Nuance PDF Converter Enterprise 7 Delivers Time-Saving Innovations that Make It the Smarter PDF Software for the Office
BURLINGTON, Mass., August 2, 2010 – Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, today announced the new release of its award-winning desktop PDF software, Nuance PDF Converter Enterprise 7. The new release of Nuance’s flagship PDF product delivers the rich features users want in desktop PDF, with some features that surpass all others in delivering time-saving value in the office – all at about one third the cost of Adobe® Acrobat®.
PDF Converter Enterprise 7 promises to extend Nuance’s leadership as the number one alternative to Adobe Acrobat, delivering a robust set of innovations and enhancements that result in a smarter PDF solution for the office. Important innovations in the release include visual document assembly, which makes it easier than ever to combine paper, PDF and Microsoft Office documents into a single PDF, and a Web PDF toolbar that puts the full power of the product directly into leading Web browsers. Office workers wanting paperless features gain robust PDF scanning capabilities, including one-click scanning with scan-and-markup capabilities. Enterprise-wide collaboration and workflow is enabled through robust connectivity to Microsoft SharePoint and enterprise content management systems.
“We selected Nuance PDF Converter Enterprise over alternatives because it was significantly less expensive,” said Mark Karten, Realtor, The Karten Group at Realty Executives of Nevada. “But even better than the lower cost of licensing, Nuance’s focus on PDF productivity features saved us hours of effort when working with paper, PDF and Microsoft Office documents. If you need PDF in the office, we recommend Nuance.”
eCopy ShareScan from Nuance Helps Cut Costs
Nuance Communications, Inc., a provider of speech and imaging solutions, announced FCS Financial uses Nuance eCopy ShareScan to automate their loan processing documents, utilizing the solution to automatically turn paper into digital information. eCopy ShareScan is the market-leading software solution for automating document workflows from multifunction printers (MFP) and network scanners.
Xerox Names Nuance Overall Office Solution Partner of the Year
Burlington, MA – May 20, 2010 – Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, today announced that Nuance was named the 2009 Alliance Partner of the Year by Xerox Corporation’s Global Business Group. Nuance was recognized for continued contributions to Xerox, its customers and the printing industry.
Nuance delivers leading scanning and document automation solutions for Xerox’s multifunction printers (MFPs), which enable customers to replace manual paper processes with digital document workflows that save money, increase productivity in the office and deliver a measurable return-on-investment.
“Nuance solutions leverage the processing power, large touch screens and network connectivity of the Xerox Extensible Interface Platform to automate document workflows for any size organization,” said Robert Weideman, general manager and senior vice president of the Nuance Document Imaging Division. “We are committed to enhancing the value of the Xerox platform through our continued innovation and product leadership – joining with Xerox in allowing organizations to turn paper into profits.”
Nuance has been a Xerox partner for more than a decade, providing innovative solutions that include Scan-to-PC Desktop®, ScanFlowStore™ and eCopy™ ShareScan®. This year, Xerox recognized Nuance for two top partner awards:
Nuance — Overall Office Solution Partner of the Year
In naming its Overall Office Solution Partner of the Year, Xerox cited Nuance for commitments to the market, customers and Xerox, coupled with a dedicated team of sales, marketing and technical resources. Xerox positioned the addition of X-Solutions and eCopy solutions to the Nuance portfolio in the past year as enabling Nuance to expand significantly its reach with joint customers on a global basis and provide more comprehensive product offerings from a single vendor.
Konica Minolta and Nuance eCopy Receive BERTL’s Best Award for Integrated Scanning Solution
Ramsey, N.J. – February 25, 2010 – Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta), a leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop, today announced BERTL® Inc (BERTL) has awarded the 2009 BERTL's Best Award for Best Integrated Scanning Solution to Konica Minolta and Nuance for the eCopy ShareScan® solution designed for integrated Konica Minolta multifunctional printers (MFPs – print, copy, fax, scan all-in-one system). Introduced in Fall 2009, this award-winning solution was launched through Konica Minolta’s bizhub® Extended Solution Technology (bEST) Developer Support Program.
Offering Konica Minolta customers enhanced workflow efficiency by converting paper documents into easily managed digital files, eCopy ShareScan gives IT administrators the ability to manage document scanning functionality from a central location, which decreases administration costs. Customers can choose from two configurations – eCopy ShareScan Essentials or eCopy ShareScan Suite – both of which provide cost-effective alternatives for customers to address their specific document management environment.
"Congratulations to Konica Minolta and Nuance eCopy for earning the well-deserved BERTL's Best Award for this new and innovative document solution" said Margie Davis, Managing Director, BERTL, Inc. "Evaluated by the BERTL team of analysts as part of our user-focused testing, eCopy ShareScan more than meets the needs of Konica Minolta users requiring an easy and secure solution to share and work with paper documents via Email, fax and desktop systems."
