Once FabSoft's Reform Enterprise has received
the initial print stream from any operating
system, inbound capture utility, or line of
business application etc., Reform can enhance
the print stream and send the information to
Printers, Fax Systems*, Email Systems and Archive
Systems.
Reform will retrieve all the necessary fax information
from the initial print stream such as the fax
number, company name, contact name, subject
and notes. Even if it is a large print stream
with multiple fax numbers, Reform will intelligently
coordinate them and send the faxes to the correct
destinations. Each fax can be personalized with
a specific cover page assigned to differentiate
the type of form. If the fax information is
not available in the print stream, Reform can
look it up by ODBC or a built-in cross reference
table. Reform has connectors to most of the
major fax systems. Please contact FabSoft to
verify the fax system that you intend to use.
Features & Benefits
of sending forms via fax with Reform:
Never type in destination
information again - prevents errors and saves time.
Information is obtained
right from your application - no more repetitive
keystrokes.
Enhance your faxed forms
- they will be incredibly more legible.
Bulk faxing - A single
print job can be sent to multiple locations.
Typical automated fax scenario:
A purchase order agent has just received
a purchase order. Usually, he will enter in the purchase
order, print it, walk over to the fax machine and manually
fax the PO. However, with Reform, the purchase order
agent's job is finished once it is entered into
their order entry system. There are many ways in which
Reform is able to capture the information from an accounting
system. One way is running FabSoft's utility program
that captures the printer port. Instead of the purchase
order ending up at the dot matrix printer, it is captured
and sent to Reform. Reform will process it against the
pre-defined Reform template that adds logos, font size
changes and lines. Most importantly, it will extract
the fax information for the purchase order such as company
name, contact name, fax number, subject, notes and cover
page name. The new reformatted purchase order and the
specific fax information is sent to the fax system.
The fax system will have the fax job queued for sending
in the outgoing box with all of the necessary information,
without any intervention from the user.
Bulk Fax scenario:
An order entry manager has created a query
of all the customers in his financial system that have
balances. For the month, there are 1,500 statements
which total 1,700 pages because 200 of these statements
are two pages long. By sending the print job to Reform,
Reform will identify that there are 1,500 different
fax jobs and fax them out to the 1,500 customers.
For more information on installing specific fax system
connectors please refer to the training web site:
Training Video
Tutorials
*Requires FabSoft's Fax plug-in
and Reform Enterprise
