ABBYY Named to KMWorld's '100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management' List for Fifth Consecutive Year

MILPITAS, Calif., Feb. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ABBYY®, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software and services, today announced that it has received the distinction as one of KMWorld's "100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management" for the fifth consecutive year.  This prestigious industry list, currently in its 11th year, is compiled by knowledge practitioners, theorists, analysts, vendors and their customers and colleagues to recognize organizations advancing the knowledge management market.

"ABBYY is very proud to be acknowledged by KMWorld for a fifth consecutive year," said Dean Tang, CEO of ABBYY USA. "Their continued recognition underscores ABBYY's ability to remain at the forefront of the industry and deliver solutions that enable our customers to take advantage of knowledge management solutions."

ABBYY delivers industry-leading data capture, document recognition and linguistic technologies and services to organizations of all sizes through mobile applications, cloud services, individual-machine and server software, embedded in and bundled with imaging hardware devices. Known for unmatched accuracy, ABBYY extends the capabilities of knowledge workers to the furthest reaches of the enterprise environment, increasing organizational efficiency and streamlining communications.

"ABBYY continues to be a driving force in the knowledge management industry," said Hugh McKellar, KMWorld editor-in-chief. "ABBYY's inclusion on this year's list is based on the breadth and impact of its innovations to meet specific customer needs while adding true value to its entire chain of constituencies."  

The 2011 list of "100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management" will be published in the March-issue of KMWorld magazine and at www.kmworld.com.  

About ABBYY

ABBYY is a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, and linguistic technologies and services. Its products include the ABBYY FineReader line of optical character recognition (OCR) applications, ABBYY FlexiCapture line of data capture solutions, ABBYY Lingvo dictionary software, and development tools. ABBYY Language Services provides comprehensive linguistic solutions to corporate customers. Paper-intensive organizations from all over the world use ABBYY solutions to automate time- and labour-consuming tasks and to streamline business processes. ABBYY products are used in large-scale government projects such as those of Australian Taxation Office, Lithuanian Tax Inspectorate, Ministry of Education of Russia, Ministry of Education of Ukraine, and Montgomery County Government of the USA. Companies that license ABBYY technologies include BancTec, Canon, EMC/Captiva, Hewlett-Packard, KnowledgeLake, Microsoft, NewSoft, Notable Solutions, Samsung Electronics and more. ABBYY OCR applications are shipped with equipment from the world's top manufacturers such as Epson, Fujitsu, Fuji Xerox, Microtek, Panasonic, Plustek, Toshiba, and Xerox. ABBYY is headquartered in Moscow, Russia, with offices in Germany, the United States, Ukraine, the UK, Japan and Taiwan. For more information, visit www.ABBYY.com.

ABBYY, the ABBYY Logo, FineReader, ADRT, Lingvo, FlexiCapture, Recognition Server, and PDF Transformer are either registered trademarks or trademarks of ABBYY Software Ltd. Other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners and are hereby recognized.

About KMWorld

The leading information provider serving the Knowledge, Document and Content Management systems market, KMWorld informs more than 45,000 subscribers about the components and processes - and subsequent success stories – that together offer solutions for improving business performance. KMWorld is a publishing unit of Information Today, Inc.

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