Where is ADF and workflow management in 2011? Has ADF 2.0 been widely adopted? Or are organizations finding other solutions to meet their workflow challenges? What are \’MiniADFs\’ and why is everyone discussing them? How do you cost-justify an ADF? This session provides an introduction to and overview of the ADF topics we\’ll be discussing during the Xplor 2011 conference.

1. This is not Your Father’s
ADF
Integrate Track
Opening Session
Tuesday, April 5th
Stephen D. Poe, EDP
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2. Integrate Track
ADF and workflow management
Focusing on real ADFs today
Issues such as:
Cost justification
ROI
New, emerging trends
AppDFs
Mini-ADFs
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3. Who’s Attending the track?
How familiar are you with the ADF
concept?
Do you have an ADF in house?
What is your role in ADF?
What do you want to get out of the next
three days worth of Integrate sessions?
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4. Introduction to ADF
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5. What is ADF?
“Automated Document Factory”
An ideal and a concept
Workflow management for transaction
document production
Efficiently and effectively produce high
volumes of transaction documents
Maintain document integrity and process
controls
Meet regulatory requirements
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6. But first –
a bit of history
Go back to when mainframes ruled
and dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
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7. 1995 – Large Mailing Operations Specification
Created by:
Desktop Management Task Force Finisher Work Group
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8. 1996 – Gartner introduces Automated
Document Factory
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9. 2007 – Gartner introduces ADF 2.0
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10. ADF 2.0 Growth Drivers
More emphasis on end-to-end monitoring
and control
Expansion from just hardcopy to electronic
creation, delivery, and archive
Integrate with other enterprise functionality

11. ADF 2.0 Issues
After 16 years, only perhaps 50% of
enterprises have implemented a full ADF
Expense
Complexity
Heterogeneous environments
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12. ADF 2011
What’s changing?
More software driven
Cost of software dropping
More regulations
With sharper teeth ($$$)
Environment getting more complex
Multi channel is gaining channels
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13. Integrate Track
The next three days
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14. Integrate Track - Goals
Present what’s new with ADF
Current trends
Best practices
14 sessions over three days
Best two sessions will be repeated on
Thursday morning
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15. Tuesday’s Schedule
9:30 - This is Not Your Father's ADF Stephen
10:20 Poe
10:30 - ADF is No Longer a Want - It's a David
11:20 Requirement in Today's Compliance and Day
Regulatory Environment
1:00 – Vendor Panel:
1:50 How to Cost-Justify an ADF
2:00 – Document Integrity: Maximize Your Benefits Ernie
2:50 Through Production Management Crawford
3:00 – The Strategic Value of Fully Integrated Print Kevin
3:50 and Mail Klein
4:00 – Eliminate Your Work Silos by Integrating a Matthew
4:50 Cohesive and Efficient Automated Workflow Mahoney

16. Wednesday’s Schedule
8:30 - ADF 2.0: Integrating with Multimedia Pete
9:20 Communications Basiliere
9:30 - The Appropriate Document Factory Paul
10:20 (AppDF) - The Other ADF Abdool
10:30 - The Interactive Document Cory
11:20 Olson
1:00 - Vendor Panel: Is the Mini-ADF the
1:50 Future of ADF?
2:00 - Manifest for Success: Your Destiny in Jim
2:50 Savings Hilgefort
3:00 - Panel Discussion: What's the Future Pete
3:50 for ADF? Basiliere

17. Panels
Tuesday
Vendor Panel
How to Cost-Justify an ADF
Wednesday
Vendor Panel
Is the Mini-ADF the Future of ADF?
Futures Panel – Chaired by Pete Basiliere
What's the Future for ADF?
Bring your questions for the panelists
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18. Enjoy the Conference!
Stephen D. Poe, EDP
Nautilus Solutions
+1.214.532.0443
sdpoe@nautilussolutions.com
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