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 As
part of the Lloyds TSB Group, Lloyds TSB Registrars
provide share registration services to a number of leading
limited companies in the UK. Based in Worthing, England,
Lloyds TSB Registrars is the UK market leader in share
registration in the UK, with approximately 59% of the
FTSE 100 as clients.
Document Composition at Lloyds
TSB Registrars
The Customer
In managing share registers, the majority of the documents
printed by Lloyds TSB Registrars are high security documents
such as share certificates and dividend cheques. However
in addition to this, Lloyds TSB Registrars also offer
back end office management for Lloyds TSB Bank products.
The Requirements
With Lloyds TSB Registrars’ implementation of
the IBM InfoPrint platform in 1999, the next step was
to implement a document composition solution. Some of
the main requirements were:
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The ability to handle IBM 3211 line code emulation |
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The ability to implement both overlay and
template applications |
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The ability to place text, graphics and imageson
a page |
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The ability of the composition/formatting
software to provide data feed for a file based
mail room management option |
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The ability to email/fax/bundle documents |
Another main requirement was that Lloyds TSB Registrars
did not want to have to go back to the host system to
make changes. The new solution had to be able to handle
the mix of print formats emerging from the host system.
Decision Criteria For Papyrus
The key reason Papyrus was chosen as the document composition
solution, apart from the fact that it met all the stated
requirements given by Lloyds TSB Registrars, was that
it was extremely user friendly. Papyrus Designer offered
a real time, true WYSIWYG approach to development, allowing
the developer to see the changes as they were made.
With Papyrus, Lloyds TSB Registrars were able to dynamically
develop the documents that they were looking to produce,
a crucial requirement for the new solution.
The Solution
Lloyds TSB Registrars worked with Lloyds TSB Bank regarding
the ISA documentation, and were given detailed print
layout and file specifications. From these discussions,
they were able to determine what the final document
layout should be and the conditional messages that must
be applied. The documents are developed with Papyrus
Designer, then formatted using Papyrus DocEXEC on AIX.
The documents are printed by the IBM InfoPrint platform
or, in the case of the cut sheet ISA documentation,
by a Xerox 4635 printer. Lloyds TSB Registrars developed
the documents and completed the initial user acceptance
testing in under 25 man days.
Lloyds TSB Registrars are planning to start migrating
their core business to Papyrus, for
example the formatting and printing of share certificates
and dividend warrants.
The Benefits
The Papyrus solution from ISIS has allowed Lloyds TSB
Registrars to manage documents such as the ISA statements
in-house. Without Papyrus the composition and printing
of such documents may have been outsourced.
“We are very pleased
with the Papyrus products we have implemented”,
says Kevin Bartlett, Project Development Manager at
Lloyds TSB Registrars, “The
solution has delivered everything we expected it to
with no major issues to report. We are now able to provide
customers with enhanced professional and informative
documents produced in-house.” |
