thousands of organizations throughout the world, delivering the highest levels of performance.

OPEX Incoming and Scanning offers a variety of innovative mail processing and imaging solutions. With industry-leading mail extraction equipment and outstanding image capture and payment processing capabilities, OPEX equipment provides efficient workflows and superior cost savings. By combining mail extraction with image capture, it is no longer necessary to route paper outside of the mailroom. In just one step, the OPEX scanner operator can open, extract, identify, capture, orient, sort, print an audit trail, and output mail contents.

The Océ Document Technologies group (www.odt-oce.com) – division of Océ North America - is responsible for the sales and marketing of RecoStar, RecoStar Professional, and AEG Recognition software products. As the recognized leaders in machine print and handprint (OCR and ICR) recognition software for forms processing and data capture applications, RecoStar and AEG Recognition together command a significant 60% market share.

Panasonic Digital Document Company offers a wide range of world-class production scanners, including color and binary, from the 25-ppm workgroup scanners to 105-ppm high-production level scanners. With an award-winning product line, Panasonic production scanners are poised to deliver quality images, supporting requirements ranging from knowledge sharing to document storage. Panasonic scanners provide the functionality and reliability needed to increase productivity and meet the various scanning requirements in today’s businesses.

Recognized internationally as an innovator and proven specialist in applying People, Process, and Technology to document-intensive business challenges, Scan-Optics is a premier provider of capture, recognition and workflow solutions.

For over thirty-nine years, Scan-Optics has been offering competitive solutions across multiple industry verticals. The Scan-Optics Professional Services team integrates the SO Series scanners with best-of-breed software products to efficiently resolve customers’ business challenges. Scan-Optics backs its solutions with a nationwide network of support engineers.

To learn more about how Scan-Optics can help solve your business challenges, please visit www.scanoptics.com or call 1-800-745-6001.

Stellent, Inc. is a global provider of content management software solutions that drive rapid success for customers by enabling fast implementations and generating quick, broad user adoption. With Stellent Universal Content Management, customers can easily deploy multiple line-of-business applications — such as public Web sites, secure intranets and extranets, compliance processes, and marketing brand management — and also scale the technology to support multi-site management and enterprise-wide content management needs. Stellent is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minn. and maintains offices throughout the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

The Association for Work Process Improvement (TAWPI) is an international, not-for-profit membership organization whose primary focus is on education. TAWPI is dedicated to helping end users sharpen their management skills, improve productivity and performance of their organizations and maximize their value as professionals. The mission of TAWPI is to enhance the performance of organizations and strengthen the value of professionals that employ emerging technologies in mail, remittance, document and forms processing.

TOWER Software, a leading enterprise content management (ECM) provider, delivers electronic document and records management (EDRM) solutions. TOWER Software’s award-winning solutions empower organizations to manage and secure their vital information assets. By relying on its proven domain expertise, strong strategic partnerships, and powerful solutions, TOWER Software enables organizations to improve the accuracy of information on which business decisions are made; maximize efficiency by finding business critical information more quickly and easily; and achieve and maintain standards compliance across industries, resulting in sustained competitive advantage. TOWER Software is a privately held company with operations in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

TRIM Context is an integrated Electronic Document and Records Management platform for Enterprise Content Management capable of managing and securing all corporate information assets. TRIM Context includes:

• Document management
• E-mail management
• Process management
• Records management
• Web Content Management
• Integration with Line of Business Applications

Visioneer is a world-class developer of intelligent imaging solutions that provide a faster and easier way to capture documents and photographs and integrate them with document imaging applications.  The company has made a strong commitment to providing leading edge technology, a robust software bundles and an excellent value proposition.  In 2003, Visioneer combined its leading scanner technology with Xerox’s brand recognition to develop the Xerox DocuMate series of workgroup scanners. Visioneer and Xerox branded products provide a family of hardware solutions for the distributed, desktop and departmental scanner markets as well as the mobile and remote business scanning and storage segments.  For additional information on Visioneer and Xerox scanning solutions, please visit www.visioneer.com  or www.xeroxscanners.com.

Westbrook Technologies provides enterprise document management software solutions for mid-market companies that need to maintain their competitive edge. The Company develops document management (Fortis and File Magic), Web-imaging (Fortis PowerWeb), ERM and workflow (Fortis Inflo) software in use at thousands of customer sites in 52 countries. Businesses across every vertical market depend on our comprehensive document management solutions and use them to capture, index, store and retrieve their critical information from anywhere - instantly and securely. Westbrook Technologies was recently named one of Connecticut’s 50 fastest growing technology companies by Deloitte & Touche.

For more information, call (203) 483-6666 or log on to westbrooktech.com