What is FlowMatrix?

Capture Workflow Platform For Process Automation

"...a powerful platform for meeting a wide-range of our capture and automation business needs."

Jackie Blake, Companies House.



The FlowMatrix Business Process Automation Platform

FlowMatrix is a technology platform that provides enterprise scalable solutions for document and data capture, processing, automation and integration with a wide range of EDRMS, line-of-business systems and corporate data repositories. Our customers use our technology as part of their core service delivery infrastructure - enabling an accelerating document flow, data extraction and business processes through their organisations. FlowMatrix technology lets you do more for less!

With information entering your organisation in so many forms and from so many sources, it is a real challenge to co-ordinate the delivery of documents and the data they contain to where they need to be in a timely and cost-effective manner.

 

FlowMatrix Server BPS

The FlowMatrix Business Process Server is the powerhouse server product that will get documents moving and processes automated within your organisation. By linking with other data systems in your environment you can finally "join up the dots" to maximise the investment in your existing IT systems infrastructure and reach new levels of efficiency and productivity.

The FlowMatrix Server BPS is the core of the FlowMatrix technology platform. It features a comprehensive, rules-based workflow engine and a plug-in architecture which make the server features highly extensible. The server plugins provide connectivity to more than 20 major enterprise EDRMS and data repositories for document routing and live schema or data look ups.The plugins also provide a full suite of document processing capabilities such as OCR, barcodes, PDF creation, file format conversion, data parsing, report generation, imag manipulation, multi-system data queries, email generation and capture.

The FlowMatrix Server BPS also the engine that drives our Mail Room, Distributed Capture, Invoice Processing and other solutions. Because all our solutions are built on the same server and client components your investment in FlowMatrix technology is easily extended to include any of the other solutions or products with further cost savings.

 

FlowMatrix CPS Client Productivity Suite

The FlowMatrix Client Productivity Suite is a comprehensive set of tools that information workers can be on the desktop to participate efficiently and prodcutively in document processing tasks such as QA, validation, indexing, routing, approval, redaction, correction and exception handling.

The range of client applications includes:

  • FlowMatrix CPS QuickDrop client application - for quick indexing and routing of ad-hoc documents. The product also features worksharing, document forwarding, document tracking and self-templated document types with zonal OCR data extraction.
  • FlowMatrix CPS Mail Room client application - the Mail Room client application for scanning, image clean up, batch handling, QA, indexing and routing documents from the mail room environment.
  • FlowMatrix CPS Redaction client - an easy-to-easy tool for redacting scanned documents or documents retrieved from EDRMS for FOI requests, confidentiality or legal disclosure.
  • FlowMatrix CPS Invoice Processing client - the one stop correction, validation and exception handling tool for use with the Invoice Processing solution. It features a clear narrative on the problems with the invoice, supplier look up, colour-coded field status, image close up, Click2Field data extraction as well as stats and tracking tools.

 

FlowMatrix PME Print Management Engine

It is well recognised that many organisations' printing costs are often out of control, whilst printing itself can be a major headache in terms of data security. The corporate print room might be underutilised, whilst the MFDs are used to print off hundreds of pages of emails in full colour mode.

FlowMatrix Print Management Engine is a FlowMatrix solution module which gives your organisation better and more intelligent control over the organisation's day-to-day printing behaviours for cost saving, auditing and enhanced data security.

FlowMatrix PME allows your organisation to define advanced user and department billing rules around printing, menus of cost options which can be selected at the time of printing to control which users can incur what types of printing costs. Rules can be created which determine which printer resources are used for specifc types of print jobs including the corporate print room or external printing. Runing totals of user and departmental printing costs are used and reported to help ensure that departmental budgets are not broken.

The solution can be integrated with the leading secure pull printing solutions such as SafeCom and Equitrac. It can also integrate with external sources of cost-base codes such as practice management systems. Reports can be generated in suitable formats for important into client billing or general accounting systems.

The FlowMatrix PME security filters bring a whole new set of tools for making printing compliant with confidentiality and data security policies. The security filters allow organisations to define print policies for groups of users to flag up or block print output from non-authorised applications or potentially containing sensitive data.

 

FlowMatrix IME Invoice Management Engine

The FlowMatrix Invoice Management Engine is the FlowMatrix solution module at the core of our Invoice Process Automation solution. The engine is able to automatically and intelligently extract the essential data from invoices which have been captured or supplied in electronic format - typically from scanned paper invoices, PDFs, Word document, Excel documents, EDI or XML data files.

The engine is also capable of self-learning of invoice templates to improve the speed and accuracy of the data extraction process. The engine can integrate with your accounts or order management systems to provide two, three and four way matching. It provides an invoice approval capability whcihc can easily be managed and configured by your accounts department or the engine can be integrated with your existing invoice approval mechanisms if they already exist.

The engine is flexible enough to be configured to accomodate non-standard invoice types such cash payment slips.

 

FlowMatrix FME Forms Management Engine

Paper and Electronic Forms are amongst the more valuable and/or more important documents an organisation has to process. However, the cost of manually extracting the data from the forms into business applications can often be unfcomfortably high.

The FlowMatrix Forms Management Engine is the FlowMatrix solution module underlying our forms processing solutions. It leverages smart OCR, forms recognition and advanced text parsing technology to automatically extract the data from structured and semi-structured forms.

The engine integrates with allow our other products making it possible to construct seamless end-to-end solutions - for example order forms are scanned in the mail room using the FlowMatrix Mail Room solution and routed automatically to the Forms Managment Engine which extracts all the key data, which in turn is then fed directly as new orders into the order management or ERP system.