Testimonials
MSWireless
MS Wireless targets over $500K annual savings with BCL
Custom PDF Technology
- Customer: Mobile Systems
Wireless
- Customer Application: Data
Extraction & Comparison from PDF Forms
- Developer: Chris Babiasz,
Senior Software Engineer. Carl Matthias, IT Mgr.
- BCL Product Used: easyPDF
SDK with custom technology enhancements
- Development Environment: Visual
Basic.NET (VB.NET) and ASP.NET
- Operating Systems used: Microsoft
Windows Server 2003
- Database Server: Microsoft
SQL Server 2000, Microsoft SQL Server 2000
- Deployment Type: Server
Application Deployment
Overview of Company
Mobile Systems Wireless is a leading independent reseller for
Cingular Wireless. Eleven years ago, Mobile Systems Wireless
started out with a modest kiosk in the Plaza Camino Real Mall
in Carlsbad California. It now has 54 stores in the West Coast
and is one of the largest generators of new activations for Cingular
Wireless.
Challenge (Business and Technology)
Mobile Systems Wireless used to manually extract sales order
information from PDF files and match it to their own POS database
for data consistency in verifying sales and paying sales commissions.
The high volume of orders required 15-20 employees for this work.
They were always 1-2 weeks behind, which delayed uncovering of
inconsistencies in reported sales and increased instances of
fraud in the field.
Mobile Systems Wireless wanted to automate this process, cut
processing costs and time, and deter fraud. They needed specialized
PDF technology to:
- Analyze the PDF order form, identify
fields and map those to database fields
- Automatically and accurately extract
data from PDF files and write to database
- Automatically compare the data extracted
from PDF files against their POS system data and flag any inconsistencies
in specific orders
BCL Technologies' Solutions
Mobile Systems Wireless turned to the PDF experts at BCL Technologies
to solve their specialized PDF technology needs. BCL responded
with custom PDF technology:
- PDF Forms Mapping Tool, to analyze a
PDF form and identify its data fields. The Tool is flexible
enough to create new mappings when PDF forms change.
- PDF data extraction technology to accurately
extract data from PDF forms, write it into the database, and
run comparisons against the POS data.
Mobile System Wireless implemented the solution and saw immediate
dramatic results. Its processing time dropped from 1-2 weeks
to 1-2 days and the work force was reduced from 15-20 employees
down to 4-5 employees. Annualized savings in employee costs alone
exceeded $500K, not even counting the substantial savings from
reduced fraud.
We chose BCL Technologies easyPDF SDK because:
- Experts in PDF technology
“We use easyPDF SDK
technology for PDF conversion and it works very well. We
knew BCL is a solid company. We have also looked at several
competitors and tried to use their products, but we like
easy PDF SDK the best. When we talked to BCL Technologies’ design
engineering team, we knew they had the knowledge and confidence
to solve our problems.” Chris Babiasz
- Responsive & Creative Sales
and Engineering Teams
“The sales and design
engineering teams have always been very responsive --
very enthusiastic to help us out and creative in coming
up with solutions.” Chris Babiasz
“This is the first time for us to develop a project
of this magnitude. It is an ongoing process and BCL
Technologies always came through with a working solution.” Carl
Matthias
- Ease of Use, Coding, and Development
“This was a complicated custom
project but it only took us 2 engineers to develop the application,
given BCL tools and technology.” Carl Matthias
Tax Works
- Customer: TaxWorks
- Customer Application: ARKWORKS
Document Storage & Management System (http://www.ark-works.com/)
- Developer: Shaun Hess,
Software Architect
- BCL Product Used: easyPDF
SDK
- Development Environment: Visual
Basic.NET (VB.NET) PDF creation using easyPDF SDK
Overview of Company and Application
TaxWorks has been a professional tax software industry leader
for over 30 years, rated #1 since 1972 by leading publications,
associations and customers. Taxworks is now marketing a new document
management and archival system, ArkWorks. Its 6000 Beta versions
have been sent out as of 1Q 2006, using BCL Technologies easyPDF
SDK as its PDF creation and manipulation engine.
Challenge (Business and Technology)
ArkWorks selected PDF as the common document format for storing
and sharing documents across various applications. ArkWorks needed
the ability to:
- Convert printable document type to PDF
format
- Catalog MS Office documents in PDF or
native format
- Scan and catalog paper documents
- Add text notes and/or annotations to
PDF documents
- Email any documents
PDF Tool Selection
Shaun Hess:
“We evaluated many PDF tools
and drivers, including Blackice, Cutepdf, Activepdf, etc.
We even wrote our own. Except for BCL’s easyPDF SDK,
all had limitations we couldn’t live with. Some only
converted from MS Office and not very well. Others could
not do annotation or text stamping on PDF documents. None
were as easy to use and as easy to integrate.”
“We selected easyPDF SDK as our
solution for many reasons.”
TaxWorks chose BCL Technologies easyPDF SDK for its:
“If you can print it, you can convert
it with easyPDF SDK. Prints from any application into PDF.”
“We can do Text Stamping
and Annotation of PDF documents that we couldn’t with
other SDKs.”
“PDF conversion is great!”
- Ease of Use, Coding and Development
“It took very little amount of
coding, 10-15 lines of code, to integrate easyPDF SDK into
our application.”
“We haven’t had to
change BCL code once!”
Northrop Grumman
- Customer: Northrop
Grumman
- Customer Application: Automated
PDF Conversion and Merging of Multi-language Word Files.
- Developer: Bernard
Fazzini
- BCL Product Used: easyPDF
SDK
- Development Environment: C#.NET
Overview of Company and Application
Northrop Grumman Corporation is a global defense company in
systems integration, defense electronics, information technology,
advanced aircraft, shipbuilding, and space technology. The company
has more than 125,000 employees and operates in 25 countries.
Northrop has multi-language Word files that need to be converted
to PDF and merged while retaining the exact look of the Word
originals. They must be accessed from multiple sites under high-security
IT operating conditions
Challenge (Business and Technology)
Northrop Grumman has document files in foreign languages and
their English translations in WORD files. Northrop wanted merged
PDF files to be created that would show each foreign language
page and its English translation page next to each other in the
merged PDF file. Theses PDF files also needed to:
- Have all necessary fonts (foreign and
English) embedded in the PDF file
- Look exactly like the originals
- Be accessible to a few hundred users
from multiple locations
- Run on servers without human intervention
- For security purposes, run without
people being logged into the applications. The PDF application
needed to call the application as a service rather than requiring
people to be constantly logged into the applications, something
that the security requirements did not permit.
- Comply with other very high security
requirements
PDF Tool Selection
Bernard Fazzini:
“We evaluated Adobe, ActivePDF,
JawsPDF and other PDF tools. We searched for two months, Googled
every site, evaluated all the PDF conversion tools out there.
Only BCL’s easyPDF SDK could meet all our requirements.
We now have it deployed in 11 sites.”
Northrop Grumman chose BCL Technologies easyPDF SDK
for its:
“BCL’s easyPDF was the only
tool that could run by itself without human intervention and
without requiring people to be logged into the applications.”
“easyPDF produced PDF exactly
like the original files with embedded fonts.”
“easyPDF merged documents
keeping the desired pagination intact.”
- Ease of Use, Coding and Development
“easyPDF is the easiest product
to code against that we found.”
“easyPDF is very easy to
program. We definitely like it.”
