The Trip Management sample application "TripPlanner" illustrates the benefits of EMC-Documentum xCelerated Composition Platform (xCP) to easily implement a business process that exists in every organization: the management of travel requests. You can download it for free from: https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-9494

1. Trip Management Sample Application xCelerator « TripPlanner » euroscript Systems France February 2011, v2

2. TripPlanner Sample Application xCelerator, February 2011 Agenda – TripPlanner xCelerator Presentation of the TripPlanner sample application Specific use case Benefits of the xCP approach Application preview Conclusion Releases

4. Companies are always looking for some new ways to reduce their travel costs while increasing the quality of service at the same time,

5. During the last decades, travel costs reduction has often been achieved with new Corporate travel policies and negotiation with third party travel agencies,

8. We offer a new approach to manage PDF Forms,

9. We prove that applications based on xCPxCelerator can be user-friendly:

10. using new kind of devices: Blackberry, iPhone, iPad, etc.

11. interacting with modern and famous other technologies: Google Maps, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

12. We integrate xCelerators from the Community, maximizing the functional cover of the solution and minimizing the specific development,To summarize, we want to show to our customers, partners & colleagues how an application can easily be implemented in 7 days using xCP.

13. TripPlanner Sample Application xCelerator, February 2011 Agenda – TripPlanner xCelerator Presentation of the TripPlanner sample application Specific use case Benefits of the xCP approach Application preview Conclusion Releases

14. TripPlanner xCelerator Let’s introduce the TripPlanner sample application: One company Three key employees TripPlanner Sample Application xCelerator, February 2011 John Smith Consultant Marion Dupont Assistant Mary Doe Manager

15. TripPlanner xCelerator 6 steps have been modelized for the TripPlanner xCelerator Step 1 – Trip request Step 2 – Automatic analysis Step 3 – Validation & request treatment Step 4 – Automatic transformation & generation of a Memo Step 5 – User Trip Memo Step 6 – Manager interface TripPlanner Sample Application xCelerator, February 2011

16. TripPlanner xCelerator Step 1 – Trip request John Smith is based in Paris and has to go to Las Vegas for the EMC World Convention. John has 2 different ways to fulfill his request 1. PaperForm 2. Adobe PDF Form (sent by email) TripPlanner Sample Application xCelerator, February 2011

17. TripPlanner xCelerator Step 2 – Automatic analysis TripPlanner Sample Application xCelerator, February 2011 The request is automatically pre-analyzed by the application. A module has been designed to get information from the Adobe PDF Forms in order to use it as process variables or metadata of the process package. For instance, the system is able to check long distance and/or extended trips before sending the request into an approval Workflow. As the Business Trip is far from John’s country, his demand has to be validated by Mary Doe, his manager. Reuse This Step can be easily modelized for every Corporate travel policies. The technology used by "TripPlanner" application to read PDF Forms has been integrated in another xCelerator called “PDF Form Reader”

18. TripPlanner xCelerator Step 3 – Validation and request treatment TripPlanner Sample Application xCelerator, February 2011 Mary Doe, John’s Manager, has to validate the trip. Mary has received an email and can validate the trip by a Web application.

19. TripPlanner xCelerator Step 3 – Validation and request treatment Marion Dupont received an email / task to proceed to booking. The web application allows Marion to enter all the information needed for the Trip Memo (vouchers, etc.) as well as the reporting activities (costs, etc.).

22. PDF version of the MemoDynamic HTML with direct links to the step information Pre-generated link to publish on facebook, twitter, etc. TripPlanner Sample Application xCelerator, February 2011

23. TripPlanner xCelerator Step 5 – User Trip Memo (bis) John Smith received an mail readable on any device Blackberry & iPhone views PDF version (with itineraries, vouchers and maps) TripPlanner Sample Application xCelerator, February 2011

24. TripPlanner xCelerator Pre-filled status by clicking on pre-generated links Pre-generated links to publish on Twitter, facebook, etc. Step 5 – User Trip Memo (ter) John Smith can inform his contacts on Twitter and Facebook TripPlanner Sample Application xCelerator, December 2010 TripPlanner Sample Application xCelerator, February 2011

