Papyrus Document System is a solution for generating customized customer bills and communications across different industries and platforms. It allows Orange to customize bills quickly based on customer details. GPU Energy uses Papyrus to format bills from SAP data for over 4.3 million customers internationally. Papyrus enables rapid development of flexible formats including conditional elements and charts. Corporations seek integrated solutions like Papyrus to create highly personalized documents for different channels from a single source document.
German Pension Fund Goes Linux: Legacy Application Migration to z/Linux with ...Novell
In this session, you will gain detailed insight into why and how German Pension Fund (Deutsche Rentenversicherung) migrated a monolithic mainframe application consisting of 3.5 million lines of code and 2,500 CICS COBOL programs and the required transaction environment to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z. In addition to reducing software costs through the use of open source software,
German Pension Fund can now rely on a consolidated system based on a modern, flexible and reliable operating system, which will also be used as the host system for content management and archiving systems. One of the main reasons for the move to Linux was that it can be used on multiple or different hardware platforms with minimal adaptations. And the biggest advantage of the IBM System z10 environment for German Pension Fund—
besides its legendary reliability and intelligent resource usage—clearly is that all application components run on a single machine, which means that administration effort and access times between z/OS and Linux are minimal.
Speakers: Florian Delonge Business Development Director EMEA
Clerity Solutions, Inc.
Falk-Oliver Bischoff Head of IT Department, Deutsche Rentenversicherung (German Pension Fund)
Data quality functions were already being provided as services for Unix, Windows and Linux, before the analysts of Gartner had invented the term SOA. For the most part, technical reasons were the decisive factor for this architecture. In addition to this, the implementation of service-oriented
architectures results in new and changed
requirements for data quality services
and also increases the opportunities and benefits which they can create.
Voith chose to extend its existing Power Systems server landscape with POWER6 and POWER7 processor-based servers as the platform of choice, and migrate its SAP database to IBM DB2 for Linux, Unix and Windows version 9.5. Average SAP response time is up to 20 percent faster, Software license costs have decreased, and maintenance, administration and operational expenses have been reduced
German Pension Fund Goes Linux: Legacy Application Migration to z/Linux with ...Novell
In this session, you will gain detailed insight into why and how German Pension Fund (Deutsche Rentenversicherung) migrated a monolithic mainframe application consisting of 3.5 million lines of code and 2,500 CICS COBOL programs and the required transaction environment to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z. In addition to reducing software costs through the use of open source software,
German Pension Fund can now rely on a consolidated system based on a modern, flexible and reliable operating system, which will also be used as the host system for content management and archiving systems. One of the main reasons for the move to Linux was that it can be used on multiple or different hardware platforms with minimal adaptations. And the biggest advantage of the IBM System z10 environment for German Pension Fund—
besides its legendary reliability and intelligent resource usage—clearly is that all application components run on a single machine, which means that administration effort and access times between z/OS and Linux are minimal.
Speakers: Florian Delonge Business Development Director EMEA
Clerity Solutions, Inc.
Falk-Oliver Bischoff Head of IT Department, Deutsche Rentenversicherung (German Pension Fund)
Data quality functions were already being provided as services for Unix, Windows and Linux, before the analysts of Gartner had invented the term SOA. For the most part, technical reasons were the decisive factor for this architecture. In addition to this, the implementation of service-oriented
architectures results in new and changed
requirements for data quality services
and also increases the opportunities and benefits which they can create.
Voith chose to extend its existing Power Systems server landscape with POWER6 and POWER7 processor-based servers as the platform of choice, and migrate its SAP database to IBM DB2 for Linux, Unix and Windows version 9.5. Average SAP response time is up to 20 percent faster, Software license costs have decreased, and maintenance, administration and operational expenses have been reduced
Fortumo is leading provider of mobile payments reaching over 3 billion mobile customers in 80 countries. Fortumo enables carrier billing on Android, NOOK, Windows Phone, Web and Developer API.
Broadband Management & Billing Solutions for Telco, ISP & Enterpriseinventum_marketing
Inventum is a leading OSS / BSS solutions provider across the globe. Area's of expertise include AAA, Radius, Subscriber Management Solutions, Broadband Billing, Campus Wi-Fi, Hospitality Broadband Management, Mobile Data Offload, PCRF & PCEF etc.
Founded in the year 2003, Inventum has had associations with the likes of Airtel, Aircel, Tikona Digital, MTS, Spectranet, Manipal University, ADNEC, Viceroy Dubai, Motorola, CISCO, ORACLE, Aruba, Ruckus etc.
Invoicera provides the customized billing software solutions to overcome the challenges of invoicing for enterprises. The invoicing challenges lack customization requirements, visibility, B2B communication, inaccurate billing and complexity in the workflow management. Get the quick and accurate results with the right selection of custom billing software. Trust the invoicing solution that adds customized benefits to your business needs. The custom billing software designed for integration with legacy systems with complete B2B communication. The enterprise billing software improves productivity receiving payments globally. Get the efficient hosting business to your customers and branding solutions.
