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PLP Digital Systems Announces Printfold Support...

PLP Digital Systems announces its DCRS (Document Control and Reprographics System) now includes full support for Printfold 3150 Document Folder with the Xerox 8855, KIP 9010, 9820, and 7095 printers; and for Printfold 2150 Document Folder with the Xerox 8830, KIP 3620, 3820, and 1230 printers, through the DCRS' PlotWorks digital reprographics software component. By using DCRS' PlotWorks to control a printer and the Printfold folder, users get the added benefits of high-speed processing, complete job control, and full jam recovery. Via PlotWorks, DCRS electronically connects the printer with the folder and controls the entire print job -from job submission through folding - with no penalty in performance. PlotWorks provides complete control of all fold types and other folding parameters supported by the Printfold folder. Folding parameters can be specified with other job parameters, and then either submitted through the PlotWorks Client, set as a default parameter for a network polling directory, or added/changed by an administrator after submission to a PlotWorks hub. Because it maintains full control of print jobs from submission through folding, PlotWorks' sophisticated jam recovery feature includes jams in the folder. If a job jams during folding, the product detects this, then reprints and refolds the job after the jam is cleared. Contact Susan Alden at 602-949-7568, susana@plp.com.

Orbital Releases Version 3.0 of AdPlan Promotional Business Software...

a streamlined program for businesses that want to quickly develop and maintain a successful promotional program. From generating a customized long-range advertising plan to the implementation of short-term objectives, AdPlan functions as an interactive guide for the development, implementation, and tracking of effective promotional efforts ranging from print and broadcast to the Internet. The AdPlan program takes individuals through a step-by-step process from creating a realistic advertising budget based on national averages for their particular industry to timing and implementing an effective 12-month advertising program. The software can prepare and print a customized advertising plan in as little as 60 minutes. AdPlan is bundled with Adobe Acrobat Reader software. The Acrobat Reader allows users to view, navigate, search, and print their customized advertising plan. Customers also receive the GeoMap Archive for targeting specific geographic regions; a Media E-mail Directory listing over 10,000 media sources for submitting online press releases; a Web Site Submission Tool for automatically submitting a businesses Web site to over 950 major sites; and customer surveys for acquiring first hand consumer knowledge. Contact Jim Gehrig, Marketing Director, at 508-620-6610, 508-370-7288 (fax).

Canon Announces New Products At Six-Day, Three-City Series of Digital Solution Forums...

Canon U.S.A., Inc., the $7.3 billion subsidiary of Canon Inc., recently held a series of Digital Solutions Forums highlighted by the introduction of 10 new products. The new products are scheduled for delivery by the end of the first quarter, 1999, and include the imageRUNNER 600, imageRUNNER 400, imageRUNNER 330, and imageRUNNER 60, all part of their Digital Multifunction Production Systems; imageCLASS 4000 and imageCLASS 2200, both monochrome network laser printers; imageCLASS C2100, a new full-color network laser printer; the C LBP 460PS, a high-performance workgroup color printer; and, rounding out the new lineup (whew!), are the LBP-2460 and the LBP-1760 laser printers, capable of 16- and 24-ppm respectively. For more information, contact Tim Andree, Canon U.S.A., at 516-328-5181.

Cartia Software Organizes Massive Amounts Of Information Onto Interactive Topographical Maps...

ThemeScape 1.0, is a new application for managing high volumes of information. Using a process known as Enterprise Information Mapping (EIM), ThemeScape automatically harvests massive amounts of unstructured text, extracts the major themes and topics, and creates an interactive map of the information. The topographical maps show a big-picture view of the content within large quantities of documents, web pages, e-mail, and other sources. The topographical landscapes produced by ThemeScape are not just maps of documents. They are the information within those documents. Major themes rise from the surface, much like mountain peaks, indicating a concentration of documents around a given topic. The distance between the peaks indicates how closely different themes are related. For example, peaks labeled "Internet" and "E-Commerce" might appear in close proximity, but relatively distant from a peak labeled "Keyboards." These visual cues rapidly accelerate a user's ability to understand the context of information. ThemeScape generates the maps and assigns topic labels automatically, a key requirement when organizing high volumes of incoming information. There is no manual classification or taxonomy, and no tagging of individual documents. Because the system actually extracts content, the maps and labels are automatically tailored to the information being harvested. For more information, contact Mike New, VP of Marketing, at 425-602-3550.

