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VBL integrates RealObjects PDFreactor into online tariff calculator
Besides detailed product information VBL - Versorgungsanstalt des Bundes und der Länder offers its insured persons, employers and pensioners the possibility to calculate tariff premiums and payment plans for company pension plan products online via its website www.vbl.de. Firstly the data which are important for the calculation are requested using various HTML forms. A printable insurance offer (PDF) is then created from the collected data in real time on the part of the server by using the PDFreactor. This offer can then be downloaded directly by the customer or is sent by post via an automated process. The project was carried out by SITEFORUM GmbH by order of the VBL.
The generated offers contain a multitude of complex presentations such as payment plans, tariff information, personal information or contractual details. The design and layout of the offers was already available from the offline world. The main requirement was to transfer these offer templates into the online world and the dynamic creation of offers with the "exact pixel". A further important aspect is a fast generation of the offers.
With RealObjects PDFreactor VBL has supplemented the web-based offer process to an optimum extent. Compared with the Open Source Tool HTMLDOC, PDFreactor offers a multitude of benefits. This relates above all to the possibility to be able to define page layout and styles using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). It was only through this that it was possible to exactly implement the offer templates requested by VBL. The tool on the part of the server enables a fast, realizable, cost-efficient and high-quality printing functionality within the VBL offer creation process.
Please read also the related case study at www.realobjects.com23.02.2009, RealObjects GmbH
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