Nuance acquires eCopy
October 7, 2009 by Steve HannafordPosted in: Dealers & Channel, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views
Nuance Communications, which sells a number of imaging –related products, has acquired eCopy, a major developer of imaging workflow software for copier/MFPs.
eCopy’s products include ShareScan, ScanStation and PaperWorks. Over 100,000 copies of ShareScan have been sold.
eCopy supplies and integrates its tools for taking scanner documents, converting and distributing them, and connecting them with a wide range of back-end data managing systems (including SAP, SharePoint, Oracle, and many others). It works closely with major copier/MFP companies, including Canon, HP, Konica Minolta, Océ, Ricoh, Toshiba and Xerox.
Nuance’s current offering are seen as complimentary to eCopy’s. Nuance is best known for its two commonly used OCR programs, PaperPort and OmniPage. The company also sells industry-leading software for voice recognition and voice annotation, as well as tools for converting and editing PDF files. In addition, the company sells a variety of products to medical processes, a hot area where data management, voice annotation, and security are critical issues.
Our take: a good move for Nuance. As copier/MFP hardware from various vendors looks more and more identical, software availability becomes more and more crucial, especially embedded software accessed from the control panel as well as the desktop. Both companies offer among the most commonly used software in their respective fields. The closer integration of their products (combining, say, voice recognition and document annotation) looks like a winning combination. Best of all, much of their sales and marketing efforts are aimed at the same audience, though with distinct product areas. That should make for very good crossover.
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Tags: eCopy, PaperWorks, ScanStation, ShareScan
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