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“activePDF Toolkit enabled Datacare to provide the ability to incorporate PDF form-filling and file merging with a simple integration and at a cost that made the buy vs. build decision very easy for us.” - Michael Moya, CEO Datacare Corporation

Datacare Software Group has specialized in the manufacture and supply of entity management and subsidiary governance applications since 1985. Datacare is the world's largest supplier of web-based entity management solutions with over 700 international blue chip clients. Datacare's software products are designed for corporations managing a number of subsidiaries - both on a national and global level. They enable organizations to better manage, improve transparency and tighten controls over their legal structure. The central data repository allows clients to track all related entity information in real time from anywhere in the world. It also offers users task-driven compliance management, flexible charting tools, document production and e-filing in multiple jurisdictions.

activePDF’s OEM Philosophy: Co-Opetition

We believe the key to success in a feature-specific market is “co-opetition”. Co-opetition exists when organizations combine and synergize technologies in a cooperative effort to address a specific need in the marketplace, with each organization gaining a competitive advantage as a result of this cooperation. activePDF is a leading provider of server-based PDF development tools and while we meet a specific consumer demand, we recognize that some technology users require PDF generation functionality to be completely integrated within their applications. We address this need by making our product available to OEM partners in an easily-integrated COM format that can be plugged into virtually any Windows-based technology. In this way, end users are presented with PDF-generation capabilities that would typically cost hundreds of dollars per user.

The steep discounts activePDF offers to our OEM customers is recouped in the distribution of our licenses to a partner network of tens of thousands of customers. A key to success of co-opetition is developing a win-win scenario for both partners and activePDF is committed to ensuring that each OEM project is a successful, long-term venture.
activePDF OEM Program Benefits

The activePDF OEM offering is sufficiently flexible to provide organizations with specific functionality at affordable prices.

• activePDF Toolkit Lite is ideal for companies looking to incorporate simple TexttoPDF conversion as well as PDF optimization in their own software tools and applications.
• activePDF Toolkit Standard allows for the most commonly desired functionality in terms of PDF generation and manipulation. It includes features such as PDF form-filling, linearization, merging, parsing, stamping, barcode generation, Tiff and JPEG conversion, and MetaData extraction to name a few.
• activePDF Toolkit Professional offers additional functionality such as digital signature capabilities, support for the conversion of multiple image types, the ability to add and extract comments, document stitching, and XML data to a PDF. Please click here for a complete list of activePDF Toolkit features.

activePDF OEM Case Studies

OEM Product – activePDF Toolkit