News / Press Releases

ActiveDocs Limited Announces OEM Agreement with The Agile Factory

Brussels, Belgium - June 01, 2009

ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document automation applications, announced today that it has signed an OEM Agreement with The Agile Factory.

Glenn Ricketts, ActiveDocs CEO, said: “I am delighted to welcome The Agile Factory to our international network of carefully selected partners. This OEM agreement allows The Agile Factory to provide world class automated business process solutions fully integrated with our world leading solution for document automation.”

The Agile Factory, based in Belgium, offers automated business process solutions using its Custodian Framework in which processes are built and maintained efficiently on an enterprise level.

The Custodian Solution allows customers to quickly implement automated business processes using the existing business process platforms (BPP) of the market such as FileNet, Hummingbird, Open Text and Microsoft. The objective is to allow business users to develop and maintain processes with minimal ICT support.

The Custodian Framework is based on the Integrated Composition Environment (ICE) paradigm, the alternative to application development to build a business process platform achieving the required enterprise agility.

About ActiveDocs Opus

ActiveDocs Opus™ is a world-leading Document Automation Solution built on Microsoft® Office and Microsoft® Windows Server technology, and supports industry standard integration with data sources and document storage and handling applications. Templates are designed in Microsoft® Word and built from reusable components. ActiveDocs Opus has built-in management and deployment tools to allow Templates to be used for User-Driven (interactive) and Program-Driven (automated) document creation.

About ActiveDocs

ActiveDocs, founded in 1992, is an independent software vendor delivering server-based document creation solutions which significantly improve a corporation’s productivity and efficiency by the automation of routine documents.

A Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner, ActiveDocs has built its reputation delivering its solutions on the Microsoft® platform, bringing significant cost savings to businesses worldwide and dramatically enhancing corporate productivity. In addition to providing the software, ActiveDocs also provides services to assist with implementation, training and template creation.

ActiveDocs has offices in Kansas City USA, Brisbane Australia, Auckland NZ, and London UK, and has over 60,000 users of ActiveDocs applications worldwide from around 450 companies, including 122 of the US Fortune 500. Customers’ industries include Banking and Finance, Insurance, Utilities, Government (both Federal and State Local), Healthcare, Professional Services, Real Estate and Manufacturing. As well as customers in multiple vertical industries, ActiveDocs has seen specific use of its ActiveDocs technology in Human Resources, Sales and Marketing proposals, Contract Management and General Business Administration.

For more information on this announcement contact ActiveDocs at info@activedocs.com.

ActiveDocs Limited Announces Establishment of Australian Office

Brisbane, Australia - May 04, 2009

ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document automation applications, announced today that Skip Dostine has been appointed to the role of VP Business Development Australia and will establish the Australian office immediately.

Glenn Ricketts, ActiveDocs CEO, said: “I am pleased to welcome Skip to the company and to announce the opening of our office in Australia. This is the start of our commitment to provide better access to the company and its products and services for our many clients in Australia, and to bring the superior benefits of the ActiveDocs Opus Document Automation solution to a new audience of Australian organisations in both the public and private sectors.”

Skip is a successful professional whose most recent role was as VP of Sales and Marketing North America with Winscribe.

Skip said: “It’s a pleasure to be part of ActiveDocs’ continuing success and international expansion. ActiveDocs Opus is a world leading solution for customers requiring complex document design and creation. As enterprises need to rapidly reflect changes such as customer details, regulation or product information in a myriad of documents many times stored in diverse locations, ActiveDocs provides complete control over the content of any document in a fast and easy to use solution with almost limitless possibilities for integration with existing and future applications. We’re looking forward to expanding our business here in Australia.”

ActiveDocs Opus™ is a world-leading Document Automation Solution built on Microsoft® Office and Microsoft® Windows Server technology, and supports industry standard integration with data sources and document storage and handling applications. Templates are designed in Microsoft® Word and built from reusable components. ActiveDocs Opus has built-in management and deployment tools to allow Templates to be used for User-Driven (interactive) and Program-Driven (automated) document creation.

