Document Automation Solutions with Thunderhead NOW
Organizations, in both private and public sectors, have long used Document
Automation solutions to manage the production of customized and highly
personalized documents.
Often, these solutions have been developed in-house, hard-wired into
back-office and enterprise systems. More commonly, though, they are based on one
of the legacy Document Automation products (also commonly referred to
as Document Generation or Document Composition products)
that have been in use over the last
decade or more. These products were originally developed to service the requirements of
batch-printed documents, and have a heritage in high volume print composition for
mainframe systems.
In both cases, the reliance on specialist product
and technology expertise stands as a barrier between the line-of-business users
and the need for the speedy and responsive design and production of business
documents.
Thunderhead's NOW Enterprise Communications Platform brings a fresh approach
to the production of business documents, and delivers many
significant advantages over traditional Document Automation solutions.
The Thunderhead NOW platform is simple enough for today's business
users to employ, yet powerful enough to scale to the production needs of even
the largest organizations.
"Business User Control" - Thunderhead NOW is unique in
that it has been developed specifically to enable business users to
take control of the Document Automation process, free of reliance on IT
expertise.
Interactive and On-Demand Documents - Thunderhead NOW is
the leader in interactive, real-time communications and provides comprehensive
functionality for high-volume batch, interactive and on-demand document
applications.
"Dynamic Templating" - our Dynamic Templates provide a
write-once publish-many model that supports deep personalization, multiple
languages and jurisdictions, and any number of output channels: all from a
single set of rules and a single document template, rather than relying on
external tool sets, Microsoft® Word or 3rd party authoring software.
Comprehensive Multi-Channel Output - Unlike traditional
Document Automation systems, which have a heritage in legacy print applications,
Thunderhead NOW was developed from the ground up to support virtually any
communication channel and device, from print, web and email through to mobile
devices and XML messaging.
Support for XML - Thunderhead NOW's open,
standards-based architecture natively supports XML without relying on
proprietary data formats, future-proofing your investments in your document
inventory. Thunderhead NOW also supports XML output, with native support for
industry standard XML messaging protocols such as FpML and ACORD.
Enterprise Scalability - Thunderhead NOW is built on a
modern Java Enterprise architecture that allows for virtually limitless
scalability in even extreme high-volume production environments.
Integrated Exception Management - Thunderhead NOW's
BPEL-compliant integration with leading business process management (BPM)
solutions enables rich exception management, far beyond the capabilities of
stand-alone Document Automation solutions.
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