Today it makes better sense – and cents to print on demand, making the move from preprinted forms to printed electronic forms easier and more affordable than ever. Optra Forms software from Lexmark is feature rich and affordable. What’s more, it’s easy – anybody can do it! One printer can print all your forms needs. Optra Forms maximizes your printer investment by letting you use the same printer for your electronic forms and other types of printing.
Union Assurance being a composite insurer with a wide product portfolio of life and general insurance, have an extensive network of 41 branches covering the entire island, including Jaffna, Trincomalee and Matara and are managed by well competent office & field staff of nearly 2,000 employees.
As such, yet another good evaluation and a prudent decision taken by Union Assurance is the implementation of The Optra Form printing solution for their life insurance functions. Printing of various reports, advices, statements and correspondents within the integrated IT systems in Life Insurance division was a complex and labour intensive task at Union Assurance. With the ever-increasing demands of the customers, Union Assurance decided to make use of high quality laser printing technology for their printing requirements. The challenge was to find a reliable, fast and cost effective solution for this requirement. The IT experts at Union Assurance found the right solution from E-WIS Peripherals (Pvt) Ltd (the sole-authorized solution provider for Lexmark in Sri Lanka). The comprehensive evaluation process in this regard revealed that the solution proposed by E-WIS Peripherals (Pvt) Ltd with The Lexmark T634 Laser printer is the most suitable for their requirement. The scalability, flexibility and the reliability of the printing solution was highly rated at this evaluation process.
Optra Forms uses ‘up-to-the-minute’ data directly from customer applications and combines it with printer resident electronic forms with text and graphics to produce (print) completed forms such as invoices, statements, pick slips, labels, purchase orders or confirmations with bar codes or other specialized graphics on a variety of paper types. Optra Forms is one of the simplest ways of integrating electronic forms into your workplace. It works with any host or network system, generally requiring no changes to host applications and as no server or host based merge program is necessary, it is quick to implement. What’s more, because forms are stored in the printer (and merged there), network traffic is reduced. Throughput is improved, with high quality laser printing in multiple modes (Portrait/landscape/compress/duplex etc.). Considerable cost saving on hardware maintenance reduce cost per page, staff, office space for pre-printed stationery, saves power, minimized errors with reduced human intervention, availability of usage statistics per user, per department, improved operational efficiency and last but not least better utilization of experienced staff, resulting in better customer service, are some of the benefit the user get when they invest in a solution like this. Mr. Chandana Jayasooriya, General Manager - IT of Union Assurance comments, "We at Union Assurance always look to improve our service standards using the emerging technologies and this is yet another initiative taken by us to provide fast and professional service to our valued customers." |
