The move is a reflection of the increased investment being made in the UK Legal sector by OpenText to provide growth in sustainable and innovative solutions in this marketplace, and will allow both Blue Car’s and OpenText’s customers and future prospects to benefit from the combined knowledge and expertise within both companies.

Colin Fowle, MD of Blue Car Technologies, said “Joining the OpenText Global Partner Program will open up a range of opportunities to Blue Car Technologies, and will allow us to better fulfil the needs of our customers. We will now be able to build on our existing suite of OpenText tools and integrations, as well as add to our range of products utilising the latest technologies from OpenText”

Commenting on the new partnership, Iain Jones of OpenText said “We are investing significantly in the UK legal and professional practices industries providing solutions to address many business challenges such as, information governance, legal process management, mobility strategies and secure file sharing. Partnering with Blue Car is very exciting, they provide an invaluable service for Open Text and 3rd party solutions.”

Blue Car is already a trusted vendor to many UK law firms and high-profile European customers and works closely with the European Court of Human Rights on their OpenText eDOCS document management system, allowing the Court to benefit from Blue Car’s in-depth knowledge of document compression and long-term archiving in PDF/A.

About Blue Car Technologies

Blue Car Technologies provides tailored software solutions to professional services organisations and specialises in the legal sector. Blue Car provide unique, leading edge software that links and enhances commonly used Microsoft and enterprise legal software systems to help drive productivity and improve effectiveness for clients on a day to day basis.

With over 15 years of experience and expertise gained within the legal sector, Blue Car offer law firms tailored and specialist IT advice and solutions and specialise in :
Microsoft SQL Server, Transact-SQL, SSIS, SSAS, Reporting Services, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 / 2010 customisation, .NET custom development utilising SCRUM and Agile Methodologies, OpenText eDocs Document Management, VB6, VBA, JavaScript, VBScript, XML, HTML, ASP, Elite Reporting,

Blue Car Technologies are members of the PDF/A Association and UK resellers of the LuraTech PDF compression and archiving solutions.
The company headquarters are in Reading, UK. For more information, please visit www.bluecartechnologies.co.uk

About OpenText

OpenText is the world’s largest independent provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software. The Company’s solutions manage information for all types of business, compliance and industry requirements in the world’s largest companies, government agencies and professional service firms. OpenText supports approximately 46,000 customers and millions of users in 114 countries and 12 languages. For more information about OpenText, visit www.opentext.com.

PDF/A compression and conversion Software

 Strasbourg, October 2011 The European Court of Human Rights has purchased licences for the LuraDocument® PDF Compressor (Luratech’s PDF/A compression and conversion software), demonstrating its intention to implement the PDF/A standard as part of its strategy for ongoing management of case files and adoption of industry standards.

Luratech’s PDF/A conversion software is available to legal and professional service providers in the UK through Blue Car Technologies, who have integrated the product into its Court Management Information System (C.M.I.S) and its OpenText eDOCs Document Management System.

“The Court recognises the importance of the PDF/ A standard and LuraTech’s PDF/A conversion and compression tools will be integrated seamlessly into the Courts Management Information System (C.M.I.S).  This will reduce our overall archive storage costs against an increasing case load and allow the Court to guarantee reproduction of the original document content in years to come.” says John Hunter, Head of IT at the European Court of Human Rights.

“There has been a number of direct steps taken towards the PDF/A standard In America and now in Europe, which makes it all the more inevitable that the standard will be implemented in the UK.” Comments Colin Fowle, Managing Director of Blue Car Technologies. 

U.S. federal courts recently implemented the prerequisite to file PDF case documents using PDF/A formatting. Although not yet a legal requirement, the PDF/A format is the adopted format of the Council of Europe when filing documents through their Case-file and Document Management systems.

Luratech is a founding member of the PDF/A Competence Centre, thereby giving reassurance that the compressed PDFs produced by its products are the “real” PDF/A format.  The collaboration will enable Blue Car Technologies to offer the legal and professional service industry a number of standards-compliant software solutions for validating PDF/A files as well as tools for PDF conversion and compression.

The LuraTech products provide a balanced relationship between compression rate, image quality and performance.  Furthermore, the recently released PDF/A version 2 improves the handling of transparent images and logos and provides superior compression quality. The products can be run on multiple-core processor servers meaning they can processes around 200,000 documents in a 24 hour period, far quicker than competitors. OCR (optical character recognition) is included in all products (ABBYY engine), which produces compressed and fully text-searchable PDF/A files.

PDF/A is an ISO* standard electronic document format, which has been developed to ensure total document fidelity and integrity is preserved not only now but far into the future. PDF/A documents can be created from digital sources regardless of the programme or system that originally generated them, including scans taken from hard copies received by mail that need to be converted to a digital format. This is where the standard comes into its own, offering longevity to paper documentation and providing reusable content. 

* (International Organisation for Standardisation)

November 2011 

America, December 2010 A requirement to use PDF/A formatting is soon to be implemented for filing PDF case documents with the U.S. federal courts. Although not currently a legal requirement, it is strongly suggested that all interested parties immediately begin using the PDF/A format when filing documents through their Case Management / Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) systems.

