Automated Invoice Processing
January 21, 2008 IPM I.R.I.S. Partner Conference Docutec AG
tiedt@docutec.de
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Agenda
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Introducing of Docutec
– Company, Markets, Philosophy
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Why Docutec in automated invoice processing
– Strategy, Partners, References
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– Xtract Live – Getting in Contact
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Docutec at a Glance
Company Business activities Docutec AG, Aachen Software products and solutions for business process optimization through intelligent document processing and information capturing Document recognition, information extraction, bridging of media gaps
Company history 1993: market entry December 1997: founded
November 2007: acquisition by I.R.I.S. Group (business unit Products & Technologies)
Core product Target markets Docutec X4D (Xtract for Documents) Over 50 VARs for: Industry, Retail, Finance, Insurance, Healthcare Service bureaus OEM partners in the area of scanning & imaging 350 Customers in Germany and Europe
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Docutec IRIS integration
Invoice Processing
Digital Mailroom
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Automated Invoice Processing: Why Docutec ?
• Leading market position of Docutec due to
– > 10 years of successful solution realization in invoice processing – Profound business-process knowhow
• Different Solution Packages for
– Retail (centralized invoice clearing for co-operations) – Accounts payable (SAP, Navision, other ERP systems) – Dedicated applications (e.g.Dutch healthcare invoices, TAX invoice processing)
• Complete, integrated solutions
– Scanning - Archiving - Workflow (SAP / non-SAP) – ERP / back-office integration
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Automated Invoice Processing: The Docutec Philosophy
• Consequently Indirect
– Widespread value added reseller network – Easy to integrate
• Solution Driven
– Product modules no project efforts – Ad hoc fully automated recognition
• Focus International
– Country specific rulesets in one system – Individual country settings control the user interface
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Consequently Indirect
• Xtract as a part of VAR Business Solutions
– Automated Invoice processing in SAP environments
– Individual ERP/financial accounting System solutions
– MS Navision/Sharepoint based
Only the solution counts !
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Docutec Xtract module integration
Document reader Automatic classification and information extraction
Archives
Workflow document processing
Forwarding via e-mail to the receiver
Verifying and accounting within the ERP System
E-mail
Web-based verifying and accounting HR-Document classification
PDF, Word, Excel, TIFF, HTML, …
Data management within Database
Fax server Tiff-image + document related information
Applications, Letters, Orders, Forms, Invoices
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Solution Driven
• Flexibility ....
– Ad hoc fully automated recognition of electronic and paper-based invoices and credit notes (no individual creditor learning mechanism Xtract knows how an invoice looks like – Easy customizing of pre-defined parameters within the solution package accounts payable reduced the adaption to individual customer environments to a few hours
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Save time ...
– Matching of invoice line items with corresponding order line items to realize blind booking rates – Deterministically training ensures the continuous improvement of automation
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Safe investment ...
– Easily upgradeable for different documents types up to a fully automated digital mailroom solution.
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Focus International
• Automatically oriented to local legal compliance rules
• International invoices could be processed easily without any additional effort, because of not using keywords
• Support of country individual invoice specifics:
– Tax Rates, Currency symbols … – Individual invoice amount fields taken into account – Island, Switzerland, Spain… – UNICODE-Support: Non ASCII-Character sets supported
• Individual country configuration in one Xtract system
Dependent from country code analyze/extraction is adapted
• Xtract verify dialog
Country settings of the operating systems controls the language of the verify view (Dialogs, error messages, functions).
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Docutec Customers
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Part of the European partner network of Docutec
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Join us !
• Visit us at the exhibition
– Automated invoice processing – Digital Mailroom classification
• Visit our VARs
– – – – – WMD GmbH: Carl Elmer Henrichsen AG: Alois Piendl Easy AG (separate booth): Andreas Nowottka Portal Systems Consulting GmbH: Andre Hoseas and more …
• Get in contact
– Docutec AG: Frank Tiedt
Thank you for your attention !