Software

BLI Analysts Honor the Best Document Imaging Solutions Tested this Year with Pick Awards

Winter 2017
11/30/2016


Fairfield, NJ – Buyers Laboratory (BLI), the world’s leading independent evaluator of document imaging software, hardware, and services, today announced its Pick award recipients in the document imaging software category. These coveted honors recognize the most impressive solutions evaluated by BLI during the previous 12-month test cycle. Among the dozens of qualified products, the award recipients are: 


CANON U.S.A., INC.

Therefore 2016
Outstanding Information Management Platform

uniFLOW V5.4
Outstanding Output Management Platform



DELL INC.

Dell OpenManage Printer Essentials
Outstanding Printer Management Utility



HP INC.

HP JetAdvantage Insights
Outstanding Print Analytics Solution

HP Web Jetadmin 10.4
Outstanding Fleet Management Platform



KODAK ALARIS

Kodak Info Input Solution
Outstanding Document Capture Solution



KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS U.S.A., INC.

Konica Minolta bizhub Marketplace
Outstanding MFP App Ecosystem



KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS AMERICA, INC.

Kyocera Teaching Assistant 3
Outstanding Education Solution 



NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

Nuance OmniPage Server for Windows
Outstanding OCR Processing Platform



PAPERCUT SOFTWARE INTERNATIONAL PTY. LTD.

PaperCut 16
Outstanding SMB Print Management Solution



PRINTERLOGIC

PrinterLogic Enterprise Print Management Platform
Outstanding Enterprise Print Environment Platform



RICOH USA

Ricoh Personal Paperless Document Manager 2016
Outstanding Document Handling Solution



SHARP IMAGING AND INFORMATION COMPANY OF AMERICA

Sharp Cloud Portal Office 2
Outstanding Content and Collaboration Service



XEROX CORPORATION

Xerox DocuShare 7
Outstanding Document Management Solution


“Document imaging solutions are the lifeblood of the industry, and are driving innovation beyond the ‘box’ to make customer’s printers, scanners, and MFPs an indispensable part of critical information workflows,” said Jamie Bsales, Director, Office Workflow Solutions Analysis at BLI. “These standout offerings are prime examples of how technology solutions succeed in improving document-centric processes, streamlining daily chores for knowledge workers, and enhancing productivity across an organization.”


Stay tuned for upcoming Buyers Lab Pick and Line of the Year award announcements in the following category:

December 1: Wide Format Printers


About BLI Picks
With its annual document imaging solutions Pick awards, BLI gives special recognition to the software products that provided the most outstanding performances in BLI’s unique evaluations. Software products submitted for testing undergo an in-depth hands-on review that focuses on key attributes for a solution’s target market and compares how well the product stacks up against leading competitors. Pick winners rise above the competition in key areas such as feature set, ease of use, ease of administration, software integration, and value. Consequently, a BLI Pick is a hard-earned award that buyers and IT directors can trust to better guide them in their acquisition decisions.

About Buyers Laboratory LLC
Buyers Laboratory LLC (BLI) is the world's leading independent provider of analytical information and services to the digital imaging and document management industry. For over 50 years, buyers have relied on BLI to help them differentiate products’ strengths and weaknesses  and make the best purchasing decisions, while industry sales, marketing and product professionals have turned to BLI for insightful competitive intelligence and valued guidance on product development, competitive positioning and sales channel and marketing support. Using BLI’s web-based bliQ and Solutions Center services, 40,000 professionals worldwide create extensive side-by-side comparisons of hardware and software solutions for over 15,000 products globally, including comprehensive specifications and the performance results and ratings from BLI’s unparalleled Lab, Solutions and Environmental Test Reports, the result of months of hands-on evaluation in its US and UK labs. The services, also available via mobile devices, include a comprehensive library of BLI’s test reports, an image gallery, hard to find manufacturers’ literature and valuable tools for configuring products, calculating total cost of ownership (TCO) and annual power usage. BLI also offers consulting and private, for-hire testing services that help manufacturers develop and market better products and consumables.

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