Docmosis Room for Improvement

reviewer1341069 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Ultimate Software

Our business is expanding internationally, as is Docmosis. So, we are facing new challenges such as internationalization. The next big challenge will be to offer even more date formats and numbers that cover the majority of countries. It will be to also think about features, such as number to text conversion, or the reverse which is currently only available in English but is in great demand by our international customers.

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reviewer1353672 - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Director at Seaglass Cloud Technology

Haven't investigated fully, but the HTML rendering could be a little more sympathetic to multidevices. Perhaps some options are available there. 

Although not a requirement at the moment, the ability to produce charts might be so for some customers. A solution, however simple, for this would be great. As it is not a requirement at present, we haven't fully investigated whether this may well be achievable one way or another. 

Version control and restricted access to some users for template editing could also be a useful addition.

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it_user457116 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at LeaseAccelerator

We've already briefly spoken with Docmosis, and we'll be pursuing this more - we are looking to take our intra-application monitoring to the next level. Really, we've embraced the DevOps philosophy and are trying to improve the monitoring, so it's not just your traditional up/down type monitoring but it's a more holistic system load, degeneration – where it may be performing uncharacteristically, not necessarily degraded or down, it's just the usage profile is atypical. Having that greater insight means being able to connect to Docmosis from a monitoring standpoint. Application to application to say “How many reports have we run in the last hour? What's the average performance time?" Those types of things. We're going to be looking for additional hooks we can use to monitor the Docmosis service as part of our offering, so that we've got a comprehensive view of system health.

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it_user289224 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Product Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

I've shared with Docmosis a list of improvements they could make, and they've been very customer-centric and responsive. They don't always deliver what we ask, but they're very conscientious about responding to us. We have some pretty onerous requirements, but they timely respond.

Because we're not using the cloud version, using the Java library version instead, we'd like more visibility and control of load balancing for owned and private cloud.

Another thing I'd like to see is the ability to more dynamically add converters on the fly. They help generate the PDFs.

Also, this was something they suggested and we wholeheartedly agree: a more simplified install process or consolidated JAR. The reason for that is because otherwise you're installing all these other dependencies related to either OpenOffice or LibreOffice, so that that could simplify the ramp-up to deployment.

The barcoding functionality also needs improvement, specifically a more robust handling of it. Right now, they allow for 1D barcodes, so eventual integration of 2D barcodes would be well-received.

I'd also like some sort of native support for e-signatures.

Fonts, I think, are a little tricky, and so the workaround, on the client-side, is just to address it at a system level, make sure your core system has the fonts necessary for your documents. That's completely okay, but for teams that are operating a couple of layers up in the stack, if they don't have access to that system level, installing fonts and so on just becomes a little more difficult and requires more coordination. That'd be an opportunity to make it simpler or the developer, because the developer isn't always the system manager.

I use a feature within Docmosis to embed templates within templates, and there are some technical limitations, and I don't think it's Docmosis' doing, but there are some limitations in operating with headers and footer when you're using that feature. I get the rationale for not being able to make enhancements around that, but I would want enhancements around that nevertheless.

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it_user359436 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Software Development at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Just one thing, and there is a way to get this done outside of the solution as currently I go to a third-party solution. I render multiple PDFs and then put them together into one document outside of Docmosis. Docmosis then provides the ability to include them, and that would almost work out for us except that we use some static content and, therefore, we would have no need to render them every time.

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reviewer1331517 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at IrisLogic

It would be great to have improved diagnostic and debugging tools. When report templates are complex, sometimes any minor modification needs to be thoroughly tested to ensure that it does not disrupt a previously designed template. 

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ST
Database Team Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The challenge in usage when we developed the reports four years ago was the limited logic that can be applied to manipulate and display data. That functionality was largely transferred over to the database layer in creating the data output that was to be displayed.

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KS
CEO, Founder at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

It's still a bit complex to develop reports and because of that complexity, there are often mistakes that get made. If we get better debugging tools and better diagnostic tools, developing reports would be faster. That process is a bit slow right now.

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it_user409242 - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Right now, the product can be a little finicky with background images, sort of how the tabs work when you try to underline something. Sometimes that won't get reproduced, but those are pretty minuscule cases.

I think the biggest thing that we would love in the future is if it had a little more logic built into it, so you if the following field is present, then show this block of text, and have that be in really simple, not developer-level coding, but like something that a non-technical person could easily do.

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