New ActiveDocs Opus Eclipse solution redefines ease of use and productivity in document automation, template creation and management

Thursday, 09 February 2012 01:07

Top-to-bottom refinements in ActiveDocs Opus Eclipse streamline content searching, template management and document handling

ActiveDocs today unveiled a new version of its flagship document automation solution that features top-to-bottom refinements that redefine usability and productivity for creating documents and managing templates.

ActiveDocs Opus Eclipse includes more than 100 new features and 300 revisions designed to make document creation and template management faster, easier and more accurate. Many of the refinements focus on eliminating steps and procedures that required leaving the ActiveDocs interface, such as retrieving content from outside systems or comparing templates in progress with those stored in document repositories.

Using customer feedback as a guide, ActiveDocs' development team identified bottlenecks that limited user performance. The team made modifications reducing the time needed to complete tasks by 30 to 80 percent. For example, users can expect to spend about 30 percent less time creating a moderately complex template in ActiveDocs Opus Eclipse than they did in earlier versions of the product. Document creation and system administration is also streamlined in ActiveDocs Opus Eclipse.

'This leap in usability increases ActiveDocs Opus' value to organizations like ours that create complex documents using information from many different sources in many different formats,' according to a spokesman for the Finnish Center for Pensions. 'ActiveDocs Opus Eclipse keeps users working in their primary document creation interface rather than jumping to other applications. Those small savings in time and effort compound quickly into major savings when you're producing as many documents as we are.'

ActiveDocs Opus Eclipse is the newest version of ActiveDocs Opus document automation software. ActiveDocs Opus is document automation and template management software built on Microsoft® technology. It captures and preserves corporate memory and facilitates the assembly and delivery of content through a range of document channels, including hard copy, electronic or presentation format.

Among the refinements in ActiveDocs Opus Eclipse is an updated document creation wizard interface with a new appearance and extensive new back-end functionality. Eclipse users can pull entire documents or parts of them into their working document through the document creation wizard, reformat and modify it, and insert it into the body of a document or as appendices.

ActiveDocs Opus Eclipse saves template authors significant time revising and modifying templates with a one-click 'run now' function for testing templates directly from the design interface. From the Content Manager interface, Eclipse designers can now select and compare versions of templates directly using Microsoft Word. That eliminates the extra steps of creating copies of new and existing templates in ActiveDocs Opus and Microsoft Word, and comparing them in Word. Eliminating the extra copies also reduces the chances for errors caused by old and inaccurate versions of templates lurking in the system.

Among its other major refinements, ActiveDocs Opus Eclipse includes:

·        new workflow rules for finer control over document handling procedures, such as retention policies;

·        HTML support for creating fully formatted email;

·        a module enabling Microsoft SharePoint users to create documents in Eclipse through their SharePoint interfaces;

·        a refreshed free text editor that simplifies content formatting; and

·        system administration improvements such as end-to-end troubleshooting and a feature for automatically retrieving Windows events logs and turning them into reports.

'Since document automation emerged as its own market, solution providers have concentrated on expanding feature sets to reach the necessary functionality levels. Now that products have matured, users are looking for more refined products that perform essential functions more easily. That's what we've done with ActiveDocs Opus Eclipse,' said ActiveDocs CEO Glenn Ricketts. 'We took a fresh look at how ActiveDocs Opus users want to interact with the software and what they need to accomplish. We removed barriers and unnecessary steps, and created a much easier pathway to the document automation and template management functionality they need to produce accurate documents quickly.'

For more information:

• www.activedocs.com
• www.activedocs.com/opus/index.html