Testimony

This is how a large bank
significantly reduces its desktop publishing costs

Reduce your costs in all your 3 phases.
Significantly reduce your costs, in your development, test and production phases with new desktop publishing software.

Cost reduction requirements and an increased need for operational performance, have led us to rethink the organisation of our publishing processes, whether in the development phase or in the industrial production phase.

Our priority was to give our developers test aids for new editions statements, in order for them to conduct and finalise the test at low cost. This having been said, we definitely needed to make them identical to the industrial system. For this reason, we looked for a printing server and a very reliable multi-format conversion.

By transcoding the industrial target language onto standard office automation hardware, the desktop publishing Manager was able to reduce the need for high-speed specialised printers. Now, developers can carry out their tests on printers at 440 euros per unit because they emulate their production environment (which costs 45,000 euros each). I will let you work out the savings…

The outcome is more than convincing because the document produced by the printing and conversion server is almost identical to the industrial document. Finally, a few tests before beginning production and it is fine.

With this tool, by overcoming the constraints associated with the industrial printing press, the bank can carry out printing on request. In this way, a simple request to duplicate to one of their advisers is now immediately processed on an office printer in PCL and/or PostScript languages.

An immediate response, at very little cost, which is greatly appreciated by their clients.

With VIPServer, the applications become independent from the printers. Now the bank can use all printers no matter what their format, no matter what the application. Each one uses the existing network printer population, which in fact does not need to be specific. In this way the bank produces all sorts of documents at less cost.

Furthermore, in a production system, the VIPServer engine operates very quickly, “stream lines” and is very reliable. “The Samarcande developers made a black box, which, without an operator, makes it possible to automate publishing operations and to distribute them on their “client” sites. All the data flows are integrated and processed centrally then distributed to them. They convert data in Paris and print for example in Stockholm, closer to the user. The printer population requires much fewer specialists and becomes much easier to maintain."