3 Banken Gruppe
Within two years numerous projects (electronic credit records, fund data management, replacing microfiche (account turnovers and statements), replacing microfilm, SAP archiving, a contracts archive and archiving of payment transactions for documents and statements) were implemented successfully with SER technology at the Austrian 3 Banken Group, preparing the way for a streamlined and more efficient administration. Approximately 1,200 users are currently working with the system.
ADAC Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club eV
Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club e.V. (ADAC) has moved into the fast lane with automated processing of incoming invoices. With the electronic invoice receipt ledger from SER, DOXiS InvoiceMaster SAP Control S, ADAC now has a complete overview of all liabilities in its accounts payable department.
Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG
For more than 13 years Adolf Würth GmbH has been using SER software for archiving its documents in its chief executives? offices, accounts receivable and accounts payable, sales and HR departments, both in Germany and abroad.
AGENA GmbH Gesellschaft für Organisation und Informationsverarbeitung
AGENA, the IT service provider of the Gretsch-Unitas Group, chose DOXIS for electronic archiving. In the G.U. Group, initially the staff of ATS GmbH Automatik-Tür-Systeme will use the SER solution in the order centre and in internal/external sales and services. In the second stage, the specialist for automatic inbound systems will also use the SER archive in the accounting and procurement departments.
AMB Generali Informatik Services GmbH
The AMB Group intends to improve transparency as well as efficiency. Consequently, the Group's IT service provider, AMB Generali Informatik Services GmbH, decided to introduce workflow-controlled invoice verification on the basis of SAP Business Workflow.
Arbeiterkammer Vienna, Kärnten & Burgenland
SER's intelligent document, workflow and archive management helps Austria?s chambers of labour to fulfil their legal duties in a more efficient, cost-effective and customer-friendly way. For example, the Vienna chamber replaced its unstructured database Asksam with a modern document and workflow management solution from SER. The Kärnten chamber gradually introduced electronic workflow management and document management with DOMEA® as well as an electronic archive from SER.
Arvato Systems
The DMS and archive department of Arvato Systems has developed in close co-operation with SER. In 1997 the first DMS application ? an archive solution for over 1,000 centrally recorded documents per day ? was implemented in Arvato's computer centre. The decision went in SER's favour because no other manufacturer could offer such a complete spectrum of efficient hardware and software.
Ategris
The hospital operator ATEGRIS is planning to increase the efficiency and profitability of its establishments with the help of modern IT solutions from SER. The project will include solutions for electronic archiving, integrated in iMedOne and SAP R/3, electronic patient records, email archiving, Office integration, automated processing of incoming invoices with invoice scanning and workflow-controlled invoice verification as well as electronic contracts management.
Audiovox Germany Holdings GmbH
AUDIOVOX German Holdings GmbH is abolishing paper documents in its service department and introducing an electronic DOXiS archive/DMS from SER. Instead of searching for paper documents, service staff at this car hi-fi and mobile communications specialist can access electronic documents and process customer orders faster. A further area of use for the SER solution is archiving of SAP R/3 data and documents.
August Storck KG
The confectionery manufacturer Storck has automated its entire incoming invoice process with DOXiS Inbound Management for the processing of incoming documents. All documents across the world are processed at the head office in Halle, Westphalia and stored in the SER archive on an audit-proof basis. The close connection of the SER solution with the SAP-R/3 system brings about a high degree of automation, helps with liquidity planning and saves working time.
Axel Springer Verlag
The publisher Axel Springer Verlag has built on its successful DOXiS archive by adding DOXiS InvoiceMaster in order to automate the handling of incoming invoices and thereby enhance productivity in the invoice department. DOXiS InvoiceMaster provides an automated bridge between incoming invoices and electronic posting of documents in SAP R/3. The simple administration of DOXiS InvoiceMaster makes it possible to carry out upgrades internally.
Baden-Badener Versicherung AG
The insurer Baden-Badener-Versicherung has once again decided in favour of SER. This longstanding SER Archive customer is switching to the modern DOXiS Archive from the latest DOXiS iECM Suite and is preparing for electronic audits with the all-in-one GDPdU solution from SER (GDPdU = regulations for data access and auditability of digital documents).
