Westbrook Publishes Next Installment in SOA White Paper Series

AIIM Conference 2006

AIIM Conference 2006 -- Westbrook Technologies (BOOTH 1338) (http://www.westbrooktech.com), a leader in the document management software industry, today released its second white paper on the next phase of document management evolution -- SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) by noted author and frequent AIIM edoc magazine columnist, Gary Gershon at the 2006 AIIM Conference. The paper, "SOA: Designing Content and Process Solutions with Service-Oriented Architectures," is an in-depth look at the nature of SOA and the fundamental change it will bring about in the way businesses operate.

"SOA: Designing Content and Process Solutions with Service-Oriented Architectures" details how the key element of SOA, that being its "interoperability by design," will affect the sharing of information within an organization and finally realize the full potential of every line of business application. While many systems are sold as "enterprise" capable systems, most systems operate within a single department, e.g. HR, and data or information sharing is limited to up-loading data to an ERP system. Even when an electronic document management system is implemented in different departments, those departments often remain isolated and have little ability to share its data and resources.

Today's business environment is all about interoperability, connectivity, and sharing work processes across work groups, departments, and enterprises. SOA provides corporate business users and IT departments a tool set that encourages an entrepreneurial spirit allowing new business models and products to be built and tested quickly.

Westbrook Technologies, the publisher of "SOA: Designing Content and Process Solutions with Service-Oriented Architectures," are developers of Fortis SOA, the first electronic document management system using Web services and is interoperable by design. Fortis SOA is built to provide its functionality as services that are available to any other SOA-enabled application on the network.

These functional services include capture, output, electronic document management, workflow, records management, enterprise report management, and others. Fortis SOA is platform neutral becoming an active and integral part of the business enterprise making data, workflow, and business process management functionality easily accessible to business and legacy applications. Fortis SOA is the next evolutionary step for electronic document management systems.

Learn more about Fortis SOA by downloading the latest White Paper at www.westbrooktech.com or visit Booth #1338 and request a demonstration and speak with Paul Lord, Westbrook's CEO and visionary behind Fortis SOA.

About the Author

Gary Gershon is an industry expert on SOA solutions that support application integration with content systems and business processes. A member of the AIIM EmTAG emerging technologies advisory group, Gary holds the AIIM MIT designation and has presented at the national AIIM Conference (on SOA, WebDAV, and Web services), TAWPI, and other conferences and meetings. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering, an MS in Computer Science, and an MBA.

Gary is a Principal with IMERGE Consulting, Inc. (imergeconsult.com) -- one of the nation's fastest-growing professional services firms with 25 offices in North America. Mr. Gershon can be contacted by email at gary.gershon@imergeconsult.com

About Westbrook Technologies

Westbrook Technologies provides enterprise document management software solutions for mid-market companies that need to maintain their competitive edge. The Company develops document management (Fortis), Web-imaging (Fortis PowerWeb), ERM and workflow (Fortis Inflo) software in use at thousands of customer sites in 52 countries. Businesses across every vertical market depend on our comprehensive document management solutions and use them to capture, index, store and retrieve their critical information from anywhere -- instantly and securely. Westbrook Technologies was recently named one of Connecticut's 50 fastest growing technology companies by Deloitte & Touche.

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