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Westbrook Fortis SE

A Comprehensive, Proven Enterprise Document Management Solution

Fortis is a powerful enterprise document management software solution that electronically captures, stores, and organizes documents and information, thus enabling immediate and reliable access to critical information whenever and wherever it’s needed. Fortis promotes efficient knowledge sharing by allowing easy retrieval, editing, annotating, and distribution of documents. Quickly obtain the decision-making information needed and provide superior service to clients, customers, and partners.

Increase Productivity and Optimize Work Efforts
With immediate and reliable access to content, users can efficiently retrieve the information they need to complete their business tasks. Making productive use of information enhances performance and empowers users to identify and pursue other business opportunities or beneficial activities.

Shorten Business Process Cycles
With manual processes, reviewing, routing and processing documents can take days, weeks and sometimes even months. Fortis improves and helps automate business processes to enable the timely completion of business tasks.

Improve Customer and Partner Service
With targeted searches, users can instantly access documents to provide technical support, answer inquiries, resolve a complaint, check the status of an order, claim, or information request – activities that improve service levels and garner customer loyalty.

Reduce Operating and Administrative Costs
Fortis allows organizations to reduce the expenses associated with paper-based processes and realize savings in areas such as storage, shipping, and staff productivity.

• Features / Benefits [ SHOW | HIDE ]

• Feature	Benefit
  Document Capture	Fortis uses a database to organize documents that are brought in, or captured, to the document management system. Paper documents are often scanned, while electronic files are often imported directly into the system. Fortis makes it easy to capture documents and data into the system. With the ability to scan, fax or import documents and data into the system, organizations can be sure all critical information is securely stored and properly managed. Fortis users can capture a wide range of electronic content, including Word or Excel documents, HTML, black/white or color images, and more.
  Web Access	An optional module in Fortis SE, Westbrook Fortis Web™ extends the reach of Fortis document management software to a Web browser interface so that users can easily access and work with the documents stored in Fortis databases - anytime, anywhere they have an Internet connection.
  Microsoft Office Integration	Users are able to automatically capture Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint files from within the Office application directly to Fortis. This improves the user's productivity by automating the capture of data and eliminating the need to switch between applications.
  Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Bar Code Recognition (BCR) and Image Enhance	Fortis provides several capture features to improve document quality, aid in data capture, and improve efficiency.
  Document Indexing and Storing	Content that is captured to Fortis is identified with associated index data so that it can be easily stored, retrieved and managed. The indexing process is essential to how users search for and retrieve information. Westbrook Fortis' sophisticated database technology allows documents to be indexed, or described with keywords, so that users are able to find important documents quickly.
  Full Text and Index Search	Fortis lets users define and perform queries to retrieve documents by searching the index data, by searching the text contents (with Full Text Search) of documents, by searching the text content of annotations or by performing a combined search.
  Desktop Search	With Fortis QuickFind, users can search for documents right from their desktops
  Document Viewing and Editing	The Fortis Document Viewer provides complete functionality for accessing and viewing all types of documents. With an intuitive interface, users can easily view, annotate, edit and index documents. Document Alert is an electronic notification system that provides both visual and audio alerts anytime a document is scanned, faxed, forwarded or imported into a user’s Fortis In Basket. The feature is displayed as a desktop icon in the Windows tray and provides a shortcut to launch Fortis.
  Document Versioning	Fortis’ versioning feature protects a document from simultaneous revisions. With versioning, users can maintain multiple versions of a document. Modifications to a document are controlled by check out and check in procedures.
  Annotation tools	Users easily collaborate using powerful annotation tools. Users can add notes, stamps, or highlight a specific area of a document so that others know what’s been done with the document or the next steps needed in the process.
  User Access Management and Control	The Fortis system’s security capabilities provide a powerful yet flexible blend of user access management and control for any Fortis installation. This security is provided by assigning Fortis users a password and database access and by varying their functional and feature access permissions. With multiple levels of permissions, you can be assured your documents are protected from unauthorized access and alteration. The LDAP Support option allows organizations to authenticate Fortis users against an LDAP directory server. An LDAP directory server allows organizations to store information for system authentication, such as usernames and passwords, so that a single list of authorized users can be used across multiple applications. Users accessing Fortis with LDAP enabled are not prompted to enter a username or password.
  Audit User Activity	Fortis Audit Trail allows administrators to set up an audit log so that Fortis tracks a variety of user activities performed on documents including indexing, modifying, deleting, viewing, faxing, forwarding, emailing and printing.
  Extensibility	A full suite of options are available to extend the powerful capabilities of Fortis to include workflow, enterprise application integration and more.

• Technical Specifications [ SHOW | HIDE ]

• Westbrook Fortis enables seamless communication by leveraging the latest technologies and architecture. The following provides an overview of Fortis system specifications:

  Supported Database Engines
  Fortis SE
  Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express Edition
  

  Application Server
  Processor: Intel Pentium 4 1.5GHz / AMD Athlon 1.3 MHz
  Operating System: Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Server 2008
  RAM: 1 GB - 1.5 GB
  Hard Disk: Ultra ATA 100 EIDE / Ultra160 SCSI with
  Adaptec SCSI Controller / *WHQL Certified RAID
  Minimum Free Disk Space:1.5 GB
  Display: SVGA, 16-bit color
  

  Database Server
  Processor: Intel Pentium 4 1.5 GHz / AMD Athlon 1.3 GHz
  Operating System: Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Server 2008
  DBMS: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express Edition
  RAM: 1 GB - 1.5 GB
  Hard Disk: Ultra160 SCSI with Adaptec SCSI Controller / *WHQL Certified RAID
  

  Scan Station
  Processor: Intel Pentium 4 1.5 GHz / AMD Athlon 1.3 GHz
  Operating System: Windows XP Professional SP3 or Windows Vista Ultimate, Enterprise or Business Edition
  RAM: 1 GB
  Hard Disk:Ultra ATA 100 EIDE / Recommended SCSI
  

  Edit Station
  Processor: Intel Pentium 4 1.5 GHz / AMD Athlon 1.3 GHz
  Operating System: Windows XP Professional SP3 or Windows Vista Ultimate, Enterprise or Business Edition
  RAM: 512MB - 1GB
  Hard Disk: Ultra ATA 100 EIDE / SCSI
  

  View Station
  Processor: Intel Pentium 4 1.5 GHz / AMD Athlon 1.3 GHz
  Operating System: Windows XP Professional SP3 or Windows Vista Ultimate, Enterprise or Business Edition
  RAM: 512MB - 1GB
  Hard Disk: Ultra ATA 100 EIDE / SCSI
  

  Westbrook now supports the following 64 Bit Server Environments
  Windows Server 2008 64-bit
  Microsoft SQL Server 2008 64-bit

  
  

  *Note: Customers may wish to implement a RAID solution for storage. Westbrook strongly encourages customers to follow 2 important guidelines:

  1. Use only Microsoft WHQL certified IDE/SCSI RAID solutions.
  2. See Microsoft TechNet Article Q86903 for information about storing SQL databases on RAID

  Virtual Servers
  Fortis SE supports virtual servers
  

• Complementary Products [ SHOW | HIDE ]

• Web Access
  Extending the reach of Fortis SE document management software to a Web browser interface so that users can easily access and work with the documents stored in Fortis databases - anytime, anywhere they have an Internet connection, requires the addition of an optional Web Access module :
  >> Fortis Web
  

  A full suite of options is available to enhance the capabilities of the Fortis document management suite and meet any additional requirements you may have for your business. Follow the link below for information on these product options:
  >> Options