Nationwide Exchange Services implements ActiveDocs Opus

Kansas City - March 30, 2009

ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document automation applications, announced today that Nationwide Exchange Services (NES) has selected ActiveDocs Opus to automate document creation associated with 1031 exchanges. This implementation coincides with the acquisition of J.P. Morgan Property Exchange Inc.

Faine Mende, ActiveDocs VP Business Development North America, said: “NES has a history of document excellence from all aspects including regulatory and business compliance, speed of turn around and accuracy. Selecting ActiveDocs Opus as their tool of choice for future proofing this area of their business is testimony to the extensive capabilities of ActiveDocs. We are pleased NES has joined the expanding North American ActiveDocs customer base.”

ActiveDocs Opus™ is a world-leading Document Automation Solution built on Microsoft® Office and Microsoft® Windows Server technology, and supports industry standard integration with data sources and document storage and handling applications. Templates are designed in Microsoft® Word and built from reusable components. ActiveDocs Opus has built-in management and deployment tools to allow Templates to be used for User-Driven (interactive) and Program-Driven (automated) document creation.

Major legal firm implements ActiveDocs Opus fully integrated with Interwoven Worksite (iManage)

Auckland, NZ - March 6, 2009

ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document automation applications, announced today that AJ Park, a major legal firm based in Wellington, New Zealand, has integrated ActiveDocs Opus with Interwoven’s Worksite (iManage) document management system for all of its correspondence generation.

The seamless integration allows desktop users of Microsoft Word to select and run ActiveDocs Opus Templates via a pop-up instance of the ActiveDocs Opus Document Wizard which renders the selected Template as an easy form-based interview. The completed document is then stored in Worksite and reloaded into the user’s Microsoft Word session.

AJ Park previously used the ActiveDocs Desktop solution with similar integration. The priorities for upgrading to the ActiveDocs Opus server-based system were to minimise changes to users’ workflow and to preserve the firm’s considerable investment in Templates. Integration has been achieved with a minimum of custom development effort, utilising the extensive capabilities of ActiveDocs Opus web services and the enhanced ActiveDocs Opus Document Wizard to ensure that users’ expectations have been met and exceeded. All of AJ Park’s existing ActiveDocs Desktop Templates were migrated directly to ActiveDocs Opus through the product’s purpose-built migration tools.

Dale Lang, AJ Park’s Information Systems Manager, said: “Opus provides a modern browser based environment for our staff to create their documents, without taking away our ability to control the content of our documents. It enables us to take advantage of the xml functionality in Word 2007 so that we will be able to reduce the number of clippings or snippets as they are known in Opus. It was key to our business that we could integrate Opus with Worksite, and this has also enabled us to move from a pre-profiling document environment to a post profiling environment. The profiling of a document is now hidden from our users and can be controlled by the data they have entered into the Opus template. Little training has been required. It's extremely intuitive and staff are finding it easy to use.”

Catherine Larsen, ActiveDocs VP Business Development APAC, said: “Like all good legal firms AJ Park needs to maintain comprehensive control over document creation, storage, and retrieval, while meeting the demand for accurate and up to date content combined with personalised correspondence and context-based variance. The success of their upgrade from ActiveDocs Desktop to ActiveDocs Opus is a testament to AJ Park’s investment in their processes and ActiveDocs Templates, and to ActiveDocs’ continuing investment in our product, its integration capabilities, and ease of upgrade.”

ActiveDocs Opus™ is a world-leading Document Automation Solution built on Microsoft® Office and Microsoft® Windows Server technology, and supports industry standard integration with data sources and document storage and handling applications. Templates are designed in Microsoft® Word and built from reusable components. ActiveDocs Opus has built-in management and deployment tools to allow Templates to be used for User-Driven (interactive) and Program-Driven (automated) document creation.

Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office implements ActiveDocs Opus for Electronic Case Filing and Criminal Case Management

Kansas City - February 20, 2009

ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document automation applications, announced today that Tarrant County in the state of Texas is incorporating ActiveDocs Opus in its Electronic Case Filing System (ECFS) for automated document generation.

