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Agenda Details
Transform 2009 will include valuable content for customers and partners, including sessions designed specifically for technical professionals, business line managers and executives.
Download the Transform 2009 EMEA Schedule
| Industry Solutions Sessions |
Driving Company Success in Really Tough Times: AP Shines in Enterprise Spotlight
October 27: 5:00 PM – 5:50 PM
Guest Speaker: Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks took steps to use technology to make dramatic process improvements in their Purchase-to-Pay/Shared Service Center operations, resulting in reduced costs, improved productivity, enhanced service levels and cash flow optimization. This session will provide an overview of how one global company leveraged AP technologies to manage unprecedented challenges and shape itself for future growth.
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A Service Provider View - Providing Accounts Payable for a Global Client - How Kofax Helps Us Provide Standardized Services with Centralized Control
October 27: 2:00 PM – 2:50 PM
Iron Mountain’s conversion operations are often asked to digitize documents in a standardized manner across multiple countries. With Kofax and other add-on tools, a standardized production platform was created that delivers these requirements. In this example, we explain our approach and share some lessons learned |
Cut Costs Not Trees! 5-steps to Automate Accounts Payables
October 26: 5:00 PM – 5:50 PM
Guest Speaker: Recticel |
Electrifying Invoice Processing Across The Company
October 26: 3:00 PM – 3:50 PM
Guest Speaker: INCO
In a process to automate the handling of invoices coming from many sources and in many shapes we decided to take the full step towards “Putting Electricity to Invoices”. This includes paper versions, PDF’s, EDI’s and even getting data straight from vendor systems using embedded software. All invoices are interpreted electronically and if there is a mismatch between purchase order and invoice – we will also – and only then – use the actual invoice line details! All this is then implemented into workflow management and allowing us to shorten the working time spent, thus saving interests and workforce. |
Benefits of Automating Accounts Payable Process End-to-End
October 27: 11:30 AM – 12:20 PM
Guest Speaker: Caterpillar
Learn from Caterpillar Motoren, one of the world’s largest manufacturer for medium-speed diesel and gas engines how a combination of Kofax capture platform and WMD xFlow Invoice SAP integration increased process transparency and reliability, cut cost and processing time at the same time.
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Driving efficiency through Enterprise Content Management
October 27: 3:00 PM – 3:50 PM
Speaker: European Fund Administration
EFA is an independent and highly specialized company offering a complete range of innovative services, delivered with a personal touch to the most exacting clients in the global fund industry. To increase efficiency of processes and reduce operational and financial risks, EFA has deployed a centralized ECM plateform mainly based on Kofax solutions. First application was deployed to support Order Entry process for Register & TA and to reduce the lead time from the reception to the input of the orders. |
Process Improvement in a Cost Sensitive Market
October 26: 2:00 PM – 2:50 PM
Guest Speaker: Goldsmith Williams
Goldsmith Williams LLP are a law firm bases in Liverpool specializing on remortgage, conveyance and RTA. Data accuracy and cost-effectiveness are key. This presentation will demonstrate the benefits of a digital mailroom implementation, automated classification and indexing of inbound documents in paper and emails.
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Enabling Information Transformation Across Geographic Boundaries
October 27: 3:00 PM – 3:50 PM
Guest Speaker: Swiss Post Solutions Ltd
The speaker will examine the objectives and considerations in designing and deploying an outsourced service providing a common Document Processing Operations platform for multi channel document acquisition to support business transformation across both geographic and business unit lines. This presentation will cover elements of the solution design, the underlying business case and the key factors to be considered in both the management and operation of the solution.
