Eliminate the high cost of distribution
Decisions, decisions, the unrivaled champion of business success! There is one very simple ingredient in decision making; accuracy of the information and the documents you use in the process. Have you ever stopped to consider whether the decision is based on all the available information?

If not, then do the documents you have contain the key data?

Have you needed a document right away, but couldn't find it? You're not alone. It's a serious issue: you try to make business decisions supported by documents and information, but instead you're forced to make an educated guess.

Staggeringly, despite the world at large being in the midst of the highly publicized Information Age, 90 percent of the documents handled in the workplace are still on paper-searched by hand and scanned by eye.

It is reported that company personnel spend 30 percent of their work day looking for documents, one-by-one. It's slow, costly and entirely unnecessary. The maze becomes more congested when, in the battle to reduce time lost to searching for information, endless copies are prepared as a fail safe plan. Coopers & Lybrand report that the average office is making 19 copies of each document.

Many companies and organizations, like yours, still distribute important business information by printing mass volumes of documents. Key information in today's business environment is often separated geographically. Timing and delivery are of vital importance. Every hour, day, week, month, quarter and year, thousands of businesses produce and ship reams of reports, updated manuals, technical data, financials, and a myriad of bound and unbound documents to colleagues throughout many divisions, subsidiaries, branches, customers and clients.

No doubt, you too have experienced just how costly and inefficient such slow-motion document distribution is. It's a business dilemma that is overwhelming; too voluminous to search, incredibly costly-and now, completely obsolete with Westbrook Technologies' CDExpress.

CDExpress allows you to create files that can be transfered to CDs which contain your documents neatly inside the secure search, view and output software suite of Fortis document management software.

There's only one way: CDExpress
With Fortis CDExpress, you can create databases and distribute CD(s) containing documents and ERM reports, along with the means to search, retrieve, and view desired documents and information. The Fortis elements contained on the CD reduce if not eliminate the 30 percent of the work day we spend looking for information via fax, printer, e-mail, LAN, WAN or the World Wide Web.

CDExpress is a fully integrated, optional component of Westbrook Technologies' two software suites: Fortis. Fortis make your documents a business partner instead of a business challenge.

Fortis is an open database connectivity (ODBC)-compliant, client/server powerhouse. Fortis provides the opportunity to capture, index, retrieve, annotate and distribute paper, electronic reports and documents over LAN, WAN, VPN, Internet, extranet, intranet, fax, or e-mail.

Fortis may be used within a department, a division or across the enterprise, whether your network environment is 2000 or Netware. As an industry leader, Fortis operates with other leaders whose expertise provides a selection of databases including Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.

No other software system, at any price, can provide you with all of the immediate benefits and rapid return on investment as Fortis. That's because they represent a comprehensive and feature-rich software solution allowing the capture of any document, color or black & white, graphic or text, from any source. The information you use to support decisions may then be recorded onto a CD. Even when you are too remote for a wireless Web connection or it's inconvenient to access a land line phone connection for the WAN, the CD/DVD drive will be within easy access. A single CD can power the distribution of your information. Fortis is the most advanced document management software suites available today. Both grow at your organization's pace, combining performance, openness and scalability whether your growth stems from volumes of information, a large user audience or both.

Fortis operates on the world's leading database engines, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle, each with a tolerance for enormous capacities allowing millions of new documents or large user community's access to vital data.

CDExpress at work…for you!
CDExpress provides a simple, cost effective way to organize and distribute information by combining the proven power and simple interface of Fortis with the economy of a CD. Elements providing search, view and output capapbilities that you publish and distribute on the CD are included along with your documents (archive) and indices (index database). Your documents maycontain images, large volume reports from your mainframe, graphics, text,spreadsheets, word processing documents, audio and video clips, even documents within documents. Your data can span more than one disc - CDExpress accommodates any size database. The recipient can then run the Fortis client retrieval software to find and locate the previously indexed data and documents, without the need for other software!

Who uses CDExpress?
CDExpress is designed for a variety of mission-critical business applications in a host of public and commercial business sectors as well as for government and private individuals. These include organizations which presently use Fortis and are looking for a more cost-effective way to distribute information. Some sample applications forCDExpress might include client/customer files, litigation support documentation, material safety data sheets (MSDS), customer support documentation, technical specifications, press materials and service/repair manuals.

The Service business opportunity
Service has been taken to a new height with traditional service bureaus performing and providing a mechanism for CD preparation. In one instance, a major chemical corporation needed to comply with OSHA standards requiring that all plants, located throughout the USA and United Kingdom, had access to the library of MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets). The service bureau provided the client with the paper derivatives on CD, which assured revision control and distribution of these health and safety documents.

The litigation world also provides a variety of outstanding opportunities for Fortis CDExpress. Litigation is all too often paper-intensive and complex, requiring a vast array of discovery and preparation material which must be chronologically documented. Such cases are perfect candidates for concise management of materials whatever their derivative: text, images, photographs, laboratory results, video and a wide array of other support information.

Deliver documents…anywhere…
…inexpensively…on a self-contained CD-ROM!
CDExpress is nothing short of a revolution. It is as convenient as a briefcase, but that is where the similarity ends. Almost limitless CD capacity combines with powerful Fortis search and display features in a highly portable, inexpensive medium, providing a powerful business tool with capabilities and a capacity for efficiency limited only by your imagination!