Rockefeller Group implements ActiveDocs Opus ViperKansas City – October 12, 2009 ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document automation applications, announced today that Rockefeller Group has implemented ActiveDocs Opus Viper for its Business Center operations.
Colby Little, ActiveDocs Sales Engineer said: “It has been a pleasure to work with Rockefeller Group and to assist with the upgrade of their document automation capability to ActiveDocs Opus Viper. ActiveDocs welcomes Rockefeller Group’s endorsement of the company and the new Viper platform.”
Glenn Ricketts, ActiveDocs CEO said: “We appreciate that Rockefeller had choices to make in the selection of an update to their document automation capability, and we appreciate their informed understanding of the extended feature set of the new Viper platform. The ability of ActiveDocs Opus to automate complex rule driven content and mitigate risk associated with human error via an enhanced feature set is what makes Opus a world class scalable application.”
Law Offices of Marshall C. Watson P.A. implements ActiveDocs Opus ViperKansas City – September 25, 2009
ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document automation applications, announced today that the Florida-based law firm Law Offices of Marshall C. Watson P.A. has implemented ActiveDocs Opus Viper for high volume Automated Mode generation of legal documents.
Amanda Sharp, ActiveDocs Director of Client Services said: “The Automated Mode implementation of ActiveDocs Opus Viper at Law Offices of Marshall C. Watson P.A. involves a number of template sets to produce documentation related to foreclosures. The implementation will leverage the newly released Viper features of self-populating templates and Approval and Finalization workflow.”
Glenn Ricketts, ActiveDocs CEO said: “We respect the document automation experience of Law Offices of Marshall C. Watson P.A. and we welcome the clear endorsement which that experience gives to their selection of ActiveDocs Opus and the improved feature functionality provided in the Viper code base.”
ActiveDocs adds new features with ActiveDocs Opus Viper releaseKansas City – September 21, 2009
ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document creation applications, announced today that the new Viper release of the ActiveDocs Opus platform is now available. ActiveDocs Opus Viper has new features and usability enhancements that will provide significant benefits to customers, extending an already impressive series of features that ship with the third generation platform of the widely installed ActiveDocs Document Automation software.
Key features in the new ActiveDocs Opus Viper release include:
Integrated Workflow
A new Microsoft® SharePoint™ Connector
Stored Procedure Support
Dynamic Contextual Content Selection
CDIS and IDIS Technology for enhanced modularity
Extended Repeating Item Functionality
Nick Chivers, ActiveDocs Director of Product Marketing said: “ActiveDocs’ investment in the development of the powerful ActiveDocs Opus platform continues to benefit our customers with the addition of Viper’s rich features. We are committed to Document Excellence Through Innovation and we will continue to develop ActiveDocs Opus to become the worldwide standard for document creation.”
Glenn Ricketts, ActiveDocs CEO said: “Viper is a continuation of the Opus feature development programme that we have committed to on behalf of our global customer base and further separates ActiveDocs from our competitors. The release of Viper extends both the features and capabilities of the existing Barracuda release which in itself was impressive by global standards, and dramatically improves performance in document creation and control.”
RICOH implements ActiveDocs OpusAuckland, New Zealand – July 07, 2009
ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document automation applications, announced today that RICOH has implemented ActiveDocs Opus for generation of Sales Proposals, RFP Responses, and other sales correspondence.
Amanda Sharp, ActiveDocs Director of Client Services, said: “The ActiveDocs Services team has assisted RICOH to upgrade from ActiveDocs Enterprise to ActiveDocs Opus, which in turn has enabled RICOH to leverage advanced Document Automation features to create a leading-edge Sales Proposal generation capability fully integrated with their sales processes and product databases. The powerful content sharing and re-use capabilities of ActiveDocs Opus allows RICOH’s investment in the Sales Proposal tool to be extended into the creation of RFP Responses and a range of other documents throughout the sales cycle.”
Catherine Larsen, ActiveDocs VP Business Development APAC, said: “ActiveDocs is pleased to have been selected by RICOH to be part of what is a major project, implementing a strategic vision as to how the sales process can be radically improved with document automation at every step of the sales cycle. 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.” How RICOH uses ActiveDocs Opus
RICOH has implemented ActiveDocs Opus in User Driven mode to enable Sales Teams to easily and efficiently create precise, accurate Sales Proposals using dynamic, up-to-date product data from sophisticated back-end databases, all achieved through the simple browser-based ActiveDocs Opus Document Wizard. The solution also takes advantage of ActiveDocs Opus’ image handling capabilities to produce elegantly illustrated sales documents.
