Kodak Alaris teams with ELO Digital Office

Enterprise data capture and document processing unit Kodak Alaris has inked a strategic partnership with digital transformation specialist ELO Digital Office across Australia and New Zealand.

The two companies have built a cloud-based scan-on-demand solution they say captures data, securely stores documents, streamlines workflows, improves collaboration and ensures regulatory compliance.

“The ability to extend our ECM Suite with the flexible and intelligent automation provided by Kodak info onput solution helps making Kodak Alaris an ideal solution partner for the Oceania region,” said Rainer Krause, chairman of ELO Digital Office A/NZ.

The intelligent document processing (IDP) platform combines Kodak’s info input solution and ELO’s enterprise content management (ECM) suite to provide customers with an end-to-end solution with built-in intelligence and the flexibility to deploy AI services.

Data is scanned into Kodak’s solution, which enables capture with automatic separation, classification, extraction, and validation of data including handwriting recognition, barcode reading and document process workflows.

Once digitised, the data is automatically routed to the cloud-based ELO ECM Suite for secure storage, digital document management and fast access to information through a variety of clients, or IT systems such as Microsoft, SAP and Salesforce.

Angelo Krstevski, A/NZ cluster manager at Kodak Alaris, said there was a natural synergy between IDP solutions from Kodak Alaris and ELO’s ECM.

“Together we have created a single platform to seamlessly onboard, categorise, and store data, delivering first-class search results and actionable insights,” Krstevski said.

Assigned metadata is based on intelligent character and optical character recognition for optimal search results.

The partners promised seamless integration and a simple, intuitive end-user experience that would eliminate the need to train staff or allocate dedicated records management resources.

Users could then create dynamic workflow processes, create and assign tasks to the right people or groups, and benefit from increased business intelligence.

Applications include business process outsourcing where multiple jobs have to be managed for various customers.

These typically create cover sheets to separate jobs and data across different clients. Kodak’s info solution can read barcodes on the cover sheets and act in accordance with workflows assigned on the barcode.

It also ensures any personal identifiable information in the document is flagged.

ELO Digital Office services more than 1.3 million users in over fifty countries.