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OVERVIEW

MAPPING Suite

Optimize Personalized Document Creation and Delivery.

infoprint MAPPING suiteMAPPING Suite is a complete, personalized, business communication software system that encompasses document design, print management and multi-channel electronic document delivery.

  • Highlights:
  • Provides professional, personalized document design
  • Reduces or eliminates dependence on preprinted forms
  • Permits multi-channel delivery (print, Web, email, archive, etc.)
  • Integrates with other business processes and components to help leverage existing investments and improve asset utilization
  • Supports centralized print management so you can eliminate inefficient print spooling and improve asset utilization
  • Increases output flexibility
  • Works with IPDS printers and Print Services Facility for i5/OS (PSF) or InfoPrint Manager print serving software so you can reap the benefits of AFP and IPDS – error recovery, data integrity, and device management

MAPPING, MAPREPORT, and MAPPING OUTPUT MANAGER and the entire MAPPING Suite of products are not InfoPrint Solutions Company products, and InfoPrint Solutions Company does not warrant or license them. MAPPING, MAPREPORT, MAPPING OUTPUT MANAGER and the entire MAPPING Suite of products are licensed and warranted by MAPPING S.A. Neither party has any responsibility for, or makes any representations or warranties regarding the other's products or services.

Please contact your local InfoPrint Solutions Company representative or Solutions Partner for local availability.

FEATURES AND BENEFITS

MAPPING Suite

Optimize Personalized Document Creation and Delivery.

FeaturesBenefits
Modularized software suite Customize your capabilities to fit your business requirements with selectable options on the base module. Add modules as you need to expand your enterprise output management functionality.
Professional document design Gain extensive flexibility to accomplish the results you want:

• Create documents and reports

• Repurpose legacy information

• Automate business correspondence

• Utilize a broad range of input data streams and input applications

• Reduce costs associated with preprinted forms

• Slash development time and cost for new document applications

• Implement one-to-one marketing (TransPromo) efforts

• Respond promptly to legal and regulatory compliance requests

• Improve document readability and effectiveness

• Repurpose data in ERP and legacy applications

• Personalize your output in the form and language required by your customers and/or trading partners
Multi-channel delivery of business communications • Simplify document distribution processes and with electronic forms and routing

• Communicate with employees, suppliers and customers using multiple printer choices and channels such as fax, Web and e-mail

• Segment documents by recipient (fax, e-mail, print, etc) and specify a different channel for each recipient

• Increase communication choices with print and non-print delivery

• Reduce hardcopy production costs, including printer hardware, maintenance and operating expense

• Reduce hardcopy delivery costs such as postage and handling

• Respond faster to legal, regulatory and business requirements
Multiple print options Print with confidence when you need to print:

• For high volume print environments, utilize Advanced Function Presentationa™ (AFPa™) along with AFP components such as print serving middleware – Print Services Facility for i5/OS (PSF) and InfoPrint Manager – and IPDS printers

• For lower volume environments, the MAPPING OUTPUT MANAGER¹ module can manage ACSII printers and their associated printing operations

• Reduce costs with central management of printers and printing

• Retain flexibility to print to variety of output devices, including IPDS, PCL and thermal printers

• Attain maximum use and efficiency of existing printers via operational control and load balancing

• Improve error recovery, data integrity and device management when MAPPING Suite software is used in conjunction with IPDS printers and PSF or Infoprint Manager print serving software
Support for many server platforms Support mixed system environments with ease. Implement MAPPING Suite on IBM System i, System p, System x; HP-UX; Sun Solaris; Unix; Linux; and Windows.
Integration with other enterprise business processes and components • Inject greater flexibility into your business processes while you protect and build on your existing infrastructure. Tight integration with printers, print servers and content management programs can help you achieve high-performance printer management that replaces inefficient print spooling

• Keep sensitive data on the production platform

• Improve timeliness of business communications

• Improve customer retention, customer revenues, and customer experience via personalized, 1:1 communications

• Reduce customer service costs through more complete, effective communications that can reduce call center volume
Fast, easy installation and use Get up to speed quickly and start capturing your ROI. Many users can be up and running with a few days of training.
  1. MAPPING OUTPUT MANAGER is not supported on IBM iSeries.

MAPPING, MAPREPORT, and MAPPING OUTPUT MANAGER and the entire MAPPING Suite of products are not InfoPrint Solutions Company products, and InfoPrint Solutions Company does not warrant or license them. MAPPING, MAPREPORT, MAPPING OUTPUT MANAGER and the entire MAPPING Suite of products are licensed and warranted by MAPPING S.A. Neither party has any responsibility for, or makes any representations or warranties regarding the other's products or services.