Bauhaus
BAUHAUS has enhanced the SER archive which it introduced in 1996, by adding DOXiS InvoiceMaster. This SER solution handles the complete incoming invoice process which can involve up to 6,000 invoices from 1,200 domestic and foreign suppliers on peak days. Just one day after an invoice is received, all goods invoices are entered, checked and posted and they can be authorised within the discount periods. The document data is automatically extracted and transferred to the invoice verification system and also to SAP R/3.
Baur Versand
Over 100 customer advisers at Baur Versand can be contacted around the clock and they answer approximately 800,000 enquires per year. They are supported by the electronic customer workflow record based on DOXiS Workflow. In this way the advisers can usually give the requested information directly over the telephone. The handling of complaints has also been made much simpler and is quality-assured because the customer history can be seen at a glance in the electronic customer record. Letters from mailing campaigns are also stored so that they can be referred to immediately when a customer telephones.
bedea Berkenhoff & Drebes GmbH
This longstanding SER archive customer is switching its system to the latest SER technology with DOXiS evITA and is replacing the existing storage hardware with an SER JB4/22 jukebox with UDO technology.
Berufsgenossenschaftliche Unfallklinik Murnau
The Berufsgenossenschaftliche Unfallklinik in Murnau (a specialized clinic of the statutory accident insurance fund) is on a mission to increase efficiency and improve transparency in its accounting processes. For this purpose it is introducing automated invoice management with integration into SAP R/3. The objectives are optimisation of the cross-departmental business processes and an acceleration of the document flow within the organisation.
BPW Bergische Achsen Kommanditgesellschaft
A year ago the car supplier Bergische Achsen Kommanditgesellschaft (BPW) decided to roll out its DOXiS archive from SER across the whole company. With the introduction of automated invoice management it is taking the next step towards establishing comprehensive Enterprise Content Management. The objective is process optimisation in the processing of incoming invoices.
British American Tobacco
Simplified accounts payable accounting, more profitable work procedures, up-to-date total liabilities - British American Tobacco (BAT) Deutschland achieves these objectives with the DOXiS solution for automated invoice processing. The DOXiS solution for automated invoice verification and processing of incoming invoices increases the profitability of work processes, supports compliance with discount periods and improves liquidity planning. The investment has already paid for itself in one year.
Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Carlson Wagonlit Travel Deutschland decided on an all-in-one GDPdU solution from SER (GDPdU = regulations for data access and auditability of digital documents). The key factors in choosing the SER compliance solution were fulfilment of the legal requirements and SER?s willingness to act as general contractor. Other convincing factors were SER?s integrated GDPdU approach and the analysable archive. The complete GDPdU solution from SER provides the accounting department with all the instruments it needs to prepare for electronic audits, from the archiving of tax-relevant data in the analysable archive to data selection, to provision of information for auditors.
Commerzbank AG
SER has implemented a payment transaction archive for Commerzbank for cheque archiving. Up to 210,000 payment transaction documents from the cheque-processing system are handled electronically at the bank's processing centres. The SER payment transaction archive has been certified by the independent TüV Informationstechnik GmbH (TüViT). In a further project SER implemented electronic personnel records at Commerzbank, and is currently in the process of implementing electronic credit records.
Curanum AG
Curanum AG in Munich demonstrates how greater efficiency can be achieved in the health sector. As a service provider for establishments that care for the sick and elderly, Curanum is modernising its accounting with electronic archiving and automated processing of incoming invoices by SER. In future, all 52 Curanum establishments across Germany will participate in an electronic invoice verification process.
Deutsche BP / Aral
The BP Plus Card division of BP uses DOXiS for digital processing of customer records and workflow management in the customer support department. During normal operations, in just 3 months 1.2 million pages of old records and active customer records were digitised, automatically classified and indexed using SERdistiller. In this way BP Plus Card is now able to achieve greater and faster growth with the same number of staff and the same level of service.
Deutsche Schiffahrts-Treuhand
In future Deutsche Schiffahrts-Treuhand intends to profit from electronic records management and introduce electronic shipping and shareholder records.
DiBa
SER?s business partner Forbatec-Sungard has developed an intelligent email management system (EMMIE) for DiBA on the basis of the SERiMail email software. EMMIE supports the call centre in the e-service area of Direktbank by finding the right answer by means of sample emails. The solution has been in use since November 2002. The email processing speed has improved by 60% with EMMIE. The efficiency in mail processing has seen a long-term increase with a short ROI (12 months).
