Features
DocumentBurster is a powerful report delivery software which can break up reports like invoices, statements, purchase orders, commissions reports or dunning letters in order to distribute relevant parts to each of your clients, subscribers, partners or vendors.
DocumentBurster can process PDF and Microsoft Excel reports and will naturally complement and extend your current business intelligence solution.
DocumentBurster software is currently used successfully in the following vertical markets:
- Healthcare
- Banking
- Insurance
- Real estate
- Government
- Energy
- Automotive
- Retail
- Education
- Sports and Recreation
- Legal
- Food and beverage
The software has two flavors:
- DocumentBurster
- DocumentBurster Server
You can find DocumentBurster features detailed below
| Merge, split and distribute PDF reports | Yes | Yes |  |
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| Burst and deliver Excel reports (Excel 97, Excel 2000, Excel 2002, Excel 2003, Excel 2007, Excel 2010) | Yes | Yes |  |
| Report delivery for Crystal Reports, SQL Server Reporting Services, Microsoft Access, IBM Cognos, Oracle Hyperion and QlikView | Yes | Yes |
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| Report distribution for existing in-house built legacy software or for systems like SAP ERP, Oracle Applications, Sage, Microsoft Dynamics, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, MYOB or QuickBooks accounting software | Yes | Yes |
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| Report bursting which works with Pentaho, JasperReports, Eclipse BIRT or with your own in-house reporting platform | Yes | Yes |
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| Distribute reports through email, FTP or file share | Yes | Yes | |
| Distribute messages to SMS, Fax or print your reports | Yes | Yes | |
| Distribute reports to FTPS, SFTP, TFTP, Samba servers, Windows network share drives and WebDAV | Yes | Yes | |
| Distribute reports to enterprise portals such as Microsoft SharePoint | Yes | Yes |  |
| Report encryption | Yes | Yes |  |
| Report stamping | Yes | Yes |  |
| Cross platform software which works on Windows (Windows XP x86/x64, Windows Vista x86/x64, Windows 7 x86/x64, Windows Server 2003 x86/x64, Windows Server 2008 x86/x64) and Linux (Ubuntu, Red Hat) | Yes | Yes |  |
| Professional support | Yes | Yes | |
| Report distribution server architecture | X | Yes |  |
| Windows Services - Install/run DocumentBurster Server as standard Windows Services in order to achieve unattended document delivery | X | Yes |  |
| Web GUI interface to be accessed by multiple people from different machines | X | Yes |  |
| Scheduling | X | Yes |  |
| Load balancing/High availability | X | Ask for it | |
| Merge, split and process any report format | Ask for it | Ask for it | |
| Indexing and full-text search | X | Ask for it | |
| Custom Tomcat deployment model | X | Ask for it | |
| Weblogic/Websphere/JBoss support | X | Ask for it |
DocumentBurster vs. DocumentBurster Server
DocumentBurster has great report bursting, merging and distributing capabilities. This should be enough when you just start with document delivery and you have a relatively small number of reports to burst and distribute monthly. However, if you have more serious report distribution scenarios, if you are looking for a complete automated process, if you need advanced scheduling capabilities, if you have a big number of huge reports to be distributed to hundreds or even thousands of customers - in such cases you will be interested in DocumentBurster Server.
Report distribution server
DocumentBurster Server can be deployed as a central report distribution server. This is useful if you are looking for a single common place for distributing your reports, accessible to multiple employees and/or legacy applications from within your organization.
Multiple distribution channels
Your customers might need their reports to be sent through various distribution channels. Most of them will prefer email but others will rather use FTP. Some customers might have their own automated software systems to further process the reports and which might expect the input to be placed in a specified remote location. Others might have more strict security related requirements and will prefer the FTPS protocol. In some scenarios the generated reports should be made directly available to the customers through an enterprise like portal, such as Microsoft SharePoint. In order to support these scenarios, DocumentBurster offers a broad range of destination types like email, local files, FTP, FTPs, SFTP and TFTP, Windows shared drives, UNIX Samba servers and WebDAV servers.
In case you have a specific requirement, not covered by the above distribution methods, then DocumentBurster’s plug-in architecture allows smooth integration of custom destination types into the distribution process.
Publish reports to enterprise portals
DocumentBurster has the ability to burst and publish reports to enterprise portals so that your clients will be able to access the reports published for them on the portal. Think about the situation when you have hundreds or thousands of customers or dealers and, with a single click, you can make the relevant individual reports available to each one of them on the portal. DocumentBurster can deliver reports to Microsoft SharePoint, IBM WebSphere Portal, Oracle Portal, SAP NetWeaver, Tibco PortalBuilder, Samsung ACUBE Portal and to all of the major open source portal applications like Liferay Portal, Hippo portal, JBoss Enterprise Portal, eXo and Apache Portal.
Scheduling
Scheduling is a common requirement in business applications. DocumentBurster Server has advanced scheduling capabilities which can be configured as per your own needs. It is easy to schedule reports to be processed and distributed at a specific date and time, to distribute them hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or set up your own frequencies, every other day, third Monday of the month and so on.
Security through encryption
When handling important financial reports, securing the distributed documents with a password might be an interesting feature for you. With a document open password (also known as a user password), users must type in the password you specify to open the PDF. If an output PDF user or owner password is given, DocumentBurster will encrypt the report using 128 or 40 bits encryption strength.
For additional details about securing PDF reports, please read the official Adobe Acrobat documentation - Securing documents with passwords.
Report stamping
For branding purposes, DocumentBurster has support for stamping the distributed reports using your company logo, official signatures or any stamp you might need.
Integration with your existing business software
DocumentBurster has the capability to watch a configurable folder for new reports to be burst and distributed. Once your existing invoicing, accounting, payroll or ERP software will generate a report in this folder, DocumentBurster will immediately pick and process it.
If required, for more complex integration scenarios, DocumentBurster Server can be tailored to expose remote report distribution services to be consumed and automated from your existing CRM or ERP kind of business applications. DocumentBurster Server can expose the remote services using various protocols depending on your requirements. For example, EJB services can be exposed if you need to automate the process from a java client program, or web-services can be an option if you are looking to use a non Java program as a client.
Process and distribute any kind of report
By default DocumentBurster is able to process PDF and Excel reports. In real life you might need to process Word reports, OpenOffice reports or your own in-house reports. If required, DocumentBurster can be tailored to burst and process additional report formats with the help of an initial step which will convert all the non PDF reports to the standard PDF format.
Full-featured report text search engine
If required, DocumentBurster Server can be tailored to provide advanced storing, indexing and search capabilities for the reports which your organization is distributing. This might be useful if you distribute many reports each month and after some time you end up having a huge number of documents which need to be properly managed. Simply said, using the indexing and search capability will allow you to quickly find a report which was distributed one or two years ago, even if each month you distribute a lot of reports.
Custom DocumentBurster deployment
If required, DocumentBurster can be tailored to be your next one-stop-shop document delivery solution.
DocumentBurster does not reinvent the wheel. Instead it integrates with existing cutting edge technologies in order to provide the best possible report distribution architecture. For example, advanced job processing capabilities are provided from a tight integration with Spring Batch while full-featured text search engine for the distributed reports might be achieved with the help of the Apache Lucene and Apache Solr projects.
If your organization is interested in a custom DocumentBurster deployment, please Contact Us with an email describing your specific use case.
What’s next?
DocumentBurster report delivery white paper is describing some advanced document delivery requirements and what is the DocumentBurster approach for accomplishing those requirements.
