Open Text introduces new fax server

The company has also updated its Open Text Fax Server Connector for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, a document capture and delivery solution for SharePoint.

The products, which were previously marketed by Captaris under the RightFax name, are the first new versions to come out since Open Text’s acquisition of Captaris.

“Organisations rely on Open Text Fax Server as the entry and exit points for important documents, without the burden of slow and cumbersome paper-based faxes,” said Ron Vangell, senior vice president, Ecosystems Solutions Group at Open Text.

“Solutions such as Open Text Fax Server are ideal for businesses looking to save costs and improve efficiency.

“With the new release, we focused on ways to help organisations reduce total cost of ownership and add support for the latest technologies,” he added.

Open Text acquired Captaris to add key capabilities for converting large volumes of paper documents for transactions to electronic form so that they can be managed by Open Text ECM solutions that work with SAP or Oracle ERP systems.

The fax server products lets customers fax hundreds or thousands of purchase orders, receipts or invoices in transactions automatically from SAP or Oracle.

Some large Open Text customers use the solution to fax more than 100,000 documents a month.

With Open Text Fax Server, which is version 9.4 of RightFax, enterprises can benefit from expanded support for virtualised environments, improved optical character recognition (OCR) performance, and easier administration through simplified installation and enhanced auditing capabilities.