Inbound Mail Processing - Technology Innovation Brochure by ISIS Papyrus Soft...ISIS Papyrus Software
Intelligent Inbound Mail Processing with Human Work Flow
Papyrus enables your incoming mail to flow:
- Intelligent Classification and Automated Distribution
- Human Workflow and Intelligent Routing to employees or departments
- Efficient data enrichment of all documents
- Automates the data enrichment of all documents
- Reduces throughput times and acquisition effort and more
- Processing all incoming communication channels
- A complete solution for agile Case Management
- Case Studies: Sanitas, City of Vienna, GIS, A1 Telekom
- Enables 2-Way Customer Communication
- Quick Response Management
KEY ADVANTAGES
- Reduced throughput time
- Less acquisition effort
- Information available earlier
- Channel independence
- Common view of customer
- Integration with SharePoint
- CMIS Adapter for FileNet, EMC, Alfresco, etc.
Learn More:
www.isis-papyrus.com/capture
www.isis-papyrus.com/archiving-edelivery
Document Management and Barcode Printing with SAPDawn Kehr
This paper explains why Source Technologies' printer control language or PCL-enabled – thermal printers let SAP users bring specific competitive advantages to their organizations by eliminating costly and complex middleware applications in their printer networks.
Solutions Catalog # 3 by ISIS Papyrus Software
Learn More about successful Customer Implement
in various Industries and how the Papyrus Platform for
Inbound and Outbound Business Communication and
Process Management will make your organization
more flexible, efficient and responsive to customer needs.
Fortumo is leading provider of mobile payments reaching over 3 billion mobile customers in 80 countries. Fortumo enables carrier billing on Android, NOOK, Windows Phone, Web and Developer API.
Broadband Management & Billing Solutions for Telco, ISP & Enterpriseinventum_marketing
Inventum is a leading OSS / BSS solutions provider across the globe. Area's of expertise include AAA, Radius, Subscriber Management Solutions, Broadband Billing, Campus Wi-Fi, Hospitality Broadband Management, Mobile Data Offload, PCRF & PCEF etc.
Founded in the year 2003, Inventum has had associations with the likes of Airtel, Aircel, Tikona Digital, MTS, Spectranet, Manipal University, ADNEC, Viceroy Dubai, Motorola, CISCO, ORACLE, Aruba, Ruckus etc.
Invoicera provides the customized billing software solutions to overcome the challenges of invoicing for enterprises. The invoicing challenges lack customization requirements, visibility, B2B communication, inaccurate billing and complexity in the workflow management. Get the quick and accurate results with the right selection of custom billing software. Trust the invoicing solution that adds customized benefits to your business needs. The custom billing software designed for integration with legacy systems with complete B2B communication. The enterprise billing software improves productivity receiving payments globally. Get the efficient hosting business to your customers and branding solutions.
Inbound Mail Processing - Technology Innovation Brochure by ISIS Papyrus Soft...ISIS Papyrus Software
Intelligent Inbound Mail Processing with Human Work Flow
Papyrus enables your incoming mail to flow:
- Intelligent Classification and Automated Distribution
- Human Workflow and Intelligent Routing to employees or departments
- Efficient data enrichment of all documents
- Automates the data enrichment of all documents
- Reduces throughput times and acquisition effort and more
- Processing all incoming communication channels
- A complete solution for agile Case Management
- Case Studies: Sanitas, City of Vienna, GIS, A1 Telekom
- Enables 2-Way Customer Communication
- Quick Response Management
KEY ADVANTAGES
- Reduced throughput time
- Less acquisition effort
- Information available earlier
- Channel independence
- Common view of customer
- Integration with SharePoint
- CMIS Adapter for FileNet, EMC, Alfresco, etc.
Learn More:
www.isis-papyrus.com/capture
www.isis-papyrus.com/archiving-edelivery
Document Management and Barcode Printing with SAPDawn Kehr
This paper explains why Source Technologies' printer control language or PCL-enabled – thermal printers let SAP users bring specific competitive advantages to their organizations by eliminating costly and complex middleware applications in their printer networks.
Solutions Catalog # 3 by ISIS Papyrus Software
Learn More about successful Customer Implement
in various Industries and how the Papyrus Platform for
Inbound and Outbound Business Communication and
Process Management will make your organization
more flexible, efficient and responsive to customer needs.
The KODAK 800 Print Manager is a digital front end that lets you run your press at peak performance with easy set-up, a sophisticated job queue, early preflight checks and on-the-fly job correction. Our scalable design lets you operate at speed using the minimal hardware required.
We present to you the E-invoicing Yearbook 2017 - Q1. It shows the relevant content on e-invoicing, AP automation, e-procurement and compliance, published by us and our sponsors during the first quarter of 2017.
Our daily search for content regarding e-invoicing, AP automation and e-procurement lead to over 2,000 posts, published the past eight years.
