Captovation Announces Integration Between eCapture and Microsoft's SharePoint Portal Server 2003

Business Wire, May 7, 2004

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MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 7, 2004

Captovation, a leading provider of production-level document and distributed capture software for electronic document/content management systems, announced today direct integration support between their flagship eCapture(TM) software, and Microsoft(R) Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003. eCapture and SharePoint can be integrated to provide users with a complete document management solution, which includes document capture, archiving, as well as search and retrieval capabilities.

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 integrates information from various systems into one solution. The portal facilitates end-to-end collaboration by enabling aggregation, organization, and search capabilities for people, teams, and information. It allows users to deploy an out-of-the box portal solution that can find, create, and share all of a company's mission critical data.

Although SharePoint provides an efficient method of storing and collaborating on vital company information; it lacks a streamlined user interface for document capture. With eCapture's integration, SharePoint users can easily scan and index paper documents directly into a SharePoint repository. The integration is facilitated through an eCapture Data Provider (EDP), developed by Captovation and available at no additional charge, which transfers document images from eCapture and places them into a SharePoint repository. The eCapture component's ecIndex, ecAutoFile Server, ecCommit Server, ecImport Server, ecNet Server and Captovation(R) Check Capture are all capable of performing a document commit (archive) into SharePoint.

Captovation's direct integration support for SharePoint Portal Server 2003 is unique because it utilizes XML-based Web Services to link eCapture users with a SharePoint Portal Server system. XML (Extensible Markup Language) is used to structure the data between an eCapture system and SharePoint, and thus provides an easy way for the two applications to communicate. eCapture and SharePoint do not need to be on the same local network to interact with one another. After scanning and indexing documents with eCapture, the images and data can be sent over the Internet to a SharePoint server anywhere in the world.

"We are proud to be one of the first document capture companies to integrate with SharePoint 2003," said Ken Peterka, President and CEO of Captovation, Inc. "Our integration with SharePoint's Web Services allows for greater deployment flexibility."

The integration includes a SharePoint Template Manager, which allows an administrator to define field mappings between eCapture and SharePoint. On a per template basis, an administrator specifies the URL (Universal Resource Locator) of a SharePoint Portal Server. After connecting, the SharePoint Template Manager retrieves all available user lists and respective field names. The administrator then correlates field names in SharePoint with available fields in eCapture. Upon commit, the images are converted to either Multiple Page TIFFs (tagged image file format) or PDFs (portable document format).

About Captovation

Captovation, Inc. is a privately held company established in 1994, which specializes in the design and development of document, check and Internet-distributed capture products for the document management industry. Their software products and custom integration services provide paper- intensive organizations with the ability to streamline and tailor the document capture process to meet their needs. eCapture, the company's flagship product, is a suite of document capture modules for the Enterprise. The modules include: ecScan (production-level scanning), ecIndex (production-level indexing), ecNet (distributed, web-based capture), ecAutoFile Server (bar code recognition server), ecCommit Server (schedule batch commits), ecImport Server (automatically import document images into eCapture) and Captovation Check Capture (production-level check capture). eCapture is sold exclusively through eCapture certified resellers. For more information, visit the company's website at www.captovation.com.

Trademarks

eCapture is a trademark of Captovation, Inc. SharePoint and Windows are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.