| FORA offers insurance services for the
parties in the labor market based on collective
wage agreements. Fora is the mediative link between
companies and the employees. Based on the salary
information they get from the companies, premiums
for the employees are calculated.
 FORA
Försäkringscentral
IPDT Migration to a Modern Letter System
The Customer:
FORA Försäkringscentral is an insurance
service company with 120 employees owned by SAF
(The Swedish Employer's Confederation) and LO.
SAF consists of 45,000 large and small companies,
organized in 39 employer associations. FORA provides
200,000 employers and their 3 millions insured
employees with their services which include 275,000
phone calls, one million invoices and one million
pension statements per year. The output of these
services is about six million pages per year.
The Requirements:
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All data should be automatically read
from a DB2 database |
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Dynamic selection of text elements |
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Amend selected data sets with pre-defined
or manually entered data |
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Job statistics for optimum performance |
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Printer independent document generation
and print to a freely defined printer (local
or network) |
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Electronic signatures |
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Access to a certain letter simultaneously
for different users |
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Conversion of pre-defined IPDT letters,
text blocks and variables |
The Concept:
A library contains all letter elements
like Pagesegments (signatures), text elements
(IMPLIB) and document files. The VBA Dialog with
link to DB2 sets the preconditions based on the
user’s selections. All necessary letter elements
are then sent to Papyrus to create the requested
letter and transfer it to the specified printer.
The Solution:
FORA started to use OverView AFP Designer to
create volume documents for batch processing in
1997. In 1999 FORA chose Papyrus Designer and
Papyrus Client with DocEXEC integration to migrate
from an IPDT legacy text system to a modern graphical
letter system. The total migration was done between
October 1999 and January 2000. All documents are
developed using Papyrus Designer as a framework
with internal and external objects (external dfa-
and text- files) and “prompting” requests
for text and data entry by the user.
The Future:
The future plan is to implement Papyrus Web solutions
for a total integrated document workflow with
document distribution via Intra- and Internet. |
