Imagination
August 2007 - Issue 01
HOT OFF THE PRESS
Kofax Ascent® Fax makes fax documents more reliable and manageable
Kofax recently announced Ascent® Fax, a new product that is designed to automate and facilitate the reliable transport of fax documents from Captaris® RightFax™ and fax servers from TOPCALL directly into Kofax Ascent® Capture to protect against the common loss of fax documents between the point of capture and the extraction process.
Many companies still rely heavily on fax servers as a secure channel for sending and receiving business-critical information. With the imposition of stringent industry-specific compliance requirements, it has become crucial for inbound fax communications to be traceable in order to ensure data integrity and accountability. With Ascent® Fax, users gain that peace of mind.
Ascent® Fax is tightly integrated with Ascent® Capture to help automate business processes and ensure that fax document content is delivered directly into business applications and databases. With Ascent® Fax, companies using Ascent® Capture can treat fax servers just like a scanner or a multi-functional peripheral.
Faxes can be processed by applying the same rules as applied to scanned paper documents, e-mails and other electronic documents. Information captured from faxes can be stored in an archive, or sent to an ERP or CRM database.
Ascent® Fax is also integrated into Ascent® Administration, providing users with a single interface for simplified management and administration. A Web Services-based connection between the fax server and Ascent® Capture removes barriers when deploying a fax workflow – even through a firewall.
Fax workflows can be further automated by leveraging metadata from incoming fax documents. For example, a sender’s fax number, subscriber identification or timestamp can be mapped directly to index fields in Ascent® Capture. As a result, fax-related data can be automatically directed to different batch classes.
While Ascent® Fax is designed for companies in all lines of business, it is particularly well suited to transaction-intensive industries such as banking and finance, insurance, mail order, telecommunications and manufacturing.