CMwebStat - from CMstat...

a developer and provider of comprehensive Configuration Management (CM) systems, announced the release of CMwebStat, a Web-based query tool that gives manufacturers access to product information via the Internet. When used in combination with CMstat's V5 Configuration Management software system, CMwebStat is a powerful, easy-to-use query tool for viewing information on a product's parts, drawings, documentation, and changes within the CMstat V5 CM system. CMwebStat offers wildcard and Boolean capabilities to simplify searches and minimize the user knowledge required for retrieving any item. Each item possesses several searchable fields or attributes to refine queries with pinpoint accuracy. For more information, contact Philippe Turpault at 619-597-7502.

Computer Clearing House Imaging Group Releases New ImageSuite Applications For Lotus Notes Users...

the company announced the availability of two new software applications in their ImageSuite line of products. The new products, Vault and FileCabinet, make it simple for users to share important business information with other areas of their company, suppliers, and customers. These new ImageSuite applications for Lotus Notes simulate the hierarchical use of file cabinets, drawers, folders, and records, sharing a common user navigator. Two versions of each application are available. ImageSuite FileCabinet offers one application with an image viewer including annotation tools and one without a viewer. ImageSuite Vault offers one version that has a CAD file viewer with redlining and another version including a viewer for CAD and image files with mark-up capabilities. The four versions now enable users to choose the right application to meet their specific business requirements. Contact the Imaging Group at 716-334-4191, 716-334-2244 (fax).

Eurologic Systems Introduces XL 500 Ultra2 SCSI Storage Array...

the latest addition to Eurologic’s XL Series of high-performance data storage solutions. The XL 500 Ultra2 SCSI Storage Array combines the fault tolerance and modularity of the XL Series with the increased performance of Ultra2 (LVD) technology. Ultra2 SCSI is a further enhancement of Ultra SCSI, offering increased performance of 80 megabytes per second and increased connectivity with support for 16 devices and nearly 40 feet of cable length. The XL 500 incorporates several advanced data storage management and monitoring features that, combined, make the system capable of monitoring key components, alerting the user in the event of an inconsistency and offering the ability to manage the system from a remote location. For more information, contact Emma Greene at 978-266-9224.

ImageSite Solution Continues To Conquer The Document Management World...

Image Machines Corporation, a developer of document management solutions, announced that their IMageSite 2.0 internet solution now supports DWG, the AutoCAD file format standard of the architectural, engineering, and construction industries. In use by such entities as the Department of Commerce, Lucent Technologies, and GE Aircraft, IMageSite 2.0 utilizes a standard web browser to quickly display raster and AutoCAD DWG files in full color, and allows the user to have direct control over all document layers, including collaborative markups. The product utilizes the latest in Java programming techniques, and satisfies the worldwide demand for a cost-effective method to view, collaborate, and distribute documents of all sizes, including large format drawings. ImageSite 2.0 is computer platform independent, and uses industry standard, Java-enabled browsers such as NetScape or Microsoft Internet Explorer. For more information, contact E. Frank Wade at 703-709-7475.

PSSoftware Releases RIMS Studio 7.01...

the Company's next generation RIMS (Recorded Information Management System) solution for the enterprise. With extended functionality to manage electronic records and automated processes for ease of use, RIMS Studio Version 7.01 offers users unprecedented power and extensibility to manage critical business documents in a highly secure infrastructure. RIMS Studio breaks new ground by providing these new capabilities through tight integration with standard Microsoft Windows 32 features. Secure and easy to use, RIMS Studio Version 7.01 extends the management of records from paper to paper plus electronic records. It allows users to file email records with an automated drag and drop technique that is transparent to the user, making it easy to add email files to RIMS Electronic Record Repository. With RIMS 7.01, users can store, manage and search for imported and scanned images also held in the repository. Through these same simple drag and drop and scanning/importing techniques, RIMS 7.01 users can also manage other electronic records, such as word processing, presentation or spreadsheet files. RIMS Studio version 7.01 is easily integrated with existing electronic document management solutions, including PC DOCS' DOCS Open and FileNet's Panagon IDM. For more information, contact Michelle Amiro, Marketing Manager, at 613-226-5660.

