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Perceptive Software: Perceptive Software Introduces New SOA Solution; ImageNow Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) provides insurers the foundation for a new level of integration and data exchange with business applications.(M2 PressWIRE Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) RDATE:08022008 BRACKNELL, Berkshire -- Perceptive Software, creator of ImageNow enterprise document management, imaging and workflow software, today announced its latest Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solution, ImageNow Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). Perceptive Software has a history of developing products and initiatives that complement Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environments, making it easy for insurance customers to develop tight, server-side integration between ImageNow and enterprise business systems. ImageNow ESB will provide insurers with an alternative integration methodology to ImageNow's patented non-programmatic LearnMode technology and functions as the foundation of a new level of integration and data exchange with business applications. "Insurers are well positioned to fully leverage the benefits provided by SOA because of the unique challenges facing the insurance industry," said Sascha Ohler, Perceptive Software senior product manager, financial services. "More than any other sector, insurance faces four major obstacles on the path to success: Geographic diversity of sales and support operations, complex value chains, heavy reliance on proprietary legacy systems, and fragmentation and specialisation of business processes and associated applications. SOA provides the underlying infrastructure on which to tightly integrate the diverse processes and applications needed to run an insurance organisation." ImageNow ESB enables ImageNow to initiate a request of another application or system that exposes the functionality as a Web service. This request from ImageNow to the external environment can be the result of actions taken within ImageNow, such as a workflow process or from within an eForm. One example of such integration involves the creation of a new transaction within a claims management system. This transaction would be automatically initiated when ImageNow processes a new document, dramatically increasing processing efficiency by maintaining data integrity and minimising manual data entry. "ImageNow Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) complements SOA architecture by enabling the tight integration of ImageNow enterprise document management and workflow suite with a broad range of line-of-business (LOB) applications," Ohler said. "By providing a web services-based method for the real time and secure exchange of transactional data between these systems, ImageNow decreases the need for duplicate manual entry, thereby saving time and increasing overall data quality." About Perceptive Software Since 1995 Perceptive Software, Inc., has built enterprise content management software, including document management, document imaging and workflow solutions, to help organisations efficiently capture and organise virtually any document, then easily retrieve a precise page at the moment it's needed. More than 1,700 organisations in 22 countries rely on the ImageNow product suite to simplify their business processes. CONTACT: Perceptive Software e-mail: [email protected] Graham Thatcher, Account Director, MCC International Ltd Tel: +44 (0)1962 888 100 Fax: +44 (0)1962 888 125 Gemma Rees, MCC International Ltd Tel: +44 (0)1962 888 108 e-mail: [email protected] ((M2 Communications Ltd disclaims all liability for information provided within M2 PressWIRE. Data supplied by named party/parties. Further information on M2 PressWIRE can be obtained at http://www.presswire.net on the world wide web. Inquiries to [email protected])). Copyright ? 2008 M2 Communications Ltd. |