On average, the E-invoicing Platform publishes ten posts per week. These posts are both user generated content from our sponsors, as well as content from other valuable sources.
This content is also published on Twitter, on LinkedIN and on Google (News). And every other week, the posts get extra attention via our newsletter, with currently over 8,900 recipients in 100+ countries.
As each post is interesting and newsworthy by itself, this is increased when we sort these posts in the sections underneath:
- Featured providers
- Opinions
- Mandatory and compliant e-invoicing:
- Interoperability and standardisation (in Europe):
- Case studies
- News in general
- Downloads, infographics and more
- Beyond e-invoicing: innovative and new services -
- Acquisitions, mergers and funding
- Around the globe
After each quarter of the year ends the E-invoicing Yearbook will be updated, building a picture of how the world of e-invoicing is progressing.
Publications 2017, Title only
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...
Isis Papyrus Billing Solutions Across Industries And Platforms
1. Papyrus D o cument System for Effec tive Customer Communication
Billing Solutions across
Industries and Platforms
Orange, England GPU, USA Neckermann, Germany
“We are focused on simplicity and clarity, 4.3 Million international customers are Germany’s third largest mail order compa-
and these will remain central features of invoiced using GPU’s Bill Print Solution ny uses Papyrus for all their billing and
the Orange bill” says James Hodgson of
, which is based on the Papyrus Document freight documents. Individual marketing
Orange, “With Papyrus, we can customize System and it’s flexible integration of messages and text amendments are print-
our bills very quickly and easily.” SAP data. ed based on the products ordered.
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Telekom Austria debitel AG, Germany Belgacom, Belgium
The Austrian national telecom provider Successful outsourcing of telephone bills - Multiple telephone lines and services are
generates phone bills incorporating main- debis produces high quality consolidated combined into one consolidated phone
frame data and data from SAP for telephone bills for leading German mobile bill. Summarized payments and the auto-
all its customers. Papyrus WebArchive pro- phone service provider debitel AG. matic generation of a payment slip add
vides the link to the IXOS archiving system. convenience for the customer.
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2. Effective Customer Communication
Corporations seek integrated solutions, not just products.
by creating a Highly Personalized Bill for Web Delivery and Automated Print
Your business documents are your primary points of contact This results in expensive and time consuming coding efforts
with customers. They are critical to effective customer associated with the maintenance of multiple systems which
communication and must be generated in a highly personal- will cause serious inconsistencies between the paper and
ized way in a variety of formats. Ideally, the document is the Web based document model. For printing, a high quality ³ Document Development ¶ Output Management
developed once and used in the same electronic format for output is desirable, but electronic file formats such as HTML All document resources are developed In case the customer does not pick up his bills via
printing to different printer hardware and for the Web. do not print well. centrally with Papyrus Designer on a PC the Internet, they are checked out from the
platform including 'Prompting' requests WebArchive after a few days and transferred to
The Web Creates New challenges On the Leading Edge for the end-users if required. Prompts the Papyrus PrintPool. Each night a bundling and
can be defined to control the layout, sorting run produces an AFP file with enveloping
Today’s solutions on the market assemble products of differ- execute dynamic text-editing and new OMR markers, which is transferred to high-speed
Using Papyrus, the previous does not apply. Papyrus can
ent vendors that are not integrated. They either propose to text generation and to call external
work directly with any type of business data in any format. printing and mailing.
develop the document for each printer type and once more By generating an architectured electronic document format, elements such as text and images.
for Web presentation or they will recommend you to rewrite the same document can be used for multi channel output. IPDS
your business data application in a tagged based language Papyrus Print
There is no requirement for extensive consulting services or Xerox Metacode
format such as XML or HTML. Server
many months of coding. Papyrus guarantees the perfect
PCL 3/4/5 OS/390, Unix, NT
result for all output targets. Postscript
Papyrus
IJPDS (Scitex)
Designer
Windows 95/98/2000/NT
Providing Total Solutions Papyrus
PrintPool
Business Data
AFP, Index,
Library
¿ Web Delivery
Bundling, OMR
The document file
Text
produced in batch is
Forms
split up according to
Logos
the AFP index infor-
Fonts
mation and checked
Papyrus
Images Check In
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WebArchive
Layout OS/390, Unix, NT with database
WebArchive.
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Bundling
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The input data is selected
and transferred to the
server. The layouts/forms Email Server Web Server
and text elements are
dynamically loaded by
the Papyrus DocEXEC to
Papyrus Client
be formatted with the
Windows 95/98/2000/NT
billing data into an AFP
file. In case of missing To Email Client To Web Browser
· Messaging elements, an error log file
The Papyrus Client is used by
is generated.
the end-users to edit text ele-
ments in a front-end document
application. To secure that only
those text elements go into
production that have been
authorized, a sign off based on
´ Email Notification ² Internet Viewing
the 'four eye principle' can be
The customer is informed by The user logs in through the corporate website
implemented. All documents
an e-mail notification that where security and authorization is performed
generated by the users are
his bills are available on the by the transaction server. The WebArchive inter-
stored in a transfer area to be
website. These e-mail notifi- face generates an HTML page of available bills
picked up by the application.
cations are sent at night and for this customer. Once the user selects bills from
Papyrus can leverage existing data directly from ERP systems or other sources and produce high quality contain the hyperlink to the WebArchive, the documents are converted on
document output in a variety of formats. Regenerating the document for each format is not required.
website. the fly to PDF/GIF for viewing.