With eCopy Acquisition, Nuance Plans To Leverage Complementary Channels, Products And Technologies
By Jamie Bsales, Associate Editor, December 14, 2009
In October, Nuance Communications, Inc. announced that it had acquired eCopy, Inc. from a consortium of owners (including Canon, venture-capital firm Ascent Venture Partners and private-equity player Landmark Partners) in an all-stock deal valued at $54 million. The purchase adds eCopy’s industry-leading network scan capture and routing platform, eCopy ShareScan, to Nuance’s portfolio of OCR, document imaging, document management and speech recognition products. To find out what the combination will mean for MFP OEMs and their channel partners, BLI spoke with Robert Weideman, general manager and senior vice president of the Nuance Document Imaging Division. Weideman and his team are planning to leverage the complementary products, technologies and channel strategies of the two companies to give MFP makers and dealers more robust product offerings, as well as to make scan capture easier for end users.
One-Stop Shop For The Hardware OEMs
Both Nuance and eCopy have had long-standing relationships with MFP OEMs. Nuance licenses its capture and OCR technology to the leading manufacturers, several of which sell it under private labels—Ricoh Personal Paperless Document Manager and Xerox Scan to PC Desktop Professional, for example. Many equipment makers also bundle Nuance’s OmniPage, PaperPort and PDF desktop applications with scanners and MFPs. eCopy, for its part, was the first third-party application available for Canon’s MEAP embedded platform and has since forged relationships with nearly all of the MFP players of note. In fact, eCopy’s ShareScan solution is supported either as an embedded application or via the company’s add-on ScanStation on more than 75 percent of Segment 2 through 6 MFP models currently offered in the U.S.
But Weideman noted that the strategies of the two companies differed when it came to their OEM relationships. “At Nuance, we were willing to do private-label products, while eCopy focused on maintaining the eCopy brand,” he said. “We believe in both paths. When there’s an opportunity to be a private-label supplier for OEMs that want general purpose and desktop solutions, we’ll do that. But OEMs like the eCopy brand for the high-end.”
Arizona State University is Reinventing Purchasing Processes by Driving out Paper
The purchasing department at Arizona State University had become overrun by paper-bound processes. For construction purchase orders, each purchase order request required a large packet of information to be copied and routed. Upon completion of processing, a purchase order was generated and up to five copies were made for archiving, departmental records and to be mailed to the vendor.
The purchasing department’s costs for printing, paper, and postage were mounting. With its filing room filling up, the department was almost out of storage space when it turned to the University’s Business Applications and Fiscal Control team to reinvent its purchase order process for construction purchasing.
In a redesigned business process, construction purchasing at the University now accepts purchase order request documentation, scans the documentation and converts it into PDF files to automate workflows. In many instances, departments now send the documents to construction purchasing as a PDF file via email rather than submitting paper documents.
All information goes into a Microsoft SharePoint repository where each construction purchase request is reviewed, processed and tracked. To add the scanned documentation and related information to SharePoint libraries, Arizona State uses Nuance’s eCopy desktop document imaging software.
This business process improvement has saved the University $10,000 per year in office supplies, paper and postage costs. It also contributes to advancing Arizona State University’s sustainability initiatives by reducing paper usage and the overall carbon footprint of the process.
Nuance Acquires eCopy, Extends Network Scanning Solutions that Connect MFPs with Enterprise Applications
BURLINGTON, MA, October 5, 2009 — Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced that it has acquired eCopy, a leading provider of solutions that integrate paper documents into business software applications. The acquisition of eCopy combines Nuance’s multifunction printer (MFP) desktop solutions and eCopy’s server offerings to deliver network scanning solutions that connect the widest range of MFPs to a broad set of business applications and content management systems.
eCopy’s network scanning solutions are offered by leading MFP vendors — including Canon, HP, Konica Minolta, Océ, Ricoh, Toshiba and Xerox — providing organizations with an intuitive touch-screen application that has a consistent user experience across devices. eCopy’s solutions support document connectivity to more than 100 enterprise applications, such as Microsoft SharePoint, EMC Documentum, Oracle and SAP, adding value to an organization’s existing investments in database, CRM, content management, legal, accounting and financial solutions.
“Nuance and eCopy share a vision of connecting MFP devices to a wide range of applications in an easy and productive way,” said Robert Weideman, general manager and senior vice president of the Nuance Document Imaging Division. “eCopy has earned a strong reputation for quality and innovation, and its team is respected for providing high levels of customer and partner service. We look forward to welcoming eCopy to the Nuance organization.”
A growing number of organizations are combining scanning software with intelligent MFP devices to increase productivity and reduce costs by creating efficient document workflows. This allows organizations to easily move invoices into accounting systems, contracts into practice management systems, patient records into electronic medical records (EMR) systems, and office documents into content management systems. In order for these workflows to be successful, MFP scanning solutions must be easy to use, provide robust document processing capabilities, and support a variety of content management systems and business applications.
