Xerox Corp’s XSoft document management software division says it is opening new sales and services centres in London, Zurich, Dusseldorf and Paris. The move reflects the importance of the European market, which is expected to generate 40% of the Palo Alto company’s 1993 revenues. The UK office is to service Northern Europe – Norway, Denmark and Finland. Central Europe Germany, Switzerland and Austria – will be jointly handled from Zurich and Dusseldorf. The French office will cover Belgium, Spain, Italy, Greece and Portugal. Rank Xerox Ltd will remain a major XSoft distributor, to which a network of systems integrators, value-added resellers and dealers are to be added. Accompanying the news was the launch of Inconcert, a new workflow manager for client-server systems. InConcert works by modelling business processes and tracking documents like spreadsheets, forms and graphics through each stage. It has a graphical user interface, provides SQL database support and can be easily customised for a variety of applications such as publishing, insurance, legal, retail distribution, health care, aerospace and government. It is available in client and server implementations for Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcstations and IBM Corp RS/6000s along with 80386 and 80486 personal computers. European pricing is expected to come in around that of the US at $22,000 per server licence. XSoft added that its GlobalView for X document management system will now run on IBM Corp’s RS/6000s and Sun Sparcstations running SunOS 4.1, Open Windows 2.0 or the Motif Window Manager. User licences are UKP1,500. Also promised is soon is Version 1.5 of its personal computer package Rooms for Windows, to be followed by Rooms for X Window.