ISIS Papyrus Focus Report Billing Solutions across Industries and Platforms
2 3
3. Orange was launched in April 1994, the
fourth mobile telephone network oper-
ator to enter the UK market. Their
international presence was greatly The Solution
enhanced in August 2000 when
Orange was acquired by France Tele- The Orange billing system was
enhanced to output ASCII format
com, the majority of whose mobile data to a file system. This data is
interests were subsequently combined with sent to the Orange print bureau,
where Papyrus DocEXEC is used
those of Orange. Orange has operating interests
to format the bills, and Papyrus
in 20 countries worldwide and a brand presence Server/Metacode to drive
in a further three countries. At the end of 2000, Xerox printers.
Orange was the third largest UK mobile operator. The solution also makes
an electronic copy of
the bill available to
Giving a New Look Customer Service
Representatives
(CSRs). During the
bill run, the bill
to the Old Bill data is stored to
an indexed data-
base. When a CSR
requests to see a
particular bill, the
The Requirements Decision Criteria
The Future
data is drawn from this database
for Papyrus and run through Papyrus
In 1999, Orange were looking to replace their
DocEXEC “on demand” to pro- With continued growth in the UK market, the volumes of bills
existing bill formatting process, which was Orange looked at a number of print duce an AFP document on produced by Orange will rise steadily. To that extent, Orange
not flexible enough to support the compa- formatting systems, one of which the CSR’s desktop. For larger plan to increase their number of Papyrus DocEXEC licences to
ny’s rapid development. The system was was Papyrus. There were a number of bills Orange runs a DocEXEC enable their bureau to print at multiple sites.
resulting in long lead times on delivery of features Orange were impressed process each night and
projects to support new product offerings, with, in particular that the product’s stores the AFP files in the A major factor in providing outstanding customer service is
which was critically impacting Orange’s need architecture was simple, based indexed database. The AFP
the customer bill. “We are focused on simplicity and
to respond to a fast-changing market place. around AFP and that Papyrus allows file is then displayed by the
clarity, and these will remain central features of
data to be read into memory before CSR View Bill system when
Orange defined criteria for the new output on the printed page. This
the Orange bill as produced with Papyrus”, says
such bills are requested, instead
system, which included : allowed Orange to completely separate of being produced on-the-fly. James Hodgson, Airtime Billing Systems Manager at Orange
the format of the bill from the order of
PCS Ltd (UK). “Our Customer Relations Management are very inter-
The bill format should be independent the bill data. With the implementation of the ested in customising the bill and any marketing messages that
of the billing system. The system should just
Papyrus system, Orange took the appear on it depending on, say, a customer's address, patterns of
output the required data items, and have no In addition, the memory structures opportunity to redesign their bill to include usage, or other lifestyle details. With Papyrus we can customise our
understanding of the formatting applied to supported the hierarchy inherent to features that were not possible with their old sys- bills like this very quickly and easily”, he adds.
that data to generate the bill. the data Orange wanted to display in their tem. The new bill was printed in duplex, providing large
bill. A considerable advantage was that cost savings. For those accounts with multiple sub-
Orange would buy a formatting system Papyrus supported multi-dimensional scribers or handsets, Papyrus gives the ability to include
to turn this data into the printed bill. The arrays, which fitted perfectly with their hier- a breakdown of subscribers on the first page, allowing
data could also be used for other Orange archical data. customers to quickly and easily analyse and split their bill
applications, as it would be easy to parse.
between subscribers.
Finally, the Papyrus Designer development
Orange would own the format of the environment was very easy to use, with more Since the Papyrus system was implemented in 1999,
bill and maintain it in-house, therefore than enough features, therefore it would be Orange has produced around 50 million bills, some as
retaining control of development and feasible to keep the development in-house, large as 8,000 pages. These large bills include a table of
change management. This would also allow as specialist skills would not be required. contents, which in conjunction with the previous
them more freedom to select the print
improvement, allow corporate customers to reconcile
bureau they used.
their bills much easier.
The ability to view the bill on a screen
exactly as it would have been sent to
the customer.
ISIS Papyrus Focus Report Billing Solutions across Industries and Platforms
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4. GPU Energy
Utility Bill Processing
Company Info Decision Criteria for Papyrus
GPU Inc. is an international provider of energy-related infra- GPU selected Papyrus Document Solution based on ISIS'
structure and services. Domestically, its three electric utility response to the requirements and rapid development capabili-
subsidiaries - doing business as GPU Energy - annually provide ties. In a very short time, ISIS was able to quickly produce a
approximately 44 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity serving sample Papyrus billing application using the sample SAP data
two million customers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. GPU and layout that GPU provided.
