Alchemy Pro


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The Choice of Over 450 Service Bureaus Worldwide!

You’re in a competitive business, and as a service bureau, you must provide the fastest, most reliable service for your customers at a reasonable price. You have to be able to handle any paper-based document or file format. You need to offer them the latest technology too, like delivery via the Internet or DVD. Finally, you need a system that is scalable so you can handle your customers’ largest and smallest jobs. Congratulations! You’re in the right place. IMR’s Alchemy Pro is the number one software solution for service bureaus. Check out the Pro case study about a small Alchemy service bureau that solved a document storage problem for a giant company: IBM.

Why is Alchemy the leading choice for data service professionals?

  • Go with a proven solution with an industry standard retrieval interface, used by tens of thousands of end users. Alchemy is the world leader in CD/DVD data and document distribution technology
  • Choose an imaging/COLD repository is easy for your staff to learn and use. With Alchemy, if you can drag and drop and use email, then you can easily use Alchemy
  • Offer your customers the speed and ease of the Internet with our imaging/COLD web solution. It’s the fastest and easiest to implement
  • Handle any jobs your customers throw at you including computer output files, scanned images, PDFs and many popular PC file formats. And, all of these documents live in the same repository so they’re easy to locate, print, and email. Alchemy is a versatile solution
  • Get your name in front of your customers by putting your company’s name on the Alchemy user interface without writing a line of code. And if you want to develop custom applications, you can use the new Alchemy API Toolkit (sold separately)
  • Put our support department to the test; they have unsurpassed experience working with service bureaus
  • Earn rewards with our special Pro reseller program when you sell concurrent user access licenses and install day-forward systems at your customers’ sites

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Alchemy At Work
Sure, it’s easy to sound good, so here are some real world numbers of Alchemy Pro at work.

  • 8 hour shift, per workstation: 1.2 million images with 5 profile fields and 8 GB of ASCII report files, with several profile fields and full-text indexing
  • Annual: 5 billion mainframe pages (ASCII files) parsed and delivered on CD/DVD to 4,000 customers
  • ASCII report compression as high as 8:1
  • Rimage CD duplicator interface enables automated CD production

How much work do you have? The Alchemy Task Manager helps you manage multiple Alchemy workstations in a production environment, allowing your staff to maximize productivity.

How Do I License Alchemy Pro?
You purchase Alchemy Pro licenses and install them at your office. You may also choose to purchase add-ons to make your staff even more efficient. IMR offers add-ons for scanning, COLD, Web server and CAD. Once your staff processes customer data and documents into repositories from their PCs, they can distribute the repositories to the customer via either CD/DVD or the Internet. It’s that easy.

Automate CD Distribution
Alchemy CD distribution is unique in its ability to automatically create discs for your customers that include all the necessary software to locate and view the data. If your customers have more data than a disc can hold, you can offer then automatic media spanning, which creates disc sets that are easy to use. Your customers can either work directly from the CD or can access the data from a local or shared hard drive.

Internet Access
By installing Alchemy Web as an add-on at your site, your staff can work with a familiar Microsoft or Netscape browser, while retaining the benefits of the Alchemy interface. Make Alchemy Web do dual duty by using its log file to create bills for your customers. Even if the documents and data you’re working with are confidential, there’s no need to worry because Alchemy Web supports the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption standard to insure secure data transmission over the Internet.

Alchemy Pro Features
Alchemy Pro includes the same rich feature set as Alchemy Gold. See the Alchemy data sheet for more information.

Ordering Information
IMR offers a variety of financial plans for service bureaus. For more information about becoming an Alchemy Pro service bureau, contact DCS Sales.


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