EMC Captiva Cloud Toolkit Transforms Web-Based Scanning; Achieves Strong Third-Party Adoption

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EMC Captiva Cloud Toolkit Transforms Web-Based Scanning; Achieves Strong Third-Party Adoption

HOPKINTON, Mass - July 26, 2012

News Highlights:

• EMC Captiva Cloud Toolkit transforms web-based scanning support by eliminating browser and plug-in limitations
• Enables developers to rapidly add scanning functionality to web-based applications through industry standards
• Reduces overall cost of supporting distributed capture applications by simplifying deployment, providing wide compatibility, and reducing ongoing maintenance costs
• Fast adoption from scanner manufacturers and wide support for browsers and development platforms ensures "out of the box" support

Full Story:

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced strong adoption of its EMC Captiva Cloud Toolkit. The toolkit transforms web-based scanning by providing a simple way for developers to add scanning functionality to web applications, enabling scanning from all document scanners and multifunction peripherals (MFP) that support the ISIS and TWAIN standards.

Since its release at the end of 2011, hardware manufacturers and software developers are already leveraging EMC Captiva Cloud Toolkit. Major scanner and MFP manufacturers, including Avision, Brother, Canon, Epson, Fujitsu, HP, Kodak, Panasonic, Plustek and Visioneer, are shipping scanners supporting these new scan-enabled web applications.

The Captiva Cloud Toolkit provides broad support for web browsers and web development platforms, significantly reducing the barriers to acquiring physical documents into web- or cloud-based applications and business processes. Web-based business applications that utilize the toolkit work with all standard web browser platforms, including Windows Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome, and require no additional software to run, such as ActiveX or other browser plug-ins. With Captiva Cloud Toolkit, developers can quickly create working, scan-enabled, web-based business applications compatible with existing corporate web browsers and development environments, including HTML5, Microsoft Silverlight, JavaScript, and Adobe Flash.

Developers wishing to evaluate Captiva Cloud Toolkit may download a free trial of the software development kit at www.emc.com/cloudtoolkit.

Partner Quotes:

Sam Yoshida, Vice President, Marketing, Business Imaging Solutions, Canon U.S.A

"Combining Canon's high-quality imageFORMULA scanner technology and the EMC Captiva Cloud Toolkit provide our customers with an advanced imaging capture solution that allows users to seamlessly scan documents to web-based applications without the hassle of downloading additional software."

Yuki Uchida, Vice President, New Business Development, Ricoh Americas Corporation

"We have had a long-lasting partnership with EMC, Documentum and Captiva scanning technologies, and with this new Captiva Cloud Toolkit we take a major next step. We've been impressed with how easy it is to use and deploy, as well as its vast device support. In adding web-based scanning to Ricoh's cloud-based document management service, DocumentMall, built on Documentum, we can offer substantial new value to our customers."

Executive Quote:

Rohit Ghai, Vice President, Products, EMC Information Intelligence Group

"EMC Captiva has established its leadership in document capture by providing both enterprise-class document capture solutions to customers and delivering capture technology for partners to extend. With the Captiva Cloud Toolkit, we are providing the best developer experience for adding distributed scanning capabilities to business applications." We are pleased to deliver this rich functionality to the market."

Additional Resources:

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• Join the EMC Captiva communities on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, SlideShare, the EMC Community Network, the ISIS Document Imaging Community Network

About EMC

EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing.  Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com.

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IBM Mobile Shopper Provides Instant In-Store Digital Scanning, Checkout Capability for Consumers Using Mobile Phones

Incorporates Advanced Honeywell Bar-Code Scanning Technology

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Armonk, N.Y. - 01 Jun 2012: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced retail technology that allows consumers to scan items into a mobile phone as they shop the aisles, then check themselves out at an IBM self-checkout station.

Designed to help retailers provide a more customized in-store shopping experience for smart phone shoppers, the IBM Mobile Shopper application incorporates Honeywell (NYSE: HON) mobile scanning technology capable of scanning virtually any bar code, no matter what background it is printed on, the direction it faces, or the packaging covering it. The solution currently runs on the Google Android and Apple iOS operating systems.

According to a recent IBM Institute of Business Value study, self checkout is the preferred way to shop for most consumers today, and they are very specific about the way they want to use mobile technology while shopping.  More than 50 percent say they want to use a mobile device to scan while shopping, and to do final checkout at a self-checkout station.  More than 40 percent want to scan samples and retrieve shopping items for pickup, or have the items delivered directly to their homes.

"Retailers can now deliver a more personalized shopping experience that is less of a chore and more of a convenience for consumers," says John Gaydac, vice president, IBM Retail Store Solutions.  "By enabling consumers to scan and check-out a wide variety of products at their own pace, retailers can not only create a more customized shopping environment, but also increase in-store traffic."

The new mobile phone application is powered by IBM ACE Store Integrator software and the newest release of IBM Self-Checkout software, which provides shoppers the same access to digital coupons, loyalty programs and special promotions at self-checkout stations that is traditionally available at fully-staffed point-of-sale checkout lanes.

The IBM Mobile Shopper, or "digital shopping assistant," incorporates Honeywell's high-performance SwiftDecoder Mobile bar code decoding software, one of many patented technologies that have helped secure the company's  leadership in camera-based bar code decoding.  Among them is the practice of decoding bar code-related information from a real-time video image, such as the display of a smart phone or other mobile device (U.S. patent 6,015,088).

"Honeywell has a long heritage of providing bar code scanning for mission-critical applications where inaccuracy is not an option," said John Waldron, president of Honeywell Scanning & Mobility. "Today, with IBM, we're bringing those capabilities to consumers to help make their shopping trips more efficient and productive."

The IBM Mobile Shopper solution with Honeywell mobile scanning is available immediately. For more information on Honeywell’s SwiftDecoder Mobile software, please visit www.honeywellaidc.com.

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