Having a robust, simple, cost-effective rendering solution integrated into our own products increases our attractiveness to customers. It is also vital to our architecture that the software follows our cloud strategy.

Our customers benefit by being able to be extremely agile in changing the flat text in any of their communications. Their operations are made easier by having up-to-date messaging. 

During the COVID-19 crisis they were able to author and implement vital messaging to their customers in a single day.

For startups, having a cost model that grows as they do is essential.

After years of fighting with Actuate, Brio, and Crystal Reports to produce nicely formatted reports, we finally bailed and built our own reporting engine using Apache POI.  Unfortunately, POI did not lend itself well to complex, formatted PDF documents, much less allowing for WYSIWYG editing of report templates using familiar tools like Word.  Docmosis gave us the missing component for our document generation solution.

Initially, we did HTML web page to PDF conversions of documents and that proved to be a lot of work with hard coding. 

We persevered for 12 months until it got beyond a certain point. We just didn’t have the flexibility in the formatting that we required. Then we found Docmosis which can do the PDF conversions for us. Now, we don’t even look back at doing it any other way.

We're now live with one instance of generating documents, we're committed, and we've got the architecture and infrastructure to add more templates and migrate our old ones. We didn't realize it initially, but once we setup up our platform around Docmosis, we've registered new templates, merged data, and created PDFs.

When I get requirements and other templates from my business counterparts, the time to development has been reduced dramatically. My initial projections are that we have an 80% improvement in that process. Any company's engineering and software teams of specialists are highly prized and valuable, so they no longer have to do the boring, tedious content creation of translating Word templates into XSLT. Docmosis has really freed up our capacity to do some real work.

It is a straight forward, cost effective, solution for rendering PDF documents. It saved us time and money due to its ease of use, Java api, and clear documentation.

The Docmosis solution was ideal to handle our use case. To generate these same tabular formatted reports with a code-only solution would have taken a lot longer to implement than the Docmosis template based approach. Docmosis templates were easier to design as we were able to use Microsoft Word to create them. The templates made it easy to make any changes to reports and provided flexibility in our design approach. We were able to generate real-time multiple page PDF reports from our application, which were well-formatted. The process of adding any new report is also fairly simple with Docmosis Cloud service.

Since our initial development, this feature has required very little maintenance. And when changes are requested, it is rather easy to change a Word document template and new staff can be quickly trained to modify a report.

A new report’s template creation is very often manipulation of a user’s layout of a report. A report can be ready in a day or less, once stored procedures are created as per sections in the report.

From an organizational standpoint, it's reduced our need for a developer to be involved in delivering customer reports for customers, so we don't need our development team, engineers, and software developers to customize reports for customers. It lowers cost and allows us to deliver customized reports faster than we could before.

This is the cornerstone of our office's functionality, where people can create templates, create an offer template, and then a recruiter can just go into a couple of fields and they have a beautiful offer letter. It's really not just for our organization; it's a core functionality in our product.