Today, Atalasoft announced it is being acquired by Kofax, a publically traded software company and the market leader in the Document Capture space. As you may know, I founded the company in 2002, and bootstrapped it all the way. We never took outside funding, and grew the company by differentiating in an already established imaging SDK market. ...

Atalasofties talk about company culture at Atalasoft.

Atalasoft employees talk about the first computer they had.

Just over eight years ago, I left my job as a mechanical systems engineer at Hamilton Sundstrand on the hunch that I could build a successful software company. I learned a lot working in a large aerospace company, and was proud of my work. My last job was a systems engineer on the Convergent Nozzle Actuation System (CNAS) for the Joint Strike ...

Still fresh in my mind is the day that I interviewed at Atalasoft.  It was 2007, the economy was still in full swing, and companies were hiring computer science graduates like it was going out of style.  I interviewed with a number of companies but Atalasoft stood out in one important aspect: It was the hardest interview process I’ve ...

I just read How to Design a Popular Programming Language, which is very similar to Paul Graham’s Being Popular essay from 2001 about language popularity. Both make the point that languages become popular because they become the default way to program a very popular platform. This is a point I make often. I care about what language I program in ...

As 2009 comes to a close, I want to take this opportunity to wish you a happy holiday and thank you. You have helped fulfill my vision when I set out on this entrepreneurial journey ten years ago. That vision was to become the leading provider of .NET document imaging toolkits backed by remarkable in-house customer service. With thousands of SDKs ...

A critical piece of any ECM is robust search capabilities. With SharePoint 2007, Microsoft scores well in search according to Gartner in their ECM Magic Quadrant, but will fair even better next year with the enhanced search features in SharePoint 2010. Atalasoft has recognized the need to improve the retrieval of documents in SharePoint by ...

The 8 Things series on AIIM’s Digital Landfill blog is still going strong. Today, they published my contribution, 8 Ways to Reduce your Storage and Bandwidth Costs for Document Imaging Solutions. If you’d like more imaging information like that, sign up for Atalasoft’s Imaging e-Course, where you’ll learn about the different image formats, how ...

Last night, Atalasoft and Snowtide Informatics sponsored a meeting of the Western Mass Developers Group, which featured Ben Fry speaking about Computational Information Design and the Processing programming language. O’Reilly also pitched in by giving us a few copies of Ben’s book, Visualizing Data, to give away. The talk was a fascinating ...