LOW COST, HIGH PERFORMANCE IMAGE VIEWING & ANNOTATION

Daeja Image Systems was founded in 1997 in Milton Keynes, UK, to satisfy the growing global requirement for a cross platform and cross language viewer, which was powerful, configurable, widely integratable, and affordable even when scaled up to thousands of users across offices worldwide.

With a background in document management in the press and publishing sector, Daeja's founder recognised that although global sharing of document resources was becoming a common corporate goal, most systems were mainframe-based and custom-coded, offering very little synergy between departments, and to offer multi-office or multi-country access the implementation of a highly expensive Wide Area Network (WAN) was the only option.

At the time, image viewer options were either: i) accept a preintegrated thick client viewer provided by the Document Management (DM) system vendor (typically limited in functionality, unconfigurable, required user training and expensive to license); or ii) find an alternative imaging toolkit and create a custom application to integrate. This second option might offer more functionality but could also carry a greater price tag per user and involved a great investment of development time.

Daeja conceived of an affordable viewer which would support multiple languages (to be truly global), could deliver a high level of functionality (typically found at that time in only the most advanced and costly packages), could integrate seamlessly into a broad base of legacy systems (across multiple platforms), and could also offer a simple rollout to users (without complex installations and updates), removing the large administration cost associated with alternative solutions.

Taking advantage of the newly-available TCP/IP alternative to WAN infrastructure and the emerging Java technology the ViewONE concept was born - a lightweight, cross-platform viewer which would allow users across the world to have fast and multifunction viewing access to a centralised image stored. As the costs of per-seat licensing systems increase in line with user numbers, to make a global product affordable the only solution was to license by the server, not the user.

While the same licensing policy applies to this day, so does ViewONE’s pricepoint for a web site/server license for ViewONE Standard Edition.

Since ViewONE's release in 1999, customers have flooded to the Daeja website, with tens of thousands of trial editions of the viewer downloaded. Customers come from a huge spread of vertical markets from finance, legal and engineering, through fashion, retail and publishing, to government, military and law enforcement.