• The first script checks for the number of concurrent spool runs and
Advanced Resources, Inc. sells competitive retail energy and
launches the formatting procedure.
services in the Mid-Atlantic region. Altogether, GPU serves The Solution
• The second script invokes Papyrus DocEXEC formatting for each
more than 4.3 million customers around the world.
spool request, creating an index file and log file that is passed to
GPU's Bill Print solution uses Papyrus Designer and Papyrus
postal processing which adds the carrier route information.
The Requirements DocEXEC. With Papyrus, GPU nightly processes regular bills for
• The third script checks that all post-processing is completed, merges
its three subsidiaries with volumes of 50,000 to 200,000
the updated log information and runs the postal optimization to
In conjunction with Y2K preparations, GPU Energy started a accounts and collective/ master/voucher processing of 10 to
generate the final print order for maximum postal discounts. Then
project to migrate business applications from mainframe pro- 100 bills, varying from 5 to 200 pages. Additional applications
this print order is input to the Papyrus DocEXEC postprocessing
cessing to SAP R3 on the HP-UX operating system platform. include letters with volumes of 100 to 30,000 per cycle and
application which imports the earlier pre-composed, indexed
Packaged SAP reports did not provide the flexibility, quality check generation with volumes of 25,000 monthly.
AFPDS documents in the correct order, adds the additional
and print processing required for GPU to conduct business.
document information including carrier routing and barcodes, and
Print software requirements included: Papyrus Designer’s WYSIWYG design capabilities enables rapid
produces the final AFPDS. This final AFPDS is then processed by the
development and updating of new or changed bill formats.
OCE print server and printed on the Pagestream 1000.
• Flexible print formatting including IPDS and PCL Features used include conditional processing to produce
• Dynamic Formatting including multiple languages consolidated billing for multiple services and for the different
and charts (pie, bar) subsidiaries, data-driven power usage comparison charts, and
Benefits
• Handling of SAP RDI (raw data interface) conditional notices and marketing messages.
• Integration with postal software processing
• How quickly GPU staff learned to use Papyrus Designer
and barcode support To start batch processing, SAP application servers generate RDI
to develop applications
• WYSIWYG design of applications including or plain text and print the data to remote queues. Each data
• How Papyrus handles the SAP RDI data file
spell check type is printed to a unique queue. Then a series of UNIX scripts
• How easily and quickly GPU developers can make changes
• AFP resource compatibility automate formatting and printing.
to applications
• Highlight Color and Full Color support
• Ease of integration with postal processing and archive software
ISIS Papyrus™
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5. Use virtual document strategies and on-the-fly document assembly
Consolidated Electricity and Gas Bill
with Papyrus to create documents which are customized down to the
Customer has both electricity and gas service.
sentence for each individual recipient.
Powerful design capabilities for a personalized
professional presentation.
Targeted 1:1 messaging.
Strengthen Customer Relationships Consolidated bills are attractive, easy to follow and
cost effective.
with Highly Individualized Data driven charts show usage history of electricity and gas
which provides instant understanding of the displayed data.
1:1 Business Communication
Electricity Bill
Customer has only electricity service.
New Customer Bill
Logos are dynamically imported as variable
information and printed in digital spot color.
First bill for new customer.
Contact information is clearly highlighted to
No usage history applies. Therefore a welcome letter is
promote a 1:1 relationship.
printed. Carefully worded, strategically placed messages
are used as a part of a communication strategy that has
Most effective individual marketing messages to inform
the customer of special programs. effective, immediate impact on customer behavior.
Data driven bar charts show usage history.
Dynamic tables showing the payment due.
A barcode is added to ensure accurate delivery
and to receive postal discounts.
Payment Overdue
Reminder to pay the bill.
Gas Bill
Highlighting the amount due, due date and indication that
Customer has only gas service. payment is overdue draws the reader’s attention to the
important information.
Dynamic composition allows for personalized marketing text.
Dynamic tables show payment due.
Data driven charts show gas usage history.
Development time: 1 week Integrated Output Management
QUICK FACTS Formatting on OS/390, UNIX, NT, Linux Viewing in PDF, GIF and AFP format
Printing in color on IPDS, IJPDS, PS, PCL, Metacode Archiving in AFP, PDF and TIFF
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6. N
eckermann was founded in 1950 and is the third largest mail order company in Germany today.
A 1500 page bi-annual catalog is the primary vehicle to offer products to 6.5 million households.
20 million shipments comprising 40 million items are shipped every year generating DM 4.6 bil-
lion in revenue for 1999.The Neckermann group employs close to 10,000 people.
