Digitizing PDFs in Just 2 Minutes
instead of hours
15x Faster Processing
of sales order transactions
Pure Process Automation
with accurate data extraction
Ciena Uses Astera ReportMiner to Extract Key Data from Customer Purchase Order PDFs within Minutes
Ciena Corporation is a pioneer in the networking industry that provides networking services, software, and equipment to over 1500 customers in 35+ countries globally. It receives purchase orders in PDF format, comprising of customer requirements to initiate sales transactions.
With multiple POs received daily, account managers had to manually transcribe and verify order details and enter extracted values into the ERP system. This led to delays in booking and shipping customer orders, which affected customer experience and ultimately the bottom line. Ciena needed a solution that could cut the manual effort, save managers’ time, and speed up the order fulfillment process by automating the data extraction tasks.
After evaluating solutions, like Azure Form Recognizer, and PDF Focus, Ciena found Astera ReportMiner to be the best suitor for its data extraction and process automation needs. It now fulfills customer requests 15x faster, as processing purchase orders takes only 2 minutes instead of hours.
Aclaimant Fast-Tracks Claims Management with Astera ReportMiner’s Data Extraction Capabilities
Focus On The Family, a global nonprofit Christian ministry dedicated to helping families thrive, needed an integration platform to validate, cleanse, and convert incoming data. The data comes from multiple sources and contains duplicates as well as incorrect or missing information. Often, some of the demographics data, including names and addresses of donors, is missing or incorrect and needs to be updated.
After evaluating various available tools, the food services company chose Centerprise because it was able to do exactly what was needed. Ilmer was able to use the visual drag-and-drop mapping with little fuss. He leveraged Centerprise’s static lookups to easily build the code translations for each supplier’s status codes and the database lookup to find the correct customer based on the supplier’s own customer identifier. In short, Centerprise delivered a simple but effective solution to an otherwise tedious problem.