HOPKINTON, Mass., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC® Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced the latest advancement in EMC Captiva® InputAccel® intelligent capture solution -- a powerful new graphical design tool to create and configure capture processes without any coding required, yet meeting each organization's unique needs. Delivering a new standard in the development of enterprise capture processes, the InputAccel CaptureFlow(TM) Designer tool provides a drag-and-drop development environment enabling customers to rapidly build document capture processes in just a few hours, at a substantially lower cost and with less resource.

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The new InputAccel CaptureFlow Designer tool, which is available today, provides system integrators, value-added resellers, IT organizations and power users the following key benefits:

-- Develop capture process in a few hours without having to write any code;
-- Accelerate deployment by requiring fewer maintenance resources resulting
in improved time to value and lower total cost of ownership;
-- Eliminate project complexity and inherent risks associated with custom
coding;
-- Leverage Captiva's modular architecture and provides flexibility to
handle the most complex enterprise capture requirements;
-- Rapidly deliver custom demonstration and proof of concept examples
enabling partners to differentiate from other solutions and win new
business.

The Document Capture Process

A document capture process is a set of steps and instructions that defines how a document gets processed once it is ingested into Captiva. A typical series of steps include scan, image enhancement, document classification, data extraction, validation and delivery to content management systems or business applications. In many cases, a process will have conditions built in for handling image quality problems, data recognition validations, routing certain document types for review or custom steps for business rules or integration with other enterprise applications. In the past, developers were required to write Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code for these processes which could take several days depending on the complexity.

InputAccel CaptureFlow Designer Pre-Release Software Program

More than 100 customers and partners worldwide participated in a pre-release software program which gave them early access to InputAccel CaptureFlow Designer. Held in an early access lab on the EMC Community Network, the pre-release program gave customers and partners the opportunity to provide feedback about the product.

InputAccel CaptureFlow Designer tool is included with InputAccel. Customers using InputAccel 6 can download the graphical design tool for free on EMC Powerlink.

Key Findings from New Document Capture Survey by AIIM

-- The survey polled 882 information and records management professionals,
IT staff and line of business executives.
-- Centralized in-house scanning and mailroom scanning are set for
considerable growth compared to outsourced scanning and capture.
-- Knowledge management in the form of improved searchability of business
documents is the highest driver for scanning, closely followed by
compliance and business process improvement.
-- Forty-six percent of users report ROI within 12 months with two-thirds
seeing returns within 18 months.
-- A free copy of the study, "Capture: local, central, outsource - what's
working best?" is available at www.emc.com/capturestrategies.

EMC Executive Quote

"This latest InputAccel advancement further underscores Captiva's core strengths in the enterprise capture market by making document capture simpler even for the most complex processes. With a more modern tool that supports drag and drop, the new InputAccel CaptureFlow Designer is easy to use and does not require any custom code. This enables companies to be agile and do more with less."

- Whitney Tidmarsh, Chief Marketing Officer, Content Management and Archiving Division, EMC

Supporting Quotes

"I have worked with Captiva InputAccel for 12 years and the new InputAccel CaptureFlow Designer is absolutely what we needed. The process design application is very straightforward and will certainly save us a significant amount of time in designing and implementing document capture processes in InputAccel."

- Jay Culpepper, Technical Services Manager, Business Imaging Systems, Inc.

"We've been an EMC partner for several years and we are very excited about this latest Captiva release. Our sales engineers have had nothing but great things to say about the latest Captiva InputAccel CaptureFlow Designer. It will certainly allow us to deliver the strong capabilities of InputAccel into both departmental and company-wide enterprise capture deployments."

- John Middleton, Managing Partner and Vice President of Sales, BRT

"A few hours...that is all it took to build a document capture process using the new Captiva InputAccel CaptureFlow Designer. The new graphical design application is very powerful and easy to use, while at the same time leverages the flexibility of InputAccel to meet the unique capture requirements some customers have."

- William Collins, Captiva Technical Expert, The Windward Group

About EMC

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.EMC.com.

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