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Document automation is one of the most important methods through which an enterprise communicates with its customers and business partners.  Effective document systems are vital to building and maintaining productive commercial relationships.

Many organisations have a whole host of legacy document automation processes, packages and applications to deliver and manage customer and partner communications.  In order to significantly improve upon these document systems, however, businesses today are looking increasingly for integration solutions that will allow disparate, legacy applications to integrate with each other and with new technologies.

An effective document system integration solution ensures that investment in legacy applications is not wasted, whilst also positioning companies for future growth and technologies.  The ultimate aim is to be able to integrate anything with anything.
  

Why Integrate?

When looking at an enterprise's document automation profile, very often you will find that there is limited or no communication between processes such as data acquisition, through to composition, archival, finishing and distribution. In addition, there is often little, if any, ability for business users to interact with these document activities, and where they can interact with them the interfaces are inconsistent in their style, approach and functionality.

Without integration, it is increasingly difficult to manage and track document systems, and equally difficult to quickly and flexibly re-engineer document automation systems to reflect changes in business process. 

A properly integrated set  of document automation systems and processes can provide many tangible benefits to organisations, both in the short term and in positioning for the future.   

Integration Benefits

A powerful document systems integration tool can offer numerous opportunities and benefits to an enterprise, including:

• Increased ability for business users to interact with document processes through a consistent front end
• Integration of data acquisition; composition; archive; document delivery applications and processes
• Investment in legacy tools and applications is not wasted. Legacy applications can be integrated with each other and with newer technologies
• Simplification of business data access
• Reusability of functions speed up the creation of new document sytem processes
• Reduction in time to market for development of new products and functions
• Reduction in risk as existing solutions and infrastructure do not have to be replaced

Docuplus has extensive experience of the sort of challenges enterprises face when trying to integrate document systems, and can provide consultancy, services and products that can help you achieve your integration goals.