Government and corporate regulations are becoming increasingly stringent, radically affecting the way that we do business today. Driven by the magnitude, visibility, and costs associated with these regulations, organizations are being forced to take an enterprise-wide approach to compliance and to look at technology solutions that will best assist them in this complex, expensive project.

Alero Technology's products and solutions help organizations increase performance, reduce risk and costs, and improve corporate accountability by complying with industry and government regulations.

These products and solutions can help organizations:

• Maintain, control, and secure all related content through the enterprise

• Automate and integrate your business processes to meet compliance and audit requirements

• Integrate people, processes and data to deliver standard, accountable results

By tightly controlling and managing information, processes and human resources, Alero Technology's products and solutions help organizations adhere to applicable laws and regulations, reducing the risks and costs associated with compliance while improving performance, efficiency and productivity.

• Designed as a true enterprise-wide solution
• Delivered as embeddable or as complete solution
• Supports simple to very high transaction environments
• No user, server, or transaction limitations
• Data type independent. It can manage any piece of information that can be persistently and uniquely identifiable
• File format independent. Support any type of file regardless of its characteristics, including format, size, origin, etc.
• Information virtualization. Users can work with data securely without having to know where the data comes from (underlying repositories)
• Bi-directional access to potentially any repository
• On demand, real time access to data
• No caching
• Adaptive security - respects underlying repository security
• Platform independent (Windows, Unix flavors, AS/400, etc.)
• Supports MS SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, and Informix
• Support for WebDAV
• Complete Audit and Trail
• Compliant with backup/disaster/recovery strategies
• Support for high availability and continuity
• Standards compliant
• Web-based administration and operation

• Capture. The capture of content is provided by the Alero Capture application or by a third party vendor. Alero provides some interfaces to best of breed solutions, or customers can also choose any solution of preference. The capture process consists of one or more of the following functions: single or batch scanning, OCR/ICR, forms recognition, barcode recognition, image cleanup, indexing, validation, QA, etc.
• Content Management. The management of content is provided by the Alero Document Imaging solution. It supports indexing, storing, searching, retrieving, viewing, foldering, properties, printing, faxing, exporting, importing, delivering, publishing, and many other content functions.
• Document Management. The management of documents is provided by the Alero Document Management solution. It supports a full range of library services, including version control, check-out/check-in, audit, and revision history.
• Storage Management. The storage of content is provided by the Alero Content Storage Management solution. It is based on Life Cycle profiles, which define the life of each document in the system from its creation up to its destruction. These life cycle profiles define the number of copies per document and the storage/device, location, and retention to use per copy. It also supports functions like migration, caching, domain, proximity, and throttling. Storage management is an administration-free task with this solution. The following devices are supported: disk, RAID, libraries (DVD/Optical), EMC Centera CAS, and Hitachi HCAP.
• Process Management. The management of processes is provided by the Alero Business Process Management solution. It supports sequential, parallel, conditional, loops and data rendezvous; invoking applications and sub-processes; data and time conditions; deadlines, absentee and delegation, notification by E-mail, forms, events using Java scripting, pre and post activity processing, complete audit and trail, and eight levels of exceptions.
• Content Integration. The integration of content is provided by the Alero Enterprise Content Integration solution. It supports indexing, storing, searching, retrieving, viewing, foldering, properties, printing, faxing, exporting, importing, delivering, publishing, and many other content functions. In addition, it supports a full range of library services, including version control, check-out/check-in, audit, and revision history.
• Information Integration. The integration of information is provided by the Alero Enterprise Information Integration solution. It supports adding, searching, retrieving, viewing, foldering, modifying, deleting, properties, printing, faxing, delivering, and many other information functions.
• Virtualization. The virtualization of information is provided by the Alero Enterprise Virtualization solution. It supports discovery, federated searches and integrated views of information. It also supports searching, retrieving, viewing, foldering, modifying, deleting, properties, printing, faxing, delivering, and many other information functions.
• Signature Management. The management of signatures is provided by the Alero Electronic Signature Management solution. It allows signing, authenticating, security, encrypting, enforcing, and verifying information.  
• End User Application. It allows users to work with information.

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