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Create and manage documents for publication in less time, with less cost and effort. Resources such as time and money seem always to be in short supply. smartapps lets you meet these challenges. Bowne's online content management system transforms the way you produce fund reports, prospectuses, and fact sheets. You'll modify content online, receive automatically generated proofs, while ensuring the integrity of your brand. Complying with industry reporting regulations is also streamlined. With Bowne technology at your finger tips, you'll be doing more in less time, at less cost.

A flexible content management system designed especially for fund documents

Reuse raw content in multiple formats. Nearly every industry is moving towards XML as the standard for data interchange, which is why XML technology is at the heart of smartapps. XML separates content and style, making raw content reusable in many formats. You, work online to modify content, then immediately receive a proof with the changes in layout. Repurposing content from print to electronic documents is equally fast and easy, and data updates are handled automatically. You can link repeated text among any number of documents. Make updating errors a thing of the past. And with a seamless integration with Bowne translation resources, content can be translated in every language required for the distribution of your cross-border funds.

  • Work at your pace instead of waiting for proofs from your printer
  • Reduce manual copy/paste tasks and ensure content consistency across documents
  • Speed up the drafting process
  • Ensure your brand integrity across all documents
  • Produce your documentation in multiple languages
  • Publish for print, EDGAR, and for the web simultaneously, but create documents only once
  • Reduce the costs of document creation and publishing

Take total control of your content. High-level management controls put you in charge of the entire content management process. You'll style content, draw complex graphs and charts, paginate documents, and create PDFs on the fly, all at dramatic speed. Project management becomes simplified. Set deadlines, schedules, tasks, and automated reminders once and you're done. Put multiple editors to work simultaneously on different sections of a document. Content can then be submitted in a uniform way, easing the collating and approval process. As for sending a consolidated draft to typesetters, there's no need. Instead, smartapps helps you save time and money by removing duplication and reducing errors.

  • Manage the entire process in real time
  • Create and revise content collaboratively
  • Make multiple changes from a single place
  • Import text, spreadsheets, graphics, and data feeds
  • Distribute content instantly
  • Generate charts and graphs automatically
  • Automate translation tasks
  • Create print-ready and web-ready PDFs, EDGAR II (HTML), web pages, RTF, stylized Word™, XML and more

Secure your information without adding complexity. Too often the need to secure information brings unwanted complications. Bowne made certain that, despite firewalls and the highest level of international encryption, smartapps remains extremely easy to use. And you can implement smartapps without placing a burden on your IT staff. Training is minimal, so you'll be using smartapps in no time, and with nothing more than your web browser and access to the Internet. Ease of use is only the beginning. smartapps delivers a measurable return on your investment across the entire document production process.

  • Increase efficiency and dramatically lower your costs
  • Speed up time to market
  • Accommodate and support your existing workflow
  • Provide a high-level overview of production
  • Align your enterprise with the latest industry-standard technology
  • Ease tracking, reporting, and collaboration
  • Integrate your resources with your dedicated Bowne team
  • Eliminate traditional typesetting costs
  • Streamline repetitive tasks
  • Speed up production, approval review, filing, and print schedules