ABBYY Expands Distribution Channels in UK and Belgium Through New Partnership with Headway Technology
ABBYY and Headway Technology today announced a new European distribution agreement that promises to expand the availability of ABBYY products in document management and data capture reseller channels across Europe. As a result of the new agreement, Headway Technology, a division of ACAL IT, will begin distributing and promoting ABBYY document recognition and data capture products through their reseller channels in the United Kingdom and Belgium. The agreement expands upon ABBYY’s current relationship with Headway who has served as an ABBYY distribution partner in Germany, Austria and Switzerland since spring 2005.
Starting immediately, Headway’s offices in the UK and Belgium will begin selling and promoting ABBYY form processing, semi-structured document processing, and document conversion solutions and technologies. Products to be available through Headway include: ABBYY FormReader, ABBYY FlexiCapture Studio, and the recently announced ABBYY Recognition Server.
“Headway was the first European distributor to enter the document management/information management market and has built up many years of experience and knowledge in this channel,” explained Jupp Stoepetie, managing director for ABBYY Europe. “Their sales, marketing and technical support teams understand not only our products, but those of our partners as well as the hardware which supports these products. This agreement will enable ABBYY to expand its channel partnerships and channel support infrastructure, especially within vertical markets and specialised areas.”
Headway is a value added distributor (VAD) and the UK’s leading supplier of document scanners and has experience selling a variety of document management and data capture solutions. “Headway’s goal is to offer the best combination of hardware and software tools for our partners to put together enterprise document management business solutions,” explained David Lewis, co-founder and managing director of Headway Technology. “By adding ABBYY products to our portfolio, we can offer high performance, proven, software that is clearly recognized as a market leader.”
The Headway group has established a solid client base which includes major Systems Integrators, Systems Developers and Value Added Resellers. Companies currently represented include: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Canon, Fujitsu Europe, Kofax Image Products and LizardTech.
ABBYY FormReader is a solution for high performance, easy to deploy recognition of data from forms and other documents for input into databases and content management systems. This out-of-box solution offers easy form template creation and management and powerful tools for processing, verification, and validation. Together with ABBYY FlexiCapture technology ABBYY FormReader can be expanded to recognize form fields on a variety of documents with different layouts enabling easy processing semi-structured forms and documents such as invoices, claim forms, contracts with headers, etc. ABBYY Recognition Server is a robust server-based solution for automating recognition and PDF conversion processes in enterprise and service-oriented environments. Recognition Server provides independent, server-based OCR processing with minimal user involvement and centralized management, and is easily scalable to large volume document processing.
About Headway Technology
As part of the Acal Plc since 1995, Headway Technology is focused as a specialist distributor in the document management/information management market. Established initially as a special project group within one of our trading companies in 1986, Headway has become a leading supplier of document management technologies being the first European distributor to enter this market. By entering the market at the time document technologies were conceived on a PC platform, Headway has accumulated a wealth of knowledge and experience over the years, which is now acknowledged by the all of the industry's major suppliers. Sourcing only the 'Best of Breed' products that meet the demanding requirements of mission critical applications, Headway provides a single source for all specialist requirements at competitive prices. All of their products are supplied with extensive pre- and post sales support.
As an integral part of the ACAL Group, Headway can provide wide coverage throughout Europe and sustain competitive advantage by being at the forefront of technologies.
Headway Technology and its sister companies are today supplying products throughout the UK, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden Denmark, South Africa, Singapore and more.