BridgeGate International Announces Strategic Alliance with Focus Solutions (Pty) Limited
Partnership Combines Data Capture Capabilities with BridgeGate’s Robust Integration Platform to Deliver Accurate, Timely Information to African Healthcare and Financial Services Companies
Jacksonville, FL (PRWEB) January 4, 2010
BridgeGate International, a leading provider of high-performance data integration and interoperability solutions, announced today a strategic partnership with Focus Solutions (Pty) Limited, a premier South African provider of automated data capture and image-based information solutions. This partnership offers robust data capture and integration solutions to leading organizations in the healthcare and financial service industries throughout Africa.
Focus Solutions helps companies extract data from an electronic document using Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) and Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) technologies whether the documents originated in paper, fax, email, web page, PDF, wireless or voice recording formats. The automatic extraction of data from the document reduces manual intervention while storing or routing data to a business system. BridgeGate’s integration platform accelerates the transformation and secure delivery of that data to mission-critical healthcare and financial services systems, while removing compatibility issues for the sending and receiving organization.
“BridgeGate significantly increases the flexibility we have in transforming and delivering data,” said Louis Strydom, the managing director of Focus Solutions. “With this joint offering, true connectivity is possible. It doesn’t matter whether our clients have new or old systems and technologies – the data will be delivered in real-time, accurately and in the format needed with BridgeGate technology.”
Companies that implement these solutions can expect benefits such as reduced manual data capture costs, faster integration of data and systems and real-time data verification, which affords more accurate decision making.
“We are proud to be partnering with a company like Focus that has a strong reputation for delivering flexible and very reliable solutions to their customers,” said David Adams, chief executive officer of BridgeGate. “Combined with our scalable enterprise integration technology that is implemented very quickly, the partnership enables us to jointly deliver solutions focused on precise, real-time data to the rapidly-expanding healthcare and financial services market in Africa.”
About Focus Solutions
Focus Solutions is a leading South African solution provider offers enterprise software solutions aimed solely at automating all the mission-critical data acquisition activities of large corporations. The interface-agnostic nature of the Focus model embrace the fact that enterprises are caught up in a world where older mediums of information input such as imaging (paper) need to interact with third wave technologies such as the web, email and voice/telephony-based input. With Focus, not only can enterprises seamlessly take advantage of all these inputs simultaneously, they can also dramatically reduce the cost associated with their existing processes. Focus has been providing aggressive return on investments for South African companies across all major industries since 1994. Amongst others these include industry leaders such as ABSA Bank, Standard Bank, Siemens, Metropolitan Health Group, Avon and Liberty Life. Focus Solutions is privately held and headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa. http://www. focussolutions. co. za (http://www. focussolutions. co. za)
About BridgeGate International
BridgeGate International provides robust, scalable integration solutions that connect disparate applications and technologies in healthcare and government organizations. BridgeGate’s any-to-any integration solution handles very complex data with virtually no coding required, reducing the complexity and length of integration projects to days or weeks. BridgeGate’s solutions provide real-time visibility of data, workflow scheduling, notifications and event management, thereby transforming data into accurate and actionable information. With BridgeGate, organizations can protect their existing technology investments while adapting to future compliance and interoperability requirements. The BridgeGate integration platform has delivered tens of millions of transactions globally to support companies such as Regency Hospital Company, MedImpact, WorldDoc, Healthation, Home Shopping Network and SkyMall. Founded in 1999, BridgeGate is privately-held and headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. http://www. BridgeGateIntl. com (http://www. BridgeGateIntl. com).
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