|  debitel
AG has been successfully involved in telecommunications,
the fastest growing sector of the German economy,
since 1991. debitel offers products and services
in the areas of mobile telephony, fixed-line telephony
and the Internet.
debitel is already the leading network-independent
telecommunications company in Europe with 3 million
customers, almost DM 3 billion revenues and over
2,000 employees at the end of 1998. Almost 40%
of debitel's customers are now gained by subsidiaries
in France, Holland, Belgium, Denmark and Slovenia.
At the end of June 1999 debitel had 3.85 million
customers and revenues for the first six months
of DM 1.7 billion - the most successful half year
in the company's history.
For the production and handling of its telephone
bills, debitel decided for outsourcing with Debis
Systemhaus Drescher, a very successful IT service
company, which offers the complete service cycle
from document application development to fulfillment.
Debis uses the complete Papyrus Document System
for development, post processing, optimization
and printing. debitel supplies only the data file
for processing. Once the production run has been
performed, Debis sends a verification set of pages
to debitel by email. They use the Papyrus Client
Viewer to preview and test print the bills for
sign-off.
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The bill design uses the following features:
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Each bill is a consolidated bill, which
is structured completely individually based
on the various services the customer uses.
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The bill is structured in an overview
page with charts, the actual invoice with
the transfer slip and a call detail section.
Inserts are added logically during printing
and physically by the inserter. |
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Two charts are created, one showing
the call cost distribution over the month
and the other one showing how the calls
are distributed over 24 hours. |
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The printing is done on an OCÉ spot
color printer, printing logos and other
bill details in the company color of debitel.
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Debis uses an Oracle based Papyrus PrintPool
to perform the post processing with OMR
coding and inserting and the optimization
of the mail stream for maximum discounts
from 30.000 envelopes per run. |
Debis produces for debitel 60 million envelopes
per month, which total to more than 200 million
pages per year. The design is performed on NT
design stations with production formatting and
post processing running on Sun servers with Oracle
database. The enveloping and inserting equipment
used and controlled by barcodes and OMR codes
is from Kern.
Debis also runs Papyrus production for other
mobile phone companies such as e-plus and
o.tel.o and other outsourcing print services. |