DOGEWO Dortmunder Gemeinnützige Wohnungsgesellschaft mbH
SER Archive, which has been in use since 2002 for electronic storage of tenancy agreement records and individual documents, was migrated to the latest DOXiS iECM Suite in 2004 and upgraded to cater for the new requirements regarding electronic records management. With the modern SER Enterprise Content Management solution DOGEWO (a non-profit housing association in Dortmund) also implemented an ad-hoc workflow in 2005 as a mailbox solution based on DOXiS Workflow as well as implementing DOXiS Records Management.
Domäne Einrichtungsmärkte GmbH & Co.
Domäne Einrichtungsmärkte GmbH & Co. uses automated processing of incoming invoices. Automated invoice scanning and verification with InvoiceMaster from SER has brought fresh impetus to the accounts payable department. Data extraction and automatic comparison of invoice data and order data shortens the invoice verification process and allows automatic posting of the documents if there is a correct match. The extracted invoice data is transferred to the merchandise management system in EDI dataset format.
Dräger Safety AG Co. KG
Dräger Safety aims to optimise processes in financial accounting. This company, which deals in safety technology, operates in more than 40 countries with its own companies. It is planning to automate invoice processing at all locations in the group that use SAP R/3. Their chosen solution: SER InvoiceMaster for processing vendor invoices.
DSM Nutritional Products GmbH
The first step at DSM Nutritional Products in Grenzach-Wyhlen is migration of the existing electronic archive to SER DOXiS Archive as well as SAP data archiving.
Durable Hunke & Jochheim GmbH & Co. KG
Following replacement of an old ERP system with an SAP solution, data that has to be retained by law is to be transferred from the old system to SER Archive. All incoming invoices are likewise to be archived. Invoices are retrieved from the SAP system. It will also be possible to archive documents from users' MS Office applications.
E.ON Hanse AG
Automated inbound mail processing with classification, scanning of business partner ID or customer number, subsequent archiving with barcode, integration into SAP IS-U.
Elastogran
Each month the BASF subsidiary Elastogran archives approximately 20 gigabytes of emails automatically using the DOXiS email archive from SER. In this way the company complies with the requirements of the US Sarbanes-Oxley-Act (SOX) in terms of audit-proof email archiving, whilst at the same time reducing storage space requirements.
Energie AG
The Austrian infrastructure group receives approximately 60,000 invoices from 2,000 different suppliers each year. There is often no end to the flood of paperwork, and processing takes a great deal of time and effort. DOXiS InvoiceMaster from SER reduces the organisational burden with the strategy of intelligent processing: incoming invoices are processed and checked automatically.
EOS KSI Inkasso
Debt-collection company EOS KSI Inkasso Deutschland has decided to go for modern inbound management with SER solutions. In future this company, which belongs to the largest financial service provider in Europe, the EOS Group, is planning to process its inbound mail electronically and make it available to staff and customers in digital form. The electronic documents will be archived in DOXiS Archive from SER.
ESF Elbe-Stahlwerke FERALPI GmbH
The steel producer ESF Elbe-Stahlwerke FERALPI is breathing new life into its accounting system with invoice management and electronic archiving from SER. The traditional company from Riesa is automating its invoice capture process and introducing a workflow for invoice verification.
EWE TEL
EWE TEL uses SER?s DOXiS iECM Suite for the whole of its order processing operation: DOXiS Inbound Management for automatic inbound processing, DOXiS Workflow for process control in order management and DOXiS Archive for audit-proof archiving. The decisive factors were the integrated solution offer from SER as well as the high level of availability of data and the problem-free system integration of SER solutions into the existing, heterogeneous IT landscape at EWE TEL.
EWR GmbH
The energy provider EWR from Remscheid associates greater efficiency in administration with the introduction of DOXiS Archive/DMS with integrated digital building records. SER Solutions was awarded the contract in particular on account of its SAP competence and the high level of integration of the archive solution with SAP.
Freie Arzt- and Medizinkasse VVaG
Freie Arzt- and Medizinkasse (FAMK) is modernising its account settlement system. For this purpose it is using the IT infrastructure of INTER Versicherungen in Mannheim, with whom it is closely connected, for workflow-controlled processing of inbound mail. The capacities of SER?s DMS solution, which has been used successfully for years, are being upgraded for new FAMK users.
