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More and more organizations are leveraging intelligent document recognition technology to accelerate invoice processing, improve quality and reduce labor costs. Do you want to join them? In this technical session hosted by the KTM product management team, you will learn KTM's key invoice-centric capabilities and how they can be leveraged to provide a highly efficient solution that is accurate as well as easy to configure, deploy and maintain.

Kofax Communication Server is a communication platform that ensures the reliable exchange of business -critical messages among applications, devices and people. It supports the automation of all message-based business processes, regardless of location, device or media type, and helps to accelerate the business and reduce costs. This session covers presents real life world use cases, including benefits and ROI derived from reduced operating costs and improved business processes.

Companies with a low level of invoice automation spend almost 20 times more to process an invoice than companies with a high level of automation according to the Institute of Management & Administration (IOMA). IOMA studies have shown that electronic invoice automation can reduce the incidence of errors and payment duplication, the costs of document filing and access, and the risks associated with compliance and audits. In this session, you will learn how Kofax's end-to-end invoice automation solutions — which include capture, entry, workflows and self-service invoicing — help customers reduce their invoice processing costs by an estimated 40%, with a payback within one year.

The average company spends $15.70 to process an invoice, almost 20 times more than companies that have deployed AP automation. This session will show how MarkView for Accounts Payable dramatically reduces invoice processing costs and processing time, strengthens internal controls, increases visibility and improves cash management with a solution that pays for itself in less than 12 months.

Document capture feeds and initiates time sensitive business processes and transactions. The Kofax Onramp allows customers to extend their core capture processes and capabilities to virtually any input source: document scanners, multifunction peripherals (MFP), faxes, emails, web services, print streams and folders. This session will explain how the Kofax Onramp enables companies to standardize on a single-vendor solution for automating document driven business processes and to leverage the appropriate input channels. You will learn the specific benefits of supporting email, fax and MFP input to initiate and accelerate transactions, reduce costs and optimize infrastructure investments.

This session will include a live demonstration of the many new capabilities of MarkView 7.0, including its new user environment for both AP users and invoice approvers. You will also learn about future plans for MarkView for Accounts Payable, MarkView AP Advisor and Kofax SupplierExpress.

This session will introduce you to Kofax Monitor, the only monitoring system specifically designed for Kofax Capture, Kofax Transformation Modules, Kofax Communication Server and Kofax VRS. Kofax Monitor ensures the timely operation of a Kofax enterprise environment by monitoring and enabling the remote repair of malfunctioning and underperforming components. You will learn how Kofax Monitor measures performance and reliability and enables you to meet SLAs.

KTM features a host of intelligent recognition technologies that enable you to build powerful solutions to automatically classify and capture documents of any format or language and feed them into a business process. In KTM 5.5 (due mid-2011), we're making important new enhancements that increase ease of use and improve the ability to process diverse document sets. In this session, the KTM product management team will give you a sneak preview of the new release and the opportunity to share your thoughts on future enhancements.

Kofax VRS is the de facto standard for connecting document scanners and delivering optimum image quality and output. With the release of VRS Elite, customers can now benefit from new capabilities for centralized licensing, profile management and deployment. VRS Elite also introduces the concept of Device Health, where VRS monitors and reports on the performance of your document scanner. In this session, you will learn how VRS Elite's new centralized capabilities, Device Health and optimized image processing reduce capture costs, improve operational efficiencies and provide visibility and control of the scanning process.

This session will present use cases describing how Kofax products enable companies to realize all the benefits of integrating MFPs into their existing IT infrastructure and networks. You will learn how to leverage MFPs to further reduce operating costs and improve business processes for better customer service.

Intelligent recognition technologies are a revolution in automatic document classification and data extraction. They extend beyond simple structured documents like application forms to include semi-structured document such as invoices and sales orders, and unstructured documents such as correspondence. In this session, you'll learn how the benefits of intelligent recognition can be leveraged across a multitude of document driven business processes to deliver increased cost savings and process acceleration throughout the enterprise.

