NCsoft plays to win

NCsoft, developer and publisher of online computer games, has deployed Teamworks BPM software suite in its North American business unit to support its product development and publishing processes, according to eMediaWire.

"With NCsoft's rapidly growing product line, we needed a BPM [business process management] solution to help manage the publishing of our titles," said Robert Cordero, game operations manager at NCsoft.

"Teamworks makes collaboration more systematic and productive. Its reporting features aid us in isolating bottlenecks in our processes, thus allowing us to increase efficiency and performance."

EMC claims to have advanced Web-based distributed document capture, with the addition of a new solution to its arsenal that automates the scanning and indexing of paper documents from remote offices, reports IDM.

Called Captiva eInput 2.0, EMC says the solution streamlines document capture by automating the classification of documents, the extraction of data and the validation of information from a Web browser.

An extension to the Captiva InputAccel platform, eInput has been designed to work with EMC's Documentum and transactional content management applications.

The EDM Group has purchased Business Designs, a business process technology consultancy, in order to establish a BPM practice, reports IT News Online.

The acquisition includes all existing Business Designs consultancy staff and a customer list that includes British Telecom, Channel 4 and Hallmark.

Sam Ferguson, EDM Group's chief executive, said: "This is a step-change for EDM. The acquisition of Business Designs pushes us a year forward in our plan to become the only document management company in the UK market that can both scan large volumes and integrate documents into our customers' key workflows and business processes. We see this as a major competitive advantage."