Nuance PDF Converter Professional 6 Delivers Superior Productivity and Value, Replacing Need for Adobe Acrobat
BURLINGTON, MA — July 7, 2009 — Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, today introduced Nuance PDF Converter Professional 6, the newest release of its flagship desktop PDF solution. Nuance finally allows organizations to replace Adobe® Acrobat® software by delivering a product that is one-third the cost*, provides all of the rich features that organizations need to create, edit, convert and share PDF, and includes a range of document productivity and collaboration features not available from Adobe. Nuance’s “Better PDF for Business” proposition comes at a time when businesses everywhere are looking for ways to rein in costs and increase efficiency.
“There are only two options when it comes to enterprise-class PDF solutions — Adobe Acrobat or Nuance’s PDF Converter Professional,” said Robert Weideman, general manager and senior vice president of Nuance Document Imaging. “And of the two, Nuance is the only company to deliver the best PDF solution for business — with the right features and a price structure that allows everyone within an organization to take advantage of PDF. Alternative solutions don’t implement PDF to Adobe’s or Nuance’s level, meaning that they can’t open or display all PDF files. Only Nuance delivers the price, features and compatibility needed to to get the most out of your investment in PDF.”
With over three million seats of its PDF solutions deployed, Nuance has established itself as the premier provider of PDF desktop applications designed specifically for office environments. The new product builds on that momentum, adding unique features that bridge the gap between paper and digital document workflows — saving office workers significant time and expense, and accelerating green office initiatives.
First, new PDF Portfolios enable paperless collaboration, embedding file-types and folders — including PDF and Microsoft Office documents, and even images and videos — into a single PDF file with simple click and drag steps. Similarly, the unique Document Assembly feature in PDF Converter Professional 6 lets users drag and drop various file types into a PDF, and even renumber pages and edit headers and footers automatically within the newly assembled PDF document. A new PDF Auto-Pilot feature allows users to collapse multiple editing tasks into a single click.
BERTL Announces BERTL's Best Spring 2009 Award Winners
FAIRFIELD, N.J., June 4, 2009 — BERTL, a leading independent testing facility for digital imaging devices and workflow
solutions, is pleased to announce that the winners of its BERTL's Best Spring 2009
Awards are now available at www.BERTL.com!
The economy may have been slow these past six months, but that hasn't stopped this industry from putting out some
impressive solutions and devices. BERTL analysts have had their hands full testing a great many of them and they're ready to share their choices for the BERTL's Best Spring 2009 Awards!
BERTL has presented the following winners with BERTL's Best Spring 2009 Awards: Canon, eCopy, EFI, Epson, Equitrac, FMAudit, Hewlett Packard, InfoPrint, IRIS, KIP, Konica Minolta, Kyocera Mita, Lexmark, Mutoh, Nuance,
Océ, OKI, Panasonic, Plustek, Print Audit, Ricoh, Sharp, Toshiba, and Xerox.
Congratulations to all the winners!
Over the years BERTL’s product testing range has become more diverse, spanning from desktop printers, to software, and
all the way to production and wide format. BERTL recognized this product diversity and has put into place several key
analysts with specific expertise in the digital imaging field.
Ricoh Teams With Nuance To Deliver Personal Paperless Document Manager and Bring Personalized Scanning to Network MFP Devices
PHILADELPHIA, March 31, 2009 — Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, and Ricoh, the leading provider of digital office equipment, today announced the “Personal Paperless Document Manager” (PPDM), a new desktop application that makes document scanning and conversion with network multifunction printer (MFP) devices easier, more personalized and more effective than ever before. PPDM, designed for the Ricoh family of MFPs under the Ricoh, Savin, and Lanier brands, empowers users to eliminate paper processes by scanning documents directly to folders on a desktop and into ECM solutions. The solution will be on display in the Nuance Meeting Room (MR351) at AIIM Exposition + Conference 2009 in Philadelphia, March 30 – April 2, 2009.
PPDM makes scanning personal by letting users customize the MFP touch-screen menus directly from their PC, without the need for IT resources or intervention. The user experience is enhanced due to the seamless integration of a powerful desktop application with intuitive icon-based selections on the MFP touch-screen. The solution allows scanning at the MFP with single icons for scanning to the desktop, network locations and content management systems such as Microsoft® SharePoint™. Finally, PPDM makes scanning far more effective by making it easy to accomplish many tasks – such as scanning to the desktop, creating a searchable PDF and converting to a formatted Word document – with one selection at the MFP.
“The addition of personalized scanning features within the PPDM solution is impressive, as users can now instantly customize their MFP touch-screen experience right from their computer. By making scanning easy and personal, and by enabling paperless PDF workflows from the desktop, individuals can streamline document management processes and help make their organizations more successful overall,” said Ron Potesky, senior vice president, Corporate Communications, Product/Solutions & Channel Marketing, Ricoh Americas Corporation. “Our customers face increasing pressure to improve workflow, enhance security and cut costs each day. Working with a company such as Nuance enables Ricoh to hold true to our mission of providing robust and stable solutions that address our customers’ specific business needs and provide them with tangible tools to help improve their bottom-line.”
