Brainware

Type	Private
Headquarters	Ashburn, Virginia, USA
Key people	Carl Mergele, CEO James Zubok, CFO & General Counsel Mark Helwege, VP, Worldwide Sales Rick Lowe, VP, Product & System Delivery David Mountcastle, VP, Finance David Luzier, VP, Customer Support & Education Charles Kaplan, VP, Product Management & Marketing
Products	Business solutions: Brainware Distiller Globalbrain
Website	www.brainware.com

Brainware, Inc is a privately-held American software company that provides data capture and search solutions, improving control of data-driven business processes. Brainware's flagship product, Brainware Distiller, increases the speed at which organizations can access and process information in paper and electronic documents, giving them visibility into Accounts Payable, Order to cash, Freight Accounting, Proof-of-Delivery, Benefits/HR, Remittance, and Medical or Insurance Claim processing. While eliminating manual data entry, Brainware delivers data from documents to SAP, Oracle, Lawson, JD Edwards, an enterprise resource planning or other back-end systems for processing. Once processed, Brainware allows for context-based, high-speed discovery of enterprise information from files and repositories through its Globalbrain solution and Distiller's inherent search capabilities.

Brainware is headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia with sales, support, professional services and R&D offices in Nottingham, UK, Kirchzarten, Germany and Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Contents 1 Technology 2 Customers 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Technology

Brainware Distiller is the company's core product, an OCR-like (Optical character recognition) technology used for variety of document-processing needs. Distiller enables the template-free data extraction and processing of transactional data from documents into any backend system. According to IndustryWeek, Distiller typically cuts manual data entry by 60% to 80% -- right out of the box.^[1]

On October 13, 2009, Brainware announced that Oracle would OEM its Distiller solution.^[2]

In the Worldwide Capture and Image Management Software 2008–-2012 Forecast and Analysis Report, International Data Corporation's Melissa Webster writes:

Brainware specializes in high-end capture: its goal is to eliminate the need for human touch (and make document processing a straight-through "touchless" process) by fully automating the recognition, extraction, and matching of information from paper and electronic documents with data in enterprise applications. Brainware’s Distiller solution combines OCR, classification, extraction, and search to achieve very high accuracy rates in high-volume scenarios without the need to define templates, and with minimal training sets. ^[3]

Harvey Spencer, President of Harvey Spencer Associates writes:

Brainware was one of the first companies to develop and offer a solution designed for unstructured and semi-structured data capture, and to combine it with enterprise search. They have a tremendous amount of experience within this space, and I think their technology and solutions embody a very sound approach.^[4]

Globabrain is an enterprise and desktop search solution that enables users to search through disparate repositories using natural language, fault-tolerant, and language independent queries. Globalbrain does not make use of keyword search. It uses a patented n-gram approach. When indexing a word, the word is parsed into three parts and then a vector is created. For example, the word "sample" would be parsed as sam, amp, mpl, etc. This three-letter snippet approach makes the search engine language independent, and highly fault-tolerant of misspellings, OCR errors, poor scans, etc.^[5]

In May 2008, Brainware won a product bake-off in Redmond Magazine. The publication wrote: "GlobalBrain is one of the few products that will meet your needs." ^[6]

[edit] Customers

Brainware customers include Airbus, Alcon, Alltel, Anixter International, Anadarko, BB&T, British American Tobacco, Continental Airlines, CORT Business Services, Gardner Denver, Halliburton, Her Majesty's Prison Service, HMSHost, JohnsonDiversey, Kimberly-Clark, KPMG, NHS/Steria, Newell Rubbermaid, Phillip Morris International, Reynolds & Reynolds, Shell, Southern Company, The Bank of New York Mellon/SourceNet, TriZetto, and many others. ^[7][8]

Two years ago, Alltel Wireless was saving about $1 million annually by paying certain invoices by the deadline and receiving a prompt-pay discount. This year, the savings have climbed to almost $17 million, thanks to the Brainware Distiller automated document processing solution the firm implemented. ^[9][10][11]

Some recent customer announcements include:

• Brainware to Automate Accounts Payable Processing for Continental Airlines
• Old Dominion Freight Line Chooses Brainware Distiller for Remittance Processing
• Leading Global Outsourcer to Process Three Million Invoices Annually with Brainware Distiller
• Global Consulting Firm Adopts Brainware Solutions Package to Create Closed Loop Accounts Payable Workflow
• Brainware Signs $2.6 Million Contract with Global Diversified Energy Company

Brainware customer JohnsonDiversey received the 2008 Innovation Award from The Association for Work Process Improvement. The award was sponsored by JPMorgan Treasury Services. ^[12]

[edit] See also

• Invoice processing
• Document Processing

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Brainware Website
• HMPS Testimonial
• JohnsonDiversey Testimonial
• Alltel Testimonial
• EFFCU Adds Brainware to Document Management Muscle
• Mayo Clinic Chooses Brainware to Automate Invoice Processing
• PayStream Advisors Positions Brainware as Leader in End-to-End Invoice Processing Automation Market