History

Anacomp boasts a forty year legacy of experience and a passionate commitment to client services and success. Throughout our storied history, it is the people of Anacomp that have served as the foundation of our success and longevity, as we've grown our relationships with our loyal customers, some of whom have been with us for decades. We're proud of our rich legacy, and look forward to building upon this solid foundation as we move forward into the next forty years of success.

1968: Anacomp is founded in Indianapolis, Indiana, by a trio of professors at Purdue University seeking to provide the city with its first computer services company. They formed the name of the company by combining the words "ANAlyze" and "COMPute."

1970: Anacomp is a public corporation and pursues an aggressive campaign of growth through acquisition.

1971: A pair of acquisitions brings the company into the field of Computer Output to Microfiche (COM), a field that would fuel its expansion in the years to follow. During the following decade, Anacomp's micrographics business thrives through internal growth and additional acquisitions.

1987: Anacomp acquires DatagraphiX, which invented the COM recorder in 1954, established its presence in San Diego, California. This acquisition solidifies Anacomp's position as a world leader in COM equipment and services.

1988: The company acquires Xidex Corporation, adding magnetics, dupe film, readers and reader/printers, and floppy and rigid disks to its product line. Although Anacomp's focus remains on COM, it branches out into many other fields.

1997: The acquisition of Data/Ware Development adds high-volume CD production systems and services.

1998: The acquisition of First Image strengthens the company's leadership in document management services, Anacomp's original mainstay. In Switzerland, the company acquires Cominformatic in an effort to expand CD services and digital imaging solutions into regions in Europe. On the maintenance side, the company's move to establish a multi-vendor service offering gained ground when agreements were signed with Sony Electronics and IBM Corporation. Also that year, Anacomp launches its Internet Document Services to provide document management through the Internet.

1999: Anacomp divests its magnetic media business to strengthen its focus on its core document-management services business. Later that year, Anacomp acquired Adesso Software from Litton Industries to continue building its digital document services capabilities.

2000: Anacomp merges Internet Document Services with the new technology and infrastructure acquired from Adesso to form docHarbor, an application service provider (ASP) focused entirely on providing Internet-based document management. Anacomp discontinues the manufacturing of new hardware systems and contract manufacturing for third parties as part of the restructuring of its DatagraphiX business. The restructuring results in three autonomous business units: docHarbor, Anacomp Document Solutions and Anacomp Technical Services.

2001: The docHarbor business unit is integrated into Anacomp's Document Solutions business as a new service offering (Web Presentment).

2002: Anacomp focuses on managing the decline of COM by growing its digital and renewal service offerings. It reorganizes its operations to accelerate revenue from new services and reduce costs, while continuing to deliver superior service to customers and value to shareholders. Under the reorganization, the company's two independent business units are integrated into one entity based upon a global marketing strategy and unified sales force, combined operations and a focused support organization.

2006: Anacomp acquires Imaging Acceptance Corporation (IAC), a strong player in the federal government sector performing scanning and other document services. The acquisition affords the company production synergies and expanded capabilities in government operations.

2007: Anacomp acquires CaseLogistix, the leading provider of evidence and litigation management software for the legal community. CaseLogistix, when combined with Anacomp's docHarbor hosted repository services, enterprise capture solutions and secure scanning and conversion data centers, provides law firms and corporate legal departments with access to one of the broadest litigation support platforms in the industry. Also in 2007, Anacomp introduces new enterprise information capture and business process management (BPM) services.