ECFS supports 2000 users and produces several million documents annually, enabling law enforcement and court personnel to manage and update cases from anywhere in the Tarrant County area which incorporates the Dallas-Fort Worth urban areas.

The system when it is fully completed will enable documents associated with criminal trials to be fully automated from arrest to trial. These documents will also be fully integrated into a new Case Management system being developed by Tarrant County.

Faine Mende, ActiveDocs VP Business Development North America, said “We are pleased that Tarrant County has recognized ActiveDocs’ commitment to its product by selecting ActiveDocs Opus to assist in the creation and management of complex and high-volume documentation for ECFS.”

Glenn Ricketts, CEO of ActiveDocs, said "ActiveDocs is pleased to have been selected by Tarrant County to be part of what is a major project, implementing a strategic vision as to how the judicial process will move to a totally paperless environment over time. At ActiveDocs we are focused on enabling our clients to enhance document accuracy, mitigate risk, and create efficiencies across a wide range of business areas and industries."

ActiveDocs Opus™ is a world-leading Document Automation Solution built on Microsoft® Office and Microsoft® Windows Server technology, and supports industry standard integration with data sources and document storage and handling applications. Templates are designed in Microsoft® Word and built from reusable components. ActiveDocs Opus has built-in management and deployment tools to allow Templates to be used for User-Driven (interactive) and Program-Driven (automated) document creation.

About Tarrant County

Tarrant County is an urban county located in the north central part of Texas. Fort Worth serves as the county seat to a county population of approximately 1.7 million citizens. Tarrant County is a member of the North Central Texas Council of Governments.

ActiveDocs Limited Announces New US Office

Kansas City - February 17, 2009

ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in document creation applications, today announced the opening of its new premises in Kansas City, USA.

Faine Mende, ActiveDocs VP Business Development North America, said “ActiveDocs is experiencing significant growth in the North American market. The new premises in Kansas City allow for the redeployment of Application Specialists and Technical Support Resources, as well as sales and marketing operations, to support our growing North American customer base.”

Glenn Ricketts, CEO of ActiveDocs, said "As more businesses recognise the cost savings and risk mitigation capabilities of the ActiveDocs Opus Document Automation solution, the ongoing expansion of our customer base in North America and especially in the US means this is the right time for ActiveDocs to establish new premises. With the launch of ActiveDocs Opus Viper in Q2 2009 we expect our client base to continue to expand further and we must be prepared to meet our customers’ expectations."

Major International Insurance Underwriter selects ActiveDocs Opus

Kansas City - January 16, 2009

ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document creation applications, announced today that the Underwriting Division of a major global insurance company is upgrading an existing ActiveDocs Enterprise system to ActiveDocs Opus for the creation of complex underwriting documents in a multi-server deployment encompassing development, quality assurance, and production environments.

Once complete the multi-server publishing system based on ActiveDocs Opus for document automation will be used to produce complex Insurance Documents supporting a $4 Billion business on a global basis.

These templates number in the hundreds and are extremely complex in design and structure incorporating thousands of Rules and Logic elements, and many hundreds of pages.

Faine Mende, ActiveDocs VP Business Development North America said: “We are pleased that this world-leading business has selected ActiveDocs Opus to assist in the creation and management of the complex documentation required for their insurance underwriting process. Their investment in ActiveDocs Opus enables them to preserve and enhance their existing investment in ActiveDocs Enterprise, and to extend the benefits of document automation to documents and business areas beyond that investment."

Glenn Ricketts, CEO of ActiveDocs said: “This is yet another endorsement of the power of ActiveDocs Opus and the ability for document automation based on highly complex templates to be used in nearly every business process to provide efficiency and cost benefits. In particular the ability of the ActiveDocs Opus application to automate complex rule driven content and mitigate risk associated with human error via our enhanced feature set is what makes Opus a world class scalable application.”

For contractual reasons, ActiveDocs cannot disclose the name of this customer.

