InfoSource hat 20 bekanntere Anbieter evaluiert. Darunter auch xSuite aus Deutschland. Im Übrigen sind es die „üblichen Verdächtigen“. „Intelligent“ bezieht sich in der Studie besonders auf die Themen automatische Klassifikation, automatische Index-Extraktion und automatische Erschließung des Inhalts von Dokumenten. Auffällig ist auch wieder hier, dass eine ganze Reihe der Anbieter zusätzliche Fremdprodukte einsetzen muss, um bei Capture & IDP mitspielen zu dürfen.

Ähnlich wie andere Analysten setzt auch InfoSource auf eine „Quadranten-ähnliche“ Darstellung des Ergebnisses. Senkrecht werden Strategie und Funktionalität (Strategy & Capabilities) sowie waagerecht die Umsetzung (Execution) dargestellt. Darin sind vier Felder angeordnet, in denen die zugeordneten Anbieter mit unterschiedlichen Symbolformen kartiert sind. Die vier „Quadranten“ werden bei InfoSource „Star“, „Competitor“, „Disrupter“ und „Explorer“ bezeichnet. Man hat sich also Mühe gegeben, nicht mit den Begriffen und Darstellungen anderer Analystenhäuser in Konflikt zu geraten.

Als „Stars“ wurden schon in den letzten Jahren Abbyy, OpenText und (immer noch) IBM positioniert. Auch Kofax, angesiedelt bei den Wettbewerbern (Competitors) spielt in der gleichen Liga. Bei der Umsetzung liegt Kofax sogar noch vor den „Stars“. Mehr im Mittelfeld bei den Herausforderern finden sich dann Automation Anywhere, BIS, Hyland (entlässt gerade 20% des Personals), IRIS (inzwischen Canon), Parascript und xSuite ziemlich gleichauf. Bei den „Disruptoren“ finden sich mit jeweils geringem Abstand, auch zu „Competitors“ die Anbieter Appian, HyperScience, ISIS Papyrus, KnowledgeLake, Microsoft (Syntex, AI Builder & Azure Services), Rossum, TCG und UiPath. Auch PlanetAI und UST sind hier im Segement „Explorer“ bereits ziemlich in der Mitte angekommen.

IDP Intelligent Document Processing hat sich zu einem eigenständigen Marktsegment entwickelt. Dies zeigt auch die Studie „Gartner Market Guide for Intelligent Document Processing“ aus dem Jahr 2022. Diese kann bei verschiedenen Anbietern frei heruntergeladen werden. In dem Gartner-Bericht sind eine ganze Reihe weiterer und anderer Anbieter aufgeführt. Gartner definiert und beschreibt den IDP-Markt wie folgt:

<Zitat>“Intelligent document processing (IDP) solutions extract data to support automation of highvolume, repetitive document processing tasks and for analysis and insight. IDP uses natural language technologies and computer vision to extract data from structured and unstructured content, especially from documents, to support automation and augmentation. Although interest in IDP from enterprises has markedly increased in recent years, automation with document processing isn’t new, and it has been signaled by many terms, including data capture, document AI, capture automation and more. Rapid capabilities in the last few years (transformers, more labeled data, advances in NLU and others) have fast-tracked document processing capabilities of solutions. Gartner estimates that intelligent document processing as a market is projected to reach $4.8 billion in 2022.“ </Zitat>

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The Swiss market research institute InfoSource (www.info-source.com) has published its fifth annual report on the market for „Intelligent Document Capture (IDP) 2023“. InfoSource offers the study to subscribers only.

The capture market segment of originally ECM Enterprise Content Management is currently being shaken up by Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Analytics and other newer technologies. This is where automated document processing, Intelligent Document Processing IDP, comes into play. The new technologies around AI Artificial Intelligence do not make the evaluation of vendors easier, because in addition different architectures, end-to-end automation, Robotic Process Automations, Cloud versus On-Premise; multi-channel input and other parameters play a role. .

Many traditional providers will not be able to keep up here. Even if the same three providers are mapped as leaders again this year, this will change dramatically.

InfoSource evaluated 20 popular vendors. Among them is xSuite from Germany. For the rest, they are the „usual suspects“. „Intelligent“ in the study refers especially to the topics of automatic classification, automatic index extraction and automatic indexing of the content of documents. Again, it is striking that quite a number of the providers have to use additional third-party products in order to be allowed to play along with Capture & IDP.

Similar to other analysts, InfoSource also relies on a „quadrant-like“ representation of the result. Strategy and functionality (Strategy & Capabilities) are displayed vertically, and execution (Execution) horizontally. Four fields are arranged within this, in which the assigned providers are mapped with different symbol shapes. The four „quadrants“ are called „Star“, „Competitor“, „Disrupter“ and „Explorer“ at InfoSource. So an effort has been made not to conflict with the terms and representations used by other analyst firms.

Abbyy, OpenText and (still) IBM have already been positioned as „Stars“ in recent years. Kofax, located among the competitors, also plays in the same league. In terms of implementation, Kofax is even ahead of the „stars“. More in the midfield among the challengers are Automation Anywhere, BIS, Hyland (just laying off 20% of its staff), IRIS (now Canon), Parascript and xSuite pretty much on par. The „Disruptors“ include Appian, HyperScience, ISIS Papyrus, KnowledgeLake, Microsoft (Syntex, AI Builder & Azure Services), Rossum, TCG and UiPath, each with a small gap, also to „competitors“. PlanetAI and UST are also already pretty much in the middle in the „Explorer“ segment.

IDP Intelligent Document Processing has developed into an independent market segment. This is also shown by the study „Gartner Market Guide for Intelligent Document Processing“ from 2022, which can be downloaded free of charge from various providers. The Gartner report lists a whole range of other and additional vendors. Gartner defines and describes the IDP market as follows:

<quote> „Intelligent document processing (IDP) solutions extract data to support automation of highvolume, repetitive document processing tasks and for analysis and insight. IDP uses natural language technologies and computer vision to extract data from structured and unstructured content, especially from documents, to support automation and augmentation. Although interest in IDP from enterprises has markedly increased in recent years, automation with document processing isn’t new, and it has been signaled by many terms, including data capture, document AI, capture automation and more. Rapid capabilities in the last few years (transformers, more labeled data, advances in NLU and others) have fast-tracked document processing capabilities of solutions. Gartner estimates that intelligent document processing as a market is projected to reach $4.8 billion in 2022.“ </quote>

The latest information on Intelligent Capture & Inetlligent Document Processing can also always be found in the IDP Community.