Captaris News & Articles

Open Text (news, site) released version 4.0 of Open Text Capture Center that offers improved data capture, document classification and better integration with the Open Text ECM Suite.

This product is based on Captaris DOKuStar Capture Suite that came to the OT family through the Captaris acquisition in late 2008.

In companies of all shapes and sizes, one of the key frustrations is dealing with faxes. Faxes have been around for a long time and are still used in today's businesses, and organizations are looking for ways to better manage these cumbersome documents.

To help combat fax management issues, Open Text, an Enterprise CMS provider, announced a new version of their Open Text Fax Server. The Fax Server software serves as an electronic way to deliver and manage paper faxes. Along with the news about the Fax Server update, Open Text has also revealed their Open Text Fax Server Connector for MOSS. This connector software will allow organizations to capture and deliver fax documents within SharePoint.

Open Text kicked off its global Content World conference today in Orlando, Florida. The ECM giant expects it to be the largest conference in history with more than 1500 participants registered to attend.

Pre- and post-conference workshops, breakouts, training, GlobalStar awards, partner schmoozing, showcasing its ECM solutions, Universal Studios trips… Open Text is going to be busy in the next few days.

The event features a conference-within-a-conference program. Attendees tailor their conference experience: product/technology-specific tracks are available in the morning, with broader enterprise views offered in the afternoon.

One of the coolest things about this event, aside from all the wealth of OT and Enterprise CMS knowledge, is that there’s no printed conference brochure. Open Text went green and provided all attendees with wireless PDA-like devices instead of a paper booklet. Delegates can use the device for polling, conference program navigation, attendee profiles search and text messaging.

Conferences are usually coupled with major announcements. Today, Open Text announced that SAP will resell Open Text Vendor Invoice Management (VIM) under the name the SAP Invoice Management application by Open Text. As part of this agreement, SAP will also resell Open Text’s document capture solution Invoice Capture Center, from Open Text’s recent acquisition of Captaris, under the name optical character recognition (OCR) option for SAP Invoice Management.

Open Text clearly shoots for being the ultimate ECM provider, and is here to prove it with all the recent product releases, acquisitions and partnerships. We’ll hear more from Open Text in the next few days, stay tuned! In the meantime, watch daily podcasts on YouTube and follow #OTContentWorld on Twitter.

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?

From the makers of the RightFax Connector for SharePoint — among other products — Captaris offers up a new version of Alchemy, their digital document filing system. The biggest enhancement to the product? The Alchemy File Connector — able to map a Windows drive directly to the Alchemy repository.

Managing your documents just got a little bit easier.

Open Text Corporation, a well-known ECM player, announced its intention to acquire Captaris, Inc., a provider of document management and delivery solutions.

The price of this deal is approximately US$ 131 million.

Do you have paper documents you really want to get into your SharePoint solution so they can be managed electronically with the rest of your information? Captaris has a couple of new products to help you out: Captaris® RightFax® Connector for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 and Captaris Single Click Entry.

Wait a minute? This sounds strangely familiar? Did we cover this before?

Captaris, Inc., a provider of software products that automate document-centric processes, has announced the completion of its acquisition of Oce Document Technologies GmbH (ODT), a company specializing in document capture, text recognition and document classification.