ActiveDocs Opus selected by State Of Washington Department Of Ecology

Kansas City - November 18, 2008

ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document creation applications, announced today that the State Of Washington's Department Of Ecology has selected ActiveDocs Opus as its preferred Document Automation solution.

Nick Chivers, ActiveDocs Director of Product Marketing said “The State Of Washington's Department Of Ecology evaluated ActiveDocs Opus and Microsoft InfoPath. ActiveDocs Opus is a complete Document Automation solution, in clear contrast to InfoPath's primary role as a form-based data capture solution. We have published a white paper comparing the products, and the State Of Washington's decision supports our conclusions.”

Glenn Ricketts, CEO of ActiveDocs said “ActiveDocs congratulates the State Of Washington on its decision. ActiveDocs Opus is designed to help any type of organization to meet the challenges of document creation in every operational area, and to benefit from the ease of use and efficiency inherent in the application.”

Business Trends Quarterly features Document Automation with ActiveDocs Opus

Kansas City - October 13, 2008

ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document creation applications, announced today that Document Automation and the ActiveDocs Opus platform are featured in the latest edition of the prestigious Business Trends Quarterly, an Analysts In Media (AIM) publication. The document automation article can be downloaded here.

Nick Chivers, ActiveDocs Director of Product Marketing said “Document Automation Solutions complement Document Management Systems by ensuring that documents are accurate, complete, well-branded, and compliant from the very start of the document lifecycle. ActiveDocs congratulates Business Trends Quarterly and AIM for their recognition of the importance of Document Automation Solutions, and we have been pleased to work with the outstanding AIM team to bring this subject to a wider audience.”

Glenn Ricketts, CEO of ActiveDocs said “Organizations today must manage ever-growing compliance requirements while eliminating the risk of fallout from poor quality documents. ActiveDocs Opus is designed to help any type of organization to meet these challenges in every operational area, and to benefit from the ease of use and efficiency inherent in the application.”

ActiveDocs adds new features with ActiveDocs Opus Barracuda release

Kansas City - October 1, 2008

ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document creation applications, announced today that it has released the next version of the ActiveDocs Opus platform called BARRACUDA with new features that will provide significant benefits to customers. The new features extend an already impressive series of features that ship with the third generation platform of the widely installed ActiveDocs document automation software.

These new features include:

• Charting – data can now be represented graphically in a wide range of chart formats including scatter, bar, and line graphs and pie charts
• Headers And Footers – full ActiveDocs Opus technology can now be deployed in document headers and footers
• Dynamic Data Sources – Template Designers can now specify model data sources for which users can supply data at run-time

Nick Chivers, ActiveDocs Director of Product Marketing said “Our major investment in the development of the versatile ActiveDocs Opus platform continues to benefit our customers with the addition of these rich feature sets. We are committed to Document Excellence Through Innovation and will continue to develop ActiveDocs Opus to become the worldwide standard for document creation.”

Glenn Ricketts, CEO of ActiveDocs said “The new product release is a continuation of our feature development programme that we have committed to on behalf of our customer base and further separates ActiveDocs Opus from our competitors. The release of the Barracuda version not only extends both the features and capabilities of the existing Mako release which in itself was impressive by global standards, it also has dramatically improved performance in the design and composition of sophisticated rule-driven templates.”

ActiveDocs Opus™ is a world-leading Document Automation Solution built on Microsoft® Office and Microsoft® Windows Server technology, and supports industry standard integration with data sources and document storage and handling applications. Templates are designed in Microsoft® Word and built from reusable components. ActiveDocs Opus has built-in management and deployment tools to allow Templates to be used for User-Driven (interactive) and Program-Driven (automated) document creation.

The Barracuda release is available now for the benefit of new customers, and as a free upgrade for current software assurance paying customers with server based systems.

A white paper detailing the features enhancements is available on request by contacting ActiveDocs on info@activedocs.com. Current software assurance paying customers can also view details of the Barracuda release at the online Knowledge Center.

Dutch Equal Treatment Commission (Commissie Gelijke Behandeling) implements ActiveDocs Opus integration with FileNet P8.

