Buenas dias, hombres y mujeres, and welcome to the Channel Partner Program Roundup, our weekly collection of all things channel. This week the fiesta includes Parascript, ArcMail Technology and CompTIA, so cue up the mariachi band and vamos a bailar until our legs fall off.

Parascript: The document capture company is expanding its focus in Latin America, forging new partnerships in the region and releasing a new version of its flagship FormXtra and FormXtra Capture software for Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish languages.

The new FormXtra technology will enable organizations to read machine print and handwriting from documents, and give them the ability to verify signatures all in one inclusive software package.

Parascript has also signed on Ecuador-based Solsoft, which offers solutions to process images and documents such as deposits and checks for the clearing house and debit and credit card industries.  Additionally, it is announcing Brazil-based system integrator Netz Tecnologia Ltda, as a partner.

ArcMail Technology: The email archiving solutions provider has added NxSource to its North America channel program. Effective immediately, NxSource, developer of multimedia customer contact solutions for enterprise customers and contact center service bureaus, will partner with ArcMail to enhance regulatory compliance for its solutions.

As an ArcMail channel partner, NxSource will offer fully compliant, enterprise information archiving for all of its customers’ critical business communications and data including hosted and server-based email, SharePoint, social media, direct files, Salesforce Chatter and other data sources.

CompTIA: David P. Smith, vice president for field services at Dallas-based CompuCom Systems, has received the 2014 CompTIA Lifetime Achievement Award.

“Throughout his career Dave has been a champion for CompTIA and for the IT channel,” said Todd Thibodeaux, president and chief executive officer, CompTIA. “Dave has brought guidance and leadership to the CompTIA Board of Directors; direction and wisdom to the IT channel and its services arm; and caring and compassion in his support of a variety of charitable endeavors. It’s an honor to recognize Dave Smith with a lifetime achievement award.”

Smith served as chairman of the CompTIA Board of Directors in 2003 and 2004. During his tenure, the association added to its portfolio of skills certifications for IT professionals; broadened its membership reach to include companies from the telephony market; launched a market research program; expanded a career education initiative to international markets; and promoted greater access to digital literacy programs.

Prior to his election as chairman, Smith served on the board of directors for two years. He’s been an active member of the CompTIA IT Services and Support Community and was co-chair of the community’s predecessor, the CompTIA Services Section.

Following his term as CompTIA chairman, Smith was named to the CompTIA Educational Foundation Leadership Council (now known as the Creating IT Futures Foundation). Smith is also a longtime supporter of the National Cristina Foundation, which promotes the reuse of technology to enable people with disabilities, students at risk and economically disadvantaged persons to have opportunities, through training, to lead more independent and productive lives.

Smith is the fourth person to be honored with a CompTIA Lifetime Achievement Award. The others are Gary Gillam of Xerox Corporation, Vic Melfa of The Training Associates and John Venator, former president and CEO of CompTIA.

And that’s the roundup for this week. Mosey on back next week to see whether we’re riding or dancing. Until then, stay safe.