Kofax and OTG Software Partner to Deliver Award-Winning Data Capture With Storage and Content Management Solutions

Business Wire, Nov 6, 2000

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IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 6, 2000

Kofax Image Products, a leading manufacturer of software and hardware for electronic document and data capture, and OTG Software (Nasdaq:OTGS), a leading developer of online storage, data access and e-mail management software, Monday announced a partnership that integrates Kofax Ascent Capture document capture software used in high volume scanning applications, with OTG's suite of software products.

The combined solution, called Ascent Capture for OTG, is available now and will be sold through OTG's partners and channels.

Ascent Capture software digitizes paper documents at local or remote sites across the enterprise, extracts data from them and seamlessly integrates that information into the leading workflow and content management applications. The recently released Version 4 adds a customizable architecture for complex, high volume and distributed applications.

The Kofax-OTG agreement permits OTG to sell an OTG-branded version of Ascent Capture and to further integrate and customize Ascent Capture into its suite of software products. The suite includes Web-enabled solutions for front-end data generation and storage management.

"We are excited to partner with Kofax, and have selected Ascent Capture as the high speed front end scanning application to our data access and storage management products," said OTG Software President and CEO Richard Kay.

"Helping our customers get a superior product from a single source makes sense."

"We're pleased that OTG has selected Ascent Capture as the latest addition to its integrated products," said Kofax President and CEO Arnold von Buren. "OTG customers and resellers can expect the same unwavering commitment to quality that has helped us sell more than 15,000 Ascent Capture licenses since 1995."

About Kofax

Kofax Image Products (www.kofax.com) is a leading supplier of both application software and image processing products for the imaging, workflow and document management industry. The company specializes in the document capture market, which is essential to helping paper intensive organizations economically, reliably and securely incorporate paper-based information into their electronic business processes. It is a member of the DICOM Group plc.

About OTG Software Inc.

With headquarters in Bethesda, Md., OTG Software is a provider of comprehensive online storage management and access solutions, including a dynamic e-mail management solution. OTG's software enables enterprises to store, track and retrieve data over a variety of network architectures, including the Web and storage area networks.

Through its application-centric product suite, OTG offers a business, Web and e-commerce solution that provides robust functionality across many industries. OTG empowers storage by combining storage with access and e-mail management. OTG Software's products support more than 600 storage devices, are easy to install and use, and can manage storage systems ranging in size from a single storage device to an enterprise-wide network storage system.

OTG Software's products are used by more than 7,500 organizations worldwide and are available through a network of more than 300 VARs, distributors and OEMs. For more information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.otg.com or call 301/897-1400 or 800/324-4222.