London, UK - August 7, 2008

ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of Document Automation applications, announced today that the Dutch Equal Treatment Commission is implementing ActiveDocs Opus and the FileNet P8 connector developed by Novadoc Technology.

Glenn Ricketts, CEO of ActiveDocs said “This is another successful project in the European Union integrating ActiveDocs technology and FileNet P8 to provide significant benefits to customers who are looking to leverage automated document assembly, and to centralise control of templates and documents.”

ActiveDocs Opus™ is a world-leading Document Automation Solution built on Microsoft® Office and Microsoft® Windows Server technology, and supports industry standard integration with data sources and document storage and handling applications. Templates are designed in Microsoft® Word and built from reusable components. ActiveDocs Opus has built-in management and deployment tools to allow Templates to be used for User-Driven (interactive) and Program-Driven (automated) document creation.

Novadoc FileNet P8 connector, the result of over 24 months of development, provides the ability for a user to initiate the assembly of an automated template or document using ActiveDocs from within the FileNet P8 environment.

ActiveDocs announces collaboration and joint marketing initiative with Axicos.

Auckland, NZ and Basel, Switzerland - August 1, 2008

ActiveDocs International Ltd and Axicos Ltd today announced that they have entered into a collaboration to jointly market their products ActiveDocs Opus™ and Carizma, both built on the powerful Microsoft .NET V3 Framework. The integrated solution of both products will deliver superior value to their clients.

Glenn Ricketts, CEO of ActiveDocs said “This partnership allows our companies to provide a one-stop solution for world class contracts and alliance management combined with our world leading solution for document automation.”

“We're very happy to partner with ActiveDocs, as their state of the art products to automate complex and critical business documents perfectly complement our contract management solution, Carizma” said Bernd Kottke, CEO of Axicos.

ActiveDocs Opus™ is a world-leading Document Automation Solution built on Microsoft® Office and Microsoft® Windows Server technology, and supports industry standard integration with data sources and document storage and handling applications. Templates are designed in Microsoft® Word and built from reusable components. ActiveDocs Opus has built-in management and deployment tools to allow Templates to be used for User-Driven (interactive) and Program-Driven (automated) document creation.

Carizma is a software product dedicated to the contract management process, including obligation management and automatic royalty calculations. Carizma is highly adaptable, and can be customized easily to support any company or industry.

About Axicos Ltd

Axicos is an innovative European IT company providing solutions and services focusing on business intelligence, corporate partnering and contract management.

Axicos solutions support companies in managing the full process of external relationships from first contacts to full contract implementation and compliance management.

When serving customers, Axicos understands the complexity of managing multiple systems, legal entities, and business partners, and is respectful of managements' needs.

Axicos was founded by senior healthcare industry executives and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland's pharmaceutical hub, with additional staff in Hockenheim, Germany.

ActiveDocs announces the End of Life for existing Enterprise Suite.

Auckland, NZ - August 1, 2008

ActiveDocs International Ltd, a world leader in the provision of Document Automation applications, today announced the End Of Life for all versions of the widely installed ActiveDocs Enterprise Suite.

ActiveDocs will continue to provide support for a period of 18 months, to clients who are current with ActiveDocs Software Assurance.

Clients who are current with Software Assurance also have the automatic right to upgrade from ActiveDocs Enterprise to ActiveDocs Opus for a period of 18 months.

On Feb 1st 2010 the right to upgrade will terminate and all support for ActiveDocs Enterprise will cease.

Glenn Ricketts, CEO of ActiveDocs said “The Enterprise application is a legacy system that does not support the latest version of Microsoft® Office or the latest document formats, and cannot be extended to support the next generation of Microsoft® Server platforms. Therefore we have decided to End of Life the product. Our newest application, ActiveDocs Opus, provides a superior set of features which were unable to be provided in the Enterprise system, and supports the latest version of Microsoft® Office and the latest document formats. The Opus codebase and architecture allow us to accommodate future generations of Microsoft® Server and Office platforms, with testing of Microsoft® Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 already in progress. We will continue to provide technical support for clients under our Software Assurance policy for a period of 18 months to enable a smooth transition. We have utilities specifically developed to migrate existing automated templates created with the Enterprise application to the Opus application and our team of application specialists will be available to provide additional technical assistance if required.”