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| Product Sessions |
Automating your Mail Distribution with Kofax - Best Practice, Tips and Tricks
October 26: 2:00 PM – 3:50 PM
Digital mailroom solutions from Kofax automatically classify and extract incoming mail so it can be distributed via workflow, independently of delivery mechanism or document type in a reliable and secure process. The result is reduced labor costs, faster customer response and reduced errors. This session will focus on the common challenges faced when to configure a digital mailroom solution and how best to address them using Kofax product features |
Batch Scanning Made Easy: Meet Kofax Express
October 26: 3:00 PM -3:50 PM
Many organizations are reluctant to switch from paper to digital processes because they perceive capture software to be difficult to set up and operate. Kofax Express was designed to overcome these objections, with a familiar UI and streamlined options that enable most customers to get up and running within an hour. This session will walk through a start-to-finish demo that will convince your customers—and you—that capture software can be accessible to all. |
Extending the Power of VRS Image Perfection Technology to Any Business Process
October 27: 3:00 PM – 3:50 PM
The best laid plans of any process automation solution can be compromised if the data entering it is unintelligible. Kofax’s VRS can prevent this through a combination of techniques that clean, enhance and correct data. This session will explore where and how VRS can be deployed, its effect on data accuracy and the resulting impact on virtually any business process. |
Further Improve Business Efficiency with Kofax Capture 9.0
October 27: 2:00 PM – 2:50 PM
Improved business efficiency directly translates to lower cost of operations and is a key driver for Kofax Capture 9.0 features. Efficiency gains come from both improved operator efficiency and reduction of administrative costs. This session will focus on the new features that remove costs from capture operations including:
• Better support for enterprise deployment scenarios
• Improved error correction capabilities
• Advanced routing capabilities to enhance operator efficiency.
Attendees will learn through illustrative scenarios when the use of these new features is appropriate, how the features operate and how they directly address bottom line costs. |
How to Generate Incremental Revenue from the Kofax Product Stack
October 27: 5:00 PM – 5:50 PM
Kofax offers the most complete suite of products in the market for intelligent capture and exchange. This session will present an overview of the capabilities and key features of each product. You will learn how the products fit together and understand what combinations of products can be leveraged for maximum impact in applications such as invoice processing, digital mailroom and forms processing.
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How to Leverage MFPs for Fax and Other Communications
October 27: 5:00 PM – 5:50 PM
Kofax enables companies to realize all the benefits of integrating MFPs into their existing IT infrastructure and networks. This session provides an overview how Kofax products can be implemented to leverage the usage of the MFP infrastructure based on existing use cases and ROI calculations
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Hybrid Electronic/Paper Invoice Processing on a Single Platform: Kofax Transformation Modules and Kofax e-Transactions
October 27: 2:00 PM – 3:50 PM
Kofax's solution for invoice processing allows paper and electronic invoices processes to be processed through a single platform, providing AP departments with a single automated point of connection between any supplier and their ERP and invoice approval workflow systems. In this session attendees will learn how to construct, configure, integrate and tune a system that maximizes efficiency gains and guarantees ROI. |
Keeping Control over Capture with Kofax Monitor
October 26: 5:00 PM – 5:50 PM
October 27: 11:30 AM – 12:20 PM
Recognizing and reacting to operational issues on a real-time basis is critical to ensuring high service levels and peak performance of business critical document processing systems. This session will focus on use cases & value related to monitoring, and specifically the feature set of Kofax Monitor. Attendees will learn the value of day-to-day operational management of a capture implementation and the differentiation of Kofax Monitor compared to other IT monitoring tools. |
Real World Best Practices for Accounts Payable Automation
October 26: 5:00 PM – 5:50 PM
October 27: 2:00 PM – 2:50 PM
This session is essential for finance managers and IT managers who want to learn about best practices for Accounts Payable automation as defined and certified by experts in this field. You’ll see how Kofax’s solution for invoice capture and approval workflow delivers best practices and end-to-end automation that result in a solid return on investment. We’ll cover the individual components that are required at each step of the process and how they integrate with your ERP system to provide real-time AP performance visibility and management.
