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            Author: Peter Reiser - Social Business Evangelist, Oracle WebCenter 
    
   
     
       
         
           Solution Summary 
          College of American Pathologists Goes Live with OracleWebCenter - Imaging, AP Invoice Automation, and EBS Managed Attachment with Support for Imaging ContentThe College of American Pathologists (CAP),
 the leading organization of board-certified pathologists serving more then 18,000 
physician members, 7,000 laboratories are accredited by the CAP, and 
approximately 22,000 laboratories are enrolled in the College’s 
proficiency testing 
        programs. 
          The business objective was to content-enable their Oracle E-Business 
Suite (EBS) enterprise application by combining the best of Imaging 
and Manage Attachment functionality providing a unique opportunity for 
the business to have unprecedented access to both structure and 
unstructured content from within their enterprise application.  
          The solution improves customer services turnaround time, provides better compliance and improves maintenance and management of the technology infrastructure. 
         
       
     
      
    
   
    Company OverviewThe College of American Pathologists (CAP), celebrating 50 years as the gold standard in laboratory accreditation, is a medical society serving more than 17,000 physician members and the global laboratory community. It is the world’s largest association composed exclusively of board certified pathologists and is the worldwide leader in laboratory quality assurance. The College advocates accountable, high-quality, and cost-effective patient care. The more than 17,000 pathologist members of the College of American Pathologists represent board-certified pathologists and pathologists in training worldwide. More than 7,000 laboratories are accredited by the CAP, and approximately 23,000 laboratories are enrolled in the College’s proficiency testing programs. 
  
   
     
   
   
    Business ChallengesThe CAP business objective was to content-enable their Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) enterprise application by combining the best of Imaging and Manage Attachment functionality providing a unique opportunity for the business to have unprecedented access to both structure and unstructured content from within their enterprise application.  
   
   
     
      Bring more flexibility to systems and programs in order to adapt quickly 
      Get a 360 degree view of the customer 
      Reduce cost of running the business 
     
   
  Solution DeployedWith the help of Oracle Consulting, the customer implemented Oracle WebCenter Content as the centralized E-Business Suite Document Repository.  The solution enables to capture, present and manage all unstructured content (PDFs,word processing documents, scanned images, etc.) related to Oracle E-Business Suite transactions and exposing the related content using the familiar EBS User Interface.
   
     
        
        
        
        
     
   
  Business ResultsThe CAP achieved following benefits from the implemented solution: 
  Managed Attachment Solution  
   
    Align with strategic Oracle Fusion Middleware platform 
    Integrate with the CAP existing data capture capabilities 
    Single user interface provided by the Managed Attachment solution for all content 
    Better compliance and improved collaboration 
   
   Account Payables Invoice Processing Imaging Solution  
   
    Automated invoice management eliminating dependency on paper materials and improving compliance, collaboration and accuracy 
    A single repository to house and secure scanned invoices and all supplemental documents 
    Greater management visibility of invoice entry process 
   
  Additional Information 
   
    CAP OpenWorld Presentation 
    Oracle WebCenter Content 
     Oracle Webcenter Capture 
    Oracle WebCenter Imaging  
    Oracle  Consulting