For clients wanting to obtain additional information including migration whitepapers and pricing for migration assistance: please contact your account manager or info@activedocs.com.

Transfield Services (NZ) Ltd implementing ActiveDocs Opus

Auckland, NZ - April 11, 2008

ActiveDocs International Ltd., a world leader in the provision of document automation applications, announced today that Transfield Services (NZ) Ltd. is implementing ActiveDocs Opus in User-Driven mode for the creation and assembly of HR documents.

Catherine Larsen, VP Business Development, APAC said “Transfield Services (NZ) Ltd. is deploying an ActiveDocs Opus Solution to produce HR contracts and documentation for the whole of New Zealand. Content control and accurate personalisation is critical in the production of contracts and employee documentation and an ActiveDocs Opus implementation provides the necessary framework to ensure accuracy, efficiency and a system capable of responding rapidly to both business requirements and regulatory change.”

Transfield Services (NZ) Ltd. joins a number of other major worldwide companies who have successfully implemented ActiveDocs in the HR area of their business.

ActiveDocs announces Microsoft® Gold Partner status

Auckland, NZ - April 2, 2008

ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document creation applications, announced today that the company has achieved Microsoft® Gold Partner status.

Glenn Cameron, ActiveDocs VP Product Development said “we are pleased that our investment in the ActiveDocs suite of products based on Microsoft® technology has been recognised by our customers and by Microsoft®. We are committed to Document Excellence Through Innovation and will continue to develop ActiveDocs Opus on the Microsoft® technology platform to become the worldwide standard for document creation.”

Glenn Ricketts CEO said “recognition of our commitment to development of the ActiveDocs suite of products on the Microsoft® technology platform is important, as it acknowledges our investment in our people and in the technology for the benefit of our customers.”

ActiveDocs announces Open Document Format (ODF) support to complement OOXML

Auckland, NZ - March 25, 2008

ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document creation applications, announced today that Open Document Format (ODF) support will be provided in the ActiveDocs Opus Mako SR1 release available at the end of this month, to complement the OOXML support already provided by ActiveDocs Opus Mako.

Nick Chivers, ActiveDocs Director of Product Marketing said “the Open Document Format is becoming another standard for global document exchange. Our investment in the versatile ActiveDocs Opus platform enables us to support the requirements of business and government users in this multistandard space. We are committed to Document Excellence Through Innovation and will continue to develop ActiveDocs Opus to become the worldwide standard for document creation”.

Glenn Ricketts CEO said “support for the Open Document Format addresses significant changes occurring in the document creation space, and further separates ActiveDocs from our competitors. Complementing OOXML with ODF support is an important element in our aggressive development plan for the Opus platform”.

The Mako SR1 release will ship at the end of March 08 and will also be available to all current software assurance paying customers with server based systems as a free upgrade.

Further information is available on request by contacting ActiveDocs on info@activedocs.com

ActiveDocs Limited Announces Establishment of UK Office.

Auckland, NZ - March 4, 2008

ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document creation applications, announced today that Paul Dileo has been appointed to the role of VP of Sales for EMEA and will establish the UK office immediately.

Glenn Ricketts, ActiveDocs CEO said “I am pleased to welcome Paul to the company and to announce the opening of our office in the UK. We have many clients based in Europe and this is the start of our commitment to provide better access to the company, its products and services. I expect to be adding additional resources to the office during 2008.”

Paul is a successful professional whose most recent role was as CEO of Zeus Technology in the UK.

Paul said “It’s a pleasure to be part of ActiveDocs continuing success and international expansion. ActiveDocs provides a world leading solution to customers requiring complex document design and management. As enterprises need to rapidly reflect changes such as customer details, regulation or product information in a myriad of documents many times stored in diverse locations, ActiveDocs provides complete control over the content of any document in a fast and easy to use solution. We’re looking forward to expanding our business here in EMEA.”

