Phew!  Another major project behind us.  Amid the ice and snow storm here in St. Louis, our teams released KnowledgeLake Capture 2008 (4.3).  I've been working on a feature by feature comparison between this product and our competition and I can honestly say, on the client side, this is the best document scanning application produced.  Yeah, I know that sounds biased, but I've used the latest version of our competition and I really believe we have them beat (for now).

Some of the new features include:

• ISIS support
• 2D Barcode support
• 32-bit & 64-bit Windows Vista support
• Ability to index and release to using any character set

We added these to the pre-existing (major) feature set:

• Twain support
• Barcode/Patchcode Separation
• Barcode Indexing
• Automatic index configuration from SharePoint
• Automatic classification into SharePoint Content Types
• Zonal OCR
• Image Cleanup (Deskew, Black Border, etc)

We'll also be adding a full blown PDF plug-in module in March that allows import, exporting and viewing of Searchable or Image only PDF documents.

You can download a trial version of this software at http://www.knowledgelake.com.

- Chris

I know there are a lot of doubters our there, primarily our competition who insists that SharePoint is a mere departmental solution and cannot be scaled.  KnowledgeLake got a little tired of hearing about this so we decided to put our money where our mouth is and we tasked Russ Houberg with the creation of a SharePoint Scalability Whitepaper.  I'll point you to his blog entry in a second, but to just quickly summarize, Russ, with the help of Fujitsu and Microsoft, was able to load 50 Million documents into SharePoint at a rate of 7+ million documents per day.

To do this Russ likes to elude to the "KnowledgeLake Secret Sauce".  We've been doing mass uploads to SharePoint for years now (Since 2003 to be exact) and have learned a lot of things that can be done to optimize these uploads.  During a recent trip to Japan we even picked up a few more ideas that have increased the speed even over what Russ is detailing in the whitepaper.

Here's a link to Russ's blog where he starts to talk a little more about this....

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/rhouberg/archive/2008/02/08/sharepoint-scalability-whitepaper-at-sp-conference-08.aspx

Also, if you're going to the ODC Conference this week, be sure and look me up, as I'm heading over to San Jose with Hao Zhai, our Commercial Product Manager.

Chris

We just got news today that KnowledgeLake won the People's Choice award in the Ingenuity Point Contest during January.  Microsoft’s Ingenuity Point Contest is a worldwide competition open to independent software vendors (ISVs) that build solutions on Microsoft technology with the potential to address some of the world’s biggest challenges in the areas of education, healthcare and environmental sustainability.  The year-long competition showcases examples of how technology can drive positive change and provides ISVs with a unique opportunity to give their groundbreaking ideas international exposure.