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StreamServe Product Roadmap

StreamServe Product Roadmap. 3rd of November 2009 Petter Eriksson, VP Engineering. Makes some of you happy. He he. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIa8UZ1S7yM. Product Management Program Concept Roadmap. Agenda. How many of you are using Persuasion?. Questions.

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StreamServe Product Roadmap

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  1. StreamServe Product Roadmap 3rd of November 2009Petter Eriksson, VP Engineering

  2. Makes some of you happy

  3. He he http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIa8UZ1S7yM

  4. Product Management • Program Concept • Roadmap • Agenda

  5. How many of you are using Persuasion? • Questions How many of you are using v3 Or older? How many of you are planning To Upgrade within 12 months?

  6. Product Management

  7. Decision Process R&D Release Project

  8. Enhancement suggestions with voting mechanism • Downloads • Hotfix info • Roadmaps • Contacts • Tips and tricks • Demos • Blogs • Forums • Etc • R&D in the community

  9. LA – means R&D ready • Feature complete • Quality tests done • LA program • Rollout is part of the release project • Marketing included as a sub project • Training included as a sub project • Work more actively with early adopters • GA – final official release • Program Concept

  10. Persuasion SP5 LA – May 2010 • Persuasion SP5 GA – August 2010 • Persuasion SP6 LA – Q2/Q3 2011 • Persuasion SP6 GA – Q3/Q4 2011 • Persuasion SP7? - 2012 • Timeline

  11. Ad-hoc & Real-time correspondence creation • Edit text fragments with real-time preview • Change meta data and content • Business Exceptions Rules to catch correspondence • Halt documents in a batch based on Custom rules Before formatting takes place • Approve - Reject - Edit – Release for delivery • Integrate into existing systems and workflows • Search / list documents • Notify external systems • Reduce time, risk and costs • Operational Compliancy with rules and regulations • Promote Brand Consistency – Corporate style, format etc • Shift the document creation to business users • Open Architecture • Web Service support • Java based notifications • Ad-hoc Correspondence & Correspondence Reviewer

  12. Ad-hoc & Reviewer process CONNECT EXTRACT ENRICH PRESENT DISTRIBUTE • Batch • scheduled • automated • unattended • Centralized Printing • enveloping • high volym Business Exception REVIEW Business Exception WS CALL EXTRACT ENRICH PRESENT DISTRIBUTE • Customer Correspondence • ad-hoc • real-time • interactive • 1-to-1 marketing Local Printing

  13. Business Ad-hoc Correspondence Correspondence Reviewer • ad-hoc • real-time • interactive • 1-to-1 marketing • preview • modify • reject • approve Production CONNECT EXTRACT ENRICH PRESENT DISTRIBUTE ANY CHANNELCOMPUTER SYSTEM ORHUMAN INPUT ANY FORMAT, STRUCTURED,UNSTRUCTURED OR PREFORMATTED TRANSFORM & ADD CONTENT FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES PUT DATA AND CONTENT IN CONTEXT MULTI CHANNEL MULTI FORMAT HIGH VOLUME AND AD-HOC • scheduled • automated • unattended Design (IT & Marketing) Content Repository Design Center Control Center Composition Center • business logic • template design • advanced design objects • post processing • deployment • content management • document composition • correspondence template creation • business rules

  14. Example of client application

  15. But what if you want to do similar operations in other stages... • Before processing an incoming PDFIN/AFPIN • In PostProcessing • Print Proof / View / Complete Documents Releasing for delivery • Reprocess from earlier steps because distribution channels changed. • Dynamically scale up when you need it and where you have a temporary bottle neck • Or mix all the above • Correspondence Reviewer is just the start

  16. Business rules • Reusable rules • Advanced rules • Selection rule on document definitions and resources. • Exception rules • Used to find documents that should be paused for interaction, e.g. approved, rejected or edited. Good for Print Proofing • Rules improvements • If/else, switch statement, substr($variable,1,3) ='xxx‘, contains etc • Meta data comparison • Improved rules editor • Performance improvements • Composition Center SP5

  17. Text editor improvements • Tables within text fragments, quality improvements • Configure bullet and numbered lists • Multi indented lists • Auto update/publish of changes to content and documents • Batch update of trusted resources • Use approved content in Ad-Hoc document • Deployment – Runtime Migration Tool • Select which documents to deploy • Access control on templates and sections • Save Ad-Hoc document on disk • Metadata can be renamed • Composition Center SP5

  18. Campaign Management/Enabler/Runner • Enhanced multi channel support – E-mail, SMS, XML etc • Reporting & Tracking • Enhanced White Space Management • New and enhanced user interface • External ECM (e.g. Alfresco) • Multi-language content • Composition Center SP6 and beyond

  19. StoryTeller enhancements • Block sorting • Allow defined order of repeating data based on multiple sort keys • Repeaterseparators • Define how instances of repeater content are separated (,\n,.) • Meta data evaluation • New Strs concept of document type and document metadata is not accessible for StoryTeller • Boost performance when formatting for composition center • Vertical alignment • Top, center and bottom justification in rectangular text area. Standard document composition feature • Performance improvements • Persuasion SP5

