The first issue of the Nirva Application Platform newsletter, specifically designed for architects and developers.

Nirva Technical Newsletter - Feb 2010

Europ Assistance, the inventor of assistance and world reference in its industry, has implemented eWay, the data exchanges supervision and traceability solution developped by Agilecom and Nirva Systems based on the Nirva Application Platform.

Edokial, one of the leading french outsourcers of business and marketing documents solutions, chooses Post On Demand for its hybrid mail solution.

For more information: http://www.edokial.com

We are pleased to announce the new features available immediately for the Nirva products.

Fall Edition 2009 - English

Summer edition 2009 UK

Paperpost has chosen Nirva’s Post On Demand to build their Hosted Hybrid Mail offering. Paul Davey of Paperpost comments: ‘We have chosen Post On Demand from Nirva Systems as we believe it is the most functionally advanced, stable and scalable solution on the market today. Nirva’s open architecture allows us to tailor our service offering and differentiate ourselves from our competitors, including other providers using Nirva’s Post On Demand!’ Neil Cook, MD of Nirva Systems UK adds ‘We are impressed with the tailoring Paperpost have completed on their hybrid mail solution. They have done such a fantastic job of simplifying the end user experience that Nirva Systems would like to adopt many of their ideas!’

Paperpost offer a fully hosted hybrid mail solution. Visit Paperpost on http://www.paperpost.co.uk

Roubaix' Caisses d'Allocations Familiales chooses Post On Demand to automate and trace its batch, hybrid and reprographics document flows.

Version 3.0 of the Nirva Service Oriented Application Platform integrates the .NET technology. Clients are now able to develop procedures, services and applications using .NET languages (C#, VB, etc.) as well as Java, C++ or Perl.

Banques Populaires chooses Nirva Automate to pilot and trace some of its high volume document processes.

Nirva Systems will present its latest products at FAN 2009 in Paris between 29 and 30 September.

Nirva will present new products:
- Post On Demand 3.1 for Hybrid Mail Management
- Nirva Application Platform 3.0 for document processes automation and traceability, including the .NET technology integration.

The Nirva Group CTO, Jacques Mirodatos, has extended his White Paper on Interactive Documents into a full length article. Nirva Systems is pleased to announce that this article was published in the January 2009 issue of e-views, the magazine sponsored by Xplor UK & Ireland.

Nirva - Article on Interactive documents

Discover below the list of improvements built into Nirva products (Automate, Application Platform, Post On Demand, Mambo) over the last 3 months:

Nirva Winter Edition 2009

Xerox Global Services France now proposes Post On Demand in its portfolio for hybrid mail management solutions.

French Service Bureau Corus adopts Post On Demand to offer hybrid mail management solutions to its French clients.

SerenityFlow acquires Post On Demand and Dynamic Mail from Nirva Systems.
SerenityFlow specialises in secure document production and storage with a primary focus on design, implementation and operation of document solutions. According to Frederic Juppet, co-founder of SerenityFlow : "We chose Nirva Systems having followed their success for many years in the knowledge that they have the technology to handle hybrid mail and document automation better thant anyone on the market. The rich feature/function capability of Nirva's solutions respond to the needs of large and small businesses alike. Furthermore, it is the only solution we have found on the market that can truly be placed in the hands of non-specialist end users, from document design and development though to operational management. Built on the Nirva application platform, all Nirva solutions benefit from the platform's power and integration capacity allowing seamless and non-intrusive integration with existing solutions. This integration power truly matters when one want to control document process through increased automation."

Nirva Systems are pleased to announce the arrival of Neil Cook and Jacques Mirodatos in our UK subsidiary in June 2008. Neil becomes Managing Director of Nirva Systems UK Ltd, and Jacques takes up the position of technical director for the UK and CTO for Nirva Systems.

Together Neil Cook and Jacques Mirodatos bring more than 35 years document experience to Nirva Systems UK Ltd. Neil Cook has held a series of senior management roles including IT Directorships, Sales management and General management roles both as a document solutions provider and as an end user of document management solutions.

Jacques Mirodatos brings extensive experience as a document systems consultant and architect, having held CTO positions with systems integrators and service bureaux as well as being an active member of numerous advisory groups in the industry. Jacques is also a frequent speaker at industry events.

Nirva will be present on the SISEG expo in Paris to feature its document management solutions: hybrid mail, letter writing system & inbound mail management. We will demonstrate how to immediately reduce your postal bills by 12 to 50%.

Come & see us on stand J67.

Dynamic Mail is a unique Web solution covering the entire cycle of business and marketing documents creation, customisation, personalisation, sharing, storage, validation and production/delivery. All kind of business documents (letters, reports, memos, fax, etc.) or marketing ones (mailing, posters, application forms, flyers, etc.) are concerned.

For the really first time on the market, operative users are able to create their own templates and documents without any help or support of internal or external technical skills. Users are also able to order the production and delivery of documents from the same and unique Dynamic Mail Web interface.
Create and deliver personalised and high value documents is now possible for anyone.

Dynamic Mail is attractive for each company taking great interests in better customers relationship management, corporate image, employees productivity and reduction of documents management costs.

Dynamic Mail allows treatment and customisation of unitarian documents, as letters, and high industrial volumes as direct marketing or posted business documents.

Nirva will organise its annual Partners Conference on 24 April 2008 in Lyon.
The objective is to network, but also to present the latest developments (application platform, track & trace application, Print On Demand application) and to launch our new products (Mambo).

