ESCRIBA focuses on creating, editing, coordinating as well as the distribution of docu- ments. These processes should be simplified and automated as much as possible. The typology Document GeneratingSystem (DGS) is established on the market, in this con- text ESCRIBA is regarded as the technology and market leader. Increasingly, however, the term „second generation document management“ is found since ESCRIBA replaces or enhances many functions of the conventional document management systems (DMS).

ESRCIBA generates documents rule based in real / runtime. ESCRIBA does not access static templates like Word, but objects deposited in the so-called data-document contai- ners and then assembles the required documents dynamically. The ESCRIBA technology enables the generation of even most demanding documents faster, better and - above all

compliant to business and legal regulations.

The container approach provides the technical basis to better integrate documents into one or more workflows, to serve different channels (multi-channel) and to manageboth incoming and outgoing documents (filing, archiving, accessing, etc.).

ESCRIBA organizes fully automated in the background the versioning, I indexing and linking of documents with the business objects in the back-end systems. Typical business Objects are customers, employees, clerk, delivery, order, machine, etc.

The generated documents are filed automatically and - if necessary - archived. Generally, all documents are held centrally and are available decentrally. Therefore directory / index structures and file servers become redundant.

As ESCRIBA also handles context where documents are processed it is possible to easily, quickly and directly access existing documents or templates and data fields (more precisely Container).