Selecting an industry-standard middle tier, such as ODBC, guaranteed the long term feasibility of the application, and provided the customer with high value added. The Agency relies heavily on word processing and the utilization of over 500 templates to generate official documents for the court. Unfortunately, only one person is authorized to modify the templates, because of the high legal liability involved, and thus automation of the system is subject to bottleneck created by external processes. The customer wanted to facilitate use of the templates without sacrificing control. CompuWave devised a method to initiate a copy command using the login script for each user.
Every user logs in every morning.
The login script runs, looks to the template folder on the central server, then copies any templates that have been modified into the template folder on the local server. When the word processor is run and a template is used, management is assured that the templates will be the latest one. There were no product costs to this solution - simply optimizing existing technologies. Yet, the benefits were long-ranging, as the process of document generation was liberated from external bottlenecks, and utilization of the technology grew dramatically. A small manufacturing company.