BASE MODULE

MAPPING Suite

Optimize Personalized Document Creation and Delivery.

Base module functionality

MAPPING Production and MAPDRAW are the foundation of the MAPPING Suite software. Base module functionality includes:

  • Print support for AFP, PCL, PDF and thermal printers, along with management of printer bins and multiple copies
  • Ability to drag and drop variable data from spooled files to a design document
  • High-speed print file production
  • Use of any Windows fonts
  • Support for color and graphics
  • Comprehensive bar code support
  • Dynamic management of images
  • Automatic table generation
  • Conditional logic on all document objects

Selectable base module

Selectable base module features include:

  • Sorting/splitting/joining of input print files using data in the page as criteria
  • Barcodes – most standard 1D and 2D symbologies
  • AFPDS – Advanced Function Printer Data Stream for printing on Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS) printers
  • Thermal printer native support – InfoPrint, Zebra, Datamax, Intermec, TEC, Printronix and other printers
  • PDF – automatically produce Adobe PDF output directly from the production server
  • SAPGOF – can enable SAP output to flow into the MAPPING component
  • Unicode – support for Unicode that enables language support for DBCS languages.
  • Indexing – enables to index documents created with MAPPING in a third party archiving tool (IBM CMOD and others), to dynamically name PDF files and to create an index file.

MAPPING, MAPREPORT, and MAPPING OUTPUT MANAGER and the entire MAPPING Suite of products are not InfoPrint Solutions Company products, and InfoPrint Solutions Company does not warrant or license them. MAPPING, MAPREPORT, MAPPING OUTPUT MANAGER and the entire MAPPING Suite of products are licensed and warranted by MAPPING S.A. Neither party has any responsibility for, or makes any representations or warranties regarding the other's products or services.

OPTIONAL MODULES

MAPPING Suite

Optimize Personalized Document Creation and Delivery.

Optional modules

MAPOUT

MAPOUT indexes and electronically archives business documents for secure storage and easy retrieval.

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MAPCOM

MAPCOM enables fax or e-mail with existing fax or e-mail servers.

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MAPWEB

MAPWEB enables local and remote users to access archived Mapout documents via a secured Web browser.

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MAPSEND

MAPSEND can deliver e-mail from the production server.

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MAPREPORT

MAPREPORT generates new print or XML files and reports from databases, ERP, CSV, XML or Excel files.

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MAPOFFICE

MAPOFFICE automates business correspondence, allowing to create personalized letters on huge volumes.

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MAPPING OUTPUT MANAGER

MAPPING OUTPUT MANAGER¹ can serve as an AIX, UNIX, Linux or Windows spooler for managing print files, output queues and printers via a Web browser. (MAPPING OUTPUT MANAGER can be purchased on its own or as an addition to the base module.)

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MAPPING VERSION MANAGER

MAPPING VERSION MANAGER, a Web-based versioning system, manages the lifecycle of templates to simplify document deployment from a central site, once for a given number of sites.

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MAPPING PRODUCTION

MAPPING PRODUCTION integrates with operating system print function (both base and PSF) on iSeries to drive and manage printing.

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MAPDRAW

MAPDRAW is the Windows-based central, advanced graphical design interface for the MAPPING Suite system.

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  1. MAPPING OUTPUT MANAGER is not supported on IBM iSeries.

MAPPING, MAPREPORT, and MAPPING OUTPUT MANAGER and the entire MAPPING Suite of products are not InfoPrint Solutions Company products, and InfoPrint Solutions Company does not warrant or license them. MAPPING, MAPREPORT, MAPPING OUTPUT MANAGER and the entire MAPPING Suite of products are licensed and warranted by MAPPING S.A. Neither party has any responsibility for, or makes any representations or warranties regarding the other's products or services.

SPECIFICATIONS

MAPPING Suite

Optimize Personalized Document Creation and Delivery.

Unlike point solutions, MAPPING Suite software’s core premise is integration. MAPPING Suite software integrates among its modules as well as with printers, print servers and content management programs.

As a result, you can use MAPPING Suite software with the following platforms:

  • IBM Systems i, p and x
  • UNIX (HP-UX; Sun Solaris)
  • Linux
  • Windows

MAPPING, MAPREPORT, and MAPPING OUTPUT MANAGER and the entire MAPPING Suite of products are not InfoPrint Solutions Company products, and InfoPrint Solutions Company does not warrant or license them. MAPPING, MAPREPORT, MAPPING OUTPUT MANAGER and the entire MAPPING Suite of products are licensed and warranted by MAPPING S.A. Neither party has any responsibility for, or makes any representations or warranties regarding the other's products or services.

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