The following are excerpts from conversations with Peter Duff, President & CEO of Adlib, Scott Mackey, Director, Product Management, and Jean Ouellette, Chief Software Architect.

Adlib offers a couple of different products, one that I’ll mention is Express Server and that offers automated document conversion, recognition and publishing. Another key product that we offer is Adlib PDF for SharePoint. So this is offering document transformation capabilities within SharePoint for SharePoint users.

There is a variety of benefits that the Adlib product offers first of all it’s an integrated solution so you got single source application for all the different conversion, recognition and publishing capabilities that you require. The automation is a key area as well so where processes are being handled manually through manual labour, desktop applications Adlib offers you a solution that can be centralized deployed across a server and linked in with your business applications that automates the process. So it removes that need for the user to become involved. It automates it and accelerates the overall document workflow.

The verticals that our product fits into very well are those vertical industries that are very document centric. And those vertical industries include things like: financial services, legal, life sciences, manufacturing, and government. All have an application for our software.

Our customers face a whole variety of different problems and they’ve used our software to create really innovative solutions for themselves. A lot of the problems have to do with compliance. Some of our customers are in a regulated environment and so they’re required to store their documents for long periods of times, they’re required to report to regulatory bodies and we help them accelerate that process.