Amvia announces launch of Verity TeleForm 9.0

Local value-added software distributor, AmVia today announced its release, in SA, of Verity TeleForm 9.0, the most advanced content capture and process automation solution available today.

Verity TeleForm is a proven software solution that is used in more than 6 000 organisations worldwide, included among which are such well known names as Wesbank and Edcon. The solution replaces costly manual data entry with efficient paper-to-digital processing.

This new version, the first TeleForm release since Verity completed its acquisition of Cardiff Software last March, offers several important new enterprise-oriented enhancements that will deliver significant benefits to users. Broadly, they embrace enhancements in accuracy, security and scalability, which collectively should allow companies to more easily adopt and expand the use of capture technology to derive more value and cut costs from their document-centric processes.

Kevin Hurwitz, MD of AmVia, comments: "TeleForm 9.0 represents a great step forward for what was already an excellent content capture product, but which is now more versatile for global enterprises. We are very excited, as are our business partners and their customers, about the product`s new features and business benefits. This new release, Verity TeleForm 9.0, is more flexible and customisable for an ever-growing list of business applications."

This new release includes five major feature enhancements that will allow the software to be distributed more efficiently across the enterprise, integrating with enterprise-level business applications more easily, securely, reliably and with better alpha-numeric and image recognition performance. The key improvements are:

* Integration with Microsoft SQL Server to let customers better utilise existing infrastructure to expand business applications and take advantage of the database`s capabilities such as transactional rollback support and real-time replication and backup;

* Support of Microsoft VBA to facilitate easy customisation of application-specific business rules while permitting enhanced script editing and debugging capabilities done within the familiar development interface of Visual Basic for Applications;

* Significant security enhancements that include expanded Microsoft LDAP support, password-protected PDF file exports, simplified integration with Single Sign On (SSO) solutions and strengthened protection for file transfers to ensure that sensitive document and batch data are not exposed to unauthorised users;

* Enhanced manageability and high-availability capabilities through TeleForm`s modules for Reader and AutoMerge Publisher that can now be handled as Windows services; and

* Improved recognition and throughput from higher performing RecoFlex multi-engine recognition technology that delivers clear improvements to hand-print (ICR), machine print (OCR), check box (OMR), barcode, image pre-processing and lexical checking as well as fewer false positives and even fewer characters requiring review in the TeleForm Verifier.

TeleForm is available in three product families, TeleForm Desktop, TeleForm for Workgroup, and TeleForm Enterprise. The expanded levels of functionality ensure deployment of capabilities to best meet the needs of an organisation in a cost-effective manner, while guaranteeing scalability for future expansion.

Hurwitz concludes: "With this product we expect our customers will find in no time at all that they are able to streamline their administration and connectivity, while throughput and accuracy will pay off on the very first day."