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key benefits
- Produce and manage content of data driven documents faster and more accurately
- Support different documents through flexible formatting
- Create smarter, faster revision cycles through easy workflow
- Build print and web output through one fast, structured process
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Prepare and deliver data-driven documents faster and easier
Every day, financial services companies are challenged to quickly and accurately produce a wide range of shareholder documents – fact sheets, data books, prospectuses, sales materials and other cyclical compliance documents – for a demanding client base.
Yet traditional authoring and revision methods are labor intensive processes that are not easy to accelerate. Nor is it easy to eliminate errors. Is there an approach that blends speed, absolute accuracy and uncompromising quality? Merrill has the answer.
Merrill Data Publishing Architecture (Merrill DPA)
MerrillDPA transforms raw data from a variety of systems into a series of standard shareholder communications. Using a Web interface and powerful templates, you can build consistent professional documents without sacrificing flexibility around content or appearance.
MerrillDPA accommodates your designs and data sets. It supports input streams from accounting systems, spreadsheets and data warehouses. It integrates translation, print-on-demand, fulfillment and Web content management systems and processes. And it aligns with multiple output requirements.
MerrillDPA components include:
Data Mapper – provides data collection and processing from multiple data sources including relational databases, document/text management systems and flat-file sources
Document Builder – collates text, graphics and data components you can configure, preview and structure into a workflow for streamlining reviews, changes and approvals
PowerForm and Notepad – supply a simple browser-based spreadsheet and rich text-editing tools for interactively updating document content Graph Builder Pro – delivers automatic rendering of high quality GIF and EPS images for print and web use through a data charting tool
MerrillDPA advantages include:
- Faster data collection, revision and approval by eliminating manual markups, paper routings and data re-keying
- Easier shared language management by sharing content between similar documents
- Automated data charting by automatically producing and embedding high quality charts in all outputs forms
- A complete workflow solution controlled by managing the review process with an audit trail of changes, comments, approvals and document releases
- Pre-press document production that reduces the time and cost of typesetting and chart production
- Web site publishing for producing (in parallel) print and Web-ready output
- Secure Web access via MerrillDPA's hosted service
- Print and fulfillment services (including inventory management) that complete the process once the documents are produced
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