On 4 August 2015, Buyers Laboratory LLC (BLI), the world’s leading independent evaluator of document imaging hardware and software, announced its Summer 2015 Pick award recipients in the document imaging solutions category. Bestowed twice a year by the editors of BLI, these awards recognize the most impressive solutions evaluated by BLI during the previous six months. Among the dozens of qualified products, solution from Canon was one of the award recipients.

Canon’s Winning ECM Platform
Therefore Enterprise, from Therefore Corporation GmbH (a Canon subsidiary), is an information management system that lets users capture, index, process, store and share documents. In its evaluation, BLI found that Therefore delivers all of the document capture and document management features one would expect of a leading enterprise content management (ECM) product. 

“In today’s data rich world, Canon aims to provide dynamic solutions, such as Therefore, that help customers better utilize the information that drives business results,” said Junichi Yoshitake, senior vice president and general manager, Business Imaging Solutions Group, Canon U.S.A., Inc. “Canon is pleased to receive a BLI Summer Pick for Outstanding ECM Platform, highlighting the system’s ability to effectively and securely manage valuable information and simplify how information is managed.”

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