Arvato Services selects Nirva's Post On Demand to manage the hybrid mail production of their call centers.

PRN, one of the French leaders in direct mail, chooses the Nirva integration and development environment to deliver a set of new value added offers and improve its existing ones.

Nirva congratulates Arvato Services, one of the leading direct marketing companies in Europe, for their "Golden Cube" in innovation in the customer relation field for the DM Factory application. DM Factory is powered by the Nirva document architecture.

Nirva will feature the new versions of its "hybrid mail" management solutions, "letter writing system" and "office document archiving" solutions. However, the document traceability solutions and the applicative platform will also be present.

Nirva Systems has ported the Nirva applicative platform, its services, but also the traceability (Track & Trace) and hybrid mail management solutions on HP-UX.

All those solutions are therefore now available on Windows, Linux, HP-UX, Solaris and AIX.

Arvato Services, the european specialist in customer loyalty chooses Nirva to develop its centralised marketing offering.

Version 1.5 of Post On Demand is now available. This new version features several unique evolutions on the market:

1. Advanced background images management.
Background image management is possible individually for each document sent to print, fax, email or archive (main document, attachments, adress holder page) and then for each page of the document (first, follow up pages, odd and even ones, etc.). Moreover, the user profile can be set with background images preferences, specifically for the "tunnel" delivery mode. This powerful feature allows to rapidly create personalised marketing documents using Word and the POD virtual printer, to integrate "Terms and Conditions" on the back page, etc.

2. The delivery of electronic documents through a document "safe".
This major functionnality allows a client to automatically send via the virtual printer a (certified) email containing a link to the document, which is stored and secured. The user only needs to identify him/herself to view, print or download his/her document. An ideal functionnality for companies who wish to do electronic billing rapidly and cost efficiently.

3. Advanced cost center management
This feature allows the association of a user with a cost center which is not directly its head office or subsidiary. This perfectly reflects the complexity of large accounts and the constant changes of staff within the organisation.

Numerous minor functionalities and bug fixes are also included in version 1.5. For more information, please contact olivier.lebleu@nirva-systems.com.

Nirva Systems will exhibit and speak at the "Dématérialisation et Finance" (Electronic delivery & Finance) show in Paris on 12 and 13 December 2007.

Nirva will feature the new versions of its "hybrid mail" management solutions, "letter writing system" and "office document archiving" solutions. However, the document traceability solutions and the applicative platform will also be present.

Nirva launches its hybrid mail applicative component.

The hybrid mail component allows end users to send any document and its attachment (word processing, spreadsheet, DTP, PDF, invoices, etc.) via a virtual printer or upload to post, recorded mail, certified email, fax, express delivery, etc. to its central production facilities or that of a print outsourcer. This avoids the use of expensive local printers, the need to print the document, fill the enveloppe, stamp it, and moreover pay full rate for postage. The industrialisation of this process generates tremendous cost savings and productivity gains.

Additionally, this component allow the central archiving and PDF conversion of individual documents (emails, office documents, etc.).

The Nirva hybrid mail module provides all components and processes to industrialise this process (transport and conversion of the document, services and archiving portal, etc.).

Georges Tsitos will bring Nirva Systems his vision and knowledge of the document space. Georges was the founder and CEO of Lasercom SA in 1991 before he became a member of the Board at Edotech Ltd and then Astron, two major players in the document outsourcing industry. Georges holds several board positions in the IT and Finance industries.

Georges Tsitos, alongside Jacques Mirodatos, Lasercom's co-founder, was instrumental in the development of the document composition and e-billing industries in Europe. His vision in the convergence between business and marketing documents and the complete document life-cycle will help Nirva Systems drive future investments and positionning.

DHL Global Mail has chosen Nirva's "Track and Trace" solutions to trace its incoming and outgoing high volume production processes.

Nirva will be presenting on stand A22 its "Trace & Track" and "print on demand" solutions.

Nirva is pleased to announce the launch of the "Track & Trace" applicative function. Nirva's "Track & Trace" allows business users or document production staff (at end companies or service-bureaux) to follow the status of their production in real-time at batch or document level.

Nirva's "Track & Trace" provides a fully customisable traceability engine, which traces any element in any process. The traced elements can be arranged hierarchically (commands, batches, documents, pages, etc.). The application can be adapted to any data model ; the ergonomic and the graphical design are totally customisable. Of course the application manages multi-client, multi-sites organisations and secure user accesses and currently manages multi-billion yearly production volumes.

Implementing a traceability portal for your organisation and users now becomes a matter of a few days, as opposed to months.

The DHL Group and their partner Experian have recently chosen Nirva for their future solution of hybrid mail management.

After two years of growth on the French market, Nirva launches its French operations and Web site. The latter features the new corporate design, now also present on the English site.

Fidback, already an active user of Nirva for its campaign management solution Gocad, has chosen Nirva for its office document management solution.

The Nirva "Workflow" service belongs to the high value-add services of the Nirva application platform. Whereas numerous clients were already using Nirva to manage complex and critical processes, the "Workflow" service now simplifies even further the management of document processes.

Inforsud, one of the leading document outsourcers in France, has chosen the Nirva "Track & Trace" module to evaluate the status of its production in real time. This solution will allow Inforsud to offer its customers an even better customer service and to boost internal productivity.