ActiveDocs announces the End of Life for existing Desktop and Authoring Tool applications (4.1) and cross grade program.

Auckland, NZ - March 3, 2008

ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document creation applications, announced today that the widely installed ActiveDocs Desktop and the ActiveDocs Authoring Tool applications (v4.1) have been End of Lifed as from today.

The products affected are all ActiveDocs Desktop and ActiveDocs Authoring Tool versions. The TabletPC product was discontinued 2 years ago.

ActiveDocs will continue to provide support to clients who are paying annual Software Assurance for a period of 18 months.

ActiveDocs also announces a new program which will provide clients with the ability to cross grade to ActiveDocs Opus for a period of 18 months. The cross grade program allows for a 100% credit for licences paid when migrating to the ActiveDocs Opus application suite. Only current Software Assurance paying customers may take advantage of the cross grade program.

On Sept 1st 2009 the cross grade program will terminate and all support for the Desktop and Authoring Tool will cease.

Glenn Ricketts, CEO of ActiveDocs said “The desktop application is a legacy system that does not support the latest version of Microsoft® Vista or Office 2007 and therefore we have decided to End of Life the platform. The latest application ActiveDocs Opus supports the new Microsoft® platforms and provides a superior set of features which were unable to be provided in the older legacy system. We will continue to provide technical support and an attractive cross grade package for those clients who are current with our Software Assurance policy for a period of 18 months to enable a smooth transition. We have internal applications specifically developed to migrate existing automated templates to the Opus application and our team of application specialists will be available to provide additional technical assistance if required.”

For clients wanting to obtain pricing and details of the cross grade program please contact your account manager or info@activedocs.com.

BP International to deploy ActiveDocs Opus for HR documentation.

Auckland, NZ - January 31, 2008

ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document creation applications, today announced that BP International will deploy an automated ActiveDocs Opus system as part of their HR IS solution. This solution involves multiple applications including BrassRing(TM) and SAP(TM). The deployment is to be overseen by Accenture (TM).

Faine Mende, VP of Global Business Development said “Complete control over the content of all employee contracts is essential for today's business. Combine this with the necessity for a fast turnaround of personalized contracts in order to not miss key candidates, regulation changes and an international set of requirements - it quickly becomes a complex business issue to solve. ActiveDocs Opus provides the necessary framework to make all of this possible”.

The implementation will be based in the UK and template analysis, design and automation will be provided by ActiveDocs client services team working closely with the BP internal project team.

ActiveDocs releases new features for Opus

Auckland, NZ - January 29, 2008

ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document creation applications, announced today that it has released the next version of the ActiveDocs Opus platform called MAKO with new features that will provide significant benefits to customers. The new features extend an already impressive series of features that ship with the third generation platform of the widely installed ActiveDocs document automation software.

These new features include:

• Template Change Management, the ability to recreate documents from historic template versions, and Deferred Publishing capabilities which allow customers to prepare content within templates and allocate a publish date and time.
• Free Text editing and formatting capabilities – including fonts, lists, and tables – from within the Document Wizard. Designers specify the range of formatting features available to the end user.
• Extended capabilities for integration which allows for web services connectivity for data sources and document storage.

Nick Chivers, ActiveDocs Director of Product Marketing said “Our major investment in the development of the ActiveDocs Opus platform is creating immediate benefits for our customers, with the rapid release of version 2.0 to provide new features as a direct result of customer feedback and our ongoing R&D programme. We are committed to Document Excellence Through Innovation and will continue to develop ActiveDocs Opus to become the worldwide standard for document creation.”

Glenn Ricketts CEO said “This new release provides significant enhancements over the first Opus release and further separates ActiveDocs from our competitors. We have an aggressive development plan with additional major features leveraging the full Microsoft® Office 2007 product suite planned for later this year”.

The Mako release is undergoing final acceptance tests and will ship in February 2008. This will also be available to all current software assurance paying customers with server based systems as a free upgrade.

A white paper detailing the features enhancements is available on request by contacting ActiveDocs on info@activedocs.com