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.

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.

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.”

BURLINGTON, Mass. --(Business Wire)-- Jul. 23, 2008 Nuance Communications (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, today announced that it has won two "BERTL's Best" awards from BERTL Inc., a source for objective, independent product evaluation reports and comparative analyses on digital imaging devices and workflow solutions. Nuance's OmniPage(R) Professional software received an award for "Best Interface in a Top Tier OCR Program," while Nuance's PaperPort(R) software was named the "Best Desktop Document Management Application." Both awards were bestowed within the Workflow Solutions testing category.