The Document Application
A single document definition in Papyrus generates bills for several subsidiaries:
• Neckermann Versand
• Happy Size Company
The same Papyrus document format definition also generates the individual freight letters in which additional data is included in
• Karstadtsport.com
the remote warehouse locations:
• Karstadt.de
• affiliated wholesale companies
Delivery copy for the customer
Copy for the shipping company
The invoice is highly personalized and individualized to meet the requirements
of each company. Copy for warehouse
Backside of warehouse copy - static form for manual data insertion
Main bill of ordered items:
• Different header with different logo for each subsidiary
• Dynamic table size depending on number of items purchased
• Dynamic messages; the number of messages depends on the type of
items purchased
Neckermann
• Payment slip
• Payment stub with address information,
barcode and page number
machts möglich...
Backside of page 1:
• Personal letter to the customer with
mit Papyrus!
marketing information
• Terms and conditions of sale
Page 2: Neckermann makes it possible... with Papyrus!
• Dynamic page break event if all the
ordered items do not fit on one page of
the invoice
• Reprinting of table header and subtotal
How they did it Highlights
information
• Payment information for total amount
The document framework elements and layouts are developed The powerful integrated graphical user interface (data, logic,
centrally with Papyrus Designer on WinNT. They are stored in a design, resources) of Papyrus Designer made it possible that the
Form for return shipment with return
central library on OS/390. design of this complex bill was easy.
address and barcode:
• Barcode for return shipment
Scenario 1 Papyrus formatted documents are platform independent. All
• Dynamic table with all shipped products
Papyrus DocEXEC generates the electronic bill in all it’s varia- generated resources are binary compatible between platforms.
• Several sizes and rotations of logical pages
tions on OS/390 from EBCDIC data. The same document resources are used on OS/390 and on
on physical pages
The electronic bill is either sent to the warehouse or printed Windows NT without further effort by the developer.
centrally on OS/390 attached Xerox/Metacode printers with one
Backside of return form:
spot color.Some printing is being outsourced to a service provider. Papyrus formatted documents are printer format independent.
• Static form to fill in the reasons
The same document format is transparently printed on Xerox
for returning the goods
Scenario 2 Metacode and on IPDS printers.
• Order form for new purchase
The OS/390 input data is sent directly to the remote warehouse
where it is merged with additional data (ANSI-Codepage). This The very powerful codepage and data format support of
Both are static overlays - no formatting
is required to control the shipping directly from the warehouse. Papyrus fulfilled the needs for central and remote production.
required.
The new input data file is used by Papyrus DocEXEC on WinNT
to generate all documents using the same document definition
Additionally available:
as on OS/390.
• Credit card invoice
The printing is done on a Xerox IPDS cut sheet printer with
• Bank draft
stitching and control of multiple paper bins.
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7. Te l e k o m A u s t r i a debitel AG
uses Papyrus to generate dynamic, personalized
Successful Outsourcing of
a n d i n n o v a t i ve m u l t i c h a n n e l t e l e p h o n e b i l l s
Telephone Bills
Project Details debitel AG has been successfully involved in telecommunications, the
fastest growing sector of the German economy, since 1991. debitel
offers products and services in the areas of mobile telephony,
• Graphical bill design and development on Windows NT
fixed-line telephony and the Internet.
• Batch bill production on OS/390 incorporating mainframe data
and data from SAP
debitel is already the leading network-independent
• Payment Overdue statement using data from SAP on AIX
telecommunications company in Europe with 3 million
• Printing on mainframe channel attached IPDS printers
customers, almost DM 3 billion revenues and over 2,000
• Archiving in TIFF format in IXOS using Papyrus WebArchive on AIX
employees at the end of 1998. Almost 40% of
debitel's customers are now gained by subsidiaries
Papyrus Products used by Telekom Austria
in France, Holland, Belgium, Denmark and
Slovenia. At the end of June 1999, debitel had
• Papyrus Designer Suite for graphical development of all 3.85 million customers and revenues for the
documents on Windows NT first six months of DM 1.7 billion - the most
• Papyrus DocEXEC bill formatter on OS/390 successful half year in the company's history.
• Papyrus WebArchive for linking to IXOS as the longterm
archiving system For the production and handling of its telephone bills,
debitel decided for outsourcing with Debis Systemhaus
Document Features used Drescher, a very successful IT service company, which
offers the complete service cycle from document
application development to fulfillment.
• Data is taken directly from SAP
• Reusable building blocks speed develop-
Debis uses the complete Papyrus Document System for
ment and help preserve a corporate identity
development, post processing, optimization and printing. debitel
• Page breaks are fully automatic with margin, break and keep
supplies only the data file for processing. Once the production run
controls. No need for application generated blank lines and
has been performed, Debis sends a verification set of pages to
page feeds
debitel by email. They use the Papyrus Client Viewer to pre-
• Subtotal is calculated at page break
view and test print the bills for sign-off.
• Decimal alignment for columns
• Document can be printed in 240, 300 and 600 dpi and
The bill design uses the following features:
outline fonts
• Fully code page independent
• Spot color and full color support • Each bill is a consolidated bill, which is structured completely
• Reprint header and subtotal on the following page individually based on the various services the customer uses.
