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• Actuate to Publisher Conversion Utility
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• Possible replacement of Document Server for all
document generation (i.e. Proposals)
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New Features
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Email
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• BIP Excel
Printer
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EDD
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Wizard
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batch submit
Planned World / BIP Interface Support
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• JDBC gateway into World data for BIP
Report Wizard
• Formatted Reports with graphics
• Government forms
• EFT, EDI
• Create different report templates with
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different languages)
• Output in PDF and other common
formats
• Complex Bursting
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XSL XML
Java, C++,
Pearl, etc Templates EDI Repository
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Excel
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HTML
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PDF
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Government
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XML
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B2B
For different output formats
Report Bursting
Batch data
EDI
HTML
PDF
Publisher
XML
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