Many enterprise IT departments are transitioning to corporate shared service centers. Kofax Communication Server (KCS) supports this strategy by providing a service oriented communication platform for successful global service provision. This session will offer use cases and examples of how KCS is used in centralized service centers. You will learn about communication trends such as FoIP, global rollouts and multitenant services, and how to reduce costs with a central communication platform.

Product Deep Dive

This session will give you an in depth understanding of the new features of VRS Elite. You will work with automatic profiles, Device Health and Kofax Monitor, and gain insights into the new centralized licensing, software distribution and profile management features. You will also learn about the best practices for a VRS Elite implementation.

As enterprises increasingly look to initiate transactions and business processes as soon as a document enters the organization, they need their capture infrastructure to be flexible and available at all times. This session will provide an in depth technical overview of the high availability features of Kofax Capture and how you can deploy it throughout the enterprise with the confidence that the system and services will remain running and available. You will also learn the various customization points that enable Kofax Capture to be optimized for specific processes or users.

Got a technical question about configuring and deploying Kofax Capture? Want to discuss it face-to-face with the top Kofax Capture gurus? Then join this session and let our panel of Kofax Capture experts help you! Submit your questions ahead of time to transformKCExpert@kofax.com; we'll answer as many as we can during the session and will also take questions from the audience live. Due to the detailed technical nature of the content, this session is for Kofax Capture certified technical personnel only.

This session provides an in depth view of Kofax Monitor, the only monitoring system specifically designed for Kofax Capture, Kofax Transformation Modules, Kofax Communication Server and Kofax VRS. You will learn how to set up an agentless monitor, remotely repair and isolate malfunctioning components, completely manage the Kofax Enterprise Capture Platform from a single workbench, and much more.

Got a technical question about configuring and deploying KTM? Want to discuss it face-to-face with the top KTM gurus? Then join this session and let our panel of KTM development staff and top-flight sales engineers help you! Submit your questions ahead of time to transformKTMexpert@kofax.com; we'll answer as many as we can during the session and also take questions from the audience live. Due to the detailed technical content, this session is for KTM certified technical personnel only.

This session will reveal how the new features of Kofax Communication Server (KCS) 9.0 improve business efficiency through lower cost operations. The enterprise application integration capabilities of KCS make it a core application in enterprise capture and document driven business process automation environments. You will learn about the enterprise capabilities through illustrative scenarios and get a sneak preview of what is coming next.

Digital Mailroom solutions are essential to organizations that want to streamline the flow of information into their business processes by automatically capturing, classifying and extracting documents at the point of receipt. KTM features a powerful suite of classification technologies that can remove the need for expensive and error prone sorting before scanning, whatever the document type or format. In this session, Kofax technical experts will present a methodology for analyzing mailroom applications to determine the best approach for classifying your document set. We'll cover the use of hierarchical classification and other advanced techniques to maximize accuracy and deliver rapid ROI. We'll also cover the automatic extraction of key data elements such as customer details using KTM's database, format and other locators. Due to the detailed technical content, this session is for KTM certified technical personnel only.

KTM provides a powerful, comprehensive and flexible suite of technologies for extracting line item data from invoices. But are you getting the most out of these technologies and achieving the best possible solution in the most efficient manner? This session for KTM certified technical personnel will include an overview of the techniques for invoice line item extraction provided by KTM, including automatic and manual table models, trainable table extraction and the PO line item matching locator. You'll hear from top Kofax experts how to choose the best combination of techniques and how to achieve a best practice configuration that delivers optimum results.

KTM's Trainable Group Locator (TGL) provides a powerful and unique method for extracting data from semi-structured documents of any type by simply training on document samples. By combining the TGL with other KTM locators, you can tackle a multitude of data extraction tasks and achieve the benefits of automation across the widest document set for maximum return on investment. In this session, a team of Kofax experts will show you how to leverage the power of the TGL. We will cover key use cases, best practices for configuration, tuning and optimization, tips and tricks and online learning. This session is a must for anyone looking to deliver a solution for extracting data from semi-structured documents in the most efficient manner. Due to the detailed technical content, this session is for KTM certified technical personnel only.

