News | October 5, 2010

NEC Europe Chooses Brainware Distiller To Automate Accounts Payable

NEC to Leverage Intelligent Data Capture in European Shared Services

Brainware, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent data capture and enterprise search solutions, announced recently that NEC Europe has selected the company's Brainware Distillersolution to process invoices at its shared service center in the United Kingdom. This contract includes the Brainware's Visibility module for real-time KPIs, reporting and business intelligence.

A company-wide initiative to reduce operational costs directed NEC Europe to consider automation alternatives to the manual data entry costs associated with processing invoices into its SAP ERP system. Brainware Distiller proved to be the best solution.

"Brainware Distiller offered the most advanced data capture capabilities and the greatest opportunity for transforming our manual processes," said John Dickens, UK Shared Service Centre Manager for NEC. "This solution will facilitate centralization of A/P invoice posting and our three-way match process. Furthermore, we are keen to look at opportunities for rolling out Distiller in Japan as well as expanding into our sales order process."

Dickens added, "Distiller's document-agnostic nature offers NEC opportunities to streamline and automate other business areas that will be migrated into our core SAP ERP system. As a comprehensive data extraction platform, Brainware's solution dovetails with our ‘ONE NEC' philosophy, which emphasizes smarter applications that promote the greatest possible experience for customers and vendors."

"NEC required a solution that could accommodate the affiliate companies serving eight European countries," said Carl Mergele, Chief Executive Officer at Brainware. "Distiller's scalability makes it an immensely capable platform for consolidating and simplifying paper-based processes. By being able to process all types of documents in a broad range of languages, Distiller provides a singular answer to large businesses seeking to introduce efficiency throughout their operations."

NEC Europe is a subsidiary of NEC Corporation, a leader in the integration of IT network technologies that benefit businesses and people around the world. NEC Europe is building upon its heritage and reputation for innovation and quality by providing its expertise, solutio ns and services to a broad range of customers, from telecom operators to enterprises and the public sector. For additional information, please visit the NEC Europe home page at http://www.nec.com/eu.

About Brainware, Inc.
Brainware, Inc. is an innovative provider of intelligent data capture and enterprise search solutions that help Global 2000 companies eliminate costly manual data entry, rapidly process large volumes of documents and retrieve data from across the enterprise. Its solutions were built from the ground up to manage unstructured data without templates, exact definitions, taxonomies or indexing. Headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia, Brainware maintains global sales and support operations through its North American, U.K. and European offices. Brainware customers include Airbus, Alcon, Alltel (now Verizon Wireless), Amgen, Anadarko, BB&T, British American Tobacco, Continental Airlines, CORT, Gardner Denver, Halliburton, Her Majesty's Prison Service, Johns Manville, Kimberly-Clark, KPMG, NHS/Steria, Newell Rubbermaid, Phillip Morris International Service Center Europe, Reynolds & Reynolds, Rockwell Automation, Shell, Southern Company, Sun Chemical, The Bank of New York Mellon/SourceNet, TriZetto, and many others. For more information, visit www.brainware.com.

SOURCE: Brainware, Inc.