Developing a robust application that meets needs of all of your users is no small task. Building document imaging components requires deep technical expertise and long development cycles to engineer properly. Doing this entirely in-house can hinder your plans to increase business efficiency.
Working with independent software vendors (ISVs) to incorporate specialized imaging functions into your product provides you with the right capabilities to compete in the ever-changing landscape of document imaging. One trend in building large-scale applications and systems is to use component applications for specialized tasks, such as FlexSnap: SI for document review and annotation. A component application that can be embedded or added as a module provides flexibility and extends the capabilities of your system.
Component applications can save significant time and cost by allowing you to bypass the development phase for a particular document imaging function entirely. Imaging application vendors have a significant stake in providing the functionality that is important for their customers. That means you shouldn’t have to sacrifice necessary features for a pre-built component. An application specifically built to be the imaging component of a larger system will also minimize the time needed for integration.
Imaging applications should be designed as distributed applications so that as your imaging needs expand, the process of pushing software to your users is seamless. Sustainable component applications also require continuous development by the vendor to stay current with imaging trends and formats. A dedicated team should be available to provide technical information on integration and maintenance and accept customer feedback on new functionality requests. Vendors that also sell an SDK can give you the tools to develop, customize and maintain your application component over its entire lifecycle.
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