Client Challenge
Businesses need to enhance communications to their customers, clients, stakeholders, agents and vendors. They also need to migrate from legacy correspondence systems, enable business users to maintain content and support online/batch, interactive/ad-hoc and Web communications. Key needs are security, rapid development for new documents/applications, change management, compliance requirements, standardize corporate branding consistency and personalization.
Offer
Description
WYSIWYG design by business departments and IT; batch and client/server letter creation; generate/assemble letters from templates and building blocks with rules and processes for high-volume batch, online, ad hoc, browser, desktop and offline PC laptop. Includes mass mailings, letters, account notices, serial letters, welcome letters/kits, new offers and more.
Characteristics: Data-driven, specific business document that can be generalized or personalized. Content controlled by business users and implemented by IT. Enablement of business users to maintain text/messages including multi-language, resource management (fonts, forms, logos), change management supporting Batch, Online, Interactive (thin and thick Client) and Web form/document solutions.
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Series Adapter for correspondence |
Papyrus
SOA Adapter |
Correspondence
Framework Administrator |
Correspondence
Framework Supervisor |
Simple Integration with existing business
data and applications:
The Papyrus Platform is fully SOA conform and offers
a variety of Adapters (SOAP, MQ, XML, JAVA, LDAP, SAP,
File, CICS, JES…) to allow flexible coupling
between business data and document system. These Adapters
are platform and compiler independent and do not need
java or .net programming.
Additional
capabilities: Integrated
Output Management with bundling of different letters
into one envelope, multi-channel delivery (print,
e-mail, Web) and postal optimization, archiving and
integrated inbound document handling enabling Case
Management and Response Management.
Value Delivered
- ROI potential within 12 months (per Forrester report)
- Improved customer communications
- Corporate identity with any channel output flexibility
- Faster implementation – lower cost of ownership
- Enterprise solution: enables high-performance consolidation
- Strong integration with Legacy, ERP, CRM, ECM, and Web-distributed solutions
- Integrated end-to-end solution – straight through processing
- Reduce costs - productivity, postal, eliminate preprinted forms
- Empowering business users - increased productivity
- Shortest time to market
- Assistance with meeting regulatory requirements
- Integrated security and authorization
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Increased customer satisfaction
- Platform and output channel independence
- Version and variant control of multi-language elements with Spellcheck – 17 languages
Identical
view: Browser or Papyrus Desktop |
Letter
editing: add variables |
Letter
editing: select logo |
Letter
editing: text styles |
Product
Configuration |
Services Estimated
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Product
Configuration |
Services Estimated
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Optional: |
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Investment Portfolio, Retirement Plan Review, Credit Risk Analysis, Sales Reports ...
Client Challenge
Keeping clients, shareholders and management informed with understandable and highly personalized reports is good business – for the recipients, such reports build confidence and strengthen relationships. Charts, tables, text and images in these reports are not only important to demonstrate the performance of the business but are also often a required component of regulatory and policy compliance. User-interactive customization makes the information relevant for each individual in your audience - adding knowledge, context and insight relative to their direct interests.
Complexity comes with making such reports "interactive", if business users can provide input and manipulate output as part of their analysis and report creation: Selecting and editing paragraphs, inserting images, changing chart type, selecting data range for chart and tables. The perfect personalized report is generated in real-time WYSIWYG mode for multichannel delivery.
However, complicated and code-heavy programming in word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software is typically needed for dynamic report generation. Extra coding leads to increased effort, high maintenance costs, missed deadlines and inconsistency in style and appearance.
Offer Description
Papyrus Client on the desktop and in the browser provides extensive, powerful Interactive Reporting functionality with dynamic charts, tables and word processing capabilities.
- Creative developer teams use Papyrus Designer to create report templates with reusable elements (logos, fonts, headers, footers tables, charts, text, data, address, rules, etc.), live data and all related objects.
- Power users work with a Papyrus EYE Web or thick client-based application to assemble report templates using the pre-defined building blocks and to specify authorized delivery channels, inserts and attachments and taxonomy classification for Records Management.
