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Buyer's Guide: Imaging & Workflow: A Buyer's Guide to Accounts Payable Automation Solutions
Summary: This 50 page report is written for accounts payables professionals who are actively exploring IWA solutions, yet need help identifying appropriate vendors and solutions for further investigation. Beginning with an introduction to IWA, it describes the most common forms that solutions take and highlights the benefits that they deliver. Next, eight identically structured solution profiles provide specific information about individual IWA vendors and solutions. The report concludes with analytical insights that will help the reader compare and contrast across all of the vendors and solutions. This report is available in print.
Buyer's Guide: Web Invoicing & Electronic Payments: Moving Beyond Paper (2005)
Buyer's Guide: Easing into Electronic Invoicing and Payments (2002)
Case Study: Public Schools/Imaging & Workflow (2006)
Solution Profile: IWA/Soluziona/Managed Pay (2006)
Introduction........................................................................................................1
The Case for Accounts Payable Automation .................................................. 1
What is Imaging and Workflow Automation?................................................ 3
The Different Flavors of IWA........................................................................ 4
The Benefits of IWA...................................................................................... 8
Solution Profiles ..............................................................................................10
AnyDoc Software.........................................................................................10
Case Study: LifeWay Christian Resources ............................................ 13
BasWare ......................................................................................................14
FileNet ........................................................................................................17
Hyland Software ..........................................................................................20
Case Study: Greif, Inc. ....................................................................... 23
Kofax...........................................................................................................24
LASON.......................................................................................................27
ReadSoft......................................................................................................30
Stellent (including the former Optika Inc.).................................................. 33
Selecting an IWA Solution ............................................................................36
Imaging, Workflow or Both? ....................................................................... 36
Software Solution or Outsourced Service?.................................................... 38
Web Invoicing as an Alternative .................................................................. 39
Solution Functionality .................................................................................40
IWA Vision ................................................................................................. 44
Conclusion..................................................................................................... 47
Appendix: Evaluation Methodology ........................................................ 49
About PayStream Advisors......................................................................... 50