Each day, organizations produce hundreds of thousands of pages of computer-generated reports, such as statements, bills, invoices, policies, contracts and other internal reports.  In the past, these reports have been produced on paper, routed around the organization or mailed to the customer, and subsequently stored on microfiche, microfilm, or paper.  Those methods of report creation and distribution are outdated and inefficient compared to what is capable today.  Producers and consumers of enterprise reports demand immediate, anytime access.  Reports need to be available electronically, and accessible on a 24x7 basis from anywhere in the world.

Improving access to enterprise reports

Today's information-centric economy produces reports on high volume, all-points-addressable printers, using print stream technology that includes extensive formatting instructions.  But creating reports is only one-half of the equation.  Reports must also be available and consumable by the people who need to consult them.

ApplicationXtender Reports Management provides the report processing for advanced print streams, as well as traditional COLD text formats, for management within ApplicationXtender.  By providing fast and efficient capture of enterprise report data, ApplicationXtender Reports Management turns enterprise reports into e-reports, enabling internal and external report delivery.  And by processing, indexing, and archiving enterprise reports for online retrieval, ApplicationXtender Reports Management provides a significant return on investment, allowing organizations to reduce the cost and improve the productivity of multiple business  processes.  It improves access to information while reducing or eliminating costs associated with paper, film, and microfiche.

Key Features

• Support for advanced printstreams and text reports – Ensures that advanced formatting isn't lost during processing by supporting AFP, Metacode, PCL, and PDF print streams as well as traditional text formats including ASCII and EBCDIC(K)

• High-fidelity electronic presentment of reports – Allow customers to access and download their statements on the Web and facilitate service representatives to quickly help customers with questions and email or print duplicate originals as necessary.

• Automatic report indexing – Automatically process reports in the background just as soon as they are produced

• Support for co-mingled and dynamic print streams – Successfully co-mingle print streams such as alternating cover letters with statements as well as take advantage of dynamic formatting within print streams, placing company logos on statements, for instance

• System monitoring to ensure peak performance – Audit system use and performance and confirm whether a job has been processed

• Full integration with content management and storage – Manage and deliver reports and indexes and store information on any media including optical, WORM, tape, DVD-RAM, or CD-ROM