|  In
1997 the Zürich based IT service unit of the Zürich
Group, being one of the largest financial institutions
worldwide, had a long list of document related applications
to build. The most complex and important was the Pecunia
Project at Zürich Invest Bank AG. After some evaluation
the Papyrus Document System was chosen for the projects,
planned to be realized on OS/390, Sun Solaris and NT
platforms.
The Pecunia Project was started in February 1998, with
much of the effort related to the data gathering and
the complete document management. The interface design
and coding of the applications was finished in November
1998. The data is generated on the Sun Solaris and sent
for document generation to the OS/390. More than 200
distinct documents were developed as a next step, of
which 70 were implemented in four national language
versions of Switzerland.
Barcoding and OMR coding for the post processing was
also implemented in a very short time using the Papyrus
Designer features. The project went into pilot in early
March 1999 and went live on May 17th, 1999. Less than
FOUR weeks of training and support was required from
ISIS to make that project a success, proving the ease
of use and speed of development of the Papyrus Designer.
But while all this was going on, five other projects
were being realized each of them taking less than 3
months to realize from start to production. This included
a mainframe based insurance policy application, a Papyrus
Client letter system with data from the AS/400 and the
implementation of Papyrus WebArchive for the transform
of the documents to PDF.
Mike Elfner was the responsible project leader of
the Papyrus projects at Zürich Group and in his presentation
at the ISIS Roadshow in July 1999, he expressed his
satisfaction with the partnership approach at ISIS and
the stability of the products. He stated that a number
of further Papyrus projects were lined up at Zürich
Group, for example related to output management and
color printing. |
