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Printing, distributing, and storing reports—the very thought can be enough to bring tears to your eyes. Paper and labor costs spiral out of control and mountains of paper threaten to swamp your files. A comprehensive iSeries (Power Systems, System i, AS/400) data and report management solution can save your money and your sanity.
There’s no question that managing iSeries reports can be painful. Do these problems sound familiar?
- Your staff members come in early just to attend to printers.
- Your operators burst and distribute reports manually.
- Recipients complain because they don't have their reports first thing in the morning.
- People lose their reports and ask you to rerun them.
- You spend too much money on overnight delivery to send reports to distant offices.
- You want to cut the cost of printed reports but you don't know where to begin.
- You need to create a retention system for critical financial, security, and change-management reports.
Help/Systems' report management solution addresses all of these problems and more. With Robot/REPORTS, part of Help/Systems suite of automated operations software, you can:
- "Slice and dice" your spooled files to create report "segments" for specific audiences.
- Convert spooled files to common electronic formats, such as .pdf, .xls, and .html, for easy, speedy, and inexpensive electronic distribution.
- Make reports available for online viewing through green screen, graphical, or Web-based interfaces. (Your users see reports as soon as they've finished processing—there's no delay for printing, bursting, and distributing.)
- Provide custom archiving (retention) for each report.
- Retrieve reports from electronic archive, avoiding report reruns.
- Analyze reports and make decisions. (For example, if month-end doesn't balance, page an expert.)
- Save money by reducing the printed reports. (Many customers cut paper costs in half!)
Discover the secret to managing your iSeries reports.