Fortune 100 Company says, "WOW, what an improvement!"

That's what a Fortune 100 customer says about the A/P process improvements recently delivered to them by CAPSYS partner, Tronitech located in Indianapolis, IN.  In fact, Tronitech's CEO Bud Arkenau headlined the success story in their recent newsletter:

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Improving the A/P process at a large Fortune 100 equipment manufacturing company using our custom SaaS model of CAPSYS CAPTURE document management application. We worked with them to develop a process that eliminates the paper handling in the A/P approval and payment process. All paper is now scanned immediately when received and is routed electronically to everyone involved. When the review and apporval process is complete, the documents are passed on to their ECM system for archiving. No more double keying of information, or "where is the document" questions. They also no longer have to worry about who has the document and when they received it. Our solution tracks and stores all that information. As one of their employees said:  "WOW what an improvement." Our workflow implementation allowed this company to increase efficiency, decrease man-hours and provided a safe and secure storage solution.

Check out the basic workfllow we used   If you have a document process that needs streamlined, please contact Tronitech at: http://www.tronitech.com/Contact.aspx

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Congratulations Team Tronitech!  Partners, we love to hear about your mounting CAPSYS CAPTURE success stories, keep them coming! 

Best,

Paul

CAPTURE FORMS-BASED DATA AT ITS SOURCE Eliminate Paper and Automate Data Entry Steps for Any Form, Anywhere

While we might have begun over a decade or two ago to utilize newer methods of information exchange in the form of “electronic representations” of documents, and our collective intent was to consume “less paper” within the business community, 20 years later we certainly still have a long way to go in order to achieve utopia.  Even with a viable alternative technological based platform, the business reality is there are many paper documents used during the course of daily business transactions – as hard as we may otherwise try – because of economic, process or technology-based reasons that simply cannot be captured into a business workflow by any means other than a document scanning and indexing process.  

What can realistically be done to better address the seemingly growing appetite for paper consumption in business?  Is there really an effective alternative to paper?  How does a business handle the intermixing of paper, electronic, and paper replacement technologies into their daily operations?  Is there a cost effective, acceptable electronic alternative that truly will allow the actual “replacement” of physical paper documents?  What about the practical and legal issues businesses face when presented with establishing intent, the four corners rule, wet signatures, and assuring the authenticity of original documents?

Imagine this opportunity for a moment.  What if, for example at your local Doctor's office  instead of being handed a traditional clipboard, pen and a multi-paged structured form you were handed a "device" that contains all the characteristics of a structured, paper based form, and a writing instrument that has pen/pencil like qualities and was about the size of an Amazon Kindle or Apple iPad?  And, the content produced by this device is considered legally binding, eliminating the need for hard copy documents? 

About six months ago, we were privileged to be introduced to an organization called Ricoh-EWS that have developed a very interesting piece of technology coupled with a rich set of Web Services called eQuill.  We think the Ricoh's eQuill + Cloud Services offering has tremendous potential in the marketplace across many industry verticals.  

Connect this device and its rich set of services up with CAPSYS CAPTURE powered by Microsoft Windows Azure, and you have a very powerful Cloud-based means of processing structured, semi-structured and unstructured content.  

Check back soon for complete run down on Ricoh's eQuill coupled with CAPSYS CAPTURE in an upcoming co-authored whitepaper.  In the meantime, if you are interested in learning more about this offering, contact us.

Best,

Paul

CAPSYS CAPTURE Release Module for Microsoft SharePoint 2010

CAPSYS is please to announce the release of its updated SharePoint release module supporting Microsoft SharePoint 2010.  For a product description, please visit: http://slidesha.re/jc1PWY

5 Reasons why SMB's aren't using Cloud?? You decide.

Recently an article was brought to my attention about why the SMB market is not embracing the Cloud.  Clearly, we here at CAPSYS are seeing quite different results not only with the SMB market, but also with Enterprise and Global 2000 clients.  Just couldn't let this one go ;-)  With that said, the original article and my response can be found here:

http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=207087&site=smbservices

Regards,

Paul

CAPSYS Document Indexing Tech Tip!

