ISIS Papyrus Business Report 2001

The ISIS Group has grown in the 14 years since its inception in 1988 to provide the worlds leading edge technology for Document Integration™. ISIS Holding AG in Switzerland manages 12 subsidiaries in 9 countries and has a distribution network for its software products in 42 countries. ISIS partners with major IT solution providers such as IBM, Xerox, and AMS. Software development and maintenance are performed in four labs in Austria, Germany and Italy.

ISIS Papyrus provides integrated and distributed software solutions for enterprise-level, mission-critical business document applications for 1900 corporate customers. ISIS Papyrus' document automation and EAI technology enables large-scale document applications that support all fundamental business processes.

"Integrating data and applications is one of the foremost challenges faced by enterprises today, and will continue to be in the future. In response to enterprise demand, dozens of vendors are offering integration solutions based on a number of different and sometimes incompatible technologies," says Michele Rosen, research manager for IDC's Business Process Automation and Deployment Service. "This variety of choices, coupled with the difficulty of integration, makes it hard for enterprises to select an integration strategy."

Corporate business processes supported by Papyrus:

The ISIS Group Business Report 2001

Due to the weakened US economy, ISIS Papyrus America was not able to achieve the same growth as the rest of the ISIS Group in 2001. This resulted in only a moderate group revenue growth of 5 percent, with ISIS Papyrus UK providing the strongest growth. With 220 employees, the ISIS Group generated US$ 64.8 million in software, service and maintenance revenue in 2001.

ISIS remains a privately held company with a very strong capital base and a substantially higher than market average profitability. Not being a publicly traded company enables ISIS to act responsibly towards its customers and employees and not to an abstract shareholder value, quite disconnected from the ISIS business purpose.

The enterprise integration software market grew 88.4 percent from 1999 to 2000, confirming the importance of integration solutions for enterprises. Although growth rates will slow over the next five years due to economic conditions, IDC believes that this market will continue to outpace the overall software industry through 2005 with a compound annual growth rate of above 40 percent.

The Papyrus Document System

The Papyrus Document System is not only operating system and printer independent, but moreover provides easy-to-use and time saving business document development.

Papyrus provides significant benefits to your organisation's customer service, marketing, and operations departments, without limiting your document creativity and flexibility. From the designer workstation, to the PC client, to the powerful processing, workflow and output management features, Papyrus delivers an integrated software architecture.

It is capable of producing millions of document pages per day on a mainframe, as well as interactive editing of personalised business documents down to the customer representative's notebook PC.

The Papyrus System is designed to create and manage personalised, marketing-oriented customer documents for high-volume and client/server applications. It supports all code page systems, including Arabic and Hebrew right-to-left formatting, DBCS (double byte character set) Japanese, Chinese and Korean Fonts.

While the implementation of a corporate document automation system is no minor investment, the ISIS business model does away with the usually associated risk. ISIS Papyrus document application design tools are guaranteed to deliver benchmark and verification applications in 5 to 10 working days of billable workshop training from a provided data file in any format.

ISIS Papyrus Objects - Fulfilling the Promise®.

With the availability of the Papyrus System Version 6 in 2001, the Papyrus Objects Architecture (formerly known as OMS) was integrated into all Papyrus Components. Papyrus Objects provides customers with a solution to build, deploy, manage, and integrate their most important enterprise document applications into a object oriented "Document Framework". This solution concept provides off-the-shelf legacy application integration that leverages ISIS Papyrus's reliable, scalable, and manageable business document software.

With Papyrus Objects, ISIS is providing customers with the industry's first enterprise level Document Integration™ platform using ISIS' own EAI technology. A definable object architecture provides application flexibility and platform independence without the need for C++, Java or Smalltalk programming. Papyrus' data connectivity to legacy applications and business process management builds on a reliable, multi-platform and object oriented infrastructure.

Papyrus Capture

ISIS Knowledge Systems (formerly Improx AG), a member of the ISIS group, develops state-of-the-art, easy to use document capture solutions by combining sophisticated scanning and recognition technology with a clear and elegant user interface and integration options at the highest level.

Electronic Document-Management, Imaging- and Workflow Solutions can substantially improve the efficiency and cost structure of enterprises and organisations. This potential, however, can only be realised fully in connection with an efficient Document Capture System. The media gap between paper and data processing systems has to be bridged.

Papyrus Capture makes use of the newest findings in the interdisciplinary research fields of pattern recognition and learning systems for concrete solutions, to help to efficiently extract valuable data from all corporate business documents without extensive programming. This technology is being expanded to enable flexible data extraction from any data format and interface type.

Paper conversion and data extraction, by definition, implies integration, which is performed by building on the Papyrus Objects platform for Document Integration™.

ISIS Papyrus Project and Consulting Services

While powerful software such as the Papyrus System is essential to reduce the overall document development and production cost, it is equally required to back it up with highly qualified consulting and project services. Even though a Papyrus System installation and document design does NOT require any additional programming, customers do expect and receive a complete analysis, training and implementation service package around the world. ISIS has extensively trained consultants in every major country. They receive backup by a second level support structure through a VPN network, which links three mainframes, 40 servers and all ISIS PCs in all locations. ISIS Web and FTP support servers are accessible through the Internet to ISIS customers under maintenance.

ISIS understands the challenges large corporations face to produce, manage and distribute personalised, data-driven customer documents to remain competitive in today's market. ISIS consultants analyse the corporations unique communication goals and then provide the tools and expertise necessary to produce high volume, personalised paper and electronic communication that significantly improve customer and prospect responses as well as client satisfaction. This dramatically increases return on investment and sharpens the competitive edge.

Because of the professional experience and the powerful Papyrus design tools, ISIS does projects in a quarter of the time of most competitive products and service offerings. ISIS will assure that you will have a smooth start with Papyrus and finish first at the chequered flag.

The ISIS Papyrus Solution Spectrum

'ISIS', 'Papyrus', and 'Fulfilling the Promise' are registered Trademarks of the ISIS Group. 'Document Integration' is a world wide used trademark of the ISIS Group

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ISIS Papyrus America Inc.
Tel: 817-416-2345
Internet address: www.isis-papyrus.com