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Kofax for the Enterprise - Managing Shared Services
October 26: 2:00 PM – 2:50 PM
This session provides an overview of how Kofax products for capture and communication can be implemented to support (internal and external) service provider model. It shows which use cases can be realized in a service provider model and how the application and user control are achieved in order to provide successful service provision. |
Kofax for the Enterprise - Moving from Departmental Solutions to the Enterprise
October 26: 5:00 PM – 5:50 PM
October 27: 5:00 PM – 5:50 PM
Companies often begin with capture and communications infrastructure at a departmental and/or project level. Over time, multiple departments evolve separate solutions, often involving a mix of different technologies. The result is duplication of effort, compliancy issues, and excessive technology expenses. This session will focus on how to address those issues with the installation of Kofax, Enterprise-wide capture and communications solutions. Attendees will learn common pitfalls of departmental solution growth, and how each of those pitfalls can be addressed with specific offerings from Kofax around a centralized infrastructure.
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Kofax for the Enterprise - When Downtime Costs Money: High Availability Features
October 26: 3:00 PM -3:50 PM
High-value business processes can involve throughput worth thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars (or Euros) per minute. Failure of such processes can yield loss of revenue, and financial penalties. This session will focus on the identification of common failures around the ingestion, processing, and export of business critical documents; and how such failures can be avoided through the implementation of Kofax high availability technologies. Attendees will learn to plan ahead for failures, including allocation, cost-justification, and deployment of appropriate hardware and software.
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Managing Fax and Other Communications with Kofax Communication Server
October 27: 11:30 AM – 12:20 PM
The 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 your business processes, regardless of location, device or media type, and helps to accelerate your business and reduce costs. This session covers several real life use cases including ROI calculations which have been already implemented to reduce operational costs and to improve business processes. |
MFPs to Desktop Scanners: Deploying Kofax in Distributed Front Office Environments
October 27: 3:00 PM – 3:50 PM
One of the challenges of bringing capture to the front office is understanding who the customers are and their various agendas/pain points. This session will focus on the business value of accelerating transactions by enabling capture in the remote branch, home office, freestanding clinic, nurse’s station, or regional office. Front office capture greatly reduces costs while accelerating business processes and transactions. Attendees will learn the basics of usability, security, IT compliance, expandability, and monitoring as it relates to enabling document automation where it makes the most business sense and drives the greatest return on investment. |
The Kofax Product Stack - ROI by Design
October 26: 2:00 PM – 2:50 PM
October 27: 11:30 AM – 12:20 PM
Understanding the cost savings and other process improvements facilitated by a document capture system is critical in the planning and deployment of new IT projects. This session will focus on common steps shared by many popular business processes, how those steps can be positively impacted by a Capture system, and how those impacts yield a clear Return On Investment (ROI). Attendees will learn to identify business process optimizations that can be leveraged with a capture system deployment, how to execute those optimizations with Kofax Capture and related software, and how to calculate the anticipated ROI. |
| Value Added Distribution |
Batch Scanning Made Easy: Meet Kofax Express
October 27: 5:00 PM – 5:50 PM
Many organizations are reluctant to switch from paper to digital processes because they perceive capture software to be difficult to set up and operate. Kofax Express was designed to overcome these objections, with a familiar UI and streamlined options that enable most customers to get up and running within an hour. This session will walk through a start-to-finish demo that will convince your customers—and you—that capture software can be accessible to all. |
Extending the Power of VRS Image Perfection Technology to Any Business Process
October 27: 2:00 PM – 2:50 PM
The best laid plans of any process automation solution can be compromised if the data entering it is unintelligible. Kofax’s VRS can prevent this through a combination of techniques that clean, enhance and correct data. This session will explore where and how VRS can be deployed, its effect on data accuracy and the resulting impact on virtually any business process. |
Kofax VAD: Distributed Excellence for Partners
October 27: 11:30 AM – 12:20 PM
Platinum 1: Canon Sales Workshop
October 26: 2:00 PM – 2:50 PM
Platinum 2: Fujitsu Sales Workshop
October 26: 3:00 PM – 3:50 PM
Platinum 3: Kodak Sales Workshop
October 26: 5:00 PM – 5:50 PM
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| Business Development and Sponsor Sessions |
Is Microsoft Your Next Big Business Growth Opportunity?