  20. StoryTeller enhancements (cont..) • Horizontal growth • Define text that does not have width specified and can grow horizontally with the content • Overflow events on frame • These events typically implement headers and footers, increment counters in their scripts etc • Start on top dynamically • User wants to control that certain paragraph of text should start on top dynamically • Line breaks in text • Standard text processing feature • Persuasion SP5

  21. StoryTeller enhancements (cont..) • Default locale • Document processing should be aware of current language of the document • Document language should be switchable in design time and variable in runtime • Language should be used for masks, hyphenation, translations, etc • Hyphenation • Label translations • PageOUT often uses language translation tables in multilingual environments • Split and overflow cells on individual row • It is not possible to split a single cell in a table. This could be a problem in insurance policies with long texts or in super tables containing embedded complex content, such as inner tables • Persuasion SP5

  22. StoryTeller enhancements (cont..) • Start on top as a dynamic row property • User wants certain body row to start on top of a table instance. Can be based on data only • PageOUT has FrameOverflow() function • Flow control for rows • It is not possible to bind data header row and data transaction row together • Relative table widths • Comes from Composition Center HTML editor • Mapping of fonts • Use case with formatted input coming from uncontrolled sources • Persuasion SP5

  23. StoryTeller enhancements (cont..) • StoryTeller in Process mode • Allow StoryTeller (and XFA) to run as a standard server process • Error handling of failed processes • Enhanced Ad-hoc editing support • Preview as a single button action • Refactoring of tree panels in StoryTeller application • Visibility of overflow rows in design time • Import functionality • Possibility to copy parts of designs from existing resources or files • Improved editing for indents, bullets, numbering • Refresh of resources after external modification • User has to close and reopen StoryTeller to get new resource versions • Persuasion SP5

  24. StoryTeller enhancements (cont..) • And more… • Persuasion SP5

  25. SAP Connectivity improvements • Persuasion upgrade • Simplified setup and configuration • Delivery Manager for Persuasion • SAPGOF Unicode support • SAP UWL (Universal WorkList) integration • Remove unused Delivery Manager utilities (strsdmpoll, strsdmquery, strsdmcancel) • Port and re-certify Idocconverter / Business Process or remove it • Persuasion SP5

  26. Shared queues configuration • A setting to enable/disable shared queues • Post Processing and Document Broker on relational database • Fit into current architecture with Document Types • Based on the Correspondence Reviewer backend • Collector – PCL2PDF • XFA - SAP integration • Make it possible to use dynamically loaded XFA templates from SAP • XFA scripting • A set of improvements to the scripting in the XFA processor to fully utilize the post processing and output capabilities of the server • Persuasion SP5

  27. Itanium support (64 bit) • Windows 2008, Windows 7 (no support for Windows Vista in any release) • Oracle 11, SQL Server 2008 • EOL IE6 • StreamServe Express (Turnkey, Light) • Windows only, SQL Server Express, blobs on disk • Output comparison tool (diff tool) • Compares image formats (PCL, PDF, TIFF, PS) • E-Invoice Center- Hash support • Security requirement in Italy • Persuasion SP5

  28. OC on Oracle and SQL Server • New DBAdmin tool • Import/export on more repositories (StrsSer,StrsData,StrsWebcontent) • Import/Export selected document defs • Impact control on some resources (doctypes, docdefs) • View halted messages/docbroker messages • New look and feel + Unix support • Create repositories in ControlCenter • On all DB:s not just on SQLServer • Apply hotfixes • Uses DBAdmin tool • Persuasion SP5

  29. We may be able to include • Transaction Counter updates • Font mapping enhancements • FTPS, SFTP • Web Service for job submit to replace Service Broker • Persuasion SP5

  30. Express – November • Output Comparison tool - October • Adobe D4 - November • To synchronize with Adobe’s release schedule • Contain rule for Composition Center - November • Persuasion SP4 additions SP4+

  31. New ControlCenter • Design Object Repository • One unified storage for resources • Enhanced Statistic/Transaction Reporter • Campaign Management Enablement/Runner • Supply Chain – Production Center • Enhanced Color Management (AFP CMOCA, ICC profiles) • Story Teller Enhancements • Composition Center Enhancements • LDAPS • Applications versus core • Unicode enhancements - 我不知道什麼是說 • ”I have no idea what it says” • Persuasion SP6

  32. Enterprise Management Console • Change Management Console • Deployment Console • Real-time Administration Console • Database Administration Console • Reporting and Statistics Console • Unified StreamServe Design and Runtime Environment • Enhanced mobile support • Enhanced HTML support • In the Pipeline....

  33. Composition Center certified SAP EBS • Dependent on SAP for release date • Migration and Test Tools • Document Comparison Tool • StreamServe Test Park • StreamIN 2 • Composition Center Audit and Track • Resource Store • Versioning, impact control, deploy parts of projects • ”The Cloud” • Mirror environments • Testing, demos • SAAS • In the Pipeline....

  34. Hotfixes on an iteration basis - 5 to 6 weeks • Custom builds used inbetween • New hotfix process

  35. Final question Anything missing? Contact Petter.eriksson@streamserve.com Or Any of our product managers Or use our Product mgmt site

  36. Ha ha http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YGodS3TtSA

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