• Documents can be sorted by numbers of pages into several • The bill is structured in an overview page with charts, the actual
output files to support different envelope sizes invoice with the transfer slip and a call detail section. Inserts are
• Automatic generation of control marks for envelopes - added logically during printing and physically by the inserter.
OMR code • Two charts are created, one showing the call cost distribution over
• One step INLINE page reordering the month and the other one showing how the calls are distributed
• The same data stream can be printed 1-up or n-up while still over 24 hours.
controlling the position of pages on the sheets • The printing is done on an OCÉ spot color printer, printing logos and other bill details in the
• The truly device independent data stream allows for efficient company color of debitel.
electronic archiving • Debis uses an Oracle based Papyrus PrintPool to perform the post processing with OMR coding
• Provides reviewing and reprinting according to document index and inserting and the optimization of the mail stream for maximum discounts from 30,000
envelopes per run.
Debis produces 60 million envelopes per month for debitel, which total to more than 200 million
QUICK FACTS pages per year. The design is performed on NT design stations with production formatting and post
processing running on Sun servers with an Oracle database. The enveloping and inserting equip-
Fixed network: 63% market share with 3.2 million all digital access lines ment used and controlled by barcodes and OMR codes is provided by Kern.
Mobile Communications: 45% market share with 2.8 million customers
Debis also runs Papyrus production for other mobile phone companies such as e-plus and o.tel.o
Internet: 28% market share with approximately 300.000 subscribers
and other outsourcing print services.
Revenue: 3.9 billion Euro in 2000
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8. BELGACOM and
• Internet bill presentment
Electronic Billing References
• The customer has a choice to either receive the printed bill or
receive it electronically via the Internet
Communication • Better presentation of bill information by using dynamic
BELGACOM MOBILE
charts and color
Telekom Austria Austria
Meets the Belgacom/Belgacom Mobile Belgium
ISIS has implemented the Papyrus Document System for bill
production and presentment at many large telecom providers
Northern Telephone Canada
Printed Document worldwide. AMS American Management System has chosen
Telephone bills for multiple Postens Mailburo Denmark
Papyrus as their standard document system for Tapestry. Bill
applications have successfully been implemented for billing
debitel Germany
lines and services
systems such as LHS at Maxis in Malaysia or Keenan at Tele-
Not so long ago it was a privilege to have one
phonica del Peru using data formats such as EDIFACT or TIMM. DeTe Mobil Germany
telephone per household. Today, in western Telcos like SwissCom are producing over 200 million pages a
Mannesmann Arcor Germany
countries, many households have several year on an OS/390 mainframe, Mannesmann Archor in Ger- ‚ Consolidated invoices combine all telephone services
many using HP/UX, German DeTe Mobile DEC Alpha and Bel- Neckermann Germany
phone lines or phone types which they use. ‚ On the first page, a dynamic box summarizes all payments. The
gacom WinNT. Many of them are using very sophisticated
amount due is shown on an attached payment slip for electronic
The market for cellular phones and pagers is Quelle AG Germany
layouting functions with conditional marketing messages,
payment transfer
charts, color, consolidation of all services in one bill, table of
booming as never before. Stadtwerke Kiel Germany
‚ On subsequent pages, a complex table structure is used to
contents, 1 of N page numbering and certainly they all require
Stadtwerke Wuppertal Germany
present the detailed information of calls for every phone line
national language support.
This leads to an interesting paradox, where companies special-
‚ Documents are sorted by number of pages to support different Vodafone Germany
izing in electronic communication depend on high quality
Key Decision Criteria for Papyrus envelope sizes
printed matter to perform their business. BEZEK Israel
‚ To accommodate post processing equipment, a single formatting
• Fast and powerful graphical development of bill application
on a PC platform Israeli Electric Company Israel
run produces documents last page first
Even though this may sound incredible, most telecommunica-
• One time development for all output targets including
‚ Formatting speed is up to 400,000 pages per hour on a single
tions companies would not be able to invoice the majority of
Edisontel Italy
the Internet
their customers any other way. Additionally, telecom companies Pentium PC running Windows NT
• Very flexible data interface, no data tagging! PMS Italy
are facing government deregulation of telecommunication
‚ Depending on the number of pages per document, the applica-
• No coding required, powerful visual programming is provided
services. It is the new competition which now causes these
Maxis Malaysia
tion is printed on an IBM 3900 continuous forms printer or on a
• Many different dynamic chart types and color options
providers to look for better ways to serve and market to their
Xerox cutsheet printer
• Bills are generated in a printer and platform independent
Telephonica del Peru Peru
customers. The monthly, or other types of regular invoices, are
electronic format
such marketing means.