G.L. Kayser
G.L. Kayser, a long-standing SER customer, is developing its existing SER solution and is now also including email communications in its information management system. This Mainz-based freight forwarder, which has for years been supporting its transport and logistic services with an electronic archive and the automated inbound invoice processing solution from the DOXiS iECM Suite, has once again decided on a SER solution ? DOXiS eMail Manager for Lotus Notes.
GEFA Gesellschaft for Absatzfinanzierung mbH
GEFA, the leading specialist for equipment and vendor finance, is constructing a central platform for Enterprise Content Management with the DOXiS iECM Suite solutions. The company was looking for an integrated all-in-one solution with a flexible front-end which could be successfully integrated into the existing IT landscape. The finance specialists found what they were looking for with SER and decided on progressive introduction of the DOXiS modules for electronic archiving, workflow, invoice management and email archiving, as well as the GDPdU Center.
Gemeinde-Unfallversicherungsverband Oldenburg
People with occupational injuries and illnesses are the focus at Gemeinde-Unfallversicherungsverband Oldenburg. To ensure that they can be provided for more quickly and engage in rehabilitation measures, this accident insurance company in Lower Saxony decided to introduce electronic workflow management and archiving from SER. Electronic records processing using DOXiS Workflow and DOXIS Archive was up and running in just a few weeks.
Gespag
With the help of the digital DOXiS Archive, Gespag has achieved ?paper-free? hospitals at all its locations. Each year 201,000 in-patient and 353,000 out-patient medical histories are archived ? with an average annual volume of 1.1 terabytes at the completion stage. The digital records guarantee problem-free retrieval of patient records. There has also been an improvement in the medical service quality and the economic performance of hospitals.
GEZ Gebühreneinzugszentrale
GEZ has been using SER solutions for years and in 2002 it upgraded its electronic archiving system with the latest archiving technology from SER so that customer enquiries could be processed more effectively. For this purpose the existing storage infrastructure was replaced in full by RAID systems with AIT tape libraries as a back-up system. All the archive material consisting of over 220 million documents ? 5 terabytes ? has been imported into the new system. Approximately 6.5 terabytes of data are now available to the staff online with DOXiS.
GFS Fundraising & Marketing GmbH
GFS Fundraising & Marketing GmbH has decided on an electronic archive with an intelligent search function from SER. The aim is to reduce retrieval times considerably by means of the associative search method in the archived documents and through intelligent internet searches using SERglobalBrain Enterprise Edition.
Grohe Water Technology AG & Co. KG
Europe's largest manufacturer of sanitary appliances, Grohe Water Technology, uses a central SAP system with connected DOXiS Archive to which 250 staff all over the world from the areas of sales, procurement and HR have access. The HR department has just implemented electronic personnel records.
HARMAN/BECKER Automotive Systems
Faced with the growing tide of emails, the car manufacturer HARMAN/BECKER Automotive Systems decided to adapt the basis for email communication amongst its workforce of over 2,500 to the new requirements. The storage volume of the exchange databases was to be reduced and audit-proof long-term archiving implemented in compliance with legal regulations.
Hectas Gebäudedienste Stiftung & Co. KG
Hectas Gebäudedienste Stiftung & Co. KG was looking for a provider that could use its own solutions to construct an ECM infrastructure for the whole company. The company is now starting with SER, using SAP archiving and invoice management.
Helvetia Versicherungen
Helvetia Versicherungen in Switzerland has decided on co-operation with SER and in future will be using DOXIS iECM software. Together with its partner HP Invent it will introduce the DOXiS iECM Suite for 1,000 staff and approximately 3,000 external business partners of Helvetia Patria.
Hofmeister & Meincke GmbH & Co.KG
With an old system that was performing badly, inadequate support from the manufacturer and frequent error messages from the jukebox, the wholesaler Hofmeister & Meincke decided to switch to DOXiS Archive and an SER jukebox. The aim is to migrate the old archive to the DOXiS solution from SER as quickly as possible.
Häfele GmbH & Co.
To minimise the time and money involved in processing delivery notes, Häfele uses DOXiS InvoiceMaster Read for automated document processing. The suppliers who have issued the delivery notes are identified automatically by fuzzy searches.
IC Informationstechnologie Centrale GmbH
IC Informationstechnologie Centrale GmbH is planning to build a new system landscape for data archiving and document management in the Zedach Group. The group wants the DMS/archive system to have a GDPdU solution (GDPdU = regulations for data access and auditability of digital documents). A further important component was the automated processing of incoming invoices. A criterion for awarding the contract was the close linking of SER?s DOXiS Suite to the existing SAP system. The focus was not only on performance ? evidence of certification was also required.
