The Power of Personalization

Your business documents are your primary points of contact with your customers. They are critical to effective customer communication and must be generated in a variety of formats.

A powerful design toolkit and formatting engine like Papyrus can create business documents customized down to the last sentence for each individual recipient of print and electronic delivery. The following document
application requirements have to be met by the document system to support the complete document lifecycle, to ensure upward compatibility, platform and output channel independence.

1. Architecture

An open architectured concept based on a documented architecture is a key to multi channel output delivery. Sharing the same document resources and templates, across batch and ad hoc business document applications, platforms and different output channels, reduces development time and cost and ensures corporate identity.

Papyrus uses internally the fully published IBM AFP architecture and can output seamlessly and transparently all document types to any laser printer, archive, Web, Fax and email.

2. Data format support and interfaces

Any type of business data format must be
supported in a modern document formatter today.

Papyrus supports any flat data file from any business system directly:
Fixed length, delimited, channel controls, Xerox DJDE controls, DCF, XML, HTML, SGML, ASCII, EBCDIC, SAP, Peoplesoft and more.

Papyrus data interfaces include flat files, data arrays, SQL queries and typemangers for DB/2, Oracle, SQL Server on different platforms. Adapters are available for MQ Series, CICS, IMS, JES.

3. Logic

Even complex logic is easily defined using drag and drop functionality on a graphical user interface.

A script language is executed and allows any logic definition on the screen without complex coding.

4. Layout

A page is NOT a page but a dynamic formatted document with relative positions and dynamic page breaks. The formatting engine knows the size of each object on the page and performs an automatic page break executing before break and after break conditions.

You can apply any graphical design and layout for your business documents to reinforce your brand and corporate identity.

Limited tools on the market are page oriented and are not event and data driven at time of page break.

5. Resource management

What you see on the screen is pel accurately printed on a laser printer, viewed from an archive or Web browser in PDF or TIFF. This is only manageable and possible if the software does it for you. Papyrus manages all resources from development to the archive internally and guarantees that one dot on the screen is one toner dot on your paper.

6. Output management

Document index generation is a one step process. All required indices are selected at time of document development from the business data. The index information file is automatically generated by the formatter. Such indices are needed for later output management, bundling, reprinting of pages and documents, archiving and viewing.

Limited tools on the market require you to format twice for index generation or even worse generate those indexes by heavy programming from the compiled document.

Only if all mentioned steps are integrated into one process can you generate world class business documents in record time. Papyrus offers you such integration at time of development and for the complete document life-cycle which is unmatched in the industry.

7. Papyrus Development Framework for batch, ad-hoc and online business documents

The Papyrus Repository stores documents and resources with versions and validation. This ensures that all content and letters are the most current and approved versions. Other features are the user role management, print job management and automatic software and resource distribution.

The developer, an IT professional, defines the data interface, logic, classes, versions and variants.

The administrator or business professional works with predefined templates, generates text elements and authorizes users.

The user selects a letter from his library and is prompted to edit text and data.

User Roles and Privileges

An integrated authorization system ensures that no user or program can access the system without the proper authorization. Authorized users have full management control of all phases from document assembly to content approval.

Papyrus Framework Organization provides control for the development, test, sign off and production environment.