Information is the lifeblood of competitive companies. When critical information is trapped in files and folders, or laying dormant in a fax machine or mailbox, or sitting unused in a stack of paper documents, it holds back operations…it delays your response times to the critical needs of your customers, vendors, and partners…it slows down your business to the point where remaining competitive is next to impossible.

For your business to remain competitive, you must have critical information at your immediate disposal, and be able to serve client needs unimpeded by the delays and high costs associated with an ongoing “paper chase.” The solution is to convert printed information into electronic data and ensure time- and cost-efficient distribution of that data. The solution is InputAccel.

InputAccel is a complete information capture solution that will provide your business with a more effective method of coordinating, validating, and assimilating incoming documents. Not only will it empower your business with high-speed functionality in data capture, processing, and integration, it will even improve the integrity of business-critical data by removing opportunities for error.

InputAccel is already the solution for hundreds of globe-spanning companies, helping them collect and integrate external information into their systems. This enterprise-level solution from Captiva Software—the industry leader in input management solutions and services—transforms a deluge of external data into usable, business-ready content, no matter what its format or point of origin.

The Proven, Signature Strengths of InputAccel
Scalability: An Expandable Information Capture System
If a business isn’t growing, it’s dying. And as your business is growing or preparing for growth, you must make sure your information capture system can accommodate such developments. InputAccel is 100% scalable; it can be deployed at a departmental level, and be scaled up easily to an enterprise level. The system’s modular architecture is designed to expand—compartmentally or system-wide—so no matter where growth occurs, you will never need another information capture system. InputAccel will grow according to your needs.

Distributed Capture: More Information from More Locations
The global economy has entirely changed the way competitive companies do business: some operations are conducted in-house, whereas others may take place overseas. InputAccel’s distributed capture strength allows you to use resources wherever they are available. For example, your scanners may be in remote sites all over the world, while your indexing team is in London, and your central offices are in New York. The IA Server controls all processes as if they were taking place under one roof.

Diverse Document Capture: Countless Forms of Information, One Capture System
There are endless kinds of information out there, and, sooner or later, your enterprise must face them all. But no matter what the document type, and no matter what its processing requirements, InputAccel can convert it into business-ready data. InputAccel has a wide array of modules to handle most any range of requirements—e.g., a resume may require only image QA and key from image, whereas a medical claim may require a full-text OCR, zonal OCR, and a PDF capture.

Should InputAccel’s existing modules not fit your unique capture needs, the available source code and software development kit insures easy integration of other technologies. Additionally, technologies from third-party providers can be easily integrated into InputAccel.

Color Support: Full-Color Functionality
The array of information entering your enterprise isn’t just black and white, which is why InputAccel can concurrently manage both binary (b&w) and color images. The color of an image remains intact and accessible throughout the process—even on something as seemingly simple as yellow highlighting in a text document. Color images also produce more usable data, and are essential when manual labor, such as keying from an image, is required (errors are drastically reduced when operators key from a color image over a binary image).

Image to XML Support: Ensuring Usable Information Is Readable Information
In 9.999 out of 10 cases at the enterprise level, data must be delivered across multiple applications, which is why InputAccel supports XML, the industry standard for sharing data across an enterprise. Empowered by this signature strength, InputAccel can output information in a form) that is instantly recognizable by other systems, saving your company heavy-duty integration chores and, more importantly, heavy-duty integration costs.

Compatible with Your Enterprise System: Seamless, Cost-Effective Integration
InputAccel is API to API compatible with enterprise content management systems from vendors such as IBM, Documentum, OpenText, FileNET, and eiStream, to name only a few. All key features, such as initiating a workflow or mapping document attributes, are supported, allowing you to take complete advantage of all the strengths of your exisiting system(s).

Modular Architecture: Always Room for New Technologies
Technology always marches onward and upward, and your information capture solution must be able to accommodate new technologies. InputAccel’s modular architecture means there is always room for more. You will not have to install a new system to incorporate new technologies, or to adapt to the new requirements that may arise within your company. InputAccel is all you need, now and down the road.

A Product and a Platform: Out of the Box and Into the Enterprise
Every company has different requirements—some need only minor tweaks to their existing input management solution, whereas others need a complete overhaul. InputAccel can accommodate these needs, and everything in-between. You can choose to work with InputAccel’s predefined modules and CaptureFlows, or create your own, or use a combination of out-of-the-box solutions and customized modules. And as it’s an open system, third party modules are always easy to integrate.

Professional Service & Support: More Than Just Software
In addition to InputAccel’s easy-to-deploy applications, you will also find a trained staff of experts available to walk you through every process; people who will ensure that you are getting the most from your information capture system.

The InputAccel Professional Services Group has the expertise to help you build customized workflows before installation, and, once you’re up and running, on-going technical support remains available. You can call a support center or have a representative visit your company to ensure that your information capture system is running effectively.

Combined with our fully customizable software, our service and support capabilities make InputAccel far more than just a product—InputAccel is a complete solution.

InputAccel Feature Summary

Modular, Open Architecture

True Client-Server—TCP/IP via clients and server: clients process work; data resides on server
Asynchronous Processing—multiple clients can work on the same batch at the same time
Push-Based Processing—automatic work assignment ensures no clients remain idle
Up to Eight Levels of Document Hierarchy—users’ document hierarchy can remain unchanged (e.g., page, file, folder, drawer, etc.)
Full Transaction Rollback Capability—server data may be rolled back to last known good state in event of systems failure, power outage, etc.
Windows Domain Security—system maintains high-level security, and can assign same permissions created with Windows User Manager

Customizability

Enterprise-Specific CaptureFlows—build customized CaptureFlows based on industry leading development environment using VBA
3rd Party Integration—flexible, scalable system allows for new and/or enterprise specific technologies to be easily integrated
API to API Integration—seamless assimilation with enterprise document repositories
Software Developer Kit—Custom-built applications may be “plugged in” or integrated into the IA Server
Multiple Customization Methods—wizards, VB scripts, SDK, and source code can be used to customize system

Flexibility

Flexible Installation Process—tailor system to enterprise requirements; install enterprise-specific modules
Distributed Capture—remote sites can deliver information to enterprise system
PDF Conversion—can convert PDF files into searchable documents

System Administration

Single Point Administration—reduces complicated and error-prone multiple module administration
Output Pages—data may be output anywhere within the capture process, not only at batch conclusion
Page Status Views—intuitive interface allows user to view page progress within a batch, and easily catch bottlenecks

Service & Support

Professional Services Group—Captiva’s PSG will help you create enterprise-specific modules and workflows before launch of software package
Technical Support—Captiva’s tech support will ensure input management systems continue to run smoothly, and reps are available for on-site visits