Discussion for Ricoh's PPDM

You select which of your folders you want to have available to scan to. It is totally and easily customizable to you (the user) and by you (the user). You decide with each document which application you want to scan to. If you pick Word, it scans to Word and saves the document as a .doc file just as if you had typed it all yourself. I am particularly amazed with the job it does with an Excel spreadsheet...no more retyping rows and columns of numbers. I don't like the desktop editing as well as eCopy but I'm sure those differences will be transparent before long now that Nuance ownes it all.

Does PPMD reside at the MFP or the users PC?

at the users PC

nice info on PPDM available of Ricohconnects.com - go to resources tab and search

PPDM can do 2 touch scan to searchable PDF. the first click is to select your account. The second is on a pre-made scan to searchable PDF. PPDM has about 9 premade workflows. Scan to PDF, Searchable, OCR, Word, and Excel.

I'm really liking PPDM, gives me something else to talk about other than speeds and feeds, was in a Remax location today that has 25 users, and PPDM seemed to be a BIG hit.

Anyone have any success stories with PPDM yet?

I like the basics of what I've heard about the product but haven't proposed it to my clients yet. The difficult I'm seeing so far is that I don't sell a lot of single machine transactions to small companies. Most of my prospects & clients have 100-250 employees, so that would mean that to purchase Seat licenses for each user, the MSRP would be $25,499 to $59,998, and my company doesn't publish Sales Cost figures for software solutions. Unless a special case arises, we have to sell it at MSRP.

I too sell major accounts...Not everyone in an organization needs to have access to PPDM so I wouldn't get scared away with the price tag of several hundred licenses. We also took advantage of Ricoh's 4 licenses for $120 for every box ordered so we have a slew of licenses sitting on a shelf with a cost of $30 per license that we can sell whenever we need to.

That being said, I promote the single license that the unit comes with everywhere I go. I had a vendor fair yesterday. We had a drawing for a free Ricoh Camera and while they were filling out the drawing registration I would start the .wav file audio of a document I scanned. I'd say, "Guess what you are hearing...that is the text of this file (while holding the sheet) I just scanned using this Ricoh." That got their attention. Then I would show another sheet, right click and open the Word document and show how Microsoft Word would launch and everything was just as if I had typed the original document myself with font selections and everything. Then I would show a spreadsheet, right click/open the Excel document and show PPDM launching Excel and how I could delete rows and add formulas just like if I had created the spreadsheet myself. Then I would show a form and show the .csv file of data extracted from the form.

I feel I established in 2 minutes a solid reason why Ricoh needed to be a part of their next copier decision. There were six other copier vendors at this show and whether I was their last booth or their first the reaction was one of being very impressed.

Old Glory, I salute you. Very creative! Keep us posted on future success stories!

I haven't had much luck with PPDM. The MFP integration with the server in our demo room was unstable. The workfows worked well with sample documents but not well with real world documents. Perhaps it wasn't set up properly to begin with. I plan to start over from scratch.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

For the new 28-50ppm systems, there is an option in the price book for Hardware 4 pack Bundle of PPDM, and it is very inexpensive. Does anyone know if this includes 4 seat licenses or if you still have to add a seat license package from the Solutions price book?

this includes 4 seat licenses. Just be sure to include systems / professional services for install time. Figure 45 minutes per seat.

Bandit:

What's th poop on PPDM?? Anything with an 01 comes with one license right? I've sold a few inspected the systems after delivery and PPDM is no on the MFP, is there something I'm missing does something is there another accessory needed?

The SD card is already inserted but the app has to be activated.

Keep an eye out. New and improved PPDMversion soon. A soup to nuts improvement over the entire product.

And to respond to a few listings here, this is a client app, not Enterprise. As neat as it is, it works best in the smaller group level. BTW, Legal folks should love this with the Bates Stamp function. We have had a lot of success pitching the app. to law firms.

Great to know, thanks. Any word as to how soon?

Has anyone had success with the MFP integration on this. PPDM seems to work well UNTIL we try to integrate with the MFP then we have crashes.

I'd be interested to hear if others are having trouble with MFP control panel integration or if it is only us.

Thanks

It's creashed for us so many times that we've given up even mentioning it will install to server or mentioning that they can have a walkup work flow, plus NO help from Nunance on this, they really really have horrible support.

Our Ricoh tech rep has basically told us not to waste our time trying to install it on the machines even with the new version.

Is this a dead horse? Is it true that the MFP integration still sucks? Are there any alternatives? Currently, we just install the desktop software and set up a process to scan to Word and searchable PDF. Is that as good as it gets?