Bateleur Software, agent for Mobius Electronic Document Warehouse products has been granted the ISIS Papyrus agency for Southern Africa. Papyrus directors, Max and Annemarie Pucher, recently visited South Africa to confirm the agency agreement with Bateleur Software (Pty) Ltd. Sam Selmer-Olsen, a director of Bateleur is excited about the market opportunities opened by the Papyrus Document System product range. "Papyrus complements our present range of Mobius Electronic Document Warehouse Solutions. Where the Mobius system allows cost-effective document storage and retrieval across all formats (including data mining capabilities), the main thrust of the Papyrus system is the presentation of comprehensive personalised print material to clients. This allows companies to consolidate multiple accounts or statements for individual clients." The pivot of the Papyrus Document system is the Papyrus designer - a 100% WYSIWYG desktop design toolkit for forms and formatted statement applications. Papyrus allows simple visual design of complex statement formatting logic, bringing imbedded forms, graphics and charts into statements. The defined statement application can be data-merged and formatted on Windows, OS/2, UNIX and MVS/ESA and printed to all IPDS, PCL4/5, Xerox Metacode printers, in future also to Postscript. Papyrus uses AFP architecture, making it printer independent. "I must admit that I have seldom been as impressed with a product as I was with Papyrus designer," Mr Selmer-Olsen admitted. " Together with the Austrian principals, we demonstrated it to a major client using a bottom of the range Pentium 120 notebook. Fast, intuitive and genuine ease of use, but what is really powerful is the pixel-perfect WYSIWYG. "Add to this quick cross-reference across diverse sources - this happens automatically as soon as you query a screen entry. And then there's the flexibility of the Papyrus designer. As we all know, time to market is of critical importance. Using Papyrus, there are no time constraints - you can design and implement statements in a very short time period." Both Bateleur and Papyrus are very positive about the future of the product range in South Africa, especially with its compatibility with the Mobius Electronic Document Warehouse suite. Mr Selmer-Olsen put the agency agreement into perspective, "We are now in a position to offer industries such as banks, insurance and retail a full document solution, covering both management and print output. There is more and more demand from industry to consolidate information for secure and easy access to management and customers. This solution allows both the company and its customers to gain value from stored information.
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