Repurpose Existing Documents
- Import and enhance overlays designed with third-party applications or use them as a basis to design new ones - Never start from scratch again!
- Modify the design of documents produced by your ERP system.
- Process and improve finished documents and select output channel - print, archive, e-doc, etc.
- Repurpose and migrate existing infrastructures even when the original sources are no longer available.
- Assemble new documents by integrating external documents.
- Import existing mailmerges designed using MS Word with their databases of addresses and names.
- Enable the production of personalized communications automatically on the production server using a mailmerge initially designed in MS Word on a PC.
Convert Input and Output From and To Any Format
- Convert documents "on the fly" based on the language supported by the destination printer.
- Use XPS as the intermediary format in all transforms without worrying about source and target language.
- Wide variety of transforms supported to convert documents from one language to another.
- Unify documents in the same format.
- The converted data is remapped, not transformed into images like some other third-party solutions do e.g. AFP to PCL.
- The XPS format guarantees smooth and quick conversions into different printer languages which allows you to automatically send output to a back-up printer in another language if the main printer goes down.
- Increased responsiveness: The XPS language makes it easy to develop new document conversion routines for new languages.
Customize & Enhance Production Documents
- Sort, split, join and index existing documents.
- Produce the same document in several languages automatically using one template through the use of Unicode.
- Insert personalized promotional messages on transactional documents sent to your clients - TransPromo.
- Encode RFID tags for your RFID labels.
Combine Desktop Documents with Production Documents
- Combine different files into one output document.
- Mix office documents and PDFs with production documents.
- Process desktop documents on iSeries, UNIX and other production operating systems.
- Process existing and output new office documents such as MS Office, Open Office, Adobe (Indesign), etc.
Output Management, Spooling & Drivers
- Use Windows drivers (no need to install the drivers on all workstations), print from within Citrix, Terminal Server, etc.
- Print to the user's local printer from within our spooler (through the network, the Web, etc.)
- Drive all types of printers natively, including IPDS printers.
- Secure production: back up printers in real-time e.g. ZEBRA to DATAMAX.
- Load-balancing.
- Printer drivers no longer needed.
- The MAPPING Suite Output Manager is a unique print data stream management solution which provides the ability to manage printers in mixed environments.
- The spooler integrates seamlessly into environments other than the iSeries.
- Easy implementation / interfacing in production environments.
- Address any type of printer in the same way without having to manage multiple document formats.
- Define backup printers the language of which can be different from that of the main printer.
- Independent from other applications' proprietary formats - can address any printer, Xerox, IPDS, laser, etc.
- Our solution accepts a wide variety of input formats, which allows the customer to optimize and streamline the different pools of printers.
- Preview thermal print data streams (via XPS or PDF conversions).
Archiving
- Archive all documents - production, MS Office, PDFs, etc. - in MAPPING Suite or third-party archiving solutions.
- One single archiving solution: design and archive all your documents and e-documents in one single solution.
- Index and archive graphical files.
- The MAPPING Suite solution archives the files in PCL or XPS, not PDF! (improved compression rates)
- Index all types of documents and send them to any archiving solution.
- Our solution archives documents in text mode - not image mode - to make document retrieval easier.
Simplify & Automate
- XPS is a stable and well-structured language.
- Any developer can read and write XPS files (supports Microsoft standards).
XPS
- Quick learning curve - intuitive, user-friendly GUIs.
- Same logic on all supported operating systems.
- XPS support is now standard on virtually all printer makes and models.
- No database required: all the files are flat files, which makes it easier to migrate platforms.
Drive IPDS Printers
- Native support for the IPDS protocol.
MAPPING Suite: A Native Product
- MAPPING Suite software solutions are natively multiplatform and require no Java.
- No third-party software modules in our software and no offshore development.
MAPPING Suite: High-Performance Products
- Easily handle large volumes of data on any platform and in any architecture model.
- Implement new languages quickly (increased responsiveness).
- Reduce filesize through resource optimization.
- Generate the overlay only once (XPS is used as the intermediary format in all transforms).
- Easy to install and configure.
- Slash template development time.
- Ability to handle large amounts of data on "small" systems.
MAPPING Suite: Multiple Solutions
- Multiplatform: AS400/iSeries – UNIX – LINUX - WINDOWS - MAINFRAME.
- Create documents in multiple formats with one template in the same process.
- Multiple sources.
- Centralized document distribution through multiple channels.
- Multiple output channels, multiple infrastructures, multiplatform.
Competitive Advantages
- Native support for IPDS and color AFPDS.
- Advanced color and image support: transparent overlapping, clipping, cropping, etc. - Advanced graphic features on production documents.
- Dynamic and interactive communications.
- Compatible with what will become the future printer driving standard.
- Output to the Web and to laser, thermal and impact printers: we're the only product covering the 4 channels at the same time.
- Process spool files in multiple formats, XML, databases and graphics with one single solution.
- Full Unicode solution.
- Print to remote printers not declared on the network.
- Enhance production documents with information from Windows applications - leverage white space on production documents.
- Implement new solutions that don't exist or are limited in ERP systems: Send e-mail automatically as PDF from the ERP / the user can view the document, add information from another application, print locally / Supports many archiving solutions such as IBM Content Manager, Filenet, etc.
