Most people aren’t particularly fond of the way their organizations create and maintain the critical documents their businesses need. Here are some comments we’ve heard: “We don’t have just one document system, we have many. We’re paying for the same…
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We’re so bombarded with marketing messages that many of us have become highly adept at filtering out most of them. Customers do, however, want to hear from the companies they do business with, especially if those companies deliver personally relevant…
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Join us for Building a Master Global Form Template with Leslie Conduitt and Steve Luke on Wednesday, October 9, at 1 p.m. EDT. Who needs a Master Global Form Template? Companies that have more than one office location, global enterprises from the Fortune 10 to the Fortune 10000, software companies that have a few customers to thousands of customers are all great candidates for using a Global Form template. Global in this context means you have multiple locations using the same business software. They need to localize the documents generated in different states, countries, or for OEMs each customer using your software needs branding and legal terms and conditions. Eclipse provides software to companies of all sizes – from hospitals with less than 50 beds, community banks using third party software, manufacturers, logistics companies to the Fortune 10. The Master Global Form Template evolved from the need for our OEM customers Advantage 360, GE Healthcare, Guidewire, Tyler Technology to support hundreds or thousands of customers from different companies all using their core software technology. These companies as well as companies that have multiple company brands and locations receive huge savings using Master Global Form Templates. Imagine being able to support multiple locations in many states or countries with a master template that dynamically manages language, currency, logos, branding and company colors without modifying the Master Global Form Template! Adding new locations, customers or partners can be done by business teams without the need for complex technical development. Once you have your Master Template, your business teams can manage adding new branches, companies or updating existing addresses, phone numbers, or branding changes. Join the Eclipse team and see how to automate and simplify multi-locations and multi-brand requirements. Our Business Communications Center™ (BCC) provides the power and features to manage a company-wide document generation solution. BCC™ can generate millions of documents at top-rate speeds that our competitors cannot match. Browser based features allow companies to give their customers an interactive/self-service portal for customizing and personalizing documents, and BCC allows companies to add messages within any transactional document to up-sell products and services, as well as provide customers with critical information. BCC’s Master Global Form Template feature supports unlimited versions of a form with a single template to control logos, color schemes, company contact information and even languages in a single merge run. This feature is especially powerful for multi-division companies, commercial print service providers and OEM software providers that embed BCC™ powered by DocOrigin®. Join Leslie Conduitt and Steve Luke to see how easily this feature can be managed to improve your communications. A little about our Presenters: Steve Luke, founder and CEO of Eclipse Corporation®, has focused exclusively on the development of enterprise class software for the creation, presentation and delivery of forms, documents and labels. He was a co-creator of FormsPlus/400, acquired by JetForm and then Adobe. His passion for providing customers with highly reliable software and excellent personal customer service led his team to the creation of DocOrigin® and BCC™. With more than 4,000 licenses sold to 3M, GE, Guidewire, Konica Minolta, McKesson, Tyler Technologies and many more, it has been a huge success. Leslie Conduitt, Document Solutions Specialist with Eclipse Corporation®, began in the infancy of the e-forms industry. She has led migration teams in the management, conversion, implementation, training and quality assurance of large-scale projects using tools such as Adobe Output (previously JetForm), LiveCycle and DocOrigin®. In addition, she assists with marketing, product development, technical writing, training and consulting. Click here to register now!
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We’ve recently shared some important news: DocOrigin has been enhanced to drive Zebra® printers at rated speeds when used in a single facility installation or globally distributed printing environments. The Zebra/DocOrigin partnership is so beneficial to customers because: Read the full press release here.
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No worries! Check out the transcript and recording of The Next Generation of Document Generation here. Moderated by Kevin Craine of Craine Communications Group, the webinar features Andy Nadeau of McKesson Medical-Surgical and Mike Badeaux and Kerry Dieaz of Mele Printing presenting case studies of DocOrigin use in both companies. Watch the complete presentation here, or read on for the entire transcript, below. Chad: Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Chad Henk, Marketing Director for Xplor International. On behalf of Xplor and Eclipse Corporation, I want to welcome you all to today’s broadcast of “The Next Generation of Document Generation.” Before we begin, I want to share a few tips with you. (Chad goes on to explain how to use the webinar set up.) Now, I’d like to introduce Kevin Craine, Executive Producer at Craine Communications Group who’s going to be representing Eclipse Corporation today. So Kevin, the show is yours. Kevin: Hi, Chad. Thank you so much. It’s my pleasure to moderate this discussion today because Eclipse Corporation are experts in designing and implementing next generation document generation solutions. Their flagship software DocOrigin is innovative and an intuitive approach to generating business correspondence. And as we’ll see today, no matter what industry you’re in and whether you need to produce large volumes of transactional documents or just a single customer letter, DocOrigin can handle it quickly and easily and affordably. And DocOrigin also allows us to leverage data generated by older legacy printed mail systems right alongside modern enterprise content management systems and other lines of business applications without the need for highly customized coding or advanced IT supports. These are the reasons I’m excited to be here today, and just a few of