INTER Versicherungen
More than 20,000 inbound documents arrive each day in the mail department of the capacity planning unit at INTER Versicherungen. With the introduction of the SER solution, efficient capacity planning was implemented without modal fragmentation, and this brought about a substantial improvement in customer service through faster processing of enquiries, better provision of information on all levels as well as faster access to information.
Itzehoer Versicherungen
Itzerhoer Versicherung designed its first archive and workflow management system on the basis of SER products as far back as 1996. Since then this insurance company has switched its solution to the latest generation of SER products. DOXiS evITA guarantees convenient integration into the inventory management system and compatibility with the new generation of computers for the individual clients now and in the future.
JK Ergoline
JK uses the DOXiS iECM Suite from SER. Amongst other things, the company uses DOXiS Archive and DOXiS InvoiceMaster for automated processing of incoming invoices with invoice scanning, data extraction and workflow-controlled invoice verification. As a storage solution JK uses an SER jukebox with WORM technology. As the central data archiving system at JK, the SER archive was linked directly to SAP R/3 Rel. 4.7.
KAGes
Hospitals located in Styria have been introducing electronic patient records in Austria since 1999. Graz university clinic and seven other district hospitals are already working productively with the document management solution from SER's DOXiS iECM Suite. The aim is to introduce electronic archives at all 20 hospital locations of KAGes's hospital association and to network them so that doctors have access to all the archived medical histories irrespective of location.
Klinikum Augsburg
This clinic in Augsburg, a long-standing SER customer, has enhanced its archive solution by adding SER contracts management. The integrated standard solution for comprehensive administration, archiving and monitoring of contracts is based on the DOXiS iECM Suite from SER.
KSA Berlin
Introduction of electronic claims processing has led to the disappearance of the paper mountains on administrators' desks. With the claims workflow, KSA has not only saved on paper ? it has to a large degree automated and optimised the individual process steps entailed in claims processing. Claims are now processed much faster. This objective was achieved by electronic archiving, document distribution and handling using the solutions in the DOXiS iECM Suite iQURE and SERdistiller.
Landesamt für Besoldung and Versorgung BaWü
Every month LBV in Baden-Württemberg processes salaries for approximately 360,000 recipients, whereby a record is kept for each recipient. When it implemented an efficient document management system including electronic archiving, LBV's intention was not only to reduce the mountains of paper ? it was especially concerned to have fully electronic records. SER?s partner, HP Services, implemented a DMS solution on the basis of DOXiS Archive which met the requirements.
Landschaftsverband Rheinland LVR
Landschaftsverband Rheinland has moved into Enterprise Content Management. The main focus is on electronic records, workflows and electronic archiving. The aim is to introduce an extremely well integrated solution that can cover all the various sub-areas of ECM with one product suite. After an initial unsuccessful test phase with another product, LVR decided on the iECM Suite from SER.
Masterfoods Services GmbH
Masterfoods Services GmbH has taken a further step in the direction of electronic invoice processing with DOXiS InvoiceMaster Read. Whereas previously, incoming invoices were scanned and sent to members of staff for verification via Lotus Notes, now manual data capture is being replaced by automatic extraction and transfer of data to SAP R/3.
Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry
The Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Psychiatry in Munich has introduced an electronic patient archive and is also importing its existing paper-based archive into the electronic solution. With electronic provision of patient records, the LENUS archive from SER provides comprehensive support for urgent patient care and for data searches for research projects. The SER solution is fully integrated into the KIS solution SAP IS-H*MED.
Ministerium der Finanzen des Saarlandes
Improved efficiency and stronger customer orientation were the objectives of the Saarland Finance Ministry. As resources were limited, a decision was made to adopt the SER e-records solution from Baden-Württemberg and to farm out the operation in its entirety to the larger federal state.
Mobilcom AG
At MobilCom it takes just 30 seconds to activate a new mobile phone contract and for another satisfied customer to start using their mobile phone. What makes this possible is an electronic authorisation process which is workflow-controlled and runs in the background and handles all necessary queries and searches in a few seconds. Thanks to the SER solution, MobilCom is an important step ahead of the competition in the tough telecommunications market.
