Ladies
and Gentlemen!
Just a few more months and the Millenium year is over.
No Y2K bug has bitten us. The world is still turning.
The Internet bubble has finally burst, since the proponents
of new economy ran out of future business claims to
pull money out of their investor’s pockets.
We have always said that ISIS is solid OLD ECONOMY.
Quality, customer orientation and a profitable business.
We also have the growth to show! The first half year
of 2000 was close to 50% due to Asia picking up again,
but the yearly average should be again around 30% for
our new product installations.
2000 is not only a good but also a tough year. We have
had a very hard time finding the right people in the
right numbers. We do not work with “headcounts”, because
what is “inside the head” counts! Consequently, we will
not attempt a crazy hiring spree in today's market.
We always focus on solid growth and finding the right
people. Unfortunately, we have had a few people leave,
but since we are not REVENUE driven, it just
improves our PROFITS. Stock market analysts would
love us! The lack of manpower has meant that we had
to let a few projects go which we could have done, but
then we rather focus on quality than quantity.
Max Pucher,
CEO, ISIS Papyrus Group, and Annemarie Pucher,
President, ISIS Software AG, at the welcome reception
of the ISIS Open House 2000 at a historic Hat
Museum in downtown Vienna, Austria.
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We obviously need to grow. Our future plans with Papyrus
require highly skilled experts which are hard to find.
This means that we will focus even more on standardizing
the solutions our customers look for. We will deliver
even simpler installation and more than ever ease-of-use.
We have done some great installations in 2000 already.
How about a full color bank statement in 600 dpi with
3D pie charts in multiple languages including Chinese?
How about Document Presentment via the Web? While Checkfree
needs to run full page ads that they bought the technology
for $250 million, while we just have it and install
it as part of many Papyrus Systems!
In the competition department they are back to beating
a dead horse with boring claims of “Drag. Drop. Done!”
and “5 million pages/hour”. We still ask these vendors
to bring in proof (they never did) and you should do
the same. If it would be really that simple or fast,
it would have to be either RIGID or LIMITED!
Finally: Hand out the cigars! Let’s celebrate the newborn!
We have announced a new component called “Papyrus
Campaign Manager”. It offers virtually seamless
integration with your marketing databases. The object
oriented data model means, that in difference to other
hardcoded products, you can simply define the data,
letter and message objects as required. Then setup any
marketing, messaging or statement logic you can think
of. We plan a general availability for second quarter
2001, when the first currently running projects will
be in production! Watch this space! |
