On December 18th, Information Management and Technology upgraded to the newest version of EMC ApplicationXtender, more commonly known as Xtender throughout campus.
Not sure what Xtender is? Xtender is an instant document management solution that minimizes the costs and risks of paper while increasing productivity by streamlining the capture and management of documents. Xtender scans, stores, retrieves, and preserves information, while providing role-based access from either a desktop interface or web browser.
For those of you who are “technologically challenged” and still aren’t quite sure as to what I am talking about, Xtender is the application that a number of the departments here at UNC use to scan documents. Currently, Accounts Payable, Human Resources, Financial Services, the President’s Office, Financial Aid, Admissions, Graduate School, Academic Support & Advising, Center for International Education, Register/Records, Accounts Receivable, Card Office, Health Center, Department of Teacher Education, Academic Support & Advising, Payroll Services, and Institutional Reporting and Analysis (among others) are actively using Xtender.
The recent upgrade took our version of Xtender from 5.4 to the new major release of 6.50. This upgrade was necessary to provide all the new features that they have to offer as well as receive extended support. This upgrade is part of our annual maintenance agreement and came at no extra cost to the University.
Xtender is now certified to run with Windows 7, while WebXtender can run with Internet Explorer 8.0. Xtender will also now display PDF documents created with Adobe version 9.0 or 9.1
Some exciting new features that come with the upgrade are that you will be able to:
• Rotate Pages and Save Rotated Image
• Reorder pages within a document
• Copy or Move Pages to New Batch
• See That Page Thumbnails have been redesigned
One of the most exciting features that the upgrade has to offer is that Xtender will be accessible from URSA with Single-Signon! Beginning with this release, Xtender users will be able to sign on to URSA, and launch Xtender without having to sign in again. This direct link will perform in the same way Banner can be launched from URSA without having to authenticate again.
You may be asking yourself, “will this new version require any retraining or change the way I scan, index or view documents?” You will be thrilled to know that Xtender users will find no major changes to methods of document scanning, indexing or retrieval. However, this new version includes new features outlined in this document that provide significant improvement in the functionality of Xtender.
Xtender is available for all faculty and staff to use on campus, and if you would like to get it set up on your computer or throughout your department, just submit a work order through the Technical Support Center at 351-HELP.
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