Wednesday, June 24, 2009 4:25 PM
by
loufranco
Jeff Shuey on Capture in SharePoint
Jeff Shuey thinks Document Capture in SharePoint is up for grabs:
Companies that had a chance to own this space have faltered. The leading vendor of document capture for 20+ years is Kofax. They have fallen flat and cannot seem to get out of their own way to make anything significant happen. I’m sure there are wins in various places across the globe where Kofax products are being used to address the document capture needs of companies. My point is that Kofax as a company has not made the right moves to go after what I can see is easily a $3-5 million dollar opportunity in the first year and has the potential to be a $1B dollar business.
Jeff used to work at Kofax, and he knows them a lot better than I do – so I’ll let his analysis stand.
Jeff then goes on to mention a few companies that are entering this space, including (ahem), Atalasoft (with Vizit).
Atalasoft is the leading provider of .NET imaging SDKs, which includes our DotTwain product for capture. We’re also a member of the TWAIN working group, creators of InspectorTWAIN (TWAIN driver grading service), and with Vizit SP, we’re bringing our imaging expertise to bear in SharePoint. Another company on Jeff’s list, BlueThread, announced a partership with us at AIIM in March:
Atalasoft’s Vizit SP, a zero-footprint no-download document image viewer with cleanup, editing, and annotation features, is now fully integrated within BlueThread’s SmartDesk, a highly-configurable end-user ECM application framework. With Vizit SP and the advanced ECM/BPM capabilities of SmartDesk, users can readily view process-enabled content stored within Office SharePoint Server 2007 no matter the document type (Office, PDF, TIFF, CAD, etc.) within a completely web-based SmartDesk interface.
At the end of his blog, Jeff asks if there really is a Capture gap in SharePoint – clearly, we think so – and remember, capture is more than just scanning – it’s everything that goes into getting the document and metadata into your system. That includes barcode reading, OCR, indexing (including human assisted), capture QA workflows, and document clean-up. Each of these represents an opportunity for partners to work with Microsoft to make SharePoint an ideal capture system.