Mundipharma
SER is developing a ?Mundipharma User? consisting of: DOXiS ITA Server, an associative search tool, HTTP Content Server, evITA search, evITA Web, SmartOffice, Records Management, evITA Workflow and SERInvoiceMaster invoice verification workflow. These products are distributed among 250 possible users.
NBV/UGA
Germany's largest horticultural sales and marketing organisation NBV/UGA decided on the Invoice Management Suite from SER. DOXiS Capture, SER InvoiceMaster invoice reader and SER InvoiceMaster invoice verification make sure that in future the processing of incoming invoices will need only a fraction of the time it used to take.
NewSource
NewSource made a decision to introduce DOXiS Archive/DMS, BPM and SER InvoiceMaster. SER Archive is replacing the old archive of another manufacturer and it is integrated via DOXiS SmartOffice into Microsoft Office programs. When it comes to electronic invoice management, NewSource is using SER's InvoiceMaster for invoice scanning and invoice verification. Integration of the solution into the existing SAP system allows automatic comparison of items in the invoices.
Niederösterreichische Gebietskrankenkasse
A social insurance organisation has received a boost for the handling of payment documents. At the regional health insurance fund for lower Austria there is a huge volume of paper with 41,000 operations. Checking contribution payments often became a marathon task. In order to accelerate the processes ? from automatic capture and validation of bank documents and transfer to the posting system to audit-proof archiving ? a solution from SER was called for.
Oettinger
The aim of the project at the Oettinger brewery group was to centralise the accounts payable and accounts receivable systems in Oettingen and to reduce the administration operations in the other branches. In particular, the idea was to cut the manual entry work for incoming invoices and incoming payment documents substantially. The expert advice from SER in response to the selection criteria presented convinced the Oettinger group. At the present time SERdistiller, a verifier workstation and SER InvoiceMaster are being used in a single-stage workflow for processing incoming invoices.
Otto Sauer Achsenfabrik
Otto Sauer Achsenfabrik (SAF) is anticipating that the introduction of DOXiS Archive from SER will relieve pressure on the SAP system. On account of the high volume of data, the SAP module tables need to be made smaller. The SAP data is to be stored in the DOXiS archive and then be available for retrieval. The objective: performance improvement for the SAP system.
PAX
PAX's entire retail business is now handled without paper. The DMS from SER was introduced simultaneously for all parties involved at head office and in the regional offices. As a result of the open shared system, entire workflows can be handled between head office and the regional offices with the necessary processing notes, entirely without paper.
Poco Einrichtungsmärkte
With annual double-figure growth rates at POCO a decision was needed about how to handle the steadily growing volume of invoice documents. The presentation of the DOXiS InvoiceMaster solution and a visit to a reference customer convinced Poco to use the SER technology to support the partially automated processing of incoming invoices. In addition to scanning header data, it is important that item data in the invoices can likewise be scanned. The dataset is transferred to the ERP system from Ametras in EDI dataset format.
Porta Möbel
This furniture company whose head office is in Porta Westfalica receives a daily volume of up to 5,000 invoices from 2,700 suppliers. In order to manage the flood of documents in the central accounts payable department, this long-standing SER Archive customer decided on automation of incoming invoice processing with DOXiS InvoiceMaster from SER. The self-learning SER solution saves administrators a large part of the manual entry of posting data and paid for itself in just six months.
profine GmbH
This plastics manufacturer is developing its existing SER archive solution in the direction of Enterprise Content Management. With a complete peace-of-mind package from SER, profine is updating its SER Archive with DOXiS evITA, archiving its email correspondence from Lotus Notes with the DOXiS eMail Center, accelerating invoice processing in the accounts payable department and creating additional capacity and flexibility in its storage hardware.
PVA
In just 120 working days SER transferred approximately 4.7 million insurance records from the Austrian employee and workers pension insurance offices by data migration to PVA's new shared DOMEA® solution. This solution makes it possible to monitor records across the whole of Austria from any of the 26 PVA locations. At the present time up to 3,700 PVA staff can retrieve pension records for approximately 4.7 million insured people and inspect the documents for the records already scanned in by the DOXiS scan solution.
Rheinland Versicherung
Intelligent software solutions from SER are used throughout the whole of the RheinLand Insurance Group whose head office is in Neuss. Over 1,000 staff at RheinLand Versicherung as well as their subsidiary companies ONTOS Versicherungen have been processing all documents that relate to contracts without the use of paper since the microfilm system was replaced. Each day up to 6,000 document pages are scanned, archived and logically linked with customer records in RheinLand Versicherung's information system.
