Captaris Announces Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Across Its Business Information Delivery Suite

The two companies continue their cooperative relationship, enabling customers to realize greater performance through tight integrations

Bellevue, Wash. — November 7, 2005 — Captaris, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAPA), a leading provider of Business Information Delivery solutions that specialize in automating paper and other unstructured document processes, announced that it will support Microsoft SQL Server 2005 across its product lines. Captaris RightFax, Workflow and Alchemy Document Management will all utilize the exceptional performance, functionality and scalability of the Microsoft database platform.

“The integration of SQL Server 2005 with Captaris RightFax, Workflow and Alchemy extends our comprehensive integration, analysis and reporting capabilities into Captaris document-centric solutions,” said Lucho Torres, group product manager for SQL Server at Microsoft Corp. “The interoperability of our products shows how Captaris and Microsoft are working together to deliver compatible solutions.”

“Integrating our products with SQL Server 2005 allows our customers to quickly realize performance and efficiency gains on Microsoft’s latest database platform” said Jürgen Stephan, vice president of global marketing for Captaris. “We are pleased to work closely with Microsoft to market our Business Information Delivery solutions with our joint channel partners to thousands of IT and business users within Microsoft environments.”

About Captaris, Inc.
Captaris Business Information Delivery solutions help organizations automate the information and document flow throughout the information lifecycle (capture, process, manage, deliver). With a comprehensive suite of software and services, Captaris helps organizations to grow revenues and increase profits while meeting compliance goals. Through a global distribution network of leading enterprise technology partners, Captaris has installed more than 90,000 systems in 95 countries in companies of all sizes, including the entire Fortune 100. Captaris is headquartered in Bellevue, Wash. The company was founded in 1982 and is publicly traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol CAPA. For more information please visit www.captaris.com.

Captaris, Alchemy, Interchange, RightFax, Captaris Workflow and Captaris Document Management are trademarks of Captaris. All other brand names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.