The new Device Health capability of Kofax VRS Elite enables administrators to have a better understanding of how their scanning devices are performing in the field. Kofax VRS Elite captures information about the operating condition of the scanner and communicates it to an administrator so they can address device issues before a downstream process is affected or a hardware failure occurs. You will gain valuable technical insights into how Device Health works and how it integrates with Kofax Monitor.

Industry Solutions

Austrian Airlines is one of the leading carriers in Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Kofax Communication Server, the center of Austrian's communication infrastructure, provides interfaces to all internal and external communication systems, from flight preparation and check-in systems through to air traffic control, SITA and AFTN. Over 5.5 million messages per month in different formats are processed via Kofax Communication Server, delivering information across all systems in the relevant formats.

Every day, thousands of documents enter the BMW Group and need to be processed quickly and effectively. Orders, invoices, registration certificates and claims arrive as faxes, letters or email attachments at the different subsidiaries. The DEAS project uses the Kofax Enterprise Capture Platform for the capture, analysis, bulk processing and archiving of all documents. A total of 24 business processes, with a volume of over 15 million pages annually, will be optimized, significantly reducing IT's workload.

British Waterways presents the significant ROI and process improvements achieved by capturing information with Kofax Capture and Kofax Transformation Modules and integrating it with Microsoft SharePoint and SAP. This practical and highly efficient solution ranges from scanning into SharePoint with rich metadata, to migrating documents from other systems, to automating data capture and delivery into SAP.

CEPSA optimizes communications to its sales force and POS through automated SMS messaging based on Kofax Communication Server. The latest pricing information, general alerts, invoicing notifications, and crude oil buy and sell information are at their staff's fingertips. The system seamlessly integrates with SAP and FoIP, further optimizing the company's sales processes and communications.

Cheshire Shared Services gained substantial benefits for their organization and their customers through fully automated imaging and data capture based on the Kofax Enterprise Capture Platform. But there is more to come. Cheshire Shared Services will also share their roadmap for optimizing their financial processes with MarkView for Accounts Payable.

Dexia Insurance Belgium transformed from a centralized, paper driven company to an organization that captures paper and electronic information at the beginning of the business process, both at the front end (at approximately 1000 remote sites) and back end. Document Capture is now feeding and initiating transactional business processes and workflows enabling high integration with both back office and front office applications.

Emirates Aluminium relies on Kofax Communication Server for the exchange of business critical information arising in paper, fax and electronic formats in a more accurate, timely and cost effective manner between existing systems such as SAP, Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft SharePoint. Employees, customers and suppliers benefit from this high level production fax server solution. Based on the system's track record, Emirates Aluminium will introduce intelligent capture for invoices to further optimize and increase the productivity of their accounts payable and supply chain & logistics processes.

As an innovator in showcasing the latest IT technologies, GASCO has selected Kofax to increase document processing efficiency through mailroom automation. GASCO implemented Kofax Capture and Kofax Transformation Modules to automatically capture and process general correspondence, reports, letters and so on from headquarters and plants, and to seamlessly deliver them to Open Text Livelink. The success of this project, which processes over 5 million images per year for their headquarters, is prompting all departments and divisions to take the same document processing approach soon.

As a mutual insurance company, GIE UGIM needs high quality data in their CRM system for a variety of reasons, including the automation of the trade process. With most trade documents arriving by email, GIE UGIM uses the Kofax Enterprise Capture Platform to facilitate the identification of the email senders, enabling timely responses and giving GIE UGIM a competitive edge through high quality service.

Grupo Copisa's approach to the control and integration of their invoice process across three locations has resulted in a long list of benefits. Their system for capture, validation and supplier interaction is integrated with their Microsoft SharePoint and SAP architecture, substantially reducing the effort, cycle times and cost of invoice handling, improving information accuracy and access, eliminating the loss of documents and the need for archiving space, and delivering the transparency needed both for compliant and secure data handling and for process analysis to enable even further optimization.

Critical success factors for Intesa Sanpaolo include transparency of documents and their processing, high data accuracy, and quick and secure information access. The Kofax Enterprise Capture Platform is a key component of their new document management process, enabling the automated capture of all relevant documents at the branch, and fast and efficient processing in the back office.

