AventX Mail SC is an advanced email solution that provides delivery confirmation of critical business documents, overcoming the pitfalls of standard email delivery.

The benefits of AventX Mail SC include:

• Email with fax-like confirmation: the sender knows the message was received, by whom and when.
• Status of the emailed PO or invoice is easily determined from the desktop
• It is easy to resend and track critical documents.

Watch this 3-minute video to see how email delivery confirmation with AventX Mail SC provides 100% assurance that your email was received.

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• Secure and Confirmed Email Delivery from Any ERP Application

AventX boasts these powerful new features:

• Allows users to dynamically select which work order packages (work orders plus attachments) are printed via enhanced Forms and Self-Service interfaces.
• Prints complete work order packages directly from VIZIYA’s WorkAlign Scheduler.
• Prints attachments stored ANYWHERE on the network including third party content management systems like SharePoint. No need to store everything in the Oracle database!

Watch this 10-minute video demonstration to see how the new AventX interface works in Oracle Forms, Oracle Application Framework (aka: Self-Service) and directly from VIZIYA’s WorkAlign Scheduler!

For more information:

• Email, Fax, or Print Attachments from Anywhere on the Network with AventX Oracle Connector
• Work Order Package Printing Solution Suitability Checklist
• Automated Work Order Package Printing from Oracle EBS, eAM Module

FoIP is best described as super highway for routing and sending faxes because your existing telephony network becomes the delivery channel for sending and receiving faxes.  This is great because your telephony network is already there (or will be!)…why not use it more?  Also, your new FoIP software is typically hosted on a virtual machine (aka VM) instead of a physical server.  As an example, these VM’s are typically running Windows Server 2003 or 2008 R2 plus the FoIP software.

Here is a summary of benefits that your IT Department should expect:

1. Install your desktop faxing software on a VM vs. physical server
2. Simulate the fax board hardware using the new FoIP software; no fax boards required
3. Scalability is simplified; upgrading from 8 channels to 16 requires a software upgrade vs. installing another fax board
4. Virtual machines running FoIP have a smaller footprint in your datacenter
5. Virtualization introduces new disaster recovery options

Once installed, your new FoIP software hooks into your existing telephony system offering seamless integration for all your faxing needs.  Supported phone systems include Cisco, Avaya, Nortel, Quitum, Dialogic VoIP networks, and digital media gateways (aka DMGs).

The following business pains are commonly solved with FoIP solutions:

1. Consolidate enterprise telephony and fax resources - save money

• Eliminate analog phone lines that are being used with archaic fax machines, multi-function-printers (aka MFPs), and eliminate the need for multiple fax server vendors
• 25 MFPs @ $30 per month= $750 per month or $9,000 per year (i.e. excellent ROI)

2. Electronically fax from desktop applications - make life easier at work

• Examples include faxing from email, a virtual printer via file à print, and a standalone application or web interface that is dedicated to all of your faxing needs

3. Route incoming faxes to one or many electronic destinations by routing faxes by the actual digits dials to printer servers, email servers (e.g. Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook), file servers (e.g. Microsoft SharePoint), application servers, database servers, and FTP servers.

• Reduce long distance faxing expenses by leveraging your intranet’s capability to transmit the fax from the destination country (e.g. a fax to Germany is transmitted in Germany vs. over long distance); requires compatible IP telephony system

4. Extract data from faxes to start workflow processes – make IT resources work for you

• For example, extract a Purchase Order # and route it to a destination like purchaseorders@strsoftware.com

5. Centralize management of all document transmissions from multiple sources

• It is best to have one FoIP solution that can handle all of your faxing needs (see diagram below)

For more information:

• Advanced Fax Routing – 3 Real World Examples of Better Fax Practices
• 5 Benefits of FoIP Services and Software

• iPad Safari browser certification
• Integration of ADF Mobile including a demonstration of a mobile app for the iPad for a maintenance supervisor.
• Endeca integration – Endeca is a recent Oracle acquisition that provides enterprise search and BI capabilities.  The presenters showed a demonstration of the functionality and it looked really slick.  A different user experience for sure but powerful and after talking with some users they were excited about the possibilities it could bring to their businesses.
• Some various specific enhancements to eAM.

Overall a really good show.  Met a lot of great people and received some good feedback on our products.  Looking forward to developing those enhancements!

If you missed us at the show and want to see the new features of the AventX Attachment Printer that we demonstrated while there, click here to register for our upcoming webcast on April 11th.

