Cloud Solutions

The wide scale adoption of Cloud based software and infrastructure services is now firmly established within large organisations and not just for the use of the average consumer. Over two thirds of large organisations are now ready to move mission critical systems such as ERP to the Cloud although many legacy applications are not Cloud ready and information held within them not portable to the Cloud.

A number of factors have stopped senior IT decision makers crossing the cloud chasm with the top concerns included Cloud security, risk to the business and loss of application control but many new innovative security measures in software and hardware have now made Cloud services, storage and platforms viable for large businesses with huge potential cost savings. This has helped senior IT teams pragmatically assess the Cloud opportunity and see that Cloud is no longer just for consumers - it really has an ever-growing place for government, large enterprises and many smaller & medium businesses.




 

"....the Cloud will extend process advancement to nearly every organisation - every business will need a Cloud strategy."

 

The Cloud is all Around Us

The Paper River FlowMatrix Cloud Solutions portfolio of products and components offer new and innovative capabilities that can radically transform the way organisations work. We can capture and migrate information to establish Cloud based content storage such as DropBox, OneDrive, Google Docs and Box. We now fully integrate into many Cloud CRM systems like Salesforce.com and even host FlowMatrix in the Cloud to offer click and subscription based document automation services for areas like Invoice Processing.

Our most innovative new product is the FlowMatrix CloudBridge. This provides an internet bridge between mobile and remote field workers to run rich data acquisition applications on their mobile devices and submit & receive information through a securely encrypted gateway linked back to their on-premise line-of-business applications. This is a fantastic new way for workers such a Loss Adjustors, Clinical Research Associates, Planning Inspectors or Lawyers to operate away from the office and still have access to case and project files they need to work from with full two-way synching.

  • Cloud Application Connectors
  • The Cloud Bridge
  • FlowMatrix Invoice Processing in the Cloud
  • Cloud Migration Solutions




Cloud Application Connectors

Paper River has connectors that facilitate submission from multi-function devices, network scanning devices, digital mail room and electronic content and migration directly into established Cloud applications. These are available for all MFD platforms from Canon, HP, Konica Minolta, Kyocera, Lexmark, Ricoh, Sharp, and Xerox multi-function devices, as well as solutions and connectors for the Nuance eCopy platform. We can capture and submit too:

  • Salesforce.com
  • Sage CRM
  • DropBox
  • Box
  • Microsoft OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive)
  • Google Docs
  • Many others




The Cloud Bridge

FlowMatrix CloudBridge is our leading technology innovation that creates the links between true mobile working and on-premise multiple application use. It provides an internet bridge between mobile and remote field workers to run manage projects on their mobile devices and submit & receive information through a securely encrypted gateway linked back to their business with full on-line and off-line working and two-way caching and synchronisation.

As mentioned this is a great new way for remote workers such a Loss Adjustors, Clinical Research Associates, Planning Inspectors or Lawyers to operate in the field, or with clients and still have access to case and project files they need to work from. Lawyers can for instance take a subset of documents from a Matter off-site, maybe contained within a FlowMatrix Virtual Binder and add further information to the Matter at a client location, including voice dictation (immediately converted to text), add additional documents or even virtual sticky labels. The additions will automatically synchronise via the FlowMatrix CloudBridge back to the on-site Matter file with immediate access by supporting secretarial staff.




FlowMatrix Invoice Processing in the Cloud

The FlowMatrix invoice processing solution can handle multiple paper & electronic submissions, many processing methods and multiple output formats into key AP systems. The FlowMatrix AP solution can process line items, goods received notices and comprehensive header data. It also incorporates a HMRC rules set, with custom rule creation. Most importantly the solution uses special algorithms that alleviate the need for formal templating, allowing suppliers to be quickly and easily setup with no manual input.

It is now available as Cloud hosted solution and available on a per-invoice or subscription basis. We can provide on-premise all-in-one scanning devices that will connect straight to our FlowMatrix Cloud Server running FlowMatrix Invoice Processing and alleviate the need of any business, however small to process their invoices in-house. A web based client application facilitates error and exception corrections for the client and invoice data can be passed to external accountant or ERP systems.




Cloud Migration Solutions

Paper River are experts in Document Migration. If you are a business running line-of-business applications that are not portable into the Cloud we can provide migration services to port content to new Cloud-based storage.

The FlowMatrix Document Migration solution consists of both consultancy and technology provided at a fixed, unambiguous price which depends on the volume and complexity of the migration. The first phase is the consultative project analysis, which is both quantitative and qualitative in its methods. We work with you to determine:

  1. The state, type, nature and location of current documents (electronic or physical)
  2. The current document classification and metadata
  3. The volume of documents for migration
  4. The image and content processing and/or repurposing requirements
  5. The mapping between old and new repository structures and metadata schema
  6. Defining the exception handling strategy for anomalies, corrupted files or missing data
  7. Defining any value enhancements such as on-the-fly metadata enhancement
  8. Defining the success validation criteria
  9. The human resource requirements (if any) to fulfil the migration

This work leads to a migration plan and design which is implemented using the FlowMatrix technology platform.




 



Key Benefits

  • » Easy and convenient capture into your Cloud systems

  • » Integrated document workflows for the Cloud

  • » Bridge the gap between on-premise systems, cloud applications and mobile or remote devices

  • » Enterpise level document workflow solutions available with no upfront costs