Iron Mountain will showcase how they transformed 28 disparate scanning bureaus into a single, unified pan-European service network for document capture and management, enabling a consistent, highly efficient, high quality offering to their customers.

Islamic Development Bank presents the evolution of Kofax enterprise capture across their organization, up to today when all documents are captured and processed in a consistent way.

Karolinska Institute showcases the first joint project to consolidate the efforts of multiple authorities, associations and companies for optimized resource allocation in emergencies. The SMS Life Saver system utilizes SMS, IVR, voice messaging and cell phone positioning – with Kofax Communication Server as the underlying platform – to increase the percentage of emergency medical cases in which CPR is started before the ambulance arrives.

End-to-end automation of invoice processing has been the declared goal of Mondi Packaging, for the benefit of both their own organization and their partners. Mondi streamlined their invoice capture by automating document recognition and validation, and integrating Kofax Capture with their ECM, ERP and CRM applications. Mondi's system also automatically routes queries to suppliers and closes queries resolved in the CRM and ERP systems.

The North Yorkshire County Council is delivering business process improvements and efficiencies by implementing a central scanning bureau and departmental scanning as part of their overall strategic transformation program. At the heart of these changes are Kofax Capture and Kofax Transformation Modules, integrated with line-of-business applications via a Microsoft BizTalk Server ESB.

NOSi (Núcleo Operacional de Sociedade de Informac~ao) is the driving force behind the realization of the Cape Verde eGovernment model. They implemented Kofax Capture and Kofax Transformation Modules for the distributed capture of Social Security benefits and to digitize and automate salary reports and medical prescription processes. This success story will make evident why several Caribbean and African countries are adopting the "Cape Verde model."

In order to optimize core processes like invoice processing and document processing, Stolt-Nielsen implemented a centralized infrastructure for information capture and extraction, serving the needs of their global organization and their customer and supplier network. Documents originating and being handled around the world are now processed consistently and highly efficiently.

UGF Assicurazioni reveals the advantages and benefits of using Kofax Communication Server to provide centrally managed communication and FoIP capabilities for two production sites and 300 remote sites, with disaster recovery and high availability.

Industry View Points

Whether you provide in-house or commercial capture services, you must understand your unit costs and operating metrics to convince your customers that your services are competitive. These key performance measures also help convey the financial impact of additional automation: savings that you can pass on to your customers. In this session for all audiences, Doculabs will review:

Benchmark pricing and operating metrics from both in-house and commercial capture service providers,
Techniques and approaches to building a business case for increased automation,
An interactive tool for capturing and modeling the financial impact of automation, and
Insights on transitioning from a prep-scan-index provider to a document processing supplier.

Hardware Distribution

In this session for Kofax partners, you will discover how Kofax Services can help you to drive larger sales with Kofax VRS, Kofax Express and Network Scanning. You will learn about best practices for project business and how Kofax Services can help you to best meet your customers' individual business requirements.

This session is a great opportunity to meet the leading scanner suppliers, discuss your individual business requirements, and find out more about the latest developments in professional document scanning.

Partner Enablement (partner only)

Kofax Professional Services has assisted customers with thousands of successful implementations around the globe. In this session for partners, the Kofax Professional Services team will teach you the best practices for maximizing the effectiveness and profitability of your own professional services while creating satisfied and loyal customers.

SharePoint is the fastest-growing business in the history of Microsoft and is now the preferred ECM solution for over 20,000 customers. As organizations migrate their legacy ECM systems to SharePoint, new capture opportunities follow. In this session for Kofax partners, you will get an update on the Microsoft-Kofax alliance and learn more about sales strategies and how to engage with Microsoft for success. Partners who currently have a SharePoint practice will be invited to share their Kofax success stories with the audience.

Document capture is a compelling solution for companies that are struggling with the cost and compliance issues created by filing, storing and retrieving paper documents. This session for Kofax POS partners will show you how to leverage Kofax Express 2.0 and Kofax VRS Elite to quickly become a trusted advisor in document capture for your mid-market or departmental clients. You will learn how to quickly develop and deliver fast, powerful and easy-to-use solutions for capturing business critical documents like records, invoices, contracts, and so on. You will also learn how Kofax is taking these products to the market exclusively via our partners, and what Kofax is doing to enable your success.

