Chicago, April 6, 1992 -- IMARA Research Corporation today announced IMARA Lite, a new productivity tool for the standalone PC. IMARA Lite integrates fax processing, image capabilities, and document management, for a price under $300. Users can store and manage a wealth of information in a personalized filing system in the form of scanned paper documents, incoming faxes, and documents generated from a wide range of PC software applications. Sales reports created in your favorite spreadsheet program, such as Microsoft Excel or Lotus 1-2-3, can be stored along with documents, scanned-in articles, and faxed memos in a single IMARA Lite file folder. "By taking advantage of hand-held scanning, low-cost fax integration, and remote site operations, independent business people and mobile professionals will find IMARA Lite to be an ideal solution to information management," said Storm. "With IMARA Lite you get all the power of our full-scale network system in a product that performs as well on your desktop as it does on your laptop." The suggested retail price for IMARA Lite, due to ship in May, is $295. IMARA Lite runs under Microsoft Windows on a standard PC, and requires no network operating system or database server. Optional peripherals include an optical disk, laser printer, Kofax image board, fax modem, and scanner. "Managing information and expanding communications outside the office is a key component in providing a competitive edge to business managers today. Information can be routed to others using IMARA Lite's integrated fax utility software. This provides users with a tremendous communications tool and helps to keep work flowing," said Jim Storm, President and CEO of IMARA Research Corporation. Documents created in Microsoft Word, WordPerfect for Windows, or Ami Pro can be assigned keywords and dates which help to track revisions or due dates. IMARA Lite solves the problems associated with complex PC directory trees and eight-character DOS naming conventions. For easy identification, users can name documents with descriptions of up to 32 characters in length, four times greater than the typical title. IMARA Lite runs under the familiar graphical user interface of Microsoft Windows. Users open a desktop file cabinet which stores information from all your programs as well as scanned paper documents and fazes. Since all related information can be stored in one convenient folder, there is no need to switch back and forth between applications to accomplish a task. Simply clicking on a document name opens the file and the appropriate software application. IMARA Research Corporation, now in its third year of operation, is a venture-backed company with headquarters in Toronto, Canada. Sales offices are located in Toronto, Washington, D.C., Dallas, TX, Newport Beach, CA, and Westport, CT. IMARA's international sales operation now extends to over 15 major cities in Europe, the Pacific Rim, and the Middle East. For more information, please contact IMARA Research at 416/581-1740. -------------------------------------------------------- Product Fact Sheet Faxing and Filing with IMARA Lite Product Fact Sheet What is IMARA Lite? IMARA Lite is a versatile new productivity tool for the standalone PC. By integrating fax processing, imaging capabilities, and document handling facilities, IMARA Lite turns a desktop or portable computer into the perfect paperless information manager. Unique Business Features The powerful features of IMARA Lite make it uniquely suited to a wide variety of business activities. Working with the resident fax board and modem, incoming faxes are received directly and conveniently stored as image files on the PC. Users can also scan in all paper materials using IMARA Lite, so critical records will always be kept safely within easy reach. Just as simply, basic documents or complex presentations can be prepared in minutes and fazed out to clients. From within IMARA Lite, users can launch favorite PC software applications. A click of the mouse launches a document in its application, where users can work at maximum efficiency in a familiar environment. IMARA Lite can support virtually any application that can be executed from the command line. Flexible, Customized Environment IMARA Lite documents are stored in a central filing system customized to meet the user's needs. For easy access, a single folder can store related documents of all types ... scanned images, spreadsheet data, and multimedia files. Gone are the problems associated with using eight-character DOS file names, like "APRBGTEX.DOC". IMARA Lite allows for meaningful document names up to 32 characters in length. So, instead, the accounting files could have names such as "April Budget Report To Executive". Special built-in search facilities help locate documents quickly. So no matter how big the filing system gets, users will always be ready in seconds to fax, view and edit, or send documents to a laser printer. Portable Office System IMARA Lite is the ideal information management solution for business people on the go. Running on a laptop computer, IMARA Lite is a complete electronic office system for mobile professionals. With the fax capabilities, clients and head office are just a phone call away. Users can bring along scanned-in material to cut down on briefcase overload. Records and correspondence files can be updated on the fly. Produce Results Right Away The intuitive graphical user interface (GUT) -- which features seamless movement between applications and simple drag-and-drop file management techniques -- is adaptable to any business scenario. And since it is compatible with existing software packages, there is no big learning curve. IMARA Lite runs under Windows on a standard PC, and works with popular fax hardware and low-cost scanners. It requires no network operating system or proprietary hardware. Built On IMARA Excellence IMARA Research Corporation has made its name providing high-performance network document imaging systems to major corporations. IMARA Lite now provides the same powerful features in an affordable product for the standalone PC. Product Specifications Minimum Requirements - 386-based PC or portable with a 40 MB hard drive and 4 megabytes of memory, running Windows 3.0 or later Fax Capabilities (one of the following) - DCA/Intel CAS compatible (eg., Intel SatisFAXtion) - Hayes JT Fax 9600B - Class 2 compatible fax modem Scanning and Printing - HP ScanJet or ScanJet Plus/II/IIc - HP LaserJet compatible printer Note: Available on 3.5" disk only. +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | From the America Online New Product Information Services | +===============================================================+ | This information was processed with OmniPage Professional OCR | | software (from Caere Corp) & a Canon IX-30 scanner from data | | provided by the above mentioned company. 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