Fuji Xerox Launches ArcSuite Web-Based Integrated Information Management System

Fuji Xerox has developed a new line of integrated information management systems that create an environment where remote users can collaborate both within and outside the company via the Internet. The systems allow users to exchange large volumes of documents, including design and technological specifications, component tables, order forms, test data and analysis reports.

Initially, Fuji Xerox plans to launch three systems: ArcSuite Engineering, for the engineering market; ArcSuite Office, for general office use; and, ArcEPS, an integrated print management system equipped with stamp and form overlay functions, and which expertly integrates separate printing processes. These systems was launched on November 18.

Fuji Xerox will also provide an operational analysis service to ensure customers get optimum effectiveness from their ArcSuite systems. ArcOWL Knowledge Analysis Service will provide analysis of processes based on practical operations to ensure that information and database systems are used at optimum efficiency. As an example, the service provides verification of the location of information, clarifies information-flow and determines the number of hours spent on certain activities, thus showing the importance of each operation and the associated workload.

The Arc (Activate your business Relationship and Communications) Concept provides solutions and services using advanced digital devices or Internet terminals to ensure the most effective use of documents over ubiquitous networks.

The new systems are in package form with the required services bundled, enabling a large number of staff to collaborate without inter-organizational or distance constraints. The systems feature an information database, which can be flexibly expanded to cope with anywhere from tens of thousands to more than 10 million documents. Arc Concept can be summarized as an integrated system architecture created to realize the environment best suited to users depending on respective function. It also consists of products and services such as consulting.

ArcSuite series is a document management service developed by Fuji Xerox, which is based on the Company's document management technology accumulated over more than 10 years. It is a new Internet-based integrated information management system that allows document collection using robotic collection and search technology as well as multitask collaboration.

ArcSuite is a document management system capable of managing from tens of thousands to 10 million documents. It can also handle documents in a unified manner on a group-wide scale. Furthermore, users can maintain security necessary for document management by specifying access rights for each document.

In order to search the required information from a large volume of documents, the system is equipped with attribute and full-text search functions. The search engine operates on the pretext of large-scale document management so that users can search through a large number of documents with ease even if the number of documents increases.

Each function of ArcSuite is supplied as a separate component so users can construct a system based on their individual needs and that best suits their existing environment and operations.