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TechView Corporation announces upgrade for June 1998 release of TechEdit v7.0...

its authoring software for creating manufacturing work instructions that can incorporate photographs, graphics, color and text. With TechEdit v7.0, TechView introduces its new Label feature. With the new Label feature, time spent creating work instructions can be cut by 70%, as a
result of the new data entry style format that allows users to easily key in text information to be contained on the work instruction sheet without having to manually place the information on the finished page. The Labels feature enforces entry of all required data on the work instruction sheet by signaling the user when vital information is left blank. Photographs and other graphics can also be automatically placed in pro-defined locations. TechEdit, along with TechView Corporation's other software products, Methods and HyperView, are available for MS Windows 95 and NT 4.0. For more information, contact TechView at 919-967-2500, fax 919-967-2720,
techview@techviewcorp.com, or www.techview.com.

WideCom announces two new scanners...

SLC836 24-bit Color Scanner and SLC836+ Monochrome Scanner. The WideCom SLC Series 8 scanners offer an industry standard SCSI interface, scanning resolutions of up to 800 dpi, and direct interfaces to a comprehensive suite of application specific software--including Raster-to-Vector Conversion, Wide-Format Copying and Electronic Document Management Systems. The SLC836 Color Scanner provides Graphic Arts GIS (Geographical Information Systems) professionals with high color fidelity, 36-inch wide, 24-bit color images featuring up to 800 dot-per-inch resolution. The suggested retail price of the WideCom SLC836 Color Scanner is $9,950 US. WideCom markets its products and technologies through international distributors and Value-Added Resellers (VARs) across six continents, WideCom's corporate headquarters is located near Toronto; its advanced research subsidiary, Technologie NovImage, Inc., is located in Montreal. To service and support its North American VARs, WideCom has sales & services offices in San Francisco, Atlanta, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Rochester, and Toronto. For more information, contact WideCom at 800-263-9433.

New Dimension Software (NASDAQ:DDDDF) announced the certification of the CONTROL-M Option for SAP R/3 interface...

by representatives form SAP's certification team in Germany. The certification process is part of the cooperation agreement signed in September 1997 by New Dimension Software and SAP. CONTROL-M Option for SAP R/3 allows the company's CONTROL-M enterprise production control and scheduling software to support the SAP R/3 ERP Solution, a suite of products that includes R/3 Manufacturing, R/3 Financials and R/3 Human Resources. The certified module performs as an integrated part of SAP R/3, adhering to all technical standards. An integral part of New Dimension Software's Enterprise Production Management solution, CONTROL-M allows operations personnel to manage automate the setup, scheduling and execution of processes running across SAP R/3 such as Human Resources, Financial Analysis, etc. CONTROL-M is part of New Dimension Software's Integrated Operations Architecture for the Enterprise (IOA/Enterprise), designed to manage and control the IT process in systems such as SAP R/3. In addition to scheduling, IOA/Enterprise provides SAP R/3 users with solutions for output, security and event management. The CONTROL-M interface is scheduled for availability during the first quarter of 1998, with prices starting at $34,600. For more information, contact New Dimension Software at 800-347-4694 or www.ndsoft.com.

Workgroup Technology Corporation announces Version 6.5 of CMS Product Data Management Solution...

and expands support for Windows NT and Mentor Graphics Users. The latest version of CMS 6.5 allows native UNIX users to distribute data through replication on Windows NT servers, as well as UNIX servers. Among other benefits, the new release will enable remote sites to run CMS on Windows NT platforms. It also provides Windows client user access to even greater amounts of data from other enterprise or CAD systems, through a greatly enhanced Application Protocol Interface (API). For more information, contact Workgroup technology at www.workgroup.com.

