Blueridge Unveils the First Industrial Strength Document Management System Optimized for Macintosh, Windows and the Internet

AIIM CONFERENCE, CHICAGO, IL. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - April 1, 1996 - Blueridge Technologies, "The Internet Document Management Company," has chosen the AIIM Conference for the first public demonstration of its much-anticipated OPTIX 5.0 Document Management System, the first industrial-strength document management system to be optimized for Macintosh, Windows, and the Internet.

OPTIX 5.0 is a major new release that provides users with an exciting array of powerful new features that complement previous versions of the award-winning OPTIX document management system. New features include:

CROSS-PLATFORM SUPPORT

Macintosh-- OPTIX 5.0 is the only industrial-strength document management system that is optimized for the Power Macintosh, as well as earlier Macintoshes.

Windows-- OPTIX 5.0 is optimized for Windows 3.1, Win95, and Windows NT.

Internet-- OPTIX 5.0 is 100% TCP/IP compatible, so you can run it on over the Internet or your internal network (your "Intranet").

World Wide Web-- OPTIXWEB allows your users to access OPTIX via their favorite Web browser. Whatever you've stored on your OPTIX system, including scanned images, wordprocessing files, spreadsheets--even mainframe records from OPTIX COLD software--you can now publish to the World Wide Web.

DOCUMENT IMAGING

OPTIX Hot Links(TM)-- OPTIX "Drag and Drop" technology allows you to link any document in your OPTIX database with any other document. You can even link OPTIX documents to sites on the World Wide Web.

Annotations and Mark-up-- OPTIX lets you annotate and mark-up your images without changing the images themselves. You can draw lines and shapes on your images--in color--just like you highlight paper documents.

Scripting-- OPTIX is the first document management system that is scriptable on both Windows and Macintosh, so integrating it with other applications is a breeze.

Applications Programming Interfaces (APIs)-- Our new RPC-based APIs allow you to integrate OPTIX with your existing computing infrastructure and image-enable legacy systems.

WORKFLOW

Rules-based Routing---OPTIX allows you to create routes with built-in logic that governs where documents go, based on your description of them.

Digital Signatures---OPTIX supports digital signatures so you can verify that files have been properly "approved" by a specific person.

Support for Electronic Mail---OPTIX supports industry standard E-mail interfaces so you can use your existing E-mail system to distribute documents to people who are not on your workflow system.

TEXT RETRIEVAL

OPTIX NLS(TM) combines adaptive pattern recognition and natural language--the two most powerful text retrieval technologies--into a single system. You can access text databases from an OPTIX client, or from your favorite Web browser.

COLD (COMPUTER OUTPUT TO LASER DISK)

Dual Storage-- OPTIX COLD(TM) is the first software that allows you to archive mainframe documents in either ASCII or image format.

Automatic Indexing-- OPTIX automatically indexes your documents based on the information contained in the documents themselves.

FilterText(TM)-- Exclusive OPTIX technology allows you to handle a wide variety of EBCDIC or ASCII records, including those with variable line and page delimiters, fixed line and page lengths, encoded IBM vertical forms control information, and non-printable characters.

Drag and Drop Formatting-- OPTIX allows you to create scripts that will automatically format your COLD documents, just by dragging a file from your host computer onto the appropriate script.

DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL

Security-- OPTIX supports multiple levels of security access and user privileges, so you can maintain complete control over your documents.

Check-in/Check-out-- OPTIX allows you to prevent others from modifying a document while you're working on it.

Revision Control-- OPTIX lets you create and view an audit trail of revisions.

Support for Retention Schedules-- OPTIX allows you to keep your document databases up to date by purging obsolete documents.

Founded in 1988, Blueridge Technologies is one of the industry's oldest and most respected providers of electronic document management systems (EDMS). Long the leading industrial-strength document imaging and workflow system for Apple Macintosh computers, in 1994 OPTIX became the first electronic document management system to offer workflow, document imaging, document control, COLD (Computer Output to Laser Disk), and natural language text retrieval for both Windows and Macintosh workstations. Via the new OPTIX WEB interface, OPTIX also supports popular Web browsers, including Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer from Microsoft, Mosaic, and all the client platforms these products support, including Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX workstations. An online demo of OPTIX WEB is available at http://www.optixweb.com. Blueridge Technologies is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Metters Industries.

OPTIX systems begin in the range of $40,000 and include server software, client software for both Macintosh and Windows, installation, training, and support.