- Templates move through development stages to test before being made available to the business user (i.e., customer relationship manager) in production.
- Using a single approved template, the business user can request:
- Report generation for a specific customer to customize interactively
- Batch production of reports to be manually enhanced and completed
- Batch production of reports and automatically deliver without user interactivity
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On-demand report generation
Role-based access (RBAC) determines which users can view or edit paragraphs or charts and other elements can be dynamically controlled and conditional on data values or user role, for example.
Papyrus digital asset management with WebRepository automatically manages the distribution of all objects and resources and ensures that the right images, scanned signatures, logos, fonts and text blocks, like legal disclaimers, company profile or marketing messages, are immediately available wherever required.
The report generated by the Papyrus Client is the electronic original and archive copy, 100% identical to the report viewed in PDF in the browser, printed and sent to the end customer. Indexed for searching, reports are generated in AFP and PDF for high-quality print, e-mail and Web to support branding and formatting consistency across platforms and output channels.
Interactive Document Development
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Papyrus Designer - Developer (click image to zoom) |
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Template manager - business (click image to zoom) |
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Interactive Document Creation (Clerk)
Traditional Papyrus Client plug-in (click image to zoom) |
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New Papyrus Client plug-in - Canvas (click image to zoom) |
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Value Delivered
Key Benefits/Value
- Single definition of GUIs for web and desktop simplifies development and user training
- Real-time, highly personalized report generation
- Customizable sophisticated chart presentation of business data
- Report templates defined once for multiple report generation options
- Flexible data interfacing, no hard coded APIs
- Unprecedented flexibility for scaling to cope with peaks in demand
- Increased searchable report content for current files or archives
- Branding and formatting consistency across platforms and output channels
Key Features
- Identical GUI through desktop client or via Papyrus Web portal nodes
- Business rules and logic to drive workflow
- Same templates used for user-interactive and batch reporting
- Editorial control of elements such as headers, footers, text blocks, graphics, chats
- Version control for every element and template
- Role-based access (RBAC) for editing and data entry
- Dynamic control and conditional action on data values or user role
- Data population using combination of user entry and other data interfaces
- Electronic stickers for notes during routing, review and approval
- Real-time report previews in multiple languages
- Options for direct report delivery or forwarding to post-processing center for bundling
- Customer Care online search and view of reports for reprint
- Flexible and secure access to work through portal, desktop or offline
Real-World Scenario |
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Sales Representative / Customer Relationship Manager:
Professionals highly skilled in stock portfolios, pension laws and plans or investment vehicles and strategies need tools that make it simpler to customize and deliver expert information and advice to clients who trust them with building wealth for their future.
As part of their full-service advice to customers, these financial professionals work with applications running in Papyrus Client and EYE Desktop as a plug-in the Browser or as a fat client to customize the report to the specific situation and needs of each customer. Working offline or through the integrated portal, the advisor selects from a list of possible reports they are authorized to create according to the role and policy (LDAP) information accessed by the system from their secure login.
Each authorized user has complete control over available resources (such as fonts and styles) while editing, as they are typically centrally managed in the resource collection as digital assets that may be used in any appropriate report.
Depending on the pre-determined workflow, certain report tasks are sent to a supervisor for review and/or comments before approval for print and mail or being returned to the report generator for further work. During this process, the supervisor may also add an electronic sticker to the document, optionally color-coded by role and are role, date and time-stamped.
Once approved for customer delivery, the report can be either locally printed (PCL/PDF) and mailed/e-mailed or sent to a central output management process for further post-processing tasks, such as bundling of reports with other business documents for the same addressee to take advantage of maximizing economies of printing or mailing.
After the report is delivered, customer care personnel may have the ability to search the archive for report viewing, re-printing and re-sending to the end customer, as needed, with re-prints optionally watermarked to indicate the document is not the original.
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Product
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Optional Components |
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Insurance
Correspondence
Automated Correspondence
Correspondence
Inside
Papyrus WebRepository
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