Boffin Limited introduced new 32X speed CD-ROM drives...

for their family of servers and towers, to meet the needs of businesses wanting faster access to information stored on CD-ROM. These latest generation products can access up to 36.4 GB of information at rates of up to 85 ms. Many industries store large amounts of data for research and historical purposes. CD-ROM storage is the most efficient and cost-effective way to store these types of information. Both towers and servers are expandable, providing customers with investment protection well in the future. Because each unit is expandable, customers can easily add to their systems as their needs change or businesses grow. Base configurations start with a 7-bay case with four CD-ROM drives and can be increased up to 56-bay rackmount case. Boffin's CD-ROM server family, including the new 32X speed server, comes with a free one-year on-site warranty. The warranty includes five-day a week, nine-hour a day on-site parts replacement and labor. The 32X speed towers will begin shipping in mid-March. A 7-bay tower with seven 32X drives starts at $4,860; a 7-bay hot-swappable tower with seven 32X drives starts at $2,792. For
more information, contact Boffin at 800-248-5328, sales@boffin.com or www.boffin.com.

GTESS announces ProCLAIM...

automated forms processing system for healthcare claims. ProCLAIM features an enhanced recognition subsystem specifically designed and tuned for healthcare claim forms, HCFA 1500's and UB92's, both red and black, ProCLAIM also features GTESS' latest release of its key from image and image editing subsystem, Transcribe. Transcribe uses the latest 32-bit technology as well as new visual enhancements to increase operator productivity. GTESS recently installed ProCLAIM at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma ad has successfully reduced their claims processing costs, GTESS is also utilizing ProCLAIM in its Automated Claims Processing Service Bureau for Integrated Medical Systems and other healthcare data entry service bureau clients. GTESS provides claims processors with the options of either purchasing a software license for ProCLAIM, or to send their paper claims or images of their claims to GTESS for processing. By using ProCLAIM in its Automated Claims Processing Service Bureau, GTESS can process paper claims at 20 to 25 cents each, whereas before ProCLAIM, GTESS was charging 30 to 40 cents per claim. For more information, contact GTESS at 972-234-8933 or 972-234-5763.

Bell & Howell widens its high-speed scanner selection...

with introduction of PS II Series. Building on their current PS Series line, this new family of scanners includes six duplex models ranging in speeds from 100 to 200 pages per minute (ppm) landscape (200 to 400 images per minute) and will be priced from $44,900 to $69,900. Available in April, Bell & Howell's PS II Series scanners were designed to deal with the wide array of documents found in high-volume production environments. Equipped with a unique belt-driven, vacuum transport system, the PS II Series keeps documents flat and secure during scanning, ensuring virtual jam-free feeding performance. The new PS II Series also incorporates a top output paper-stacking tray called the SmartStacker. This 750-sheet capacity SmartStacker is designed to allow for high-speed output of documents in the same sequence as they were input. The top orientation features improved ergonomics for the operator by eliminating the need to bend over to retrieve scanned documents. Continuing the Bell & Howell tradition of outstanding image quality, the PS II Series incorporates extensive image enhancement controls that allow the user to produce a scanned image that is often superior to the original document. For more information, contact Bell & Howell at 800-SCAN-494 or www.bellhowell.com.

Informative Graphics Corp. announces Myriad Document Viewer...

a low-cost solution for companies and departments needing to access WYSYWIG, PDF and TIFF multi-page documents. The Myriad Document Viewer extends Adobe Acrobat and supports native office formats and scanned TIFF images in one easy-to-use viewing application. The new product gives users everything they need to view, annotate and print text, PDF and scanned files. It includes Acrobat Exchange for PDF files and Outside In viewing technology for word processing and spreadsheet formats. The Myriad Document Viewer also includes with watermarks on PDF and TIFF. The browser interface plug-in and ActiveX enable MIME type associations as well as direct in-line HTML placement of the document viewing. Several out-of-the-box supported integrations for clients and Web clients are available to EDM systems such as Documentum and PC DOCS. Others, such as Open Text, are under development by IGC. Priced at $195, the Myriad Document Viewer minimizes training, installation, and software costs by giving companies access to the documents they need to view in one user interface. The Myriad Document Viewer is available now from Informative Graphics Corp. floating licenses are available. For more information, contact 602-971-6061, fax 602-971-1714 or www.infograph.com.

