Overview

Exstream Software by HP provides enterprise software solutions for businesses around the world to streamline document creation processes and produce higher quality, relevant communications of all types for delivery through print/mail and online channels. Companies in the financial services, insurance, healthcare, service provider, telecommunications, utilities, travel & hospitality, retail, transportation, government, and other industries benefit by getting communications to market as much as 85 percent faster, reducing document production costs up to 80 percent, and as much as tripling customer response.

Background

Exstream was founded in 1998 to provide enterprises with advanced document automation solutions that would allow them to improve efficiencies for developing and deploying any kind of personalized communication for delivery through any channel. Acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2008, Exstream Software by HP continues to provide high-quality, industry-leading enterprise document automation solutions that allow companies around the world to significantly improve their document processes.

This strategic acquisition positions HP as a leader in the enterprise document automation space and will further HP's efforts to offer customers high-value solutions that improve business workflows in a number of vertical industries. The powerful combined assets of the two companies will help enable customers to get the right content in the right communication at the right time, while providing greater control over the end-to-end process, increasing customer response, and dramatically improving customer satisfaction.

Solutions

Dialogue is a comprehensive platform for building and deploying all high-volume, real-time, and interactive document applications across the enterprise. It was designed with an open architecture and robust functionality to easily connect with an enterprise's data sources, systems, and web infrastructure. With just one solution, you can create relevant and timely communications that connect with your customers at every touch point. Companies that adopt Dialogue report hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars in reduced costs, fewer calls to customer service, and tripled response rates.

Dialogue Live is an intelligent, interactive document automation solution that provides a common infrastructure for managing the editing of all types of interactive documents across the enterprise. Fully integrated with Dialogue v6, Dialogue Live also automates integration of field-edited documents with centralized corporate systems and document production. Companies benefit by eliminating point solutions and manual processes in the field, resulting in more productive employees, significantly reduced costs, less strain on IT resources, fewer calls to customer service, and happier customers.

AFP Studio is a full suite of Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) productivity solutions for managing AFP print streams.