Smart Communications Philippines
• Choice of 11 platforms from mainframe to NT for formatting
• Powerful national language and codepage support
The Requirements Polcomtel Poland
• Automatic generation of document index by DocEXEC
• Fast and easy graphical development of the bill
Singapore Telecom Singapore
• Perfect viewing and reprinting, faxing or e-mailing of bill
• Formatting in high volumes on a variety of platforms
covers customer care requirements
Gas Natural Spain
• Merging of data files into one document
• Print transparently to IPDS, Xerox Metacode, PCL, PS and
• Use any kind of data file (Edifact, TIMM, ASCII, XML..) without
Scitex IJPDS Jazz Telecom Spain
data tagging
• Control fields, XML and the printable document are gene-
• Merging conditionally marketing messages into the body of Swisscom Switzerland
rated at the same time
the invoice
• Companies can provide an Internet based service where Far Eas Tone Taiwan
• High speed formatting...
customers can see their bills and statements as XML data
• Viewing, reprinting, faxing and e-mailing the bills Advanced Info Service Public Co. Ltd Thailand
content or exactly as they were printed using a browser in
PDF, GIF or AFP format CAT Thailand
Samart Corporation Thailand
The Solution
• Development of all document types with the Papyrus Thai Telephone & Telecommunications Thailand
Designer Suite of products on WinNT/95/98/2000
Telecomasia Thailand
• High volume formatting of documents with Papyrus
DocEXEC on OS/390, SUN Solaris, HP/UX, DEC Alpha, AIX, SCO Total Access Communication Thailand
UNIX, NT and OS/2
British Telecom United Kingdom
• Printing can be done using Papyrus Server or any other AFP
compatible print service to IPDS, PCL, PS, Xerox Metacode, MCI Worldcom United Kingdom
Scitex IJPDS
Orange United Kingdom
• Internet based Print/Job and Spool Management is provided
by Papyrus WebControl
AMS American Management System USA
QUICK FACTS
• Documents can be stored with index in the Papyrus
Bell South USA
Printpool and Papyrus WebArchive for reprinting, e-mailing,
Location: Brussels, Belgium
faxing and Internet presentation in PDF, GIF and AFP format
Connext USA
Phone lines: 5 million
• An XML interface offers linking to other archiving systems
Mobile phone customers: 3.3 million
GPU USA
Internet clients: 1.6 million
Summary Keyspan USA
Revenue: 1.4 billion U$
The Papyrus Document System is the most integrated solution Employees: 22,700
for state of the art telecom document design and printing.
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9. From the Idea to the Output ISIS Locations
Develop Highly Targeted One-To-One Business Documents within Days. International Headquarters
Austria
ISIS Information Systems GmbH
ISIS Marketing Service GmbH
Alter Wienerweg 12
A-2344 Maria Enzersdorf
T: +43-2236-27551-0
F: +43-2236-21081
eMail: info@isis-papyrus.com
US Headquarters
ISIS Papyrus America, Inc.
5505 Normandy Dr.
Colleyville, TX 76034
T: 817-416-2345
F: 817-416-1223
Asia-Pacific Headquarters
ISIS Papyrus Asia Pacific Ltd
9 Temasek Blvd.
#15-03 Suntec City Tower 2
Singapore 038989
T: 0065-336-6988
F: 0065-336-6933
England
ISIS Papyrus UK Ltd
Papyrus Designer: Document layout, data and logic definition on one screen
The Atrium Court
Apex Plaza
Papyrus Designer Suite Reading RG1 1AX
T: 0044-1189-254227
Document Design: integrated, precise, rich functionality F: 0044-1189-560380
‚ Document design is graphical and fully integrated
‚ Germany
Highest presentation accuracy. 100% WYSIWYG. Dot accurate
‚ ISIS Papyrus Deutschland GmbH
Embedded formatting engine enables immediate viewing of all document
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pages during design
40549 Düsseldorf
‚ Drag and drop document elements
‚ Visual programming using logic tree. No coding required T: +43-2236-27551-0
‚ Powerful cross referencing between data, logic and document layout F: +43-2236-21081
‚ Self documenting
‚ Benelux
Very complex document logic definition possible due to programming
ISIS Papyrus Benelux
language support
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‚ Use any Adobe, TrueType, AFP rasterfonts in 240, 300 or 600 dpi or B-1410 Waterloo
AFP outline fonts
‚ Generate data driven full color charts based on the input data T: 0032-2-352-8720
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Document Formatting: high speed, efficient, powerful
Italy
‚ Use any data type, control structure and sequence (channel codes,DJDE, SAP, <TAGs>) ISIS Papyrus Italy Srl
‚ Available on OS/390, AIX, Sun, HP/UX, DEC Alpha, Win95/98/2000/NT, OS/2 via Jervis 11/v004
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‚ Dynamic and scalable TIFF to IOCA conversion
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List and log files
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‚ Substitution tables and upper/lower case conversion
‚ Text and table formatting with right, left, center, decimal and justify alignment Spain
‚ Dynamically inverted or shaded text fields and areas ISIS Toth SL.
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Print variable text in any angle
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