HotDocs Document Automation Blog: Document Services
Big Data and Document-Generation Process Applications
The first time I heard the term “big data,” I was at a Gartner summit on BPM. John Mahoney, a VP and distinguished analyst, was talking about a world not too far in the future where everything—cars, parking meters, bread makers, diapers . . . pretty much everything—would be equipped with wireless cards and IP...
ROI for BPM: Document Generation Provides Best Bang For Your Buck
BPM is a hot sector because of the return on investment it provides. But document generation—a specialty process technology within the BPM space—by all accounts is far ahead of the pack when it comes to ROI. This has to do with the fundamental differences between most real-world processes and document-generation processes. Within almost any enterprise,...
Global Bank Streamlines Loan-Generation Process with HotDocs
A global bank headquartered in Western Europe began automating its lending business in the mid-1990s. In the beginning, it focused on one aspect of the overall process—generating loan contracts and collateral documentation.
HotDocs Hints: Saving an Unfinished Computation to Come Back to Later
Our “HotDocs Hints” blog posts will help make your user experience a little bit easier by giving you tips and clueing you in to shortcuts andother time-saving features we’ve built right in to the program. It’s 5:00pm on a Friday evening, and you’re ready to go home and get started on a stress-free weekend. However,...
Back to the Basics: What is a HotDocs answer file?
Many of the posts on this blog assume you already have a basic understanding of the fundamental working parts of HotDocs. However, these “Back to the Basics” posts are specifically designed for those of you who are new to HotDocs, to discuss the basic features that you need to know about. A HotDocs answer file...
BPM and Advanced Document Generation: What’s the Difference?
Since its birth in the early part of the century, BPM (Business Process Management) technology has become widely deployed and a key part of large-enterprise IT infrastructure. Traditional BPM deals specifically with predictable, structured processes with well defined steps that lead to understood conclusions. Advanced Document Generation (ADG) is a subset of business process management...
Where Adaptive Case Management Meets Advanced Document Generation
Adaptive Case Management (ACM) has evolved in response to the real need among enterprises to improve ad hoc and unstructured processes. ACM systems generally come complete with vertical industry templates (medical or accounting, for example), utilities for building complex rule bases for decision management, and, more often than not, functionality for modeling and deploying structured...
When BPM Forms Aren’t Good Enough: Advanced Document Generation Within Document Workflows
BPM suites provide their own interactive form design tools, which are adequate for many types of processes; however, in workflows containing sub-processes for generating complex documents, BPM forms may not provide the requisite sophistication.
Document-Generation Process: The Best ROI in the BPM Space
Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, pointed out some of the problems of BPM in today’s organizations, one of the most notable being the liquid state of real-world processes. Simply put, they never stop evolving. But process design must be based on a fixed target. Given the weeks or months it takes to model a process,...
HotDocs Hints: Easy shortcut for entering the date in an interview
Our “HotDocs Hints” blog posts will help make your user experience a little bit easier by giving you tips and clueing you in to shortcuts andother time-saving features we’ve built right in to the program. Our first “HotDocs Hint” is the easiest and most simple one of all. When you’re filling out an interview and...
What’s the difference between HotDocs Developer and HotDocs User?
HotDocs Developer allows you to create templates from your existing Word, WordPerfect, or PDF documents AND lets you create finished, customized documents from those templates. HotDocs User, on the other hand, ONLY allows you to generate finished documents—not cannot create or edit templates. So, at your organization, some people may only develop templates, some people...
Back to the Basics: What is a HotDocs Interview?
Many of the posts on this blog assume you already have a basic understanding of the fundamental working parts of HotDocs. However, these “Back to the Basics” posts are specifically designed for those of you who are new to HotDocs, to discuss the basic features that you need to know about. A HotDocs interview is...