automated publishing of timely data: fact publisher

The Challenge

A mutual fund firm needed to move information from Excel, WORD and other external data sources to both the web and to print on a weekly and monthly basis. They had multiple authors and multiple reviewers in the process, with a need to publish the information within ten days of the time it was received. The manual process the firm was using created published data within 40 days of receipt, and repeated attempts to reduce that turnaround time had failed.

The Solution

Simplexity developed Fact Publisher, a single program that publishes the information to both HTML for the web and to QuarkXpress (or Indesign) for print. A single review process is used and one person can publish to both programs. This has reduced the turnaround time to the required 10 days, and has given the data producers confidence that correct information is always published.

Lessons Learned

There are many programs available that will publish to the web, but most of them are very complex and expensive because they try to solve too many problems. There are very few programs that will publish to print, because of the peculiarities of print layouts and designs. Much of the challenge in a project like this is to define all the data sources carefully, reduce redundancy and create a predictable support and change structure.

For more information about how Simplexity can help you today, please email or call Eric Hughes at 510/763.4488.

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