Rush Creek Software Introduces The Enterprise Edition Of The Konifer32 Report Distribution System...

a fully Web-enabled electronic report distribution system and warehouse application. The Konifer32 Enterprise Edition provides organizations with complete report management functionality from a Web browser over a corporate Intranet, extranet or the Internet. Using any standard browser, employees or other authorized recipients can access reports by simply connecting to their corporate Web site and entering their user name and password. Users can download either current or aged reports. Built-in security features ensure that recipients can only access reports, or information within a report, that they are authorized to view. The Konifer32 Enterprise Edition consists of a server-based application that automatically identifies and indexes all corporate reports produced in any host environment and a server-based applet that processes client requests to deliver specific report pages from the corporate report warehouse. It works with industry standard SQL databases that are compliant with the open database connectivity (OBDC-2) standard. For more information, call 972-857-1900.

U.S. Design Introduces a 5.2 GB Compaq StorageWorks Compatible Optical Drive...

U.S. Design announced the release of its family of standalone optical storage drives that are 100% compatible with the Compaq StorageWorks family of RWZ Drives. Until now customers did not have a replacement product for the RWZ Drives which Compaq brought to an end of life in October 1998. The new drives from U.S. Design are available in a tabletop version (QT-5200) and the very popular StorageWorks Rack Mount Version (QT-5200-VA). The new drives from U.S. Design also offer double the storage capacity of the previous RWZ Drives. The QT-5200 and QT-5200-VA provide 4.8 GB of data storage using 1,024 bytes-per-sector media (OpenVMS configuration) and 5.2 GB of data storage using 2,048 bytes-per-sector media (Unix and Windows NT). Customers can mix their current RWZ drives and QT drives in the same StorageWorks Rack Mount Assembly. For information, contact Lorrie Manning, at 410-381-3000 ext. 106.

USDATA Ships Xfactory...

USDATA Corporation announced that it began shipping its Xfactory object modeling MES, the innovative new Manufacturing Execution System which was introduced at Microsoft Headquarters in June. Xfactory, which incorporates Microsoft's newest technologies and is built on Microsoft DNA (Distributed interNet Applications) architecture, is the first and only MES system to successfully apply visual object modeling to the manufacturing environment. Xfactory is a work-in-process (WIP) tracking product that enables factories

to integrate, coordinate and manage data across multiple levels - including all areas of production, inventory management, scheduling, planning and business management. It creates a visual representation of the factory using objects that represent different manufacturing functions. Xfactory allows the user to point, click, drag and drop with complete control of real-time manufacturing. This easy-to-use, Windows NT-based,

object-oriented program is scalable from the smallest to the most complex manufacturing installations. The Xfactory architecture is based entirely on ActiveX components. Client components can be incorporated in such environments as Visual Basic, C/C++, and SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) packages, such as USDATA's FactoryLink ECS and

others. Client applications can also be run as ActiveX documents inside a web browser. For more information, contact Myrna Baron for USDATA at 212-581-6760, ext. 301.

Viking's New Data Entry Software VDE+Images Speeds Keying from Images of Unstructured Documents...

Vikng Software Services Inc. announces the release of VDE+Images, a new data entry software solution that speeds keying and increases the accuracy of information entered from images. VDE+Images is designed specifically for imaging applications where the location of the data is not predictable, either because the documents do not have a standard format or because there are a variety of forms that arrive in random order. With VDE+Images, the operator quickly and easily manipulates the image in order to locate and key the appropriate data. Hot keys let operators zoom, move, rotate and invert images with a single keystroke. The product is unique in that it allows information to be stored in the most logical and useful way, instead of automatically generating one record for each image. With VDE+Images, there are unlimited possibilities for relationships between data records and images. The software is batch-oriented. Each batch of images is subdivided into logical groupings, such as a check and a series of invoices, or all the documents pertaining to a particular real estate transaction. Contact Michael E. Glover, Vice President, at 918-491-6144, 918-494-2701 (fax).

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