RICHEMONT Northern Europe GmbH
RICHEMONT Northern Europe GmbH decided to go for an electronic DOXiS archive from SER. It is used in the finance and accounting department of the Munich-based sales organisation of the Richemont luxury goods group. There is a high degree of integration between the DOXiS archive and the SAP system and it serves the purpose of electronic storage of SAP data and scanned invoice documents. Documents are retrieved with the help of the integrated DOXiS SAP Viewer.
Rieter
Maschinenfabrik Rieter AG in Winterthur, Switzerland, decided on SER?s InvoiceMaster solution. With automation of the processing of incoming invoices, Rieter AG intends to substantially reduce the time taken to process supplier invoices and to reduce manual processing to a minimum. After an intensive selection process, the contract was awarded to SER because SER InvoiceMaster came top in fulfilling the requirements for a high degree of automation in invoice reading and in the transfer to SAP Business Workflow, and because the ECM specialist submitted the most attractive offer in terms of price and performance.
Rockwood Specialties Group GmbH
The Frankfurt-based manufacturer of speciality chemicals, Rockwood Specialities Group GmbH, decided on invoice processing, workflow and electronic archiving from SER's DOXiS iECM Suite. With DOXiS InvoiceMaster the company handles automated invoice capture and is also introducing an inter-state invoice verification workflow. The SER solutions are integrated into SAP R/3.
Rotkäppchen Sektkellerei GmbH
A new addition to SER's client portfolio is the Rotkäppchen champagne producer which decided to acquire a DOXiS archive to store their outbound SAP documents.
Rudolf Haufe Verlag GmbH & Co.KG
Fifty members of staff in the accounting department at Rudolf Haufe Verlag will soon be processing incoming invoices in a completely new way. With SER InvoiceMaster, manual operations such as data entry will be automated and invoice verification will be controlled by workflow. In this way the company will achieve a reduction in processing times, improved process security and transparency of information throughout the organisation.
SAG Holding GmbH
The starting gun has been fired for the move into Enterprise Content Management at SAG Holding GmbH: the service provider for manufacturing and supply companies will initially automate the processing of incoming invoices with DOXiS InvoiceMaster and store invoices in DOXiS Archive. Further projects will follow based on the DOXiS iECM modules for records management and email archiving.
Saint Gobain Sekurit
Electronic archiving with solutions from SER will soon be in use in various departments at Saint Gobain Sekurit Deutschland, the automotive glass specialist. In departments such as bookkeeping, controlling and procurement, sales and the technical department, a wide range of different documents and data formats will be stored securely in DOXiS Archive and made available for everyday work.
SEW-EURODRIVE
The drive technology specialist SEW-EURODRIVE receives several hundred thousand assembly orders per year. With the help of an electronic DMS and archive from SER, the microfilm operation for documents has been discontinued and orders are now captured the day they arrive with minimal human input, thanks to an extremely high degree of automation.
Siegwerk Druckfarben AG
The aim of the project is to organise, co-ordinate and automate workflow- and record-controlled processes from inbound mail to legally secure long-term archiving with the help of a DMS. The system must comply with the principles of orderly electronic bookkeeping systems (GoBs). The core process in phase 1 is the electronic processing of incoming invoices, from scanning in incoming invoices to the posting of invoices in the background which is to be integrated seamlessly into the existing IT environment without any interface difficulties.
Sonepar Deutschland Information Services GmbH
The electronics wholesaler Sonepar Deutschland decided on an all-in-one GDPdU solution from SER (GDPdU = regulations for data access and auditability of digital documents). The Sonepar Deutschland Group, which consists of four service companies and six regional distribution companies in Germany alone, requires an all-in-one GDPdU solution which is able to archive all tax-relevant data from all types of upstream systems and connected systems in an analysable form and then make them available for electronic tax audits. The systems which contain data relevant for audits include applications for financial accounting and asset accounting and for distribution accounting.
Sozialverband Deutschland
The federal office of the Sozialverband Deutschland decided on the DOXiS Archive from SER with associative search function. The intelligent retrieval technology is integrated in the SER Archive and facilitates freely formulated search queries for finding documents. The Sozialverband will first deploy the associative search function in the editorial department to allow retrieval of archived magazine articles. The retrieval method will later also be used for contracts and minutes management.
