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Quick Summary*

  • Professional, personalized document design
  • Support for virtually all inputs and most standard outputs
  • Architecture based on XML Paper Specification (XPS)
  • Centralized print management and multi-channel delivery

MAPPING Suite XPS

Optimize Personalized Document Creation and Delivery

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

A Brief History
MAPPING S.A.S is a French software company created in 1988 by its current CEO. With a 20 year experience in output management, MAPPING has developed a modular software suite that enables complete output automation on any platform.*

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
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* MAPPING Suite XPS is not an RPPS product, and it is licensed to end users by MAPPING. Neither party has any responsibility for or makes any representations or warranties regarding the other's products or services.

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MAPPING Suite XPS Features & Benefits

Modularized software suite

Customize your capabilities to fit your business requirements with the choice of four high-function packages and four options to extend capabilities beyond the packages. In addition, you can upgrade your package and options configuration as needed to expand your enterprise output management functionality.

Add-on for any architecture

Connect to and process virtually any standard data input source

Output to most standard output formats and communication channels

Reap the benefits of open XPS architecture that provides use of and compatibility with standard document design formats such as Microsoft Word

Professional document design

Gain exceptional 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 (Precision Marketing) 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 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, use Advanced Function Presentation™ (AFP™) along with AFP components such as print-serving middleware – Print Services Facility for i5/OS™ (PSF), InfoPrint ProcessDirector, and InfoPrint Manager – and Intelligent Printer Data Stream™ (IPDS™) printers
  • For low-volume environments, use the integrated MAPPING OUTPUT MANAGERą function to manage both ACSII and IPDS 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 XPS software is used in conjunction with IPDS printers

Support for many server platforms

Support mixed system environments with ease. Implement MAPPING XPS on IBM® System i®, IBM System p®, IBM 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, one-to-one communications

Reduce customer service costs through 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.
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1. MAPPING OUTPUT MANAGER is not supported on IBM iSeries.

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MAPPING Suite XPS Specifications

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

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

  • IBM® System® i®, IBM System p® and IBM System x®
  • UNIX® (HP-UX®; Sun Solaris™)
  • Linux®
  • Windows®
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MAPPING Suite XPS How It Works

Packages

MAPPING XPS functionality is delivered in four packages, each with a choice of four options, in order to provide the right combination of capabilities for your environment. These capabilities are grouped into process categories to match your typical business communication workflows. The categories are:

Input: The type of input data being processed by MAPPING XPS. Typical data inputs include text, XML, and CSV data files, as well as formatted files such as Adobe® PDF, PCL, XPS, PostScript® and Advanced Function Presentation™ (AFP™).

Actions: The general actions to be performed on the input data. Normally, the actions include conversion of the input data or pages to a different format, but they also can include capabilities to sort, join, split or insert pages.

Enhancement: Supported operations that run the gamut from adding a barcode to completing design of complex documents. Enhancements can include data remapping, overlay design, addition of color, RFID encoding and the addition of marketing messages.

Output: The MAPPING XPS packages differ in their support of outputs. Options can include PCL, XML, CSV, XPS, thermal print, Advanced Function Presentation™ (AFP™), PostScript and image formats.

Channel: Supported communication channels vary by package and include print, view, archive, Web, e-mail, fax and SMS (text messages).

The MAPPING XPS packages are Standard, Industrial, Premium and Advantage. They provide differing communication workflow options, as follows:

Standard: Provides for basic data inputs and document design and production.

InputActionsEnhancementOutputChannel
Text, XML, CSVViewOverlayPCLPrint
 ConvertRemapText, XML, CSVView
  ColorXPSApplication
  Barcodes  
  Unicode  


Industrial: Adds support for thermal and RFID printers to the Standard package.

InputActionsEnhancementOutputChannel
Text, XML, CSVViewOverlayPCLPrint
ThermalConvertRemapText, XML, CSVView
Epson FX ColorXPSApplication
ProPrinter BarcodesThermal 
  UnicodeEpson FX 
  RFIDProPrinter 


Premium: Adds support for PDF and XPS data inputs, page manipulation options (sort, join, insert, split), addition of marketing messages, and PDF and Word/RTF outputs to the Industrial package.

InputActionsEnhancementOutputChannel
Text, XML, CSVViewOverlayPCLPrint
ThermalConvertRemapText, XML, CSVView
Epson FXSort/JoinColorXPSApplication
ProPrinterSplitBarcodesThermal 
PDFInsertUnicodeEpson FX 
XPS RFIDProPrinter 
  Marketing MessagesPDF 
   Word, RTF 


Advantage: The most comprehensive package, Advantage adds PCL, PostScript, SAPGOF, AFP, Xerox DJDE, and GDI inputs and outputs to the Premium package.

InputActionsEnhancementOutputChannel
Text, XML, CSVViewOverlayPCLPrint
ThermalConvertRemapText, XML, CSVView
Epson FXSort/JoinColorXPSApplication
ProPrinterSplitBarcodesThermal 
PDFInsertUnicodeEpson FX 
XPS RFIDProPrinter 
PCL Marketing MessagesPDF 
PostScript  Word, RTF 
SAPGOF  AFP 
AFP  PostScript 
Xerox DJDE  Windows GDI 
Windows GDI  Xerox DJDE 
   JPEG, BMP 

Optional Modules

In addition to the four MAPPING XPS packages, you can choose from four options packages that extend functions, as follows:

Communication and E-document Option
This option provides for distribution beyond print. It adds indexing and splitting functions to the supported actions, and HTML and PDF to the list of supported output, to enable additional means of communications: Archive, Web, e-mail, fax and text messages.

Database Option
This option provides the ability to connect to and interact with databases such as Oracle®, IBM® DB2®, MySQL and SQL Server.

Intelligent Printer Data Stream™ (IPDS™) Option
This option provides for production of IPDS directly. The Advantage package can enable production of Advanced Function Presentation™ (AFP™), which then can be printed using drivers such as InfoPrint Manager, InfoPrint ProcessDirector and Print Services Facility.

Existing Forms Option
This option allows you to import existing forms (overlays) from applications such as Crystal Reports®, Optio™ and InfoPrint Designer™.

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