Conference Program

What will this conference cover?
Document Capture 2008 will focus on the most important long term trends impacting the capture market today and for the next five years. Critical trends covered will include (preliminary):

The State of the Document Capture Market 2008–2011
Capture software market growth is accelerating, but growth is uneven between the different market segments. What do the facts say about what happened in 2007? What surprises will impact growth rates in 2008/2009? What are the drivers of growth, and which vertical markets, geographies and distribution channels promise to outperform the others over the next 5 years?

Controlling Cash Management
CFO's and corporate treasurers are interested in improving the effective utilization of money, reduction in overhead and effective cash management. AP and procure-to-pay automation assists with outgoing payments, but remittance processing has traditionally been an outsourced business to get the money in. Check21, distributed remittance and order to cash lets companies better manage their incomings and in conjunction with AP better manage cash.

Supply Chain Management as it Relates to Capture
Capture is increasingly about making business processes that have unstructured or semi-structured inputs run more efficiently. Supply chain management is a fast growing software market and even though many incoming documents are electronic, paper will always remain. This session will explore a new BPM opportunity for capture software vendors.

Mobile Applications – An Opportunity for Growth
Mobile capture is likely to become the next big growth area. The cell phone becomes the main vehicle for this. Already it is being used for check and payment capture and for business cards and receipts. What are some other opportunities, how do the cell phone providers see this and where is cell phone camera technology going?

Brokerage Session – Capture in the Financial Services Sector
Financial Services have always been a paper intensive environment utilizing capture services. This session will explore the different elements of capture and the needs for capture within securities management.

Government Roundtable – What Government Needs from Capture
Government is a huge user of document technologies and despite major efforts to reduce paper, there are still very large quantities in daily use as well as backfile conversions. Personal security is growing as an issue. This panel will discuss how selected various areas of the government are using ongoing scanning and capture once the backfile is converted – how e-commerce intersects with paper and what they would really like to do.

Opportunities in Developing Economies – Russia and the ex-Soviet Republics
Russia and the ex-soviet republics are thriving opportunities for new business. In November 2007, President Vladimir Putin backed plans to plow a colossal $191 billion into the power and railway sectors, and $53 billion of that for transportation, by 2011. In addition there are opportunities in electricity and gas. This, plus the fact that huge archives of paper exist (having never legalized microfilm), and with disposable incomes surging (up more than 300 per cent in dollar terms since 1999 and forecast to double again within four years), makes Russia a huge opportunity.

Transaction & Process Management/IDR Forms Processing Update
Research shows that this segment is transitioning and will see accelerating growth over the next 3 years, driven by the ability to process unstructured forms, integration of check images into business processes and the need to capture more information from business documents for process management. Learn where to look for vertical opportunities opening up, and identify the emerging critical product requirements that customers will come to demand as “standard” features.