London, July 2011 Blue Car Technologies announces it has formed an alliance with its development partner international software developer Luratech Ltd. The union helps Blue Car Technologies to pioneer and integrate the PDF/A standard in the UK, by offering a range of products to its legal and professional service clients.
Luratech is a founding member of the PDF/A Competence Centre, thereby giving reassurance that the compressed PDFs produced by its products are the “real” PDF/A format. The collaboration will enable Blue Car Technologies to offer the legal and professional service industry a number of standards-compliant software solutions for validating PDF/A files as well as tools for PDF conversion and compression.

The LuraTech products provide a balanced relationship between compression rate, image quality and performance. Furthermore, the recently released PDF/A version 2 improves the handling of transparent images and logos and provides superior compression quality. The products can be run on multiple-core processor servers meaning they can processes around 200,000 documents in a 24 hour period, far quicker than competitors. OCR (optical character recognition) is included in all products (ABBYY engine), which produces compressed and fully text-searchable PDF/A files.

PDF/A is an ISO* standard electronic document format, which has been developed to ensure total document fidelity and that integrity is preserved not only now but far into the future. PDF/A documents can be created from digital sources regardless of the programme or system that originally generated them, including scans taken from hard copies received by mail that need to be converted to a digital format. This is where the standard comes into its own, offering longevity to paper documentation and providing reusable content.

“Luratech is known for producing efficient and high quality software, and we are delighted to be working with them. The UK is driven by trends in America so we believe it is only a matter of time before the UK courts will follow suit and the PDF/A standard will become endemic in the UK for all professional service documentation.” Comments Colin Fowle, Managing Director of Blue Car Technologies. “It guarantees an absolute true representation of the original document.”

* (International Organisation for Standardisation)

The new look,  to be officially launched at the Legal IT show (March 1^st & 2^nd), will incorporate a new identity, logos and website designed to attract top tier law firms. It will be supported by a multi-platform marketing strategy, which will include events, targeted direct marketing, PR and an interactive campaign that will reach the target audience via online communities.

The rebrand will also be supported by the launch of an innovative new legal software product, which has been developed by Blue Car Technologies in conjunction with a recognised leader in records and document management

London, UK, February 2011 – Blue Car Technologies Ltd (www.bluecartechnologies.co.uk), creator of innovative bespoke software solutions for the legal IT industry including webparts for Elite, announces the launch of new legal IT product suite, ECM Workshop. The release of this new collection of software tools offers advanced management of OpenText eDOCS environments. ECM Workshop comprises of three main parts; ECMRescue, ECMMechanic and ECMHistory.

“We are excited by the launch of ECM Workshop, the feedback from trials has been excellent”, said Colin Fowle, Managing Director of Blue Car Technologies. “By increasing the ability to manage the eDOCS infrastructure in a proactive way, ECM Workshop offers the support team the information they need to optimise their system performance and stability.”

ECM Workshop comprises ECMRescue, ECMMechanic and ECMHistory, all are separately licensed so components can be installed individually or as a package. Some of the many features and functionality of the three ECM Workshop components include:

• ECMRescue
  • Detection and recovery of zero byte files
  • Easy maintenance of eDOCS specific registry keys to tune the DM client for the detection of zero byte files
• ECMMechanic
  • Gives administrators the ability to check eDOCS client software installation and patch levels ensuring client compatibility, reducing errors, application lock up’s and time consuming investigations into spurious errors
• ECMHistory
  • Improves the performance of your eDOCS clients by managing the eDOCS activity log.   It allows information to be archived at pre-defined times, but still retains accessibility for historical and compliance purposes
  • Split screen full / part view of history information as required

ECM Workshop has been design to alleviate everyday operational challenges which affect enterprise implementations of the document management infrastructure. ECM Workshop makes implementing OpenText best practice for eDOCs easier and more manageable.

Availability and Pricing

ECM Workshop of the Blue Car Technologies product line are currently available and can be purchased directly from Blue Car Technologies, please visit www.bluecartechnologies.co.uk or phone 01189 255 615. The three ECM Workshop components; ECMRescue, ECMMechanic and ECMHistory are separately licensed so can be installed individually or as a package.

About Blue Car Technologies

Established in 2007, Blue Car Technologies provides innovative tailored IT solutions and service to the legal and professional service industry.  As an expert in its field, Blue Car Technologies develops dependable, unique, leading edge software that links and enhances commonly used Microsoft and enterprise legal software systems. Blue Car Technologies is flexible and can tailor its products to fit precise client needs, helping to drive productivity and improve effectiveness on a day to day basis.

Further Information about ECM Workshop

The launch of ECM Workshop has been developed by Blue Car Technologies in conjunction with a recognised leader in records and document management solutions, Lamite Limited. It is currently under trial in selected law firms.

February 2010

OpenText eDOCS

OpenText eDOCS Document Management System (DMS), provides a collaborative working environment and enables users to manage and organize Documents, Emails, Records etc. ECM Workshop has been designed specifically for use with OpenText eDOCS but it can also be tailored for use with other Document Management Systems.

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