Dazel Corp, the document management company that now refers to itself as an ‘output management’ company is trying to raise its profile as it prepares to go public. The Austin, Texas company is intending to seek a listing on the Nasdaq exchange at some point between this fall and next summer, and is likely to head for Nasdaq, according to Dazel’s vice president of marketing Doug Miller. The company, which was founded in 1991 by former Tivoli Systems Inc founder Robert Fabbio, has a staff of 160 and as well as its office in the US, offices in Australia, France, Germany and the UK. It saw revenues of $16m last year, and plans to double that figure this year. Miller also anticipates that this fiscal year, which ends in December will be the first year Dazel turns in a profit, after plowing its money back into the company in previous years. Dazel has a problem at the moment, in that the only people who really know its exists are users of SAP AG’s R3 enterprise resource planning system. Dazel targets R3 users with its Enterprise OutPut Management system which enables organizations to distribute print, fax, page, file transfer, email and web material to users (CI No 3,183). The company has just updated it and released version 3.1, along with a host of new tools which it claims its customers had demanded. While Dazel’s traditional business has been geared towards client-server, Miller now believes the future will see increased usage of the web as a document delivery mechanism and the Internet as a network backbone, and Dazel plans to be there to pick up the business it will generate.
