As DMAC was one of only a handful of vendors in the Forms Processing Pavilion, I did not get to roam the floor as I did at TAWPI, I had to work the booth. Thus my comments about the show will have to be from the viewpoint of the traffic to our booth.

Shared Space With TeraForm

As at TAWPI, we shared our expanded booth space with TeraForm. The Imaging Expo '96 show supported our viewpoint that TeraForm has the latest technology. Almost a dozen other vendors at the show came to see the TeraForm product. We liked this because the output from TeraForm feeds Unibase By DMAC data and metadata in a flat ascii file -- showing what the Forms Interchange Standard (FIS) can do.

InputAccel Stole The Show

In fact, from our viewpoint Cornerstone's InputAccel Document Operating System, which we have supported for almost two years, stole the show. Of the people we talked with at the booth, most agree that vendor modules which plug into a document operating system provide the right way to enter the world of forms image processing.

InputAccel Protects Investment

The protection of both technology and marketing investment provided by an document operating system where a single poorly performing module can be replaced with a better module and the work flow not disrupted seems to out weigh other concerns.

We did see where end users are going to want to work with an organization which has had successful experience with image processing. We received over half a dozen requests for names of service organizations close to end users which could help them install a document operating system based solution.

Service organizations can use their learning experience in getting into image forms processing as an introduction to possible new clients.

DMAC Will Build List

By AIIM in the Spring of 1997 in Chicago, we want to have a list of Service Organizations willing to help end users with installation and support of the InputAccel/Unibase by DMAC module solutions.

The sales and marketing people of Cornerstone, TeraForm and DMAC tell me they have all sorts of deals for service organizations wanting to be among the first FIS based systems. Contact Carolyn Bell at DMAC (540-667-4695) if you want to be among the first installation sites for FIS.