In fact, all we really need in order to email, fax, print, and archive documents from your new ERP with AventX is…

1. Report output (e.g. a Purchase Order, Invoice, Statement etc.)
2. Recipient data (e.g. email address, fax number, network printer, or archive path)

Even better, STR Software will guide your organization through each step of the migration including Planning, Execution, Testing, and Move to Production.  If you have a valid support agreement with STR Software, here is your golden ticket to success in your new ERP:  The AventX Migration Package.

The package includes:

• 1 AventX UNIX or WINDOWS license at No Cost (AventX support agreement required)
• 8 Free Hours of Expert Implementation Assistance (this is sufficient for most migrations)
• Continued Support for your existing FAXCOM Software and Hardware (some AventX assets can also be transferred to the new environment…please call to discuss)
• Best Customer Experience – Guaranteed

If you want to learn more about this amazing offer contact me directly – John Vincent. Even if your support plan has expired, a quick conversation can determine the best way to proceed.

Click the image below to download a two-page data sheet that shares the critical benefits and advanced functionality available with AventX:

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10 key considerations when evaluating a work order package printing solution:

Do you need a solution that:

• Automates printing, one-off or batch, of complete work order packages.
• Has the ability to select which work order packages are printed in a batch.
• Prints database attachments and/or attachments from elsewhere on the network (via UNC path or file repository like SharePoint).
• Prints attachments associated with a work order from any entity or category.
• Is compatible with Oracle’s forms interface as well as the web interface.
• Is compatible with other EBS modules:  prints other document types, such as purchase orders, with attachments.
• Integrates with BI Publisher.
• Enables organizations to utilize existing work order reports rather than creating new, vendor-specific work order reports.
• Manages requests and prints work order packages without affecting your overall system performance.
• Is compatible with printer finishing options, such as stapling.

For more information or a demonstration of the AventX Attachment Printer – the most robust work order package printing solution available to the eAM market  – please contact us.

Related Links:

• New Attachment Printer Features: Live Demo Webcast Registration
• Automatically Print, Collate, and Staple Work Order Packages: A Customer Success Story

• Email, fax, and/or print any single report from any Oracle form
• View the delivery status of any document from anywhere in EBS at any time
• Add and/or omit report attachments “on the fly” directly from the AventX Interactive Delivery form

Take a look at this 7-minute demonstration of the exciting new features. Adjust the “Change Quality” settings at the bottom of the video player if you have trouble seeing the details:

Contact John Vincent, Manager of Customer Relations, to discuss upgrading to the latest version of AventX Oracle Connector in order to take advantage of these great new features: john.vincent@strsoftware.com

For more information about the latest AventX Oracle Connector release, view these resources:

• Email, Fax, or Print Attachments from Anywhere on the Network with AventX Oracle Connector
• How to Send Sales Order Acknowledgements Faster from Oracle EBS
• New Recipient Types for PO Approval Users in Latest Release of AventX

Fig 1: Oracle’s Paperclip Icon for Attachments

We are really excited about the latest release of AventX because we’ve recently added support for two new types of web-page attachments— http:// and file://.  Not only does this provide end-users with additional options for attaching supporting documents to be delivered, but DBAs also benefit from saving disc space in the Oracle database. The screen shot below illustrates the types of attachments which AventX supports.

Prior to this release AventX supported the delivery of any attached documents using the browse functionality or by providing a UNC path. The addition of these two new attachment types makes the overall delivery experience more flexible than ever before.

Fig 2: AventX supports a variety of attachment types at all levels

Here are points about this release:

• Support for http:// and file:// attachments allows end-users to manage commonly used attachments in a web-server like Microsoft SharePoint or a share on the network
• Administrators get a mutual benefit by reducing the footprint of attachments stored in the Oracle Database; One AventX customer saved 30G per day by moving to http:// functionality in 2011
• AventX Automatic Delivery will continue to intelligently deliver the attachments as specified by your company’s desired functionality. For example, one of my clients stores internal documents here which the buyer uses but they don’t want emailed with the PO.   As such, simply give any attachment that you DON’T want delivered a unique category that is not listed in the AventX Configuration Form and it will be left behind.
• If you need to quickly send one PO, we also added the ability to add and delete attachments from the AventX Interactive Delivery Form.  See the new attachments tab in Figure 3.

Figure 3: The default attachments from Oracle’s Paperclip icon are pre-populated in the AventX Interactive Delivery From above. Click “Add Attachments” to interactively add more or Ctrl+up to delete attachments on-the-fly.

Click the image below to download a two-page data sheet that shares the critical benefits and advanced functionality available with AventX:

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