Xerox invests to broaden offerings...

and extend its dominance in the high-speed digital printing market. Expanding what is the industry's broadest range of solutions for producing transaction data-based business documents in network and IBM Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) computing environments, Xerox Corporation announced four 96-page-per minute additions to its high-speed DocuPrint digital printing portfolio. Nw models for IBM's AFP architecture include the Docuprint 96 IPDS Printing System (IPS) and the DocuPrint MICR IPS. New models for the client/server environments includes the DocuPrint 96 Network Printing System (NPS), and DocuPrint 96 MICR NPS. The MICR versions include benchmark-quality Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) check printing, backed by the Xerox Check Performance. The new models join the DocuPrint 96 LCDS Printing System, for printing Xerox-formatted data streams, and DocuPrint 96 MX (MICR) announced last year. Xerox U.S. commercial single unit list pricing for base configurations of all four printers is $297,000. The printers ar available through the Xerox multinational sales force. The DocuPrint 96 IPS and DocuPrint 96 NPS will be available for delivery worldwide in the first half, and the DocuPrint 96 MICR IPS and DocPrint 96 MICR NPA will be available in the third quarter, 1998.

Oce' Smart Track software provides new tools...

for recovering and analyzing digital printing costs. Oce' Smart Track automatically tracks network printing volume, enabling users to: assign or bill back cost for output on a project-by-project basis, monitor employee and departmental usage, assign or bill back costs to clients for increased billable revenue, measure costs associated with printer and digital copier usage (e.g., toner, paper, etc.), and establish benchmarks for individual and departmental productivity and efficiency. Designed to produce reports with user-defined criteria, Oce' Smart Track enables administrators to select the type of information they wany to include in reports. Those reports are then produced in a standardized format. Oce' employs approximately 5,900 people in 60 locations throughout the United States. It is part of Netherlands-based Oce' N.V., which has 19,500 employees worldwide and posted revenue of $2.7 billion in fiscal 1997. For more information, contact Oce' at 773-714-8500.

Hewlett-Packard redefines storage market...

with new line of 5.2GB-based magneto-optical jukeboxes. the new HP SureStore Optical Storage Family gives users significant enhancements over the 2.6GB models, including twice the storage capacity and increased transfer rates at a much lower cost per gigabyte. The new 5.2GB (8x) family of jukeboxes provide permanent storage and much faster shared access to large amounts of reference data, enabling better customer service and back-office productivity. The term Ò8xÓ refers to an eight-fold increase over the 650MB (1x) capacity of the original magneto-optical disks introduced in 1989. HP's 5.2GB-based optical products range in price form $3,894 to $101,894. The new products are available in volume shipments May 1 through HP's worldwide sales channels, including the HP sales force, OEMs, distributors, and value-added resellers. HP's Optical Storage products can be found on the World Wide Web at www.hp.com/go/optical.

Sherpa Corporation announced that its flagship aerospace/defense application, Sherpa/IPD...

provides an effective solution for complete CDRL (contract data requirements list) management which can be combined with its PDM capabilities. Companies that ar awarded government contracts are mandated to deliver certain information as part of fulfilling their contract obligation. All information relevant to each of these deliveries, such as content and schedule, is specified in a CDRL. The accuracy, as well as the timely submittal of all information relevant to the CDRLs associated with a contract, is extremely important as these are used to track a company's work in compliance with the contract. CDRL's therefore, require stringent adherence and are typically very labor and paper-intensive. Boeing/McDonnell Douglas, a Sherpa/IPD user, has moved its CDRL management online with IPD. The company also uses PDM@Net a a Web interface to the IPD data model. As a result, Boeing has significantly streamlined its CDRL management, saving significant time and money. For more information, contact Sherpa at 408-941-4600, fax 408-941-4622, or www.sherpa.com.

VisionShape announced their royalty-free Imaging Toolkits have been expanded to include Bates Stamping...

