Dateline: September 10, 1997

Xionics (Burlington, MA, http://www.xionics.com) acquires Seaport Imaging (San Jose, CA, http://www.seaportimaging.com) for $2.2 million; Seaport's image processing software to be combined with Xionics' PeripheralPower line of imaging connectivity products

Fritz Aumann appointed as General Manager of National Computer Systems' (Edina, MN, http://www.ncs.com) Recognition Systems Division

LaserFiche (Torrance, CA, http://www.laserfiche.com), DynaSource (Beaumont, CA, http://www.sat.net/~dsource) create an AS/400 and Novell data processing solution for the Orange County Voters Registration department

Cincom Systems (Cincinnati, OH, http://www.cincom.com) acquires French document management software company CHEMDATA (Lyon, France, http://www.chemdata.fr)

NCI Information Systems (McLean, VA, http://www.nciinc.com) and Notable Solutions (Vienna, VA, http://www.nsius.com) sign business alliance; NSI's enterprise document imaging and management solutions to be combined with NSI's enterprise-wide integration experience

Information Dimensions (Dublin, OH, http://www.idi.oclc.org) signs agreement with Kinokuniya, Japan's largest information services company, to distribute ID's web-based document management products

Excalibur (Vienna, VA, http://www.excalib.com) signs eleven new companies to its Excalibur Edge partners program; Sony Marketing (http://www.sony.com), Informix (http://www.informix.com), and others represent increasing channel demand for knowledge management solutions

Fortune 500 insurance company Anthem (Indianapolis, IN) selects Image Process Design (Farmington Hills, MI, http://www.idpsolution.com), Scan-Optics (Manchester, CT, http://www.scan-optics.com), and FileNet (Costa Mesa, CA, http://www.filenet.com) to provide imaging, data capture and workflow solutions for six million customers

USI (Chantilly, VA, http://www.usiva.com) releases Staff Action Version 2.5 of its Documentrix WorkManager work management software