October 27: 11:30 AM – 12:20 PM |
Kofax Professional Services Group
October 26: 3:00 PM – 3:50 PM
Professional Services (PS) is essential to delivering a full solution to customers. This session explains when and why to work with PS, describes recent changes to the global PS and education groups, and introduces the project management methodology that PS uses to deliver large projects. |
Kofax Support Program
October 26: 2:00 PM – 2:50 PM |
What is this thing called SharePoint?
October 27: 2:00 PM – 2:50 PM |
Co-Marketing with Kofax
October 27: 5:00 PM – 5:50 PM |
| Training and Certification Sessions |
AIIM: ECM Practitioner – Training Course (FULL)
October 27: 8:00 AM – 5:50 PM
The Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Certificate Program is designed from global best practices among our 65,000 members. The program covers the strategies, tools and technologies used to capture, store, manage, preserve and deliver information in support of business processes. It provides you with a framework which enables the management of information assets across an organization, and it ties in relevant components and technologies. This could be Electronic Document Management, Electronic Records Management, Workflow, Business Process Management, Web Content Management, Collaboration and Digital Asset Management.
Learn more about the AIIM: ECM Practitioner Certification > |
Build a Compelling ROI Justification for Kofax: Nucleus Research
October 26: 2:00 PM – 3:50 PM (for Kofax Partners)
October 27: 2:00 PM – 3:50 PM (for Kofax End-Users)
Before making large technology purchases, companies are increasingly analyzing the ROI and payback of the solution. This interactive session will teach you how to properly and consistently use ROI and financial metrics in the sales process. You will learn when to apply metrics such as ROI, TCO, NPV, and payback, and how to build credibility behind estimates of direct and indirect benefits. Learn more about Nucleus at www.nucleusresearch.com |
IOMA: Essentials of Accounts Payable – Training & Certification Program (FULL)
October 26: 8:00 AM – 5:50 PM
One-day training program, offered at the Transform conference at the andel's Hotel on Monday, October 26, 2009. Course tuition included with Transform registration. The course begins at 8:00 am and ends at 4:00 pm Pacific Time (please note that Transform sessions on this day run from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm, thus if you elect to take IOMA training, you will miss most of the Transform sessions on this day). You will be asked during Transform registration if you would like to take the IOMA course; select “yes” to secure your class spot. If you sign up for the IOMA training, you will receive a training manual from IOMA prior to Transform; please take time to study the manual in advance of Transform so you will be prepared for the course. Following the IOMA course on October 21, you will have the option to complete the 90-minute certification exam onsite or take it at a later date.
Learn more about IOMA: Training for Accounts Payable Specialists and Managers > |
Kofax e-Transactions for Invoices 2.0 Essentials – Training & Certification Program (online certification post conference)
October 26: 2:00 PM – 5:50 PM
October 27: 3:00 PM – 5:50 PM (includes 1 hour break)
This class will cover the installation and configuration for the Sender and Receiver software for Kofax e-Transactions (KeT) 2.0. Integration with Kofax Transformation Modules (KTM) 4 will also be covered in detail. This technical training class will also include the certification exam for KeT 2.0. The exam will not be done in class, but all logon credentials will be provided for the attendee to take the exam after the class. This is a great class for those wanting or needing to be certified in this new solution for electronic import of invoices into the KTM 4 processing environment.
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Kofax Monitor 5.1 Overview
October 26: 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
October 27: 11:30 AM – 2:50 PM
This class is an introduction to the new version of Kofax Monitor (KM), version 5.1. Topics will include the methodology used in monitoring and reporting the status of operations in a Capture installation, including: local and remote sites, web sites, Capture Metrics, KTM 4 operations, server connectivity, services available, reporting options and automatic correction of problems detected. This is a must session for those wanting to know more about what this new solution can provide for them. |
The Different Faces of Capture - Industry Insight: Harvey Spencer
October 26: 2:00 PM – 2:50 PM
October 27: 11:30 AM – 12:20 PM
Capture software has been around for a while, but it has a long way to go and can continue to grow at double-digit rates. Companies are realizing that paper is not going away and that Kofax’s technologies offer fast ROI, improved business processes and increased competitive advantage. This session explores the changes, why this is the market to be in, and where it is going. |
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