The initial implementation, at RICOH NZ, has been optimally designed to leverage the powerful content sharing and re-use capabilities of ActiveDocs Opus, to enable consistent branding and presentation and maximum reuse of content in the creation of Sales Proposals, RFP Responses and other sales correspondence.
Re-use is achieved through ActiveDocs Opus Snippet technology which allows the sharing of common content – not only between web based Templates, but also on the desktop within Microsoft Office Applications like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint via the Office Research Pane. ActiveDocs Opus Snippets can include both static and dynamic content, and may be protected or editable in both the browser and desktop environments.
The advanced reporting capabilities of ActiveDocs Opus will allow RICOH Sales Managers to track sales document generation by a wide range of parameters including date, time, area, customer, salesperson, document volumes, and even internal document properties which can include custom properties such as Proposal Values and other dynamic variables.
Ministerie van VROM pilots ActiveDocs OpusAmsterdam, Netherlands – June 26, 2009 ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document automation applications, in association with its European partners Novadoc Technology, announced today that the Ministerie van VROM is implementing a pilot ActiveDocs Opus system integrated with IBM FileNet and business process frameworks.
Glenn Ricketts, ActiveDocs CEO, said: “ActiveDocs is pleased to have been selected as the core Document Automation solution provider in a major initiative by the Ministerie van VROM. This has been a successful joint venture between ActiveDocs and its European partners Novadoc Technology, clearly illustrating the value that ActiveDocs places on its partnerships and the commitment we make to supporting our partners’ businesses.”
The Ministerie van VROM is the Dutch Government’s ministry for Housing, Spatial Planning, and the Environment. Novadoc Technology specializes in IBM FileNet implementations and has seamlessly integrated ActiveDocs Opus technology to provide both User-Driven and Automated Mode document creation from within the FileNet environment.
ActiveDocs Limited Announces Establishment of Australian OfficeBrisbane, 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.”
Nationwide Exchange Services implements ActiveDocs OpusKansas 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.”
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.”
Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office implements ActiveDocs Opus for Electronic Case Filing and Criminal Case ManagementKansas 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." About Tarrant CountyTarrant 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 OfficeKansas 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 OpusKansas 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 EcologyKansas 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 OpusKansas 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 releaseKansas 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.”
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.”
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.
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 LtdAxicos 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 OpusAuckland, 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 statusAuckland, 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 OOXMLAuckland, 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 OfficeAuckland, 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 programAuckland, 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.”
Clients wanting to obtain pricing and details of the cross grade program should contact their ActiveDocs 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 OpusAuckland, 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, ActiveDocs 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
University of Houston implements ActiveDocs OpusAuckland, NZ - December 20, 2007 ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document creation applications announced today that the University of Houston based in Houston, Texas USA who are an existing user of the ActiveDocs Desktop and Enterprise applications have decided to upgrade to ActiveDocs Opus.
The University has used ActiveDocs to automate the creation of document templates over the past 3 years and has decided to migrate to the enhanced functionality and features provided with ActiveDocs Opus application.
Faine Parker VP of Business Development said “we are very pleased that the University of Houston see the value of upgrading to our latest architecture. We believe that the new features available within Opus provide all existing and new customers with significant benefits to the efficient production and management of corporate documents.”
ActiveDocs continues to enhance the Opus application and will announce significant new features in early 2008.
Nexus IS Inc deploys ActiveDocs Opus for S.O.W. applicationAuckland, NZ - November 21, 2007
ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document creation applications, today announced that Nexus Integration Services (Nexus IS) a large US based system integrator headquartered in Valencia California has deployed an ActiveDocs Opus solution. In this deployment Nexus IS will use ActiveDocs Opus to automate the creation of Statement of Work (S.O.W.) documentation for use in complex implementations for their customers throughout the Western United States.
Nexus IS has offices throughout California, Arizona, Oregon, Washington and Southern Nevada and employs more than 300 people.
Faine Parker VP of Business Development said “We are pleased that Nexus IS has selected ActiveDocs to assist them in the creation and management of the complex documentation required for their S.O.W. process. The use of ActiveDocs Opus in producing S.O.W. documents is yet another endorsement of the power of ActiveDocs and the ability for document automation to be used in nearly every business process to provide efficiency and cost benefits”.
