Deployed as an enterprise service, Adlib’s PDF conversion solution is helping some of the world’s biggest organizations to streamline business processes by standardizing and controlling documents.

Historically, organizations deployed PDF conversion software in a piecemeal fashion, often targeting the needs of one department or one business process. Each department would have its own siloed solution for handling its document rendering needs – resulting in inconsistent levels of quality and output across the organization. The scattered nature of these deployments created a heavy resource and cost burden for IT departments, and led to low levels of user satisfaction.

Today, the evolution toward service-oriented architecture (SOA) means that mission-critical software – such as the industry-proven PDF conversion solution, Adlib Express – can be deployed as an enterprise service. Starting with an enterprise work platform as its base, Express is a centralized offering that is easily accessed by multiple applications, departments and users across a large organization.

Many industries have discovered that enterprise-wide deployment of core IT application services – such as document conversion, recognition and publishing – will deliver on the promise of enhanced customer satisfaction, reduced costs through business process efficiency, and improved internal and external compliance.

Key Service Deployment Features of Express

The following are some of the key features of Express that support deployment of PDF rendering as an enterprise service.

Easy Integration with Other System Components and Organizational Workflows
Integrating to Express is very easy. Express offers a web service interface, making it accessible to any platform, operating system or business application that is tied to your corporate intranet. This scalable service-oriented architecture offers a number of flexible connector tools to further simplify the integration and ensure compatibility with all workflows and applications.

High Availability
Express supports the high availability requirements of mission-critical environments, particularly in the case of provision of regulated documents or documents whose delivery is very time sensitive. Adlib customers rely on Express to ensure no disruptions in service.

Scalability
The Express architecture is very modular, enabling virtually limitless scalability through the addition of servers. As an organization brings on additional users, departments or business processes, the Adlib rendering service can easily scaled to continue to provide the required performance.

Benefits of Deploying Adlib Express as an Enterprise Service

Adlib Express, when deployed as an enterprise service, offers the following benefits:

Consolidated Vendors and Licenses
The deployment of Adlib Express as an enterprise service enables the elimination of other rendering applications, allowing customers to focus their PDF conversion needs on a single vendor. This focus means that Adlib customers spend more time solving business problems than they do managing vendor relationships. The result is reduced cost in managing vendors and improved satisfaction levels for all users.

Streamlined QA
Many document-intensive business processes, particularly those that involve submission of documents to regulatory agencies, require extensive investments in quality assurance (QA). With PDF rendering deployed as a service using Express, document control and consistency can be assured, thereby dramatically reducing QA costs. While organizations may have dozens or hundreds of document authors, across a variety of departments, Express’s centralized PDF rendering will ensure consistency of PDF output format, reducing or even eliminating QA times.

Reduced Software Maintenance
A single, centralized solution means fewer software maintenance contracts and lower costs, which, in turn, results in less downtime and increased productivity. The issue of incompatibility between various types of PDF rendering software is eliminated.

Reduced Investment in Server Resources and Reduced Energy Consumption
Adlib customers have found that as they retire other server-based PDF conversion systems to centralize enterprise rendering with Express, they are able to reduce the number of servers required to satisfy user demands. Rather than investing in several small server farms to meet the varying needs of a number of departments, a single centralized setup with fewer total servers can be
deployed. The result is a lower investment in hardware and software resources while reducing energy consumption.

With Adlib Express deployed as an enterprise service, large organizations are consistently achieving the highest levels of efficiency,
compliance and user satisfaction to ensure competitiveness in the marketplace.