The Tungsten Marketplace exists to enable organizations to accelerate and enhance their journeys toward effective workflow automation. With free and paid solutions available, there are many resources to tap into here. Our global partners continue to identify organizational needs and develop solutions that are aligned with those needs. As a result, the Marketplace frequently features new contributions. Today, we’d like to highlight many of the latest solutions contributed by our partner, Softgate.

Marketplace solutions can slash development times and shorten the path to deploying automation in ways that create real impacts for your business. There’s no need to reinvent the wheel continuously. Instead, relying on partner solutions can be a game-changer. Let’s introduce the partner we’re highlighting in today’s article, then consider what you can achieve with their solutions.

About Softgate

Based in Germany, Softgate has more than two and a half decades of experience in supporting advancements and automation in business. With a particular focus on information management, Softgate has a deep level of understanding and expertise with our products, including and especially Tungsten Capture. Over the organization’s years in operation, it successfully supported in excess of 1,600 projects that improved business processes.

Softgate uses experience with Tungsten solutions and proprietary developments to develop strategies for process enhancements. The company’s solutions often focus on improving data capture and ensuring the rapid, reliable delivery of information to the appropriate business systems. Currently, Softgate has contributed nearly two dozen individual solutions to the Tungsten Marketplace.

Softgate Solutions for Enhancing Tungsten Capture

As mentioned, many Softgate solutions target the delivery of extended functionality and new features for ingesting data via Capture. Each of these can unlock capabilities that could prove valuable to your business. Here’s a quick look at a few notable solutions in this category.

The Scan and Barcode Panel

Barcodes are standard across many industries, not just in the retail and consumer goods sectors. As a convenient way to quickly identify individual items within a more extensive inventory, barcodes appear on everything from filed legal documents to shipping containers, pallets and more. The identification of documents by barcode is ubiquitous in high-volume applications.

However, validating barcodes in an automated workflow can be a complex undertaking. The complexity increases as you add more document types, too. The Scan & Barcode Panel by Softgate adds a more streamlined process for validating barcodes and recognizing them during capture. Built-in error compensation ensures that the process remains on track even if a barcode recognition failure occurs.

Invoice Processing Rules

In some countries, such as Germany, invoice processing requires additional steps due to the presence of a Value Added Tax (VAT) and associated regulations. Softgate has developed a basic, customized set of rules to guide Capture through the process of extracting the relevant data and VAT-related information. In a manual process, a worker would need to copy all that information by hand and re-enter it into a business system.

Error-prone and time-consuming, it’s the kind of problematic process these rules aim to address. Data extraction becomes more automated, and your business can ensure closer compliance with all the regulations surrounding VAT and tax reporting. Integration with Tungsten Virtual ReScan provides for image enhancement when needed for effective extraction.

Export Connectors

Moving data efficiently is a core element of successful automated processes. Once you ingest document data via Capture, you may need to move it to a different platform or program based on business needs. Without a digital connector to facilitate that exchange, an unnecessary manual step may land in the middle of your automated process. Softgate currently has several connector solutions published on the Marketplace, letting you build a document pipeline that makes sense for your business.

Solutions include ways to connect Capture with:

• OpenText
• IKAROS
• softgate-archiv
• Other third-party software via TXT or CSV file outputs.

Softgate’s Enhancement Packages

Alongside the additional functionality delivered by the solutions outlined above, Softgate has also published a large number of enhancement packages for Tungsten platforms. These packages target specific improvements for task or industry-specific purposes and include:

• Solutions for the debt collection industry. Automatically transfer specific data from Capture to software such as IKAROS to create new files or a new transaction within that software environment. These complete processes include document extraction, classification, validation and error handling capabilities.
• A solution to automatically monitor the deployment of Tungsten TotalAgility licenses across your organization. Raise alerts when volume deficits occur and manage IT needs more strategically.
• A scan and signature solution that aligns with German TR-RESISCAN regulations.

These and other enhancement package options deliver targeted improvements for your business.

The Benefits of Turning to Marketplace Solutions

From adding new functionality to your Capture workflows to building stronger connections between business systems, it’s clear that Softgate solutions can deliver significant impacts for your business. What are some of the specific benefits you can unlock with these and other Marketplace solutions? With the right choices, you can:

• Improve the speed of work, completing some processes faster and boosting productivity at the moment and downstream.
• Reduce reliance on manual work and data transference, which in turn can lower manual errors and the negative impacts they generate.
• Gain broader insights into your processes and where opportunities to improve efficiency exist.

Start exploring more of what’s possible with Softgate today to tap into these benefits.

Unlock New Functionality and Features Via the Marketplace Today

The wide range of versatile solutions from Softgate is just the beginning when considering the Tungsten Marketplace. There are many other solutions available that can address a broad range of business needs across a diverse set of workflows. With more solutions arriving frequently, it’s an accessible resource for continuous improvements in your processes.

With Softgate, it’s easy to enhance the value and usefulness of platforms such as Capture. Extend your capabilities, add new modules for extra functionality and generate an improved ROI on automation with less time for valuable deployments. Explore these new solutions today, or discover what else is possible with solutions from other Marketplace contributors.