Australian Defence Force Develops ActiveDocs Opus SolutionAuckland, NZ - October 9, 2007 ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document creation applications, today announced that the Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation has purchased an ActiveDocs Opus Development System in order to develop a template based automated reporting process of Defence Readiness Preparedness across the different Australian Defence Force Divisions. The DSTO originally approached ActiveDocs in order to streamline the cumbersome monthly reporting process currently in use within the Australian Defence Force.
The development of an automated solution will enable multiple efficiencies to be incorporated into the reporting process. Automating the process eliminates the opportunities for error and omission, problems commonly associated with cutting and pasting multiple documents and helps to ensure accurate information.
Aizkraukles Banka in Latvia deploys ActiveDocs OpusAuckland, NZ - September 26, 2007 ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document creation applications, announced today that Aizkraukles Bank in Latvia has deployed the new ActiveDocs Opus application to automate the production of critical banking documents.
The new system will enable the Aizkraukles Bank to utilize the enhanced features of the ActiveDocs Opus technology and in particular the new multi-language feature. Once complete the ActiveDocs Opus application will produce automated template based documents in both Cyrillic character sets and English for use within Latvia.
Glenn Ricketts CEO said “we are very pleased that the Aizkraukles Bank chose to deploy ActiveDocs and reinforces our belief that the ability to automate documents in the language of choice is a strategic benefit to our clients.”
ActiveDocs Opus V1.1 ReleasedAuckland, NZ - September 4, 2007 ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document creation applications, today announced the release of V1.1 of the new ActiveDocs Opus system.
The latest release provides significant performance enhancements as well as feature enhancements.
Included in this release is an increase in automated document production, ActiveDocs Opus will now output in excess of 100,000 documents per hour from a single server environment. Performance increase is lineal and scales out in multiserver environments.
Other enhancements include support for Microsoft® Vista and Microsoft® Office 2007 and support for new XML formats such as docx and xps.
Also included is support for PDF document creation direct from Microsoft® Office 2007 loaded on a server without the requirement for a third party add in. This change has resulted in a 300% improvement in the time taken to assemble a document in the PDF format as apposed to Word ML. Output in PDF is now around 80% of Word ML or circa 80,000 documents per hour.
Glenn Cameron VP of Product Development said “This version of ActiveDocs Opus leverages the latest Microsoft® technologies and improves overall performance significantly. We will continue to enhance ActiveDocs Opus over the next 12 months with major features currently under development.”
ActiveDocs Opus is the third generation of the ActiveDocs product suite.
OCE deploys ActiveDocs EnterpriseAuckland, NZ - August 7, 2007 ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document creation applications, today announced that OCE Corporation has deployed ActiveDocs Enterprise as part of a global initiative called SCI or the sales configuration system. This project has been in development for nearly 18months and will allow OCE to automate the generation of multiple documents required for the delivery and installation of OCE products.
Glenn Ricketts CEO of ActiveDocs said “ I am very pleased that OCE has chosen ActiveDocs to provide a small but critical part of the SCI delivery system, this system will be deployed throughout the USA and European theatres of operation and provides significant cost benefits to OCE”.
The system is based on the ActiveDocs fully automated model of document production and is deployed on multiple servers and is expected to generate millions of documents per annum.
Provincie Limburg implements ActiveDocs / FileNet P8Auckland, NZ - July 24, 2007 ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document creation applications, announced today that Provincie Limburg in the Netherlands have successfully implemented ActiveDocs Enterprise and the FileNet P8 connector developed by Novadoc Technology.
Novadoc is a major European partner for ActiveDocs and a FileNet premier implementation partner. Novadoc developed the P8 connector for ActiveDocs Enterprise to provide full integration with the FileNet P8 suite.
Glenn Ricketts CEO of ActiveDocs said “This is the second successful project in the Netherlands integrating both ActiveDocs Enterprise and FileNets P8 application and provides significant benefits to customers who are looking to leverage automated document assembly and centralise control of templates.” Novadoc has spent over 24 months developing the P8 connector which provides the ability for a user to initiate the assembly of an automated template or document using ActiveDocs from within the FileNet P8.
Provincie Groningen Implements ActiveDocs / FileNet P8Auckland, NZ - July 11, 2007 ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document automation applications, announced today that Provincie Groningen in the Netherlands has implemented ActiveDocs Enterprise fully integrated with FileNet P8 via a connector developed by Novadoc Technology.
