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.

The New InputAccel 6.0 - The New Standard in Enterprise Data Capture

PaperFree is excited to announce the latest release of InputAccel and Dispatcher 6.0 from EMC

EMC continues to build upon its core innovations for document and data capture, while responding to market demands for lower total ownership costs, improved business usability, and entirely new ways to integrate intelligent capture within existing business applications.

InputAccel 6.0 is EMC's comprehensive and award-winning information management system that captures mission-critical data from most paper or electronic sources, such as faxes and email, and transforms it into business ready content.

Here are some of the highlights of the many new features included with the new InputAccel upgrade:

Service Oriented Architecture and Web Services

• New XML-based web services framework (supports Service Oriented Architectures, which enable the IA system to either be a consumer or provider of web services)

 InputAccel Server enhancements

• Microsoft Cluster Support that provides an additional failover clustering option.
• Support for side-by-side installation of multiple instances of the IA Server on the same system.
• Multi-threaded client/server functionality allowing both attended and unattended modules to process tasks at their full capacity.
• Performance Enhancements such as improved batch management capabilities for handling large number of batches, improved batch sync functionality, improved speed and accuracy.

New and Updated Modules

• Newly-designed, web-deployable attended modules: ScanPlus, RescanPlus, IndexPlus.
• Newly-designed unattended modules: Script Engine, Image Divider, Web Services Input, Web Services Output, Documentum Advanced Export, PrimeOCR Plus, NuanceOCR.
• New web-based Administration Console that gives administrators access to InputAccel management functions from anywhere in the world.

InputAccel Activation Website portal

• InputAccel Activation Website portal offers customers self-service licensing assistance, which provides customers the ability to immediately activate new licenses and re-activate existing licenses, request the move or migration of their Server ID to a different server, or extend the dates for new activations.

 Database support

• IA 6.0 also introduces new Microsoft SQL database for storing configuration settings, statistical data for reporting, and the server's work in progress information in a central location.

 Additional features

• Automatic Color Detection (ACD) during scanning and better multi-stream support.
• Support for PostNet barcode (using PixTools for .NET).
• Tested support for VMware and Citrix virtualization.
• InputAccel features a robust security system with multiple levels of access control.
• InputAccel conforms to Section 508 compliance, 4.8.2 FDA 21 CFR Part 11.
• Compliance including HIPAA compliance.
• Centralized licensing and logging.
• Compatibility with the new Dispatcher 6.0

For more information on InputAccel 6.0 and to learn how you can upgrade your existing IA system to leverage these enhancements— Or if you're new to InputAccel and would like an introduction to this award-winning information management solution, click here or dial 1-888-726-7730 to speak with a PaperFree consultant directly.