Tuesday
Jan262010

Automating Invoice Processing

Accounts payable personnel at any organization know the pains associated with invoice processing. Because AP departments typically rely on paper-based transactions, they also experience long, time-consuming processes that often lead to late or incorrect payments and missed discounts. And in situations where manual data entry is required, delays aren't the only consideration; legal risks resulting from human error can also be significant.

EMC delivers a fully customizable invoice capture solution that can scan vendor invoices and automatically extracts and validates the data they contain before exporting it to accounting systems for processing. Using intelligent document recognition technology (IDR), it can identify incoming documents as invoices and immediately begins extracting information such as purchase order number, invoice date, total amounts, line item data and more. Vendor ID is automatically determined and critical information is validated against existing data in accounting systems before being exported directly into Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Accounts Payable (AP) and other back-end systems.

The result is a faster, more efficient means of handling invoices.

* REDUCE MANUAL PROCESSES - Reduce the manual effort needed to process vendor invoices InputAccel for Invoices enables businesses to accomplish more work with fewer people and less money.

* INCREASE VENDOR DISCOUNTS AND REDUCE LATE FEES - Take advantage of early-pay discounts and avoid late fees by processing invoices faster. InputAccel for Invoices also helps businesses achieve SOX compliance when taking vendor discounts.

* INCREASE ACCURACY AND EFFICIENCY - Advanced indexing capabilities reduce retrieval times from days to seconds with 99.9% accuracy.

To learn how you can streamline and accelerate invoice processing in your business, click here<http://www.paperfreecorporation.com/accountspayable.html> or dial 1-888-726-7730 to speak with a PaperFree consultant today.

Tuesday
Jan262010

Distributed Capture with EMC Captiva InputAccel 6.0

As cost cutting becomes the order of the day in today's economic environment, and workforces become increasingly dispersed to more effectively meet customer demands, it's never been more important for organizations to find ways to leverage existing infrastructure and personnel.

This is where Distributed Capture comes in. In a nut shell, Distributed Capture is the general term used for creating and managing electronic documents at locations that are outside the corporate headquarters or other central processing facility. Companies that have manual processes or currently use EMC Captiva solutions for centralized data and document capture have found that today distributed capture solutions can be implemented with existing small desktop scanners, network scanners or multi-functional peripherals in any setting, including home or remote offices and even on the road.

One way the latest release of InputAccel 6.0 supports distributed capture is with the new

Connector for eCopy ShareScan, which enables remote workers to scan and index documents directly from their MFP devices right into the InputAccel server for processing. This reduces costs and cycle times, while improving the overall productivity of users and business processes.

Are your processes paper-based, overly cumbersome, and distributed across several locations? Are you incurring high costs for shipping paper documents from remote offices to a centralized office, only to have those documents manually processed centrally? Click here <http://www.paperfreecorporation.com/distributedcapture.html> to learn more, or dial 1-888-726-7730 to speak with a PaperFree consultant directly today.

Tuesday
Jan262010

Is your office still printing paper?

With EMC Captiva there's no need to. You can simply 'print to file' and save it to a specified directory that a module automatically monitors; when new files are detected, the file is grabbed and a new InputAccel batch is automatically started based on your specific business rules. You can do the same just as easily for incoming emails and their attachments too, along with searching and import from multiple inboxes, and/or entirely different email systems altogether.

To learn how you can reduce the amount of printing in your office, or to further explore other ways you can leverage your Captiva system for more savings, click here <http://www.paperfreecorporation.com/documentcapture.html> or dial 1-888-726-7730 to speak with a PaperFree consultant today.

Thursday
Oct012009

EMC and PaperFree: Leaders in Information Management

Over the years, PaperFree has formed a strong partnership and strategic alliance with EMC that has enabled us to bring the very best in world-class Information Management technology to our customers. After so many years as a trusted consultant and document management specialists, you may ask why we've remained one of EMC's leading information capture and management partners and go-to implementation experts.

The answer is simple… EMC Corporation is the world leader in products, services, and solutions for information management and storage that helps organizations get the maximum value from their information, at the lowest total cost, across every point in the information lifecycle.

Research and development:
Recognizing and understanding the information management needs of their global customers, EMC has invested over $4 billion in software alone since 2001. And EMC's hardware, software, and services all support a unified vision and platform for enabling best-in-class information management.

Market leadership:
With more than $3 billion in software sales, and 4,500 employees dedicated solely to software development, sales, and service, EMC is the sixth largest software company in the world.

As determined by Gartner, IDC, and other industry analysts, EMC is the market leader in Information Life Management, including Backup and Recovery, Archiving, Resource Management, Business Availability, Intelligent Capture, and Content Management.

World leading market presence:
EMC Software Customers include…

  • All of the top 5 global airlines
  • 9 of the top 10 US Airlines
  • All of the top 10 US media and entertainment companies.
  • All of the top 15 US aerospace and defense contractors
  • All of the top 15 US publishing companies
  • 19 of the top 20 US pharmaceutical companies
  • 19 of the top 20 global insurance companies
  • All of the top 20 global telecommunications companies
  • All of the top 25 global automobile and parts manufacturers

An award winning pioneer in Information Management, EMC continues to offer the very best in open software products, bringing new levels of intelligence, protection, and flexibility that enable organizations to reduce the costs and risks of managing information while increasing the value of its information.

Got a project in mind? As one of EMC's most valued partners, PaperFree has the expertise to assist you in evaluating your information capture and management needs as well as provide the products and services to customize and implement the solution that meet your companies unique information management needs.

Whether you are in need of an automated data capture solution, departmental or enterprise wide content management solution, or strategic outsourcing solutions- PaperFree is able to support you every step of the way. Click here or dial 1-888-726-7730 to speak with a PaperFree consultant today.

Thursday
Oct012009

Tech Talk: What is Service-Oriented Architecture?

One of the more important enhancements to the new InputAccel 6.0 upgrade is its support for Service Oriented Architecture, or SOA.

SOA represents the broad set of best-practices that enable companies to hide the complexity of the underlying technology while at the same time providing an agile set of resources to the business. Put in simple terms, service-orientation takes traditional business applications and functions, and divides them into individual tasks, referred to as services, which can be accessed without knowledge of their underlying platform implementations.

Four main characteristics of a service-oriented architecture are:

  • It is a component based architecture that deliberately hides complexity wherever possible by adhering to the best practice of separating business logic from computer logic.
  • By leveraging standards, independent components are loosely couples, enabling individual services to be added, modified, or deleted with minimal impact on other services. Existing applications can easily be reused with the addition of an adapter.
  • Components are orchestrated to link together in composite applications that support business processes and deliver a set of flexible resources at a defined service level.
  • As a joint initiative between IT and business, SOA represents the next generation of IT architecture, enabling simple and flexible development of business applications that can leverage existing assets.

SOA provides the foundation for a new kind of business agility, cost-effectively allowing IT to be more responsive to business requirements while improving application development, deployment, and on-going support. InputAccel 6.0 uses Web Services that provide the standards and tools to build an SOA to process work over the internet and enables the InputAccel system to be a consumer or provider of web services.

With it, IT departments can reduce integration expense, increase asset reuse, improve business visibility, enhance business agility, and further mitigate regulatory risk.

To learn more about the new InputAccel 6.0 and what SOA can do for you, click here or dial 1-888-726-7730 to speak with a PaperFree consultant today.