Novadoc Technology is a major European partner for ActiveDocs and a FileNet premier partner in the Netherlands.
Glenn Ricketts CEO for ActiveDocs said "The FileNet P8 connector developed by Novadoc provides FileNet customers the ability to utilise the power of the ActiveDocs document automation software fully imbedded with the FileNet P8 application. We believe there are a significant number of customers around the world that would benefit from the efficiencies to be gained from this integration."
Provincie Groningen is a major local government organisation in the Netherlands and has deployed the full ActiveDocs Enterprise suite of products including over 200 concurrent users and the fully automated High Volume document production module capable of producing in excess of 70,000 documents per hour.
The system also takes advantage of the ability to translate the applications resource files to allow the users to create documents in the Dutch language. About Novadoc Technology Novadoc Technology is a consulting and software development company specializing in providing quality Enterprise Content Management and Process Management solutions using advanced technology of leading software suppliers.
Novadoc Technology is a privately-held Dutch corporation founded in 1998 and based in Naarden, The Netherlands.
ActiveDocs Limited Announces Establishment of US OfficeAuckland, NZ - May 2, 2007 ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in document creation applications, opened a new office in Kansas City, USA in April.
Faine Parker, Vice President of Global Business Development, relocated to the United States to establish the new office. The aim is to set up sales, support and consultancy capability to service the existing US customer base and grow ActiveDocs’ presence in the Northern Hemisphere.
Glenn Ricketts, CEO of ActiveDocs, said "With the ongoing expansion of our client base in the US this was the right time for ActiveDocs to establish a permanent presence. With the launch of ActiveDocs Opus in April we expect our client base to continue to expand and must be prepared to meet our customers’ expectations."
Faine joined ActiveDocs in 2005, and has over ten years experience in software development, product management and sales. Having worked globally at the enterprise level, Faine has broad experience with introducing product to market and delivering complicated implementations. She understands the unique needs of a variety of territories, often working to initiate installations of cutting-edge technology with ageing incumbent solutions. Faine also brings excellent communication skills to her role, liaising and interfacing with clients in a range of industries – showing an intuitive understanding of their business requirements and devising best-fit solutions for their needs and growth.
ActiveDocs Limited, Announces the Release of ActiveDocs Opus SuiteAuckland, NZ - May 1, 2007
ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document creation applications, today announced the release of the ActiveDocs Opus Suite. ActiveDocs Opus is built on Microsoft® .Net V3 framework and leverages the power of Microsoft® Word.
The power of ActiveDocs Opus to automate complex and critical business documents creates efficiencies and allows the business total control over document templates and content via our Content Manager technology. This major step forward allows the Designers of templates to visually see the linkage of rules and business logic across hundreds or thousands of templates. By leveraging Content Manager residing within ActiveDocs Opus, the Template Designer can make a change to critical content (a legal clause for instance) that will dynamically change that content in any linked templates. This significantly simplifies the management and change control of literally thousands of business documents.
With the multi-language capability ActiveDocs Opus will allow a user to create a document using an English wizard but deliver that same document in another language (Chinese, Japanese, and German etc). This allows true multinational use of business documents and ensures compliance and corporate guidelines are enforced.
Glenn Ricketts ActiveDocs CEO said "ActiveDocs Opus is the culmination of 18 months of development. This platform enhances the capability of our existing Enterprise application and provides our customers with the means to truly manage thousands of document templates from a central location."
ASB implements ActiveDocs V4.4Auckland, NZ - November 27, 2006
ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document automation applications, announced today that ASB Bank in New Zealand had successfully implemented the ActiveDocs Enterprise server in the automated mode for the creation and assembly of loan documents.
"ASB is regarded in New Zealand as one of the most technically advanced and innovative banks in the southern hemisphere and their use of ICT to drive their business is well known here in New Zealand" said Glenn Ricketts CEO of ActiveDocs.
"For them to choose ActiveDocs to automate their loan documents is a fantastic endorsement of our product given their pedigree."
ASB joins a number of other major worldwide companies who have successfully implemented ActiveDocs. Their implementation involves sending XML formatted information from disparate systems to the ActiveDocs application to produce complex loan documents.
ASB's project lead, Tom Stone, said "the outcome has been extremely positive for the Lending Services Department who have been able to improve the document generation turn-around and reduce the resource required to produce these complex documents."
