April 2005

Datacap Teams Up With Lance Armstrong & Tyler Hamilton at AIIM

"Enhance Your Cycle Time"

Datacap is turning AIIM 2005 into a unique cycling event to benefit two important health-related foundations. Held in Philadelphia this year, the annual conference for the Association of Image and Information Management (May 17-19) will be the site of a fund-raising event to benefit the Lance Armstrong and Tyler Hamilton Foundations.

Built on the theme of "Enhance Your Cycle Time," Datacap and many of its industry partners have organized a fund designated for the participating foundations. Partnering with Datacap are leading vendors in scanning, capture and enterprise content management, including Fujitsu, FileNet, Canon, Stellent, Böwe Bell + Howell, IBML, Hyland OnBase, Vignette, Kofax, and Océ.

With a road-racing Litespeed bicycle mounted on an indoor "trainer" in the Datacap booth, there will be ongoing fundraising activities throughout the show. The bike is provided by one of Philadelphia's leading bicycle retailers: Bicycle Therapy (www.bicycletherapy.com)

In the spirit of competition, the funds raised will be shared between two health-oriented foundations created by professional cyclists. The distribution of donations between the two foundations will be decided by the sponsoring vendor whose rider posts the best time over a virtual "course" on the trainer in the Datacap booth (#1137).

To raise awareness of the foundations and the cycling competition, professional and elite amateur cyclists will be available in the Datacap booth to answer questions about racing, equipment and cycling technique. They'll be wearing a special custom cycling jersey, featuring all the participating sponsors' logos.

AIIM attendees will be eligible to win a Litespeed racing bicycle by entering a raffle in the Datacap booth. Datacap will also give away Lance Armstrong LIVESTRONG bracelets to AIIM attendees, each of which represents a $1 donation to the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

"'Enhance Your Cycle Time' works as a theme for us at AIIM, because our customers see reducing the turnaround time to process documents as a primary benefit of an investment in Datacap," said Scott Blau, Datacap CEO. "We are delighted that so many of our partners have joined with us to raise funds for these important causes and promote the health and ecological benefits of cycling."

Organizations and individuals can make a donation to the "Enhance Your Cycle Time" Charity Fund and participate in the cycling contest. For more information, contact cycletime@datacap.com or visit www.datacap.com/cycletime.  

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Datacap Releases Taskmaster 6.2

Greater Flexibility, Improved Performance

April 15 marked the release of Datacap Taskmaster 6.2, the latest release of Datacap's rules-based data and document capture software that provides point and click flexibility, as well as browser-based scanning and indexing, and vertical applications for medical claims and invoices.

Taskmaster 6.2 provides greater recognition accuracy and improved document identification with new ImageFix Actions and Pattern Matching Actions.

Unparalleled security for capture system administrators has been added to Taskmaster. Taskmaster Executive Service  requires a password login to access Taskmaster data, and futher aids in compliance with HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and other regulations which protect sensitive data.

Click N Key for OMR is another data entry time saver that enables an operator to click on the image, where the check box is located, and it automatically populates the data field.

Taskmaster 6.2 will be released April 15. Upgrades are free to all Datacap customers under maintenance. To request an upgrade, visit the Datacap website, click on Request Software Updates and follow the instructions.

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ImageMax Joins Datacap Partner Network

Provider of Imaging Services and Solutions Nationwide

ImageMax is a leading nationwide provider of integrated document management solutions. In addition to conversion services for companies looking to outsource, they provide solutions that enable clients to more efficiently and cost effectively capture, index, store, manage, retrieve and distribute documents and data.

Corporate headquarters are located in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, with offices and conversion centers throughout Northeast, Midwest, West and Gulf states. Vendors represented include document management systems from OnBase and Legato, and scanner hardware from ScanTrax and Panasonic. Adding Datacap to the mix enables them to offer the benefits of automated data and document capture.

Liquidation Services Company to Use Taskmaster for Bankruptcy Processing

Wasting no time, ImageMax has already provided a Taskmaster implementation to one of the nation's premiere services for managing the administrative and information requirements of the nation's largest bankruptcy proceedings.

Chapter 11 involves a multi-stepped process with overlapping deadlines. Many larger companies store information necessary for a bankruptcy filing in disparate systems - making the process more challenging. This company specializes in streamlining and consolidating data from multiple entities and presenting information in one accessible database. They can now automate the imaging, capture and storage of Proofs of Claims and other back-up documents, required in the bankruptcy process with Datacap Taskmaster.

To learn more about ImageMax, visit their website.

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Tips And Tricks

Working With Rules in Taskmaster

In March, Datacap debuted a series on Datacap's rules-based architecture, which enables easy implementation of the most complex and demanding capture workflows by non-programmers. We began with a description of rules and how they work. In this issue, we'll look at how to integrate rules into an application that will capture data and documents.

In Taskmaster, pre-scripted actions are clustered together into rules, which can be used to control every aspect of the capture process at every level: batch, document, page and field. To create an application, users must first create a Document Hierarchy (also called a Datacap Object or DCO), and then apply the rules that will best accomplish the desired results.

To create a DCO, imagine a cascading hierarchy that begins at the top level with a batch. Within a batch are documents, and within documents are pages. Finally, at the lowest level, are the fields on each page. Setting up a new application entails defining the contents of a batch, the documents in that batch, the pages in each document and the fields on each page targeted for capture.

First, a user scans samples of all the documents they want to capture. Using the new Taskmaster Application Wizard in 6.2, creating a new DCO is a simple point and click process that involves answering prompts and then naming the various elements in the DCO.

Building a new application can take just a matter of minutes. Along the way, the Wizard also helps you create "Fingerprints," which is Taskmaster's way of automatically identifying pages. Once you can identify pages, by comparing them to page types in the "Fingerprint Library," you can automate indexing or trigger business-specific rules that help speed the processing of documents.

The Wizard also automatically generates a verify screen for each page, showing the fields you have selected for capture. When your DCO is complete, a series of default rules is applied to control batching, recognition, and validations.

At this point, to customize the application to your organization's business rules, you simply open Taskmaster RuleManager, which presents an easy interface for adding rules from the rule library, modifying existing rules, or creating new rules, using Microsoft VBScript.

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Customer News

Dutch Tax Expands Taskmaster Application

Since 2000, Dutch Tax has been using Datacap Taskmaster to automate the processing of tax returns for residents of the Netherlands. Dutch Tax recently expanded and upgraded to Taskmaster 6 to take advantage of the rules-based architecture and browser features for distributed capture. The application was sold by Unisys Netherlands, who will oversee implementation and testing.

Avaya  Corporation Runs Taskmaster For Invoices Over The Web

Avaya Corporation of Basking Ridge, New Jersey, is a global leader in communication systems, applications and services. The company has selected Datacap Taskmaster For Invoices, running in a browser to facilitate at-home workers processing invoices.

For more information, contact marketing@datacap.com

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