“We are excited to offer our customers the ability to leverage and extend their investment in their Microsoft SharePoint platforms by integrating Clearview’s Content management and business intelligence features. By combining these platforms, our customers can easily and cost effectively manage, search, and report on all the information in their organization, giving them a complete enterprise view,” says Jim Jordan, President of Strategic Data Management.

Clearview is excited to work with Strategic Data Management as well.

“Having partners with both experience and knowledge in the ever-evolving content management market is extremely helpful,” adds Meredith Adams, Marketing Director at Clearview Software. “One of our primary objectives as a progressive, leading-edge ECM solution provider is to educate organizations   about their content management options. Strategic Data Management’s ‘customer-first’ approach not only mirrors our own, but ensures that the right ECM solution is delivered so customers can experience a near immediate return on their investment.”

We’ll be at booth MP9 in the Microsoft Pavilion ready to show you just how incredible our Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution is for Microsoft users and beyond!

Not only will we give you a free demo, but we’ll give you a free pass to get into AIIMExpo 2009. Just email us at info@clearviewecm.com and we’ll send a pass right out. How’s that for service?

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Brad Breemeersch, Regional Sales Manager at Clearview Software, will be presenting the revolutionary Clearview IRISS Desktop Gadget in the Microsoft Pavilion at the following times. The IRISS promotes a new and simple user experience that has never been seen before in the ECM market. We’d love to see you there!

Join us either
Wednesday, April 1  at 2 pm
Thursday, April 2  at 1:30 pm

The IRISS desktop gadget promotes a new and simple user experience that has never been seen before in the ECM market. Information workers will not only be able to quickly access and store information with unprecedented ease, but they will have fun with the technology, too!

Search criteria can be quickly and easily selected from virtually any business application running on the Windows desktop environment, and then dropped onto the IRISS for immediate access. This delivers out-of-the-box integration with your business applications without implementing expensive and complex programming or custom scripting interfaces. Documents, email messages, and other content objects can be effortlessly stored in Clearview using familiar drag-and-drop techniques.

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The fully-integrated Business Process Management module (workflow) reduces implementation costs while automating content-centric processes to improve user productivity, information sharing, and collaboration of documents in Clearview and SharePoint. Information workers can manage and monitor workflow activity from the intuitive Clearview Client, which was inspired by the Fluent User Interface in Microsoft Office 2007.

“Organizations will be able to leverage the tremendous efficiencies provided by a solution built on a content-centric business process management product,” says Clearview Channel Services Manager Daniel Mayernik. “The Clearview 5.0 Ultimate Edition delivers the unique advantage of content-centric business process management—the content that drives business processes. Clearview provides built-in support for content events, enabling new content added to any of the Clearview Virtual ECM Domain repositories to trigger a new workflow or complete a current workflow, based on an organization’s unique business rules and policies.”

With Clearview EMC 5.0, no data is left behind. Upgraded to 62-bit, Clearview continues to extend enterprise-class content management capabilities to SharePoint and can also connect to external data sources such as an ODBC database or flat file for quick look-ups of data throughout the enterprise. Document Management Customers will also find that the new compatibility with Kofax 8.0 enables rapid document class synchronization.

“We are excited that Image Access Corporation joined the Clearview Authorized Partner Network,” said Steven Leichtman, senior vice president of Clearview Software. “The combination of their extensive ECM experience and the robust nature of Clearview ECM will provide their customers with a powerful solution to meet business requirements today and well into the future.”

With the advanced ECM functionality of Clearview, organizations can intelligently store and manage their business information, files, and documents. Together with Image Access Corporation, Clearview will continue to leverage document management to eliminate storage issues and assist organizations with their audit and compliance efforts to ensure proper archival of critical business information.

“With the progression of SharePoint in the ECM market, we feel that Clearview sees the big picture, and provides a product that truly elaborates on the characteristics of historical document management services, and exploits its ability to live and breathe as a natural part of the SharePoint ecosystem,” said Image Access President, John Cassidy.

“Image Access has been providing document imaging and content management solutions for over 20 years. Our ability to respond to market demands with solutions around SharePoint, allows us to position Clearview in a way that can add value to the untapped potential in every organization’s document-centric processes.”

Spitfire specializes in helping clients achieve alignment between business objectives and technology initiatives. With a business-focused approach and highly-experienced team, Spitfire helps clients maximize project effectiveness and regularly delivers client engagements under budget. Their SharePoint knowledge and experience enabled them to identify Clearview’s unique value proposition of leveraging and extending SharePoint to deliver enterprise-class ECM functionality.

“The Spitfire Group is excited to work as the Rocky Mountain partner for Clearview because we know how much value Microsoft SharePoint and an ECM tool bring to an organization,” said Mark Richtermeyer, President and CEO of Spitfire.

“Our SharePoint expertise can extend the Clearview capabilities in order to maximize an organization’s return on software investments.”

“We welcome The Spitfire Group to the Clearview Authorized Partner Network,” said Steve Leichtman, Senior Vice President of Sales & Services for Clearview Software. “The expertise and business application knowledge that Spitfire brings to their market is highly regarded and Clearview is proud to have our ECM platform selected for their clients.”

Clearview has introduced a fresh approach to ECM that uniquely leverages the native ECM capabilities of SharePoint as core components of the Clearview suite architecture. By extending SharePoint with transactional document imaging, report management (COLD), and business process management, Clearview delivers enterprise-class ECM functionality that rivals legacy ECM products. Furthermore, the Office 2007 user experience provided throughout the Clearview client interface provides information workers with a familiar Microsoft experience designed to promote ease-of-use and rapid adoption of ECM on every worker desktop.

For the past three years Meredith has managed the Clearview Documentation Services department, which is responsible for providing Customers and Partners with a world-class Help system.

“We expect that Meredith’s experience, leadership, creativity, and technical knowledge-which is rooted in the ECM software industry-will increase our momentum in promoting the Clearview ECM solution to organizations across multiple verticals,” says Senior Vice President Steven Leichtman.

Her technical and creative contributions to the product and development life cycle have proved invaluable. With more than eight years of ECM experience in both the public and private sectors and a successful track record at Clearview, Meredith will focus on expanding the already impressive footprint of Clearview in the ECM market and drive new sales through community education, social networking, and search engine optimization (SEO) of the Clearview ECM Web site.

Of course, companies have for years used shared network drives or shared file paths as a pseudo-collaboration and information storage mechanism. As we all know, necessity is the mother of invention, and through our technology evolution, these have become the methodology used by so many organizations to store, share, and “manage” their business documents and information. Even organizations that have deployed ECM applications continue to use file shares pervasively.

I attribute this trend to the unfortunate reality that ECM solutions have fallen short of opportunities because of high license fees, complexity, cumbersome user experiences, and low enterprise-wide adoption rates. The problem that exists with file shares is that we can’t control or manage content we don’t know about.

Most organizations will candidly admit that this is a growing fear and discomfort because over the years, the sheer volume of information stored on these drives has reached overwhelming volumes. Herein lies one of the fundamental interests and business value opportunities for SharePoint. Unlike legacy ECM vendors, Microsoft has attempted to delicately balance controlling information with the resources and manageability required to support the governance and controlling system.

Companies want control, but without exorbitant costs and resource/support requirements. SharePoint is being positioned to provide control at an attractive cost with a reduced managed system as a key benefit. And this is one of the reasons that SharePoint resonates with so many organizations today and is being so carefully and diligently explored as a new business technology.

It can provide organizations with the ability to eliminate “file share-itis” by providing security controlled access, management, and policy administration (including retention policies) for information—all readily available to users on their desktops within a Microsoft-centric user experience.