Cleary Hoare Launch New ServiceAuckland, NZ - September 27, 2006
ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document automation applications, today announced that it had secured Cleary Hoare Solicitors as a new client.
Cleary Hoare, an Australian legal firm with offices in Brisbane and Sydney, has launched a new service aimed at its Legal Resource Club, a network of 1200 Accountants and Financial Planners based on the ActiveDocs Enterprise document automation application and using Cleary Hoare's complex document sets (templates). The service is a hosted/ASP application where existing customers can access a large repository of complex documents which have been automated with the ActiveDocs suite and, once authenticated, can create individual documents based on input information. On completion the document is assembled in real time and can be downloaded as a Microsoft® Word document.
Glenn Ricketts, Chief Executive Officer of ActiveDocs said "What is exciting about Cleary Hoare's implementation is that, to my knowledge, this is one of the first fully automated and hosted services of this nature. This service, where valuable IP in the form of highly complex documents is offered to clients so they can quickly and easily produce a finished document is unique. We are very excited to be associated with Cleary Hoare in this endeavor."
Paul Olds of Cleary Hoare stated "This system allows us to provide complex documents such as Trusts and Wills to our network in real time no matter what their geographical location. The accountant or financial planner who generally recommends and orders these types of documents for their clients no longer needs to wait for traditional service providers to produce a hard copy of the document, with the standard delivery mechanism being post. The system ActiveDocs has developed for us also eliminates the serious and common problem of clients losing final documents, as our solution includes a database of created documents, plus the client's adviser saves an electronic version directly to their client file. The database also provides us with the ability to effectively manage version control and to contact clients who require document updates due to legislative change, which is critical for quality control purposes."
ActiveDocs Limited, Announces the Release of Version 4.3Auckland, NZ – April 20th, 2006
ActiveDocs Limited, a world leader in the provision of document creation applications, today announced the release of Version 4.3 for the ActiveDocs Web Wizard. This latest version of our highly successful software suite incorporates upgrades and enhancements that further empower customers to produce customized documents of superior quality faster than ever before.
ActiveDocs Version 4.3 is now certified to run on Microsoft® SQL Server 2005 ensuring that all the benefits of maintaining a position at the leading edge of development are passed on to our clients. This translates into improved performance across the whole ActiveDocs Suite but with significant benefits in a number of areas. These include a 100% increase in document output; the memory footprint of a document set is now less than 10% of previous versions and we have doubled the number of users ActiveDocs can support per server.
Glenn Ricketts, ActiveDocs CEO says, "With the release of ActiveDocs 4.3 we have continued to listen to the needs of our customers and respond to those needs with improved performance in complex and individual ways. For example, we have been able to offer a significant increase in document delivery in response to our clients in the financial sector. With this type of specific response we are able to continue to enhance the competitive advantage and efficiency that utilizing ActiveDocs brings to our customers."
ActiveDocs Limited, Announces the Release of Version 4.0Auckland, NZ - September 21, 2005
ActiveDocs Limited, the leading provider of sales productivity and proposal automation applications, today announced the release of Version 4.0. Upgrades to the highly successful software suite empower companies to deliver document automation solutions to their sales and HR organizations more quickly than ever before and provide enhanced management reporting capabilities that offer valuable insight into the effectiveness of selling content. This means that customers can cut in half the time sales people spend creating customized, high-quality selling documents such as proposals, contracts, statements of work, and sales letters, while reducing their total cost of ownership.
For tracking and monitoring purposes, Version 4.0 provides management reporting capabilities with pre-defined reports for sales management and the content managers. Standard reports provide insight into the document creation activity each salesperson is engaged in, and exactly what these deliverables contain. This provides a number of sales intelligence and content management benefits, including better visibility of the organization sales pipeline, by department, geography and individual salesperson. In addition the functionality of being able to manage a range of templates across a multi-faceted organization with multiple customer facing brands is now possible.
"Our new version is an enhanced suite of products that now enables users and administrators to utilize our products with even greater ease and usability, ultimately providing sales proposals and contracts even faster, with greater reusable content across an organization. The integration with DMS and CRM systems make it easy to share the intelligence of multiple systems and incorporate that in sales proposals", says Glenn Ricketts, CEO , ActiveDocs, "All of this means companies have a competitive advantage, which ultimately drives up revenue by winning more business."
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