Automated Document Factory (ADF)

If we agree that document production and distribution are mission critical for an organisation and that it is important that all documents are actually produced and distributed, then we should treat and implement the associated workflows accordingly: control, reporting, resource planning and automatic error detection and correction.

This has led organisations to use Gartner's concept of the Automated Document Factory (ADF) as a blueprint for re-thinking and re-engineering their centralised print and post processing environment.

• Architecture and process integration. ADF integrates recent developments in document-related technologies into a single architecture which supports the strategic goals of the business, communication and marketing.
• Efficiency and Effectivity. ADF-based document production enviroments can help to
  • reduce the number of production errors;
  • reduce operational costs;
  • increase productivity;
  • turn the documents into communication- and marketing instruments;
  • provide multi-channel distribution functionality.
• Control and reporting. But the most important aspect is the fact that an ADF-based infrastructure provides various levels of operational control as well as performance reports for management and for your customers.

The heart of any ADF implementation is the ability to process various (print) datastreams in their original format and to enhance the document content. This is necessary in order to realise postal sorting, calculate postage and to apply digital stamps, replace old barcodes with new ones, detect production errors, create re-print files etc.

Document Dialog provides robust and high-performing solutions based on standard software like StreamWeaver by Pitney Bowes or ASG-Cypress.