Brainware is an American software company that markets data capture and extraction products. The company spun out of Dulles-based SER Solutions Inc. in February 2006 when SER was acquired by The Gores Group LLC. Brainware’s majority owner is San Francisco-based private equity firm Vista Equity Partners

Vista Equity Partners

Vista Equity Partners is a private equity firm focused on investing in software and technology-enabled businesses. The firm was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Chicago, Illinois and Austin, Texas. Vista Equity Partners currently holds...

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Brainware is headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia, USA, with sales, support, professional services and R&D offices in London, UK, Kirchzarten, Germany and Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The company has partnerships with most major enterprise software providers, including Oracle

Oracle

In Classical Antiquity, an oracle was a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic predictions or precognition of the future, inspired by the gods. As such it is a form of divination....

, SAP

SAP AG

SAP AG is a German software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. Headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, with regional offices around the world, SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software...

 and Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

, and claims its software integrates with most available enterprise content management

Enterprise content management

Enterprise Content Management is a formalized means of organizing and storing an organization's documents, and other content, that relate to the organization's processes...

 platforms. Brainware has also partnered with a number of hardware providers, notably Hewlett-Packard

Hewlett-Packard

Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...

, Fujitsu

Fujitsu

is a Japanese multinational information technology equipment and services company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is the world's third-largest IT services provider measured by revenues....

 and OPEX

OPEX

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Brainware claims its software "can relieve a company of 60 percent to 80 percent of the work of manually keying in information from unstructured documents," and services large companies such as NEC

NEC

, a Japanese multinational IT company, has its headquarters in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. NEC, part of the Sumitomo Group, provides information technology and network solutions to business enterprises, communications services providers and government....

, Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic is a not-for-profit medical practice and medical research group specializing in treating difficult patients . Patients are referred to Mayo Clinic from across the U.S. and the world, and it is known for innovative and effective treatments. Mayo Clinic is known for being at the top of...

, Bechtel

Bechtel

Bechtel Corporation is the largest engineering company in the United States, ranking as the 5th-largest privately owned company in the U.S...

, Royal Dutch Shell

Royal Dutch Shell

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 and Rabobank

Rabobank

Rabobank is a financial services provider with offices worldwide. Their main location is in the Netherlands. They are a global leader in Food and Agri financing and in sustainability-oriented banking...

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In a 2011 comparison report, Real Story Group classifies Brainware as a "Capture Solutions" vendor, competing directly with Kofax

Kofax

Kofax is a company which manufactures and sells computer hardware, software and services. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange.-History:...

 and ReadSoft

ReadSoft

ReadSoft is a company that develops, markets and supports software that automates the processing of documents, such as invoices, in different business processes and ERP environments within organizations. ReadSoft was founded by two university students in Lund, Sweden, in 1991, both of which are...

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Brainware and its customers have been profiled in publications including Profit Online, Business Finance, imageSource, Managing Automation, Industryweek

Industryweek

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, Treasury & Risk

Treasury & Risk

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and others. The company's enterprise search technology has been profiled by InfoWorld

InfoWorld

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See also

• Invoice Processing
  Invoice processing
  Invoice processing involves the handling of incoming invoices from arrival to post. Invoices have many variations and types. In general, invoices are grouped into two types:1. Invoices associated with a request...
  
  
• Document Processing
  Document processing
  Document Processing involves the conversion of typed and handwritten text on paper-based & electronic documents into electronic information utilising one of, or a combination of, Intelligent Character Recognition , Optical Character Recognition and experienced Data Entry Clerks....
  
  
• Remittance Processing
• Digital Mailroom
  Digital mailroom
  Digital mailroom is a term used to describe the automation of incoming mail processes. Using document scanning and document capture technologies companies can digitise incoming mail and automate the classification and distribution of mail within the organisation...
  
  
• Data Capture