e-Document Solutions Star can help organisations leverage their investment in e-document delivery solutions by providing these organisations with the ability to create professional business and customer-facing documents such as purchase orders, invoices, bar-coded shipping slips and cheques from any data source. These are dynamically generated electronic documents for delivery to clients via Adobe pdf, the Web, e-mail, fax, or print.
Star is a business partner of global company Bottomline Technologies which owns the Create!Form product suite. Star can provide Create!Form products together with consulting services for the design and integration of electronic documents with corporate financial systems such as Oracle Financials, SAP and JD Edwards. This integration is achieved without the need for expensive modifications to the core business systems.
Star is also a long-time solutions partner of JetForm, now owned by Adobe. The former JetForm products have been integrated into Adobe’s Document Services suite and include Adobe Central Output Server and Adobe Output Designer. Star can provide software licensing and implementation services for the Adobe Output products.
Advantages versus Word Processors and Report Writers
When it comes to building and deploying electronic documents, Forms Packages offer some very real benefits over industry standard word processors and report writers.
Ability to work with data streams from legacy applications which a reportwriter may not be able to interface to due to their reliance on availability of ODBC drivers;
Ability to create multiple documents such as an invoice and a packing slip from a single data stream;
Simple integration with fax servers and email systems for multiple output delivery i.e. one operation to deliver document to fax, printer and archive application;
Dynamic documents built and formatted ‘on the fly’ based on rules. This is particularly important where data fields vary in length, such as text description or sale conditions which can be expanded over page breaks when necessary whilst retaining proper output formatting;
Users do not need separate desktop application as deployment is contained within the existing applications;
Designer interface for electronic document template design is a Windows XP desktop application with graphical user interface. The application is a specific forms building tool which allows users to easily place and format fields on a page and paste company logos and text information;
Ability to incorporate generated barcodes on an electronic document.
Cheque printing with Micr encoding to compatible printers.
Forms products are specifically built to process forms quickly and easily, whether on an adhoc basis or via batch processing.
The Document Server is available on a wide range of platforms. For example Windows Server 2000/2003, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Linux etc.
