EMC Corporation, the world leader in information management and storage, today announced EMC Documentum® Archive Services for Imaging software, the latest addition to its family of enterprise archiving software products. The software offering provides customers a single, unified archiving platform for collecting, retaining, securing and retrieving all types of document images for compliance and legal discovery, content re-use, improved decision-making and operational efficiency.

Documentum Archive Services for Imaging is a packaged offering that combines EMC Captiva InputAccel® document capture software with EMC Documentum technology and is designed for customers who manage large volumes of paper documents. It converts paper documents to electronic images to free-up physical storage space; enables rapid and secure electronic access to stored information within the enterprise; and facilitates enterprise-wide search and discovery to eliminate unmanaged archives and minimize document loss. As a result, customers in industries such as banking, insurance, healthcare, legal, manufacturing and government can lower costs, improve operational efficiencies, mitigate risks and manage changing business requirements.

"The implementation of the EMC Documentum platform and EMC Captiva InputAccel has helped us to significantly reduce the amount of paper generated and manual labor required to review over 2,500 tax returns each year. This solution has shaved over 1,000 hours of labor that was previously needed to print, organize, and track tax returns during the two-month window that our Tax department has in which to review these returns. In addition, our acquisition and asset management teams now spend less time searching for documents and more time managing their deals," said Brian Madden, Director of Information Technology at Boston Capital. "I can see how companies that deal with large volumes of paper documents would want to get started by using Documentum Archive Services for Imaging, which offers the flexibility to expand content management and enterprise archiving capabilities based on changing business needs."

Documentum Archive Services for Imaging is also the first in the industry to provide enterprise-class document image archiving based on a unified archiving platform. Like other EMC Documentum Archive Services software, it employs a holistic set of retention, storage and security policies and access tools for archiving not just document images, but also enterprise reports, e-mail and SAP content. With this unified archiving approach, customers can reduce costs associated with archiving information in paper form, consolidate siloed archives for different information types and provide faster access to archived information.

"In less than a year since we launched our enterprise archiving strategy, we have made great headway in delivering customers products and solutions that address the increasing complexity of managing, storing and accessing archived information," said Dave DeWalt, President, EMC Software Group. "Today's announcement demonstrates our continued commitment to our strategy and reflects the demand we see from customers to have a unified archiving approach for managing all types of information. We will continue to apply this strategy across other forms of information in the future."

EMC's unified archiving software platform is supported by the full range of EMC's industry-leading storage systems including EMC Centera™ content addressed storage (CAS), EMC CLARiiON® and EMC Symmetrix® storage systems as well as non-EMC storage platforms. Documentum Archive Services for Imaging is available immediately. Prices vary by configuration. For more information on these and other EMC software products, please visit http://software.emc.com/.

EMC also announced EMC Captiva InputAccel® for EOBs™ document-capture software (see separate release). Available immediately, Captiva InputAccel for EOBs is designed to help healthcare providers streamline and accelerate the processing of Explanation of Benefits (EOB) forms, reduce errors and recover medical procedure revenues otherwise left unclaimed. When combined with Documentum Archive Services for Imaging, Captiva InputAccel for EOBs provides an end-to-end solution for intelligently capturing, archiving and accessing EOB forms.

"The acquisition of Captiva has enabled EMC to provide integrated content management and intelligent capture solutions that meet specific needs of each industry— whether it's financial services, healthcare or insurance," said Rob Tarkoff, Senior Vice President of Strategy, Business Development and Alliances, EMC Software Group. "This synergy underscores EMC's strategy and commitment to provide customers with industry-leading, best-of-breed, integrated solutions for information infrastructure management."

The company also announced today an enhanced version of EMC's backup solution for the EMC Documentum platform. Available in June 2006, EMC NetWorker Module for Documentum provides customers with synchronized tape or disk-based backup and recovery of all EMC Documentum enterprise content management repository elements including full-text indexes containing index information for documents in the repository, databases containing document information and relationships, storage areas containing content files and information, and configuration files containing Documentum software and configuration files. Now, customers can receive stronger recovery management of critical Documentum assets and components. This offering, in addition to EMC's broad range of recovery management products, supports the industry-wide shift in emphasis from the process and technologies of backup to the ability to quickly, easily and comprehensively respond to and recover from any data event.

EMC is showcasing its family of enterprise archiving software products, including the new Documentum Archive Services for Imaging, at this week's AIIM Conference & Expo (booth #1512 and #713) and at the Storage Decisions Conference (booth #600).