PDF Converter Professional from Nuance Replaces Adobe Acrobat at Bevan Brittan

One of the UK’s largest law firms is latest organisation to migrate from Adobe’s to Nuance’s imaging solutions

LONDON, UK., 07 December, 2007 – PDF Converter Professional from Nuance Communications (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, continues to demonstrate its appeal as the most popular alternative to Adobe® Acrobat® following its deployment at Bevan Brittan, one of the UK’s largest law firms. Chosen to replace Adobe Acrobat Standard and Reader, PDF Converter is delivering new levels of document creation and conversion efficiency to the firm. In this application, the procurement of PDF Converter was managed by Nuance reseller, Inqology.

With Bevan Brittan’s marketing department under pressure to convert increasing numbers of Word documents into PDF files and to make minor amendments to existing PDF documents, Bevan Brittan decided that in order to optimize the process for converting documents, it had to equip its commercial development team with cost-effective document conversion software that empowered them to create PDFs from other documents, or to make minor changes, themselves. When assessing alternatives to Adobe Acrobat, Bevan Brittan’s criteria were that the replacement software should integrate easily with the company’s existing Document Management System and office applications. It also had to be accurate, easy to use, reliable and offer competitive licensing options.

Tara Walsh, Bevan Brittan’s Marketing Manager said: “After assessing several PDF software products, PDF Converter Professional was the only product Bevan Brittan found that met all of our requirements. Furthermore Nuance was the only supplier that provided excellent communication offering advice and guidance regarding our product solution.”

Following the deployment, Bevan Brittan also commented that it can now seamlessly merge files from multiple sources including its Document Management System into one PDF, ensuring that the PDF files look exactly like the original documentation, preserving the source file information whether it is text, images, full-colour graphics, or photos, regardless of the application used to create them.

Robert Weideman, Sr VP Marketing for EMEA at Nuance said: “The deployment at Bevan Brittan is another example of a company recognising that PDF Converter offers an unbeatable price-performance proposition. It’s very accurate, easy to integrate, simple to use and cost effective to purchase. Nuance anticipates the migration from Adobe to PDF Converter will continue as more customers acknowledge its value as a powerful imaging solution.”

Earlier this year, Nuance announced that its “Better PDF for Business”™ solutions – PDF Create!, PDF Converter, PDF Converter Professional and PDF Edit – have been deployed to more than 1.3 million desktops, and are by far the best-selling PDF alternatives to Adobe Acrobat desktop software worldwide. The 1.3 million seat milestone is especially significant given that Nuance first introduced its PDF product family just over three years ago.

In the UK for example, Coleg Glan Hafren (Cardiff Tertiary College) recently selected PDF Converter Professional to replace Adobe® Acrobat® as its PDF creation and conversion solution, stating that PDF Converter’s high performance and accuracy made it a better solution for the College’s document needs than Adobe Acrobat. The college’s procurement of PDF Converter was also managed by Inqology.

Availability and Pricing

ScanSoft PDF Converter Professional 4 is £69.99 and is available through Nuance and its global network of reseller partners. Volume discounts and maintenance and support options are available for Nuance products through the Nuance Diamond License Program and the Nuance Site License Program. The product supports Microsoft Office 2007, 2003, XP, 2000 and 97, on Microsoft Windows, Vista (32- and 64-bit) XP (32- and 64-bit) and 2000. Nuance also offers the ScanSoft PDF Create! 4 and PDF Converter 4 desktop utilities, each for £39.99. For additional information on all products, features, pricing and volume licensing programs, please visit www.nuance.co.uk

About Nuance

Nuance (Nasdaq: NUAN) is the leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with information and how they create, share and use documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance's proven applications and professional services. For more information, please visit Nuance.com

About Bevan Brittan

Bevan Brittan LLP is a leading law firm developing innovative legal solutions across a number of sectors, public and private. Bevan Brittan LLP’s lawyers have been at the forefront of innovative PFI and public procurement schemes acting for both private and public sector clients. They have worked on major processes of change in business and industry and on areas of complex scientific and technological development such as the life sciences. With offices in London, Bristol and Birmingham the firm works across its four chosen sectors: Built Environment, Health, Government and Commerce, Industry and Services and has over 530 staff.

About Inqology

Inqology specialise in digital imaging, data capture, and workflows. In the ideal world we would all like a paperless office. In recognition of this, Inqology can enable you to take the pain out of processing paper. We achieve this by devising best fit innovative digital solutions that will increase compliance, productivity and visibility at executive level, on the floor, or out in the field.

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