ViewStar announces support for Lotus Notes: Document Imaging 2.5; new tools for LN:DI create stronger ties between ViewStar and Lotus Notes

Business Wire, Jan 23, 1995

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 23, 1995-- ViewStar Corp., a leading provider of client/server software for business process automation, Monday announced plans to support Lotus Notes: Document Imaging 2.5.

These new features will be offered as an enhancement to ViewStar's Integration Toolset for Lotus Notes, first released in May of last year. ViewStar was the first production workflow vendor to offer such support. Lotus Notes is the industry standard platform for developing and deploying groupware applications.

"ViewStar is very pleased to see the kind of enhancements Lotus put into the new LN:DI Interchange Facility and it definitely provides a great fit for our product and our customers," said Steve Russell, vice president of marketing for ViewStar.

"Enabling seamless import and export of LN:DI documents will further strengthen ViewStar's existing capabilities and support for ViewStar/Notes integration, allowing customers to leverage both their IT investments and application development opportunities."

"Lotus is excited to see ViewStar extend its existing tools for Notes integration to include LN:DI 2.5 support," said Jeff Papows, vice president, Lotus Communications Products Division.

"ViewStar is a long-time partner and one of the first vendors of production imaging and workflow software to support seamless application integration with Lotus Notes. These new LN:DI object import/export capabilities will be a welcome addition to Notes."

New Capabilities

ViewStar's expertise in production imaging and workflow will directly complement LN:DI Release 2.5 by linking the Notes environment with the transactional nature of imaging business processes.

This means that the advantages of production workflow (i.e. productivity gains, faster cycle times and reduced clerical errors) will be available to line staff, while management gains uncommon insight into their business systems and a tool to monitor incremental improvements.

The new tools for LN:DI create even stronger ties between ViewStar and Lotus Notes, giving users the maximum flexibility in defining automated business processes and workflows that combine the best of the companies' two products.

The combination of ViewStar and Lotus Notes software provides the ability to tackle many types of business processes, from sales forecasting and audit reports to traditional imaging/workflow applications like accounts payable and loan processing. In addition, ViewStar workflow applications can now route a document or folder as collections of LN:DI objects to any Notes client for Windows.

"ViewStar sees this as a very timely announcement that adds to Lotus Notes integration," noted Russell. "The new LN:DI Interchange Facility allows us to extend our existing tools to support document-level interaction with Notes environments, enabling an even wider range of workflow integration opportunities."

ViewStar Corp.

Founded in 1986, ViewStar Corp. develops, markets and supports object-oriented, client/server software for business process automation, workflow and document management applications. ViewStar products address mission-critical, line-of-business workflow and document management applications involving data, electronic documents, image, text, multimedia and other formats in a distributed, networked environment.

Headquartered in Alameda, Calif., ViewStar has regional offices throughout the United States and in the United Kingdom. -0-

Note to Editors: ViewStar is a registered trademark of ViewStar Corp. Lotus and Lotus Notes are registered trademarks and LN-DI is trademark of Lotus Development Corp.

CONTACT: ViewStar Corp, Alameda

John Tarabini, 510/337-2115

johnt@viewstar.com