the reasons that companies in varied and diverse industries have selected DocOrigin. And we have two of those customer organizations represented here today, Mele Printing and McKesson Medical-Surgical. We’ll be starting today with Mike Badeaux, Senior Applications Developer at Mele Printing. He’ll be joined also by Kerry Diez. Kerry’s also in application development and sales at Mele. Mele Printing has been using DocOrigin in a number of interesting ways, better driving rate of speed and leveraging the advanced features from their equipment, and they’re integrating this system with other tools to help reduce postage cost and improve delivery. So we’ll be hearing from Mike and Kerry in just a few minutes about that, just a moment or so. Also in this session is Andy Nadeau from McKesson Medical-Surgical. Andy is a senior programmer analyst in McKesson and they’ve been using DocOrigin since 2015. And the results have been impressive. They’ve turned around their processing time from days and hours to minutes for critical applications like packing slips, and they’ve got a more integrated solution for printing mail using DocOrigin. So we’ll talk about that with Andy Nadeau in the second half. And we’ll have some questions and answers at the end of the session, so please save your ideas and questions for then. But for now, I think we should just let…get going and introduce our first guest today, Mike Badeaux and Kerry Diaz from Mele Printing. Hello, guys. Mike: Hey, guys. How y’all doing? Kerry: Hey, how are you? Kevin: Now, Mele Printing is a commercial print service provider in Louisiana. They’ve been using DocOrigin since 2013 and have continued to expand on the use of the software. And in 2016, Mele became the first company to put the Pitney Bowes Accelejet into production. As we know, the Accelejet is a state-of-the-art production printer designed for complex documents and forms and DocOrigin drives that Accelejet, helping to get full-rated speed while taking advantage of the high resolution and advanced features. I want to ask you folks about that. Mike, you’ve been using DocOrigin for a number of years now, in particular, to expand your use and the ROI of the Accelejet. What brought about these changes? Kerry: This is Kerry, with Mele. Kevin: Hey, Kerry. Kerry: A little bit of history, I came to Mele Printing in 2013 from a company that had about 50 or 60 applications that were actually written in COBOL and RPG2, so we needed something quicker, both on the processing end and the printing end. And we definitely have found both of those as needed. We needed the ability to convert systems really quickly, obviously, because we were in a crunch to get all the 50 or 60 applications converted fairly timely while they continue to run on the older system. We want to do that quickly and we did through DocOrigin’s FilterEditor product. It’s amazing. The data mapping is really quick, really simple, easy to use. And then DocOrigin’s Design product, it makes it really quick and easy to design a form and get an application up and running. So the speed of the DocOrigin product match well with the speed of the Accelejet bringing my old company into a whole new world that our customers certainly enjoy because of turnaround times. Kevin: Kerry, you mentioned… I’m sorry, Mike. Go ahead. Mike: I was just going to add that I think the other change that we have seen is over the last few years, the transactional printing industry has just changed. It used to be that a black and white statement was enough. You’re just reporting facts to the members. Now, what they’re demanding is they want to see color. They want to see full color. They want to see… Our customers want those statements to be a profit center. So we’re going to put full-color ads on these statements now and advertise their products. And that’s changing the industry. Kevin: So with the FilterEditor and the ability to add color and more advanced features, DocOrigin really took you to the next level, because what? In the old days, that would have taken a lot of coding and a lot of effort, correct? Mike: A huge amount of coding and a lot of effort. Now, it’s a
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BCC Software is a forward thinking mailing and presort software provider that supply intuitive software solutions, enhancing your entire mailing workflow by initiating easier, more efficient and quicker job processing with automation. Now, in an effort to be even more supportive of your business, they have relaunched godatasolution.com. Exclusively from BCC Software, GoData™ is a tool that offers complete and secure self-service access to data quality and list enhancement with none of the typical barriers like software installations, database configurations, or sales cycles. GoData is an established product of a few years, owned by BCC Software, and offers an array of data leveraging services that integrate anywhere along your workflow spectrum. From mail preparation and tracking, to data enhancement and targeting, BCC Software has a variety of services appropriate for your direct communication needs. GoData offers innovative address standardization services, including Rooftop Geocoding, Proprietary Change of Address processing and List Suppression. This new and improved site is so intuitive and easy to use… GoData is an entirely self-service platform, meaning your free account comes with no obligation, so you can get your jobs turned around quickly and effectively. Simply login, select a job type, set up a few options using our intuitive interface, and checkout. Your job will be processed and returned right to the site for you to download. Managing data quality for your postal, marketing, and sales efforts has never been easier. Master data management, contact list management, postal discount maximization — whatever your data quality needs, you can trust the data you get back is complete, correct, and current. BCC Software has created GoData to put the power of data quality right in your hands, allowing every mailer, marketer, and sales professional to find success. Check it out here at godatasolution.com. BCC and Eclipse became partners in November of 2016 When integrated together, BCC Software and Eclipse Corporation’s products create a seamless document creation-to-mail process. “This important partnership shows yet another way to streamline the direct communication workflow by integrating technology assets,” said Chris Lien, President of BCC Software. “BCC Software and Eclipse represent over 50 years of combined experience in the print and mail industry. That depth of knowledge provides our customers an unmatched know-how when it comes to managing enterprise name and address data used for producing and mailing documents.” Read the full press release here.
