18 March 2015

Discover more about Objectif Lune & Planet Press: 5 workflow ideas

About Objectif Lune  

Objectif Lune develops open, flexible and enjoyable software intended to free customers from their inflexible IT infrastructure. We offer solutions for the composition, multi-channel distribution, and management, of any personalized business document or customer communications, independent of hardware compatibility and with full automation capability.   

About PlanetPress

Everyone who has heard about PlanetPress knows that it's good at printing. Take any document, make it look and work better and then print a ton of it, fast. That's a given. The solution reads whatever your current systems output and provides you with the tools and freedom to use data any way you want. Automate processes, move data around, we're telling you, you'll fall back in love with your systems all over again. 

In the days when computers were big and the internet was just beginning, someone asked the question: 'Can you help me automate my faxes?' Not one to turn down a challenge, the guys at Objectif Lune set off to see what they could. And that was how the workflow tool began.

Prior to automation, the customer was printing their purchase orders with our technology and would fax them by hand. Because during the day, the fax was busy so they had to fax it at night or the next day making it a long process. That also meant they had to have someone in front of the fax.

Objectif Lune were able to take an image as they printed the purchase orders on the PC and get the fax number and group the orders by fax number. Then, during the night, send out all the faxes. This is done by monitoring serial ports (the inputs) and then resending them. In the morning, everything was sent. That simple application was the first version of what we now call the PlanetPress Workflow tool. 

Here are 5 workflows we showcased in this article that are pretty awesome: 

Email notifications
Using PlanetPress Workflow, send confirmation emails, automatic reminders, and automatic follow-up emails after a specific event.  

Web-based process launcher
Yes, PlanetPress was able to do web-based processes prior Connect though, with Connect, it's a lot easier. You can refresh, upload, delete, and archive files with a web interface powered by PlanetPress.

One mailing
The concatenate box is a powerful one and will allow you to join mailings to the same recipient into the same envelope.

Automate records management processes
Need two machines to talk to each other? In the case of this hospital, the document management system needed a way to talk to the lab testing software quickly. After new regulation digital customer files were mandatory. This is where PlanetPress came in. 

Payroll
If you are a small or medium organization, payroll may not be the funniest part of your day but then there is PlanetPress.  

Hopefully this list provides you with some ideas of what PlanetPress workflow tool is capable of doing. Because the Workflow Tool provides so many possibilities - if you need data captured then sorted, split, re-arranged, saved, searchable, added, divided, merged, updated, read, then outputted, it can probably do it. 

More information about PlanetPress Workflow tool at: http://planetpress.objectiflune.com/en/features/workflowtool 

You can also visit www.objectiflune.com .   

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