ATOmate vs. Tungsten TotalAgility vs. Vue.ai Intelligent Document Processing

ATOmate has automated so many processes and we are now able to assign staff to more meaningful tasks rather than sorting out paper documents.

In saying that, there are times when manual intervention is required like sending out a big payment required.

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The platform is an excellent solution for companies looking for a workflow automation system that can be used across departments and its return on investment becomes apparent once it is introduced in production for a business. Its ability to route work tasks dynamically between employees and outside parties, implement SLAs, and get information to a back-end source is excellent.

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• They are at the forefront of any changes with the way the ATO is working
• The pro-actively find solutions for problems that could arise
• They keep us informed of any downtime with their product or the ATO
• They get almost all documents from the portal without any input from us.

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• Ease of use. The drag and drop configuration to create the processes makes the product easy to use and configure. Most of the icons are intuitive on what they are and how to use them. The use of the colored icons for each value also helps to know that that value is looking for.
• Forms. The capture forms are easy to create and maintain. A new field can be added to the Extraction group and then the capture form is regenerated and that field is automatically added to the form with all the proper attributes. If an additional check box or field is added to the form, that field stays when regenerated. This differs from KTA 6.0.
• Kofax has done pretty well integrating all the pieces of Kofax into one product. KC (Kofax Capture), KIC (Kofax Import Connector), KTM (Kofax Transformation Module with OCR), and workflow are all combined into KTA (Kofax Total Agility). This lets all of these features work together in one product. Kofax does keep adding more to the functions that maybe were left out original version. This makes Kofax Total Agility a robust product.

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• Sometimes the ATOmate web portal is very slow
• There is a lack of logging of events that we as users can see
• We should be able to assign a partner to documents where the client is unknown

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• Exception management within the platform can certainly be improved upon. If a job is suspended for any particular issue integrations can be put in place to attempt to handle them but it is kludgy and does not always work as anticipated.
• The administration interface is based on Microsoft Silverlight which limits it to certain versions of Internet Explorer and the interface has seen better days. Their other application, Kofax Kapow, has a much more mature and intuitive interface. This supposedly is being replaced in the next major iteration but I have doubts it will be successfully done.
• The product is expensive. It is also the Cadillac of workflow platforms with document transformation built in. In many cases the product can do what you want it to do but there may be other more cost effective platforms.

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ATOmate has the ocr that is far superior to kofax and the client names and amounts on the ato forms are almost 99% captured. This was compared to about 80% with kofax

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Kofax TotalAgility is a beast of a package that gives you a thousand ways to tackle a problem, but it may not be the best platform for your needs. It is more of an enterprise platform that integrates well with other systems with moderate development time. Other packages may be cheaper, easier, and faster to implement depending on needs.

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• ATOMATE has allowed us to redeploy admin staff to different tasks and we have been cable to expand without needing more staff
• The only downside to it is the admin staff used to keep excel sheets that would be checked off every quarter and the partners used that sheet to keep track of their workflow
• We no longer have to wait for paper correspondence from the ato as most gets picked up by ATOmate

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• Kofax TotalAgility is very expensive. Some customers have reported that using the KTA workflow has increased productivity and has a good ROI overall. The customers have not shared true numbers for me to give details.

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