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If you missed the first 7, check it out here. 8. We provide a superb, efficient and easy to use correspondence management solution, Dynamic Business Documents Dynamic Business Documents allows companies to generate and preview documents in their ERP, CRM and other enterprise software systems and communicates with DocOrigin through its own web services. With DBD, authorized employees from a single department or the whole enterprise can use pre-approved document templates and content to create professional business correspondence and other personalized documents in only four simple steps through a user-friendly interface (no scripting). After modifying the template, users can select any form of omni-channel delivery and presentation. 9. We meet your needs without changing your line of business software. With our methodology, Integration Without ModificationTM, you can use DocOrigin without altering your business software. This is just another reason why DocOrigin is perfect for any industry. DocOrigin now integrates the design and creation of Universally Accessible PDFs (PDF/UA), meeting ISO 14289-1 and WCAG 2.0 standards for PDF documents, into its flagship document generation software. The World Health Organization estimates 246 million people worldwide suffer from some form of visual impairment – with 39 million of those classified as blind. With PDF/UA conforming files, readers and assistive technology, these individuals and others with disabilities can have equal access to online information. PDF/A-3 allows you to include all pertinent files in a PDF. The PDF/A-3 acts as a wrapper to contain all the documents and supporting files that make up the packet. Users can embed Word, HTML, Excel, XML files in your PDF. For instance, in production, if your ERP, MRP, HRP, CRM software is producing invoices, the invoice produced by DocOrigin in PDF/A-3 can contain the matching PO and any other files that are relevant to that invoice. With DocOrigin, you can now generate universally accessible documents and forms that are appropriate for all of these readers – without complex post-processing tools and include all important materials needed. It’s the fastest way from raw Data to PDF/UA! 11. We also do dynamic fillable forms! Your business needs to collect and present information! Most of the time, information is collected from customers, employees, vendors or partners through the use of a form and then the data is delivered to you using an appropriate web service or portal. DocOrigin is an enterprise-class software solution that combines a professional graphical form designer with a powerful production engine capable of serving up documents and forms for the most demanding global companies. Whether you are designing forms to collect data on mobile devices or desktops – or you need to generate millions of production documents in electronic or printed format – or labels for patient wristbands or manufacturing or shipping – DocOrigin provides the dynamic fillable form solution you need. 12. We have a thriving OEM software partnership program. At Eclipse Corporation, we believe the primary risks in entering OEM software partnerships are found in the time frame between the decision to add additional capability to the existing product line and the break-even point of investment and revenue generation. The solitary focus of our OEM software partnerships program is to mitigate the risks in that time frame through investment and resource commitments, allowing our OEM partners to bring new solutions to market more quickly, align investment with cash flow, and enjoy higher returns on product sales. Need robust world class form, document, and label design and delivery in your commercial software? Find out why Advantage 360, GE Healthcare, Guidewire, Tyler Technologies,… chose DocOrigin! We hope you’ve learned a few new things about Eclipse and DocOrigin! If there is more you would like to know, please contact us to get in touch!
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1. We’ve been in the document generation business for 25 years and you’ve probably heard of some of our work! Our team consists of some of the creators of JetForm Central, PDF Wizard and Forms Plus/400. So you most likely…
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You may have heard our exciting news…. we now have PDF/A-3 in production environments for DocOrigin, Business Communications Center and Dynamic Business Documents. To read more about that, click here. That being said, we’ve spent some time recently reading up on PDF/A-3 and have come across some pretty helpful articles. We lay the top 7 out here for you. Please let us know of any others we should add. Pdf-tools gives a brief explanation of the formats within PDF/A and their functions. The authorities on PDF, the PDF Association, lay out a great explanation of PDF/A-3, but even better they make an argument for the benefits of using it. 3. PDF/A-3, PDF for Long-term Preservation, Use of ISO 32000-1, With Embedded Files at LOC.GOV This is the Library of Congress Collections’ planning for the sustainability of digital formats. They provide some resources and history behind the format. They also include their notes on the PDF/A-3 and other formats. This is a 23-page document by the National Digital Stewardship Alliance, a consortium of institutions that are committed to the long-term preservation of digital information. They provide in depth background on the format along with U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Scenarios and U.S. House Office of the Legislative Counsel Scenarios. Foxit provides a summary of the format, even including drawbacks but also points out the benefit in organizing digital archives and states that, “Pragmatists in companies from various segments, such as the pharmaceutical industry or the banking and financial sector, however, applaud the concept of being able to embed other formats in PDF files, because they have real-world needs to store original file formats alongside their PDF/A file counterparts.” Here Foxit explains the build-up to the development of PDF/A-3 and the 3 types and explanations of files PDF/A-3 can embed: Source, Supplement and Alternative. Prepressure.com outlines the rules and restrictions that PDF/A-3 must meet. We thought these may be helpful in getting a better grasp of PDF/A-3: it’s history, the need for it, benefits of using it and rules and restrictions involved. Happy Reading!
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