Attention user community: Here are a quick set of tips for the document indexing component of CAPSYS CAPTURE that will speed up your indexing process:

Keyboard Shortcut definitions for Indexing Page Functions 

• New Document [alt - n] 
• New Empty Document [alt - e] 
• Append Page to Document  [alt - p] 
• Append All Pages to Document [alt - l] 
• Clear Indexes  [alt - r] 
• Complete/Release  [alt - c] 
• Unlock Case  [alt - u] 
• Save Indexes  [alt - s] 
• Copy Document  [alt - o] 
• Split Document  [alt - i] 
• Delete Document  [alt - delete] 

Simplifying the Order Entry Process using the Email Gateway for CAPSYS CAPTURE

The Problem
Many businesses today frequently utilize email as an acceptable tool for facilitating routine business transactions.  Email poses a number of organizational and process challenges when it comes to automating an order entry process.   While email serves as a convenient "catch all" for receiving voluminous amounts of incoming transactions, such as purchase order requests, it can create on the receiving side of the order entry process - chaos.

First, we can all agree on the surface the process appears to be very simple:  1) Set up an alias email address on your email server called, "orders@xyz.com.  2) Designate a CSR or somebody on your staff to monitor the incoming email address for orders.  3) Send an order acknowledge back to the customer indicating you have received their order.  4) Process the order like you would any other purchase order you have received via FAX, US Mail, Online, etc.

Unintended Consequences
You may have now come to find out while it all seemed rather easy, you have introduced an entirely new set of problems to deal with: 1) Some customers send a PO request as an attachment to their email which means you have to print out the email msg AND the email attachment so you have the complete record of the PO request.  2) Customers supply their email with an attachment such as a PDF while others choose to send you the raw file that they produced the PO request in (WORD, Excel, TIF, JPEG, etc.)  3) You now have all kinds of different flavors of attachments coming to your CSR who may not be familiar with how to open all the different formats, or he/she might not have the proper rendering software application on their desktop to open up the attachment.  4) You either now have come to realize you must develop some sort of electronic filing system for your incoming email messages and attachments so you maintain a historical bread crumb trail of the transactions or; elect to print out all your messages and attachments and revert back to a paper filing system (only later to prep, scan and index?).

What you have accomplished may all look good from the outside to your customers, but in reality your employees are frustrated with the way all this has panned out internally.  Emails are piling up, if you are a seasonal business, this can become really problematic.   There is no consistency in which customers create their email messages and attachments.  Paper still exists in the process.  Somebody internally on your staff needs to sort through the messages by sender to figure out which orders belong to which CSR and forward them on yet again, creating another manual step in the order entry process.

Automated Email Capture with CAPSYS CAPTURE
Automated email input for CAPSYS has never been easier with CAPSYS CAPTURE Email Gateway.  CAPSYS CAPTURE Email Gateway QSX supports traditional email systems such as SMTP, MAPI and IMAP which support most of the major mail server configurations.  All of the email message content and its associated attachments are automatically captured so we may utilize as much of the message content to facilitate and automated the document indexing process.  Further, email messages and their associated attachments are routed to the correct CSR for order processing and are consistently managed and processed day after day.  These features dramatically cut down on labor and costs typically associated with error prone, manual data entry processes.

Configuration is a snap!  CAPSYS CAPTURE Email Gateway has a simple to use, user interface which is designed for the business analyst to setup and configure.  No programming or scripting is required.   

Our built in message interrogation capability allows the Gateway to either accept or reject the message based on pre-defined business rules. Each message by replied back with an acknowledgment using an automated message reply.  Rules can be based on sender address, whether or not an attachment exists, or if the attachment does not meet the preset requirements. 

Find out more about CAPSYS CAPTURE's Email Gateway by contacting CAPSYS.

SMB's finally moving to Cloud? Microsoft sees it that way!

It was only a matter of time.  The Global 2000 organizations got the message loud and clear years ago about the Economic Benefits of Cloud Computing.  Will the SMB market finally wake up from its nap?  Check out this article posted by CMSWIRE on April 1, 2011. (Thanks for the tip from our friends at Element R Partners http://www.rurelevant.com)

Some gems in the article that caught my attention:

• The value of the cloud market in the SMB space is close to US$ 21 billion.
• Nearly one in three SMBs use cloud services, with cloud usage among SMBs expected to rise to 42%.
• One in three SMBs plan to change the way data is stored, moving more data to the cloud, with many planning to reduce their use of local system hard drives and direct-attached storage.
• Microsoft’s SMB Cloud Adoption Study 2011 seems to suggest a gradual, rather than abrupt, change over a period of three years.
• "Cloud adoption will be gradual, and SMBs will continue to operate in a hybrid model with an increasing blend between off-premises and traditional on-premises infrastructure, for the foreseeable future,” said Marco Limena, vice president, Business Channels, Worldwide Communications Sector at Microsoft.

Full article available at: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-cms/microsoft-sees-smbs-moving-to-the-cloud-010730.php