High-Volume Transaction Output Applications
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High-Volume Transaction Output applications
To understand how this is accomplished, let us look at a
typical scenario in the HVTO world. High-volume documents are produced in
batches of hundreds of thousands of documents-or perhaps even millions.
Typically, they are produced by corporate applications and composition engines
on a daily, weekly, monthly or annual basis. The layout of every document in a
batch is identical; only the individual transactional data presented within the
document is unique (such as name, address, line items, usage statistics, policy
details, etc.).
Composition elements such as branding, graphics, fonts,
forms and marketing messages are identical across every document in the batch.
These common resources are present in every document, yet are stored over and
over again inside the ECM solution as one complete set for each individual
customer document. The size of the composition resources associated with a
customer-facing document today far exceeds the size of the individual
transactional content within that document-often by a factor of 10:1.
Solutions that offer single instancing technology for HVTO
intelligently separate the common resources found within a high-volume document
batch from the unique transactional content. Pointers are inserted within the
transactional content that link the now much smaller transactional document to
the composition resources. This process happens seamlessly during the loading
of the ECM solution.
When the ECM solution receives a document retrieval request,
the composition resources and the transactional content are combined in real
time, perfectly reconstituting the original document with 100 percent accuracy.
The storage savings are often dramatic, and it is not uncommon to see a 90
percent or higher storage reduction. In many cases, ROI can be achieved in
months.