25. TripPlanner xCelerator Step 6 – Manager interface Mary Doe has direct access to the Business Activity Monitoring of her Company. The new version (v2) of TripPlanner includes two dashboard designed to improve Manager’s life and optimize their time. Thanks to the BAM (Business Activity Monitoring), a strong focus can be made on the reporting functionalities. With a simple web access, a Manager is now able to follow the up-to-date travel planning and access to some useful reports. TripPlanner Sample Application xCelerator, February 2011

27. Average Time delay, in hours, for the treatment of a demand

28. Number of demands validated by the direction last month

29. ...TripPlanner Sample Application xCelerator, February 2011

31. Average trip distance per user

32. Total trips cost per user

33. Days away from office per user and per year

34. ...TripPlanner Sample Application xCelerator, February 2011 Follow-up of TripPolicy KPIs

35. TripPlanner Sample Application xCelerator, February 2011 Agenda – TripPlanner xCelerator Presentation of the TripPlanner sample application Specific use case Benefits of the xCP approach Application preview Conclusion Releases

37. Content Server: documents storage, processes execution, etc.

38. Forms Builder: design of the TaskSpace forms (trip organization for instance)

39. Process Builder: design of the main process, plus 2 sub processes

40. xCelerators from EDN Community

41. Generate Number: automatic identification of the Trip objects

42. xDQLxCelerator: serialization of the trip information in XML

43. Deep Export: export maps images used for the generation of PDF memo

44. TaskSpace: configuration of an Application, with some customized screens to validate requests, organize of the trip

45. BAM: Business Activity Monitoring

47. Adobe PDF forms: electronic submission of the trip request, by email

48. Google Maps API: generation of detailed itineraries, maps

49. Social Networks: direct link to facebook, twitter from the trip memo send by email

50. Additional Java libraries:

51. FOP: generation of PDF memo with maps

53. Deep Export and Generate Number (https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-7268)

54. PDF Form Reader (https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-9863)The technology used by "TripPlanner" application to read PDF Forms has been integrated in another xCelerator developed by euroscript and called “PDF Form Reader” (https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-9863). The solution also uses reusable design patterns from applications developed by euroscript (Google APIs, PDF merging). Such a solution can be very easily deployed to any company in few days. The global process is adaptable to every organization’s travel policies by simple configuration.

56. Employees do not lose time to prepare their Trip. They know that all information needed during their Business travel is on the Trip Memo.

57. Approval time is reduced, since the manager has access to a single work queue with all trip requests to be validated, with optional email notification.

58. Less paper, more electronic submissions. The Assistant can focus on reservations rather filing paper forms.

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63. the organization of the trip by the assistant.Then, many automatic activities are in charge of the retrieval of additional information (itinerary maps, location maps, detailed itineraries) and generation of the trip memo (HTML and PDF formats).

64. TripPlanner xCelerator – Processes Overview TripPlanner Sample Application xCelerator, February 2011 “Send Trip Memo” Process The “Send Trip Memo” process template is fully automatic. It generates iCalendar events (reminders) for trip steps by Train or Plane, and finally sends the trip memo (HTML body, PDF memo and iCalendar events in attachment)

65. TripPlanner Sample Application xCelerator, February 2011 Agenda – TripPlanner xCelerator Presentation of the TripPlanner sample application Specific use case Benefits of the xCP approach Application preview Conclusion Releases

66. TripPlanner Sample Application xCelerator, February 2011 TripPlanner xCelerator - Estimated Workload

67. TripPlanner Sample Application xCelerator, February 2011 TripPlanner xCelerator - Estimated Workload

69. Processing time of every Trip request is reduced by 50%

70. Managers can have a direct access to the system to validate request and to follow-up the Corporate Travel ExpensesSuch an application has been designed, built and implemented in few days using xCP. The global process is adaptable to every organization’s travel policies by simple configuration.

71. TripPlanner Sample Application xCelerator, February 2011 Agenda – TripPlanner xCelerator Presentation of the TripPlanner sample application Specific use case Benefits of the xCP approach Application preview Conclusion Releases

73. It includes:

74. new functionalities such as reports & Business Activity Monitoring

77. Benoit Mittau, Project Leader, benoit.mittau@eurodoc.com