The Paperless Office

Computhink offers Document/Content Management with
ViewWise "The Paperless Office"

Computhink has restructured the feature rich ViewWise® Enterprise Solution to provide an initial, simple, "out of the box", easy to install version with the full feature set to facilitate small businesses. This provides the scaleability and flexibility for companies as they transition to larger enterprises. We call it, ViewWise "The Paperless Office."

The ViewWise Paperless Office Small Business Solution gives you all the capabilities of an Enterprise Solution scaled for a home office or small office environment. And that means ViewWise can also grow as your small business grows. No need to worry any longer about migrating and re-scanning your database into another imaging system because of your business growth.

The key benefits of ViewWise include:
  1. Compliance and eDiscovery

    A rising number of regulations from the state, federal and industry levels have resulted in increasingly severe risks and penalties for non-compliance.  Legal risks should not be overlooked, with judges now requiring that all documents pertaining to a law suit whether in the form of email, word files, spreadsheets or plain old paper – be turned over to opposing legal counsel or the court. 
  2. Disaster Recovery

    Loss of corporate information in a paper based system can be caused by natural disasters and also power failures/viruses can create problems as well for storage of digital information.
  3. Go Green “Paperless Office”, Reduce Costs

    No more paper, printing, filing or storage costs for documents. ViewWise provides an environment that encourages collaboration and information exchange without the need for documents to take form on paper.
  4. Business Process Automation

    ViewWise workflow provides organizations with a solution to automate document processes, setup tasks and collaborate among departments or with outside vendors and partners who are granted security. By streamlining workflow procedures, documents can be electronically routed to provide efficiency gains.
  5. Integration

    Image enabling or integration with your organizations existing business applications is one click away within these applications to archive vital information into ViewWise.
  6. Data Capture

    When converting paper files to a digital format, scanning is basic but indexing can be a challenge. Front end capture solutions combined with ViewWise can read and process bubble forms, barcodes, recognize specific forms or use OCR to autopopulate index fields so there is no need for manual typing.

ViewWise Document Management Features include:

  • Full Text Search – Native & Image files
  • Views 400+ file formats
  • Check-in / check-out
  • Access via web and desktop clients for remote access for partners, vendors or internal staff
  • Integration with Microsoft Office Applications
  • Automate Business Processes
  • Audit trail & Version/Revision
  • Retention Policies
  • Advanced security privileges
  • 128-bit encrypted storage
  • Scan/OCR Images
  • Manipulation of Images
  • Electronic Signature Options
  • And more…

ViewWise "The Paperless Office" can be used with Oracle 9i or Microsoft SQL 2000/2005 Data Engines - including the redistributable Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005 Desktop Engine (MSDE 2000). MSDE 2000 is a cost-effective entry point for use with The Paperless Office. However, MSDE 2000 has limitations that may affect features available in ViewWise, these include; 2 GB database size limit, 5 concurrent batch workload (connections) limit, and No Full Text Search (FTS) capabilities. MSDE 2000 can be scaled to a full Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Data Engine to accommodate expansion of the ViewWise system - without losing content.

ViewWise provides intuitive find capabilities using a comprehensive search interface with; Simple, Advanced, and optional Full Text Search functionality (FTS only available with qualifying database engines.)

ViewWise interface has been structured to mirror where possible industry standard icons, menus and feature functionality. The automation of functions and inclusion of wizards, where possible, has eliminated the need for manual tedious and technical tasks. This simple, user-friendly approach enables the user to quickly become proficient with the application and minimizes the time required to realize optimum efficiency of the application.

Reliable, flexible and scalable business solutions, Because of The Paperless Office's integration of industry standard technologies e.g. (Java, RDBM's MAPI, ODMA, JDBC, etc.) you not only get the most reliable solution, but it's extremely flexible and scalable.

ViewWise is Windows based. This simple, user-friendly approach enables the user to quickly become proficient with the application and minimizes the time required to realize optimum efficiency of the application. With it's advanced search capabilities ViewWise retrieves documents in seconds.

Any access to a document requested by a User must be passed to the ViewWise Java Server. The request is then validated against the ViewWise Security Model that is automatically derived from the Net Operating System security model (NDS or Windows NT Security). This ViewWise security model provides extensive multi-level security for users and groups, on Cabinets, Drawers, folders, and documents coupled with assignable user privileges. True three tier architecture ensuring security of data.

Why ViewWise "The Paperless Office?" Paper is information and information is power. The Paperless Office is the bridge between your paper information and your computer. Together with your existing applications you have a true path to a paperless environment.