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For many, the increasing importance and emphasis placed upon corporate branding or the burden of
legislative requirements means that their document management processes are becoming cumbersome
and costly to execute.
In a nutshell our core software engine, Spinner, provides a set of utilities that enables the output from
almost any application to be parsed for content and trigger processes based upon that content. These
processes include document formatting, document/file distribution, automatic email generation and the
initiation of other key processes.
Furthermore, leading analysts, including Gartner, claim that typically 20% of the costs of an E.R.P.
implementation are taken up on the design and production of documentation. Therefore Spinner can
provide a very real return on investment in a short time period.
Examples of how Spinner is used include a Spanish insurance company who take custom multi language
documents from bespoke COBOL applications and distribute them in PDF format. There is a DIY retailer
who uses Spinner to monitor Oracle log files for specific error conditions and a multinational insurance
company where Spinner pulls national accounts files, consolidates then sends to the US, with all parties
being notified by e-
There are modules covering a wide range of applications including an overlay designer, the automatic
formatting of print streams including pagination and field merge and automatic scanning for specific data strings to trigger an alert process.
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Before Spinner we had to take information from eight systems
and manually create documents. Now it is automated and error free
John Allsop -
Think before you print technology