Testimonials
World's Leading Ticketing
Company
[Company Name Withheld]
BCL Technologies’ easyPDF SDK delivers PDF creation
capabilities to this global ticketing company’s
5000 users as a highly scalable, stable web server application.
The development team had previously used ActivePDF and
were unhappy with it. They had found ActivePDF hard to set
up, unstable and not scalable.
- Customer: World’s
leading ticketing company [Company Name Withheld]
- Customer Application: Web-based
Financial & Business Reporting
- Users: 5000 user accounts
- BCL Product Used: easyPDF
SDK
- Development Environment: ASP.NET
1.1, C#
- Operating System: Microsoft
Windows Server 2003
- Database Server: Oracle
9i
- Deployment Type: ASP.NET Web Server Application
Overview of Company
World's leading ticketing company, operating across US, Europe,
South America, selling event tickets through one of the largest
e-commerce Internet sites, thousands of retail outlets, and worldwide
call centers, needed to embed PDF capabilities in its reporting
applications for its worldwide user base.
Challenge (Business and Technology)
The customer wanted to deploy a web-based reporting system for
its 5000 worldwide user accounts, 70% of whom are daily users.
Users wanted output of reports in multiple formats, including
PDF. The customer needed to implement a PDF SDK product in a
web server deployment that had the performance, stability, and
scalability to service such a large dispersed user base. The
developers wanted something that was easy to program and implement.
The development team had previously used ActivePDF and were
unhappy with it. They had found ActivePDF hard to set up, unstable
and not scalable.
- The developer had tried to configure
ActivePDF on 5-6 servers and had run into configuration problems
every time; it never worked the first time and error messages
were hard to understand and troubleshoot, eating up valuable
developer time.
- In operation, ActivePDF had proven
to be unstable; its print service would start giving errors
after operating for some time and had to be regularly reset,
requiring IT monitoring and associated costs for such monitoring
and resetting.
- Scalability was the biggest issue;
ActivePDF would start blocking concurrent users from the system.
It would queue users starting after just 4 users, and additional
users would start experiencing long queuing times and time-outs.
Ideally, the system needed to handle 10-15 concurrent users
without any degradation to service the large 5000 account base,
and ActivePDF could not do so.
Selection of BCL Technologies easyPDF SDK
The development team searched online and downloaded trial versions
of many products. They found everything they needed in BCL Technologies
easyPDF SDK. Their comments about easyPDF SDK:
- Setup:“easyPDF
SDK setup was very straightforward, unlike our experience
with other products. We wrote just a few lines of code to
start using it.”
- Stability: “easyPDF
has now been deployed for a year and we have been very happy
with it.”
- Scalability: “easyPDF
has handled the 5000 user base without any issues. We have
not encountered any user queuing or blocking.”
Strong Endorsement for easyPDF SDK:
“Now that we have experienced
the ease of programming, stability and performance of BCL’s
easyPDF SDK we will use it for all our future PDF projects.”
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!”
Australian Railroad Track Corporation
(ARTC)
Overview of Company and Application
Australian Rail Track Corporation Ltd (ARTC) is a company under
the Corporations Act whose shares are owned by the Commonwealth
and overseen by the Australian Minister for Transport and Regional
Services and Minister for Finance and Administration on behalf
of the Commonwealth. ARTC is responsible for negotiating new
access to the interstate national track between Brisbane and
Perth, and improving performance and efficiency of interstate
rail infrastructure.
Challenge (Business and Technology)
ARTC needs to automate the Creation of PDF documents for Excel
and Word documents that are uploaded to it's Intranet via form
based file upload.
ARTC chose BCL Technologies easyPDF SDK for its:
“BCL easyPDF SDK integrates well
with .NET and classic ASP. The document conversion process
is very quick compared to others that I had tried (ActivePDF
and VeryPDF).”
- Ease of Use, Coding and Development
“BCL easyPDF SDK installation was
simple and well documented. I found the SDK easy to follow
and the coding that was required was minimal.”
“The software licensing model
is simple and affordable.”
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.”
