By providing fast, easy access to millions of documents, Columbus DW is an efficient foundation for interaction between customers, partners and suppliers.

Columbus DW rapidly captures, archives, transforms and presents documents, such as bills, statements, correspondence and reports, from any desired application, including scanning, and provides instant and easy access to the information.

Advanced compression technologies allow documents to be compressed by up to a tenth of their original size, enabling more than one billion documents to be stored on one server in their native format.

• Any document or computer generated output from a business application can be captured and stored in Columbus DW in their native format
  
  
• Allows an exact copy of each document to be captured, e.g. invoices, correspondence, reports etc. from business systems or applications of any kind and visual representation in the final form
  
  
• Electronically captured documents are made available to internal users, customers and business partners online via channels such as the Web, mobile technology, etc.
  
  
• Dynamically transforms document content into a variety of formats suitable for viewing across multiple channels
  
  
• Fast, easy online access to millions of documents
  
  
• Full and customisable security controls ensure that users have access to only the documents and functions that are appropriate to their responsibility
  
  
• Central storage of all outgoing and incoming documents with multi-channel online access: Internet users, call centre, front and back office obtain extremely rapid access to documents for the purposes of inspection, analysis, printout or transmission to third parties