Spedition Stähler
The freight company Stähler, located in Elz, decided on SER archive software and also took up the offer of a storage solution. Eleven workstations are equipped with SER software. Consequently, staff no longer have to search for paper records; instead they can display the required documents on the screen at the touch of a button.
SPITZKE AG
Within the framework of their digitisation strategy for all functions for the whole company, SPITZKE AG has introduced automated processing of incoming invoices with electronic archiving from SER. The company, which specialises in rail systems, has reduced processing times and is achieving greater transparency in accounting operations. Doxis InvoiceMaster is integrated with the industry solution BAU financials from Nemetschek.
Stadtwerke Flensburg
The public utilities in Flensburg decided on DOXiS InvoiceMaster for the automation of invoice processing which is closely integrated with the SAP component SAP FI and the industry solution SAP for Utilities (SAP IS/U). The SER solution achieved automation of up to 95 % in financial accounting. The documents are captured, verified and posted automatically without user intervention. Whereas manual entry and posting of an invoice document used to take up to 10 minutes, DOXiS InvoiceMaster carries out the process in less than one minute.
Steuerverwaltung Baden-Württemberg
Archiving tax notices and other tax-relevant information and being able to access it quickly ? that was the project undertaken by the regional government in Baden-Württemberg. It has been achieved with the intranet portal of the new DMS from SER, which kills two birds with one stone: cost savings and increased productivity as well as better service for customers/citizens.
STRABAG
The international construction group STRABAG is active in all areas of the construction industry. A core element of its European IT infrastructure is DOXiS iECM Archive from SER which has been integrated seamlessly into the group's core commercial application. The main area of operation is the archiving of printout files (spool files) from the commercial administration software and image archiving of incoming invoices, cash journals, records for physical devices and contracts - approximately 34 million documents since 1994.
Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH
Trelleborg Sealing Solutions is introducing legally compliant and audit-proof archiving based on DOXiS Archive and is automating the processing of incoming invoices with DOXiS InvoiceMaster. Implementation of the SER solution is starting in the accounting department. The plan is for a central, comprehensive system which provides greater transparency of information and accelerates invoice processing.
Unfallkasse Post und Telekom
The accident insurance fund Post and Telekom (UK PT) is changing its system for document archiving: instead of microfilm the organisation is now implementing electronic archiving with an integrated signature component from SER?s partner OpenLimit. The lead system is the application software CUSA (computer-supported administration) and the SER archive is integrated with this. The second step involves comprehensive optimisation and automation of business processes using workflows and electronic records.
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf UKE
Quality is the top priority: this has always been the motto of the university clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE). Approximately 10 members of staff of UKE now look after quality management for the clinics, institutes and laboratories. Digital QM Book from SER is now being introduced for the updating and publication of over 60 quality management manuals in the UKE's sphere.
Vattenfall/BEWAG
Answering customer enquires even faster, whether they reach the customer centre by letter, fax or email ? this was the aim of the customer centre at BEWAG in Berlin, a subsidiary company of Vattenfall Europe AG. With the automated processing of incoming invoices with the DOXiS Inbound Center, the customer centre's inbound mail is captured electronically, sorted automatically according to the content of letters and forwarded according to the process.
Vivantes Netzwerk for Gesundheit GmbH
This Berlin-based medical organisation is optimising its bookkeeping processes. With SER solutions for automated processing of incoming invoices and an electronic archive from SER, the largest municipal hospital company in Germany has instigated a campaign to cut administration costs in the accounts payable department. In addition, with DOXiS Records Management contract records with no link to SAP are to be archived and managed as well.
WestLB
Better customer service with significant cost reductions through streamlining and automation of processes ? this is what WestLB is achieving by using the process-oriented complaints management system from SER in the Sparkassen Informatik (SI) computer centre. DOXiS Workflow and inbound processing are used in domestic and foreign electronic payment transactions, particular for automatic, content-based analysis of SWIFT datasets, including the user-defined text fields.
WIKA Alexander Wiegand GbmH & Co. KG
Step-by-step introduction of an enterprise-wide ECM system from SER. The first stage is introduction of a DOXIS archive from SER which also facilitates the archiving of SAP data in compliance with GDPdU (regulations for data access and auditability of digital documents).