Bates Stamping is often used by the legal industry to number or date/time mark images as they are scanned or processed.It can be used to make and identify images with copyrights by putting a company name, logo and/or legal copyright on them, giving both identification and protection of images, together with auto-increment numbering of the images. VisionShape's Bates Stamping software allows the user to insert up to 128 objects anywhere on a page in less than one second. An object can be either a string of text with setting of font name, font size, and font attributes, or a bitmap image file. Bates Stamping is available as part of VisionShape's VisionTools for image handling and forms processing, and an example can be seen on VisionShape's Web site a www.visionshape.com/images/bates.bmp VisionTools are 32-bit ActiveX/QCX controls for Windows 95 and NT. They provide compression, decompression, annotation and colorviewing for JPEG, GIF and TIFF files. With TWAIN drivers, as well as support for scanners using Dunord and Xionics/Seaport interface boards, VisionTools are available for $1,995.00. For more information, contact Dan Borrey at VisionShape at 714-282-2668, fax 714-282-2673, Sales@Visionshape.com, or www.visionshape.com.

Spicer announces the addition of the Contex FSS and FSC series of scanners...

to its extensive list of over a hundred supported scanners. Featuring large-document bilevel, grayscale, and 24-bit color scanning combined with fast load speeds and low memory requirements for JPEG files, Imagenation r4.5 makes it practical to scan and view E-size color images. Imagenation's support for Contex scanning includes: scan settings that may be adjusted during a scan; rocker mode that repeatedly scans a section, allowing users to optimize document settings; batch mode, which allows multiple documents to be scanned into separate files or into a single multipage document; and the choice of scanning to file or into Imagenation for further document clean-up. Imagenation supports the FSS 3200 to 10200 and FSS 3300 to 10300 series of Contex scanners, as well as the FSC 5000 and 8000 DSP. Imagenation scanning version list prices start at $1195 (U.S.)  In a separate announcement, Spicer announced release 4.5 of Imagenation for Windows, the powerful document imaging tool providing scan, view, markup and edit capabilities. New for the 4.5 release, Spicer has signed a licensing agreement for the patented compression algorithm used in GIF and PDF, allowing compression support for these file formats in Imagenation. Release 4.5 also features enhanced accuracy and entity support for the AutoCAD, CADRA, DGN, and HPGL formats. Imagenation list prices start at $199. (U.S.) for the Windows versions. Release 4.5 was available March 1998 for Windows 3.x, 95 and NT operating systems. Spicer has also announced Imagenation's new multilingual version, targeted to meet the needs of global document management solutions. Translated into a dozen languages, now users can dynamically switch Imagenation's user interface and online help to the language of their choice form the menu. Scheduled for release in Spring 1998, available languages include Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. Imagenation's multilingual version is available for 16-bit and 32-bit Window's platforms.  For more information, contact Spicer Corporation's head office at 519-748-2462, marketing@spicer.com, or www.spicer.com.

Chrystal Software announced the availability of Astoria 3.0...

Among the enhancements of this latest release of the component-oriented document management software are full-text search and retrieval and support for XML (eXtensible Markup Language). This latest version of Astoria heralds the emergence of an evolving category of software-based tools which focus on the management of information in the form of discrete components.  Juxtaposed between traditional document management and content management systems, applications such as Astoria provide precise control over individual components of information. While Astoria is currently at the forefront of this trend, The Delphi Group, Boston, MA, anticipates that support for XML will spread throughout compound document management systems and that these applications will evolve similar capabilities for maintaining format consistency and content integrity across dynamically assembled documents. Enhancements in Astoria 3.0 include support for XML and integration of full text retrieval using the Verity search engine. The product is available immediately. Client/server license pricing begins in the neighborhood of $50,000. For more information visit Chrystal's website at www.chrystal.com.

Micro Design International (MDI) announces release of SCSI Express CD-ROM...

and optical storage management software, version 4.0 This release incorporates a new packaging scheme for a more simplistic approach to selecting SCSI Express options for Windows NT and Novell NetWare environments. SCSI Express manages MDI's complete line of CD-ROM and writable optical storage products, as well as most well-known storage products in the industry. this suite of MDI products began shipping in April 1998. SCSI Express, version 4.0 for Windows NT and Novell NetWare list prices range form $395 to $12,995, depending on the level of device supported. MDI's Client Cache is a free addition to SCSI Express that comes bundled with the 4.0 version. TitleWare is an added option available for $335 to $2,100 list prices for 10- to 250-user support. For more information, contact 800-920-3340, 407-677-8333, fax 407-677-8365, info@mdi.com, or www.mdi.com