The ability to archive and quickly retrieve documents has gained increasing importance in recent years, due to both a desire on the part of organizations for a more productive and streamlined workflow as well as increasingly stringent regulatory requirements. What opportunity does this offer for printing firms as they work to expand their portfolios of value-added services?  We asked DocuLynx President & CEO this question when we spoke to him recently.

WTT:  Terry, congratulations on your recent appointment to the additional role of CEO at DocuLynx. Can you tell us a little about your background and how DocuLynx came about?

TW:  I have been in the industry for more than 20 years, starting with National Business Systems in Minneapolis back in the microfiche/microfilm days.  In those days, that was the true definition of archiving—if it wasn’t on film, it might not be around.  That has changed significantly today, of course. I began my personal transition to the digital age when Anacomp bought NBS in 1999 and we became embroiled in Y2K issues.  In 2002, I joined IMR to launch a new high volume transaction output (HVTO) software solution as part of that initiative, we created a software package called Mercury that was used in high volume output environments, and we stored files in PDF, rather than TIFF, which was the norm at the time.  Our first Mercury customer was First Data Resources in Omaha, and now the package is widely used, including at companies such as RR Donnelley.