Benefits• Process Owners can increase

productivity and profitability,achieving more in less time, improving existing processes andreducing production delays.

• Business Managers can turn everycommunication into an opportunity to build loyalty and fuel sales byconverting data into targeted,relevant business communicationand efficiently slashing documentprocessing costs.

• Marketing Professionals can drivemore business with bettercommunications by respondingquickly to market opportunities,easily enhancing existing documentsand transforming businessdocuments into attractive advertisingcommunications with transpromomessages.

• IT Professionals can improvebusiness processes with nochange to the existing system byimplementing our single, provensolution for all documents andforms, by ensuring compliancewith enterprise applications andby automating tasks to reduceyour workload.

• Finance Executives can use ourtechnology to create revenues andbenefit from a speedy ROI. You canreduce labour costs and associatedproduction turnaround, acceleratethe distribution process, speed uppayment and reduce postal costs.You can use digital archiving, reducethe cost of customer service andmaximise your marketing budget tocreate sales opportunities.

PlanetPress SuiteBusiness communications your way.

PRODUCTION PRINTING SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

PLANETPRESS SUITE

IntroductionCustomer communications impact every department of your organisation. Withthe right technology and the right solution you can create business documentsand communications that help you develop, maintain and grow your business,as well as implement strategies and processes to respond to future needs.

With PlanetPress Suite you can create or enrich variable content documentswhether transactional, transpromotional or promotional. You can extractinformation from print streams, databases, XML or other formats and easilymap it on to a template document. You can import existing business documentscreated with any Windows® application, interpreting the content intelligentlyfor repurposing and enrichment. And you can print documents created withPlanetPress Suite on any printer, send them by email or fax and index and archivethem in Electronic Document Management (EDM) systems, using our automatedworkflows to optimise production and document distribution.

FEATURES• Input data in almost any format

including: XML, ASCII, Line Printer,PDF, ODBC, Compliant Databaseformats, CSV, Channel Skip and more

• Connect with most host applicationsincluding Mainframe, AS /400, UNIX,Windows, ERP/CRM

• Capture fully composed documentsinstead of data, either ready-madePDF files or print streams

• Extract text from input documentsand add or modify content, or applybusiness rules for workflowcapabilities

• Design simple to complex businessdocuments with conditional text,images, graphics or pages

• Apply business rules for conditionaloutput based upon informationcontained in the data or print stream

• Use the scripting languagePlanetPress Talk for uniqueapplications or complex requirements

• Control your printers’ finishingfeatures automatically andconditionally

• Add data-driven graphics and chartsto your business documents

• Generate industry-standard barcodes,including 1D, 2D and OMR

• Create consistent documents usingthe same RIP engine as AdobeAcrobat Distiller

• Automate tasks and reduce yourworkload

• Create PDF, PDF/X, PDF/A, TIFF, JPG,AutoStore or VDX file formats

• Process several jobs simultaneouslyusing PlanetPress Imaging as amulti-threaded production server

• Control all settings available in AdobeAcrobat Distiller when you createPDF files

• Set rights on PDF files for printingor text modification and copying

• Tag any number of fields found inyour variable data documents tocreate an index file

• Use PlanetPress Search to queryand retrieve indexed files

• Modify the index file structure tofit the requirements of mostEDM systems.

• Archive documents to yourexisting electronic documentmanagement system

• Send files via email using eitherSMTP or Outlook automatically

• Fax files automatically

PlanetPress Suite

The facts and figures shown in this brochure relate to specific business cases. Individual circumstances may produce different results. All company, brand, product and service names are the property of andare registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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WORKFLOW

EMAIL FAX ARCHIVE

WORKFLOW TOOLS OUTPUTINPUT

Data & Documents

Split, Merge, Enhance, Sort, Filter and DistributeDistributed Printing, Remote Printing,

Cluster Printing etc.

WEB

Communicate with external, e-commerce or webapplications for live processing of online data