At first glance, it is not obvious what LiveDocx does and what you can do with it. In the next blog entries, I am going to describe more detailed under which circumstances the service-oriented architecture of LiveDocx can be used.
Consider this typical first scenario:
A company uses a modern office application to handle it's customers, suppliers, products and to create quotes, invoices or other business correspondence. This application is able to create documents that can be printed locally or on a network printer. Additionally, the long-sighted company has implemented a web module for this application to connect the sales people on the road. But how do they create Adobe PDF quotes and how do they print them? Typically, they print documents when they are back in the office or they have to ask their backoffice to do this job for them.
Documents should be created and printed on a central server and all applications should have access to this service.
Using LiveDocx, all different applications in a company have access to a central service to create these documents. Independently from their platform, programming language or architecture, applications can use LiveDocx to create professional documents on-the-fly.
The web application that is used by the salesperson simply sends the data to a LiveDocx server to create an Adobe PDF document. This document can be printed or sent as email to the addressee. Additionally, the PDF can be archived automatically in one process.
The main advantage is that the used templates to create an invoice or a quote are stored in a central location. That entails that all processes are using the same and up-to-date templates with the correct company address or the current logo of the company.