Merrill Common Content

key benefits Single-source solution to manage the entire document life cycle Manage entire document process with internal resources Save time by eliminating redundant processes Faster time to market

Merrill Common Content - The next generation document management solution

Introducing Merrill Common Content, the uncommon solution that delivers more of the benefits fund managers need – more control, more speed and more efficiency.

Streamline the document life cycle

Merrill Common Content gives you the power to control your document life cycle like never before – because your documents never leave your hands.

Using Merrill’s Web-based, content management solution, you and your internal staff can manage the entire process – from creating the initial draft to editing, composition and layout. Benefits include:

• Gain control - Common Content allows your internal team to manage the entire process, from creation to final production
• Greater efficiency - Designed around a central library of common language components, Common Content enables you to change any component once and the change will simultaneously be applied to dozens of documents that share the language
• Powerful simplicity - Common Content includes a strikingly simple, Web-based, intuitive interface designed for non-technical users
• One-click proofs - Generate proofs - EDGAR II, EDGAR ASCII as well as your typeset proof - with one click
• Speed - Significantly faster than competing products, generating fully composed, completely formatted PDF documents in seconds
• Collaborative work groups - enable multiple users to work on a single document at the same time
• Work from anywhere - Merrill Common Content can be accessed from any place, at any time
• No software installation or maintenance required - all that’s needed is a Web browser

Merrill Common Content streamlines the entire workflow process at many levels. Since team members use one system to internally manage the entire document life cycle, there’s no need for the time-consuming process of re-keying content into vendor systems and no need to monitor content conversion with each round of proofs. The Web-based environment makes document sharing simple and seamless for multiple users no matter where they are located.

Given today’s rapidly accelerating document cycle, all of these efficiencies are essential to competitiveness and time-to-market requirements.

To find out how you can use Merrill Common Content to your advantage, contact your Merrill representative today.