KnowledgeTree™ Document Management Signs Software Licensing Agreement With VircoSoft™ Corporation

May 10, 2007 (PRLEAP.COM) Technology News
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA May 10, 2007 – KnowledgeTree™, the leading commercial open source document management software vendor for small to medium-sized organizations, today announced the licensing of the KnowledgeTree Document Management System to VircoSoft Corporation, a Virginia, USA-based document management solutions provider with a base of authorized resellers spanning the United States.

The KnowledgeTree Enterprise Edition document management software, licensed under KnowledgeTree’s “Powered by KnowledgeTree” licensing programme, will be bundled with VircoSoft's vFiler™ document capture workflow technology. The bundled and co-branded product, called Pinnacle, will be sold through VircoSoft's expanding network of 85 authorized resellers.

“We had been evaluating document management platforms for over a year and were pleasantly surprised to find such a simple to use and feature-rich commercial open source document management application in KnowledgeTree. KnowledgeTree's features and open architecture made it a natural fit for our vFiler document capture and indexing solution,” said Steven Breault, Chief Executive Officer of VircoSoft.

“Partnering with VircoSoft is an exciting milestone for KnowledgeTree. We look forward to leveraging their growing dealer network to reach new customers, and expect our relationship to bring increased innovation to our commercial open source document management system,” said Daniel Chalef, Chief Operating Officer, KnowledgeTree.

KnowledgeTree's vision is to make document management simple. The web-based and AJAX-enabled application is built on the popular open source LAMP (Apache/MySQL/PHP) stack. KnowledgeTree has significant community traction and has been downloaded more than 300 000 times to date. KnowledgeTree is used by small and big business alike, with users including Fortune 500 companies, community organizations, local and state governments and educational and scientific institutions around the world.

KnowledgeTree is available in three editions: KnowledgeTree Enterprise, KnowledgeTree SMB and KnowledgeTree Open Source. The commercial editions of KnowledgeTree are sold with access to priority support and offer additional functionality that provides a familiar Windows Explorer and Microsoft Office interface into the document repository and direct-to-repository scanning capability.

About KnowledgeTree – Document Management Made Simple
Product website: http://www.knowledgetree.com

KnowledgeTree™ is a simple yet powerful, free, commercial open source and Web-based document management system built on the popular open source LAMP stack. It is the leading commercial open source document management system designed for the SMB and departmental user.

The application is available in three editions: KnowledgeTree Enterprise, KnowledgeTree SMB and KnowledgeTree Open Source. The commercial editions of KnowledgeTree are sold with access to priority support and offer additional functionality that provides a familiar Windows Explorer and Microsoft Office interface into the document repository and direct-to-repository scanning capability.

About VircoSoft Corporation

VircoSoft Corporation was founded in 2000 to bring affordable document management solutions, training, education and support to the office equipment and IT dealer channels. VircoSoft is headquartered in Fairfax, VA 15 miles outside Washington, DC.

VircoSoft’s nationally acclaimed vFiler™ product is a powerful document capture and indexing solution. The vFiler product provides sophisticated device-independant batch imaging workflow and optical character recognition (OCR). vFiler supports full page, bar code and forms-based OCR. Forms recognition is one of vFiler's strengths and the product provides means to identify and categorize different documents according to the form type. vFiler also provides ODBC look-up capabilities, allowing for the querying of 3rd-party datasources during the imaging workflow.

About KnowledgeTree
Jam Warehouse, the developers of KnowledgeTree, build business process management and web-based document management solutions for world-benchmarked organizations including international retailers, pre-press companies, newspaper groups, government entities, pharmaceutical and healthcare companies and even estate agencies. Jam Warehouse is headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa with an office in London, United Kingdom.
Editorial details

Steve Breault, CEO
VircoSoft Corporation
Email: info@vircosoft.com
http://www.vicrosoft.com/
Phone: +1 703-385-0101 (Virginia, USA, GMT-5)
Fax: +1 703-385-0101

Jacqui Woolfson, Director of Marketing
KnowledgeTree
Email: marketing@knowledgetree.com
Phone: +27 21 447 7440 (South Africa, GMT+2)
KnowledgeTree website: http://www.knowledgetree.com/