Document capture has been proven to provide a compelling ROI and business value. As a result, many small and medium sized companies are looking to implement a solution that enables them to easily capture and archive their business documents, contracts, invoices, sales orders and human resources documents. This session for Kofax partners will explain the business benefits of a single station batch scanning application and how to sell the value of Kofax Express.

Unlike other IT sectors where market growth has been severely impacted by the global downturn, the scan-to-process market, where customers accelerate their document driven business processes using automatic document classification and data extraction, is in great shape. Market growth in 2011 is estimated at 9% and is set to continue in the foreseeable future, fuelled by the need of enterprises to gain control over the ever increasing amount of structured and unstructured content that customers and suppliers deliver to them every day. In this session for Kofax partners, you'll learn how to access this exciting and expanding market with KTM and how to drive sales growth by increasing the size of the capture deal. We'll demonstrate how KTM allows you to address high value customer problems, such as invoice capture, mail distribution and customer on-boarding, with solutions that present a compelling value proposition and a return on investment typically in less than one year.

VRS 4.x has over two million licenses sold and is available with leading document scanners. This session for Kofax partners will focus on the key selling points and value proposition for VRS Elite and the significant benefits of upgrading. You will learn about the new enterprise capabilities of VRS Elite — including Device Health, automatic profiling and centralized licensing, profile management and software deployment — as well as how it enables customers to reduce costs, accelerate processes and gain key insights into their capture operations.

This session for Kofax partners will give you the tools and insights to make the most of your partner relationship. You will get an overview of the Kofax Global Partner Program and learn how to enhance your business through valuable program benefits such as deal registration, lead referral and discretionary marketing funds. You will also learn about the significant investments that Kofax has made in partner resources this year, such as the new Saleforce.com Partner Relationship Management portal and new field and marketing resources.

With its improved capabilities for document management, records management and workflow, Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is creating a growing demand for solutions that can automatically capture, transform and deliver documents and data into SharePoint. Kofax offers the broadest suite of SharePoint enabled capture products on the market, supporting business processes and archives from the enterprise all the way down to the individual desktop. This session will provide an overview of how to leverage Kofax with your SharePoint infrastructure.

As capture moves from the archival solutions of the past to a framework for enabling business transactions to be initiated at any time and place, Kofax is helping enterprises to achieve their goals for Business Process Automation (BPA). This session for Kofax partners will explore how you can significantly expand and differentiate your business by helping your customers move to BPA.

SAP is the global leader in financial and business software. Kofax recently launched an SAP alliance that covers all Kofax product lines. In this session for Kofax partners, you will get an update on the SAP-Kofax alliance and learn about competitive sales strategies, SAP focused sales tools and tips on how to engage with SAP for success. Partners who currently have an SAP practice will be invited to share their Kofax success stories with the audience.

Breakout Sessions

Accelerating Invoice Processing with KTM Intelligent Recognition Technologies

Business Process Automation with Efficient and Effective Enterprise Communication

E-Invoicing: The Problems It Solves, the Money It Saves

End-to-End Automation of Invoice Processing

Enterprise Capture: Leveraging the Kofax Onramp to Create Value

Introducing MarkView for Accounts Payable 7.0

Kofax Monitor

Kofax Transformation Modules: The Latest and Greatest in Intelligent Recognition Technologies – Today and Tomorrow

Kofax VRS Elite: What's New and What's Its Value to the Enterprise?

