Key Events in the History of PIREL

History of PIREL

Key Events in the 10-Year History of PIREL

1994	PIREL entered the document management market with a simple but original idea for economically printing business forms. At this time, many people were still manually configuring print jobs - inserting and aligning paper in the printer, adjusting cartridges, assembling attachments, and collating forms. PIREL developed an affordable alternative to automate the process - the PIREL Composition Module. A printer equipped with this PC technology was able to format, assemble, archive, and print customized documents. The system was flexible and convenient, and provided many of the same features as the more expensive technologies offered by companies like Xerox or IBM.
1996	In 1996 PIREL won an exclusive 5 year, $10,000,000 contract to provide printers to Hydro Quebec. Hydro Quebec equipped many of its printers with the PIREL Composition Module to print documents and business forms.
1998	PIREL developed the EFS Server™, a document repository and information directory. With the EFS Server™, documents were archived, retrieved, and distributed over a network. The server included a comprehensive set of tools for ensuring security, managing user profiles, and controlling document access. PIREL could now provide a cost effective modular document management solution.
2000	The addition of a web-based user interface in 2000 greatly enhanced the potential of the PIREL EFS Server™. Users could now search for and retrieve documents over the Internet using only a standard web browser. For multi-user systems, this was a particularly economical and convenient feature, since software was not installed and maintained on individual computers. While other providers often claimed to offer this feature, in many cases their software still left a “fingerprint” at each workstation. PIREL's system required absolutely no installation of software at the workstation, and was thus a truly web-based solution. Once again, PIREL could offer its customers the convenience of a more advanced technology at an affordable cost.
2004	After an intense research and development phase, PIREL released the latest version of the PIREL EFS Server™. The PIREL suite now provides more advanced imaging, workflow, and report management capabilities. It also offers greatly enhanced security features, improved administration tools, and a superior web interface. These enhancements, together with a published Application Programming Interface (API), make the PIREL EFS Server™ the ideal tool for managing enterprise content.
2005+	Our promise to you: PIREL is committed to developing intelligent, secure, software that will enable our customers to better manage business content over a corporate intranet and the Internet.