IBM Adds DataCap To Its Arsenal

August 19, 2010 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on IBM Adds DataCap To Its Arsenal

August 19, 2010 – IBM’s recent acquisition of document capture vendor DataCap will add new technology that enables users to extract data from structured and unstructured formats, including information from tax returns, invoices and other forms, as well as email and PowerPoint presentations.

CMSWire shared the news of this purchase in their article, “IBM Buys Advanced Document Capture with Datacap.” Despite the fact that some of the software’s capabilities overlap their current product FileNet, IBM states it intends to make DataCap the foundation of their document capture strategy. DataCap’s Taskmaster capture platform provides for the scanning and indexing of document images directly into content management software.

With content management system vendors providing taxonomy functionality, users have become tempted to consolidate and eliminate a very worthy part of their document management process. When building a taxonomy or ontology, you want that model to be available across the enterprise and not tied to one single program.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.