Leveraging and Extending MFPs into the Business Process

Leveraging Kofax Intelligent Recognition Technologies Across the Enterprise for Greater ROI

Managing Shared Communication Services in Changing Environments

Kofax VRS Elite: Hands On

Kofax Capture: Deep Dive

Kofax Capture: Ask the Experts

Kofax Monitor: Deep Dive

Kofax Transformation Modules: Ask the Experts

Kofax Communication Server: Latest Innovations and Outlook

Kofax Transformation Modules: Advanced Digital Mailroom Classification (2 hours)

Kofax Transformation Modules: Invoice Line Item Extraction and Matching (2 hours)

Kofax Transformation Modules: Using the Trainable Group Locator

What is Your Scanner Trying to Tell You? Kofax VRS Elite Device Health Deep Dive

Austrian Airlines: Unified Communication – Mission Critical and Highly Available

BMW Group: Capturing, Digitizing, Recognizing, Processing and Archiving 15 Million Pages Annually

British Waterways: Business Benefits Using Kofax with Microsoft SharePoint and SAP

CEPSA: Automating Communication to the Sales Force and POS with Kofax Communication Server

Cheshire Shared Services: A New Image for Public Sector Shared Service

Dexia: A Front-End Capturing Insurance Company

Emirates Aluminium: Kofax-Enabled Unified Communication Solution to Streamline Flow of Information

GASCO: Innovation Across the Enterprise – Starting in the Mailroom

GIE UGIM: Kofax to the Front – Enhancing CRM

Grupo Copisa: Optimizing and Integrating Invoice Processing with Microsoft SharePoint and SAP

Intesa Sanpaolo: Branch Banking: Excellence in Document Management is Key to Success

Iron Mountain: Expanding Across the Enterprise with Kofax Capture

Islamic Development Bank: The Past, Present and Future of Enterprise Capture

Karolinska Institute: Competence and Resource Allocation in Emergencies – or How Kofax Communication Server Helps to Save Lives

Mondi Packaging: Automated, End-to-End Accounts Payable Processing

North Yorkshire County Council: Delivering Transformation of Council Services and Processes Using Kofax Capture and Transformation

NOSi: Distributed Capture & Transformation: A Roadmap to an Information Society

Stolt-Nielsen: A Future-Proofed Global Document Solution Based on Kofax

UGF Assicurazioni: Centralizing Communication for Geographically Distributed Sites

Critical Operating and Financial Metrics: Building the Business Case for Your Capture Investment

Expand Revenue Opportunities by Leveraging Kofax Services for Premium Partners

Guided Expo Tour

Best Practices from Kofax Professional Services to Optimize Services Revenue

Building Opportunities with Microsoft SharePoint

Kofax Express and VRS: New Product Information and Partner Strategy

Kofax Express: How to Sell

Kofax Transformation Modules: Driving Sales Growth

Kofax VRS Elite: How to Sell Upgrades

Making the Most of the Kofax Global Partner Program

Scanning for SharePoint

Transition from Archival to BPA

Working with SAP

Fujitsu EMEA: Get Connected! Scanning Technology Best Practices

Panasonic Scanners: The Flexible and Profitable Way to Business Success

Canon EMEA: The Market Shift to Network Scanners and ScanFront

Accelerating Invoice Processing with KTM Intelligent Recognition Technologies

Business Process Automation with Efficient and Effective Enterprise Communication

E-Invoicing: The Problems It Solves, the Money It Saves

End-to-End Automation of Invoice Processing

Enterprise Capture: Leveraging the Kofax Onramp to Create Value

Introducing MarkView for Accounts Payable 7.0

Kofax Monitor

Kofax Transformation Modules: The Latest and Greatest in Intelligent Recognition Technologies – Today and Tomorrow

Kofax VRS Elite: What's New and What's Its Value to the Enterprise?

Leveraging and Extending MFPs into the Business Process

Leveraging Kofax Intelligent Recognition Technologies Across the Enterprise for Greater ROI

Managing Shared Communication Services in Changing Environments

Kofax VRS Elite: Hands On

Kofax Capture: Deep Dive

Kofax Capture: Ask the Experts

Kofax Monitor: Deep Dive

Kofax Transformation Modules: Ask the Experts

Kofax Communication Server: Latest Innovations and Outlook

Kofax Transformation Modules: Advanced Digital Mailroom Classification (2 hours)

Kofax Transformation Modules: Invoice Line Item Extraction and Matching (2 hours)

Kofax Transformation Modules: Using the Trainable Group Locator

What is Your Scanner Trying to Tell You? Kofax VRS Elite Device Health Deep Dive