DocBase

DocBase is the document engine for the automatic creation of highly dynamic business documents. This server-based platform contains a number of components capable of acquiring raw data, merging/sorting/filtering/pre-formatting data, formatting the document and distributing it to a channel. A process engine which allows to run components in a controlled fashion is the cornerstone of DocBase.

Since DocBase is built on individual, independent components, it can easily be integrated into an existing document/print processing environment, even without the process engine mentioned before. Custom-made components can be added to extend the existing functionality.

DocBase solves many of today's document processing issues. It can be hooked into various kinds of real-time applications in order to respond to customers' inquiries immediately with automatically generated documents (see also under DocWrite). It can be used to process high-volume printing requests in a batch-oriented way, and so forth. The DocBase process engine allows the definition of individual execution units. A Web-Service based API is available to schedule a DocBase process, check its status and for many other management functions.

As a companion to DocBase there is a satellite edition available which enables decentralized processing of document production cycles in a distributed solution architecture.

Document layouts created by DocDesign are deployed to the DocBase environment via a repository database. The repository is the central place of information across all components in DocBase.

Key Benefits of DocBase

  • Extendable component based architecture
  • Distributed architecture to support different physical locations and scalability
  • Rich set of components for data acquisition, merging, formatting, distribution available, e.g. RTF document integration, XSL-FO block merging and -formatting engine
  • Fully integrates with DocDesign (e.g. for layout definitions)
  • May serve as runtime server for DocWrite

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