Acartus Unveils Strategic XML to PDF Conversion Utility.

DENVER -- Powerful Utility Integrates with Existing XML Data Exchange Infrastructure to Provide a Long-Term Solution for High-Volume Data Archival

Acartus, developer of next-generation enterprise report management (ERM) solutions, today announced the latest release of an XML to PDF plug-in utility for its leading-edge ERM platform, ApertureONE. The release introduces XSL-FO (extensible style language - formatting objects) support to facilitate the high-volume migration of raw XML data to fully composed PDF.

"The need for high-volume XML to PDF transformation is a result of XML's proliferation as an industry standard solution," said Brad Florin, CEO at Acartus. "In the past several years, XML has emerged as the ideal format for data exchange, even edging out EDI as the standard of choice for passing information between networks and companies. Organizations are going so far as to replace high-volume, print stream-based content formats with XML. While an extremely effective tool for exchanging data, XML does not possess the necessary attributes for volume-intensive archival. ApertureONE's XML to PDF utility enables companies to continue leveraging XML as a data exchange format, while introducing a scalable alternative for data with long-term archival requirements."

An XML to PDF archival mechanism provides significant reduction of file overhead through batching up multiple files into a single large object, the option of incremental backup, increased retrieval speed through random file access, a reduction in file storage costs, and a storage format that meets the emerging ISO standard for digital archival (PDF/A). Collectively, these benefits execute a strategy that fully integrates an organization's existing XML data exchange infrastructure with long-term archival capabilities.

Consistent with previous releases, the XML to PDF conversion utility enables ApertureONE to compress a series of XML input files to a single, large-volume PDF file. A key differentiator for this release is full support of XSL-FO, which provides formatting tools for defining the appearance a document. Through XSL-FO support, ApertureONE can create fully composed digital replicas of original documents. Using this plug-in, companies will continue utilizing XML for data exchange, while converting XML content to PDF for archival.

About Acartus

Acartus is committed to driving the evolution of enterprise report management through development, innovation, marketing and support. Our market leading solutions are based on open industry standards, designed for full customer infrastructure compatibility. These solutions can be flexibly configured to operate independently, or integrated within a larger enterprise content management framework to deliver significant productivity gains and cost savings. Acartus is enterprise report management, evolved.