Local value-added RightFax distributor, AmVia has marked the 160th birthday of the fax machine with the announcement of the product`s leading market share and performance. Supporting over a billion documents each business day, RightFax is the leading fax server brand worldwide with more than double the market share of its closest competitor, according to the IDC.
Gil Caplan, founding AmVian, says: "RightFax has evolved into a business information delivery application. Initially RightFax came into its own with tens of thousands of companies replacing standalone fax machines with fax server technology. Today, RightFax is positioned as an e-document delivery and ERP production fax vehicle and is fast becoming a critical component in the automated delivery of documents."
Caplan states that RightFax can reduce document delivery costs by up to 90% and improve productivity through improved workflow. RightFax also ensures secure, reliable transactions and produce legally valid documents.
Analysts predicted that the signing of the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (E-SIGN bill) in 2000 would dramatically increase confidence in the Internet replacing paper-based transactions -- cutting costs and improving business processes. However, technical considerations and concerns about online privacy, security, fraud and the legality of electronic documents have discouraged adoption of this new technology. This explains why fax continues to be in such wide use today, across industries and across the globe.
Another contributing factor to RightFax`s continued growth is the rapid adoption of its ERP/Production fax capabilities by enterprises across the globe. Production fax allows for high-volume, business-critical document delivery fully integrated with desktop, e-mail, CRM, ERP and legacy applications.
History of fax
* The patent was granted to Alexander Bain on 27 May 1843. This was 33 years before the patent for the telephone.
* The first commercial fax service was opened between Paris and Lyon in 1865 and they were called pantelegraphes.
* Faxes really came into their own in 1906 when they found their first major use: to transmit photos for newspapers.
* By the mid-1980s faxes were ubiquitous in offices and in many homes.
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