Decision Criteria For Papyrus
Experian chose Papyrus out of a shortlist
of three vendors for a number of reasons:
• It offered a real time, WYSIWYG development
environment
• It allowed extra functionality, such as
embedding variable data within a fixed paragraph,
and correct placement of signatures
• There was no pre-processing work needed
“The intuitive Papyrus Designer with
its 100% WYSIWYG fidelity and cross referencing
between editors makes it a very powerful
and easy to use workstation,” says Steve
Hough, Business Services Manager at Experian.
The Solution
Experian receives a data file and details
of the document layout and contents. Papyrus
Designer is used to design the document,
which is tested on screen using the WYSIWYG
environment. The source code created on
the workstation is then compiled on the
mainframe. Papyrus DocEXEC for MVS formats
the documents, which are printed by either
IBM InfoPrint 4000, or Xerox IPS 180 printers.
Experian prints in the region of 100 million
pages with Papyrus per year.
The Future
Papyrus will continue to be Experian’s
core document composition solution. Over
the next year, Experian will look to increase
its number of Papyrus Designer licenses
to keep up with the increased business it
will handle on behalf of its clients, as
all new contracts are being delivered with
the Papyrus solution.
The Benefits
The speed of development with Papyrus and
the ability to develop in a WYSIWYG environment
is a major benefit for Experian. It is now
able to quickly respond to customer requests
and produce the required documents in a
professional format and timely manner.
Steve Hough confirms that Experian is
seeing many benefits from its Papyrus solution.
“The solution from ISIS is a definite improvement
on our old system which could not deliver
us the documents we required. With Papyrus,
we can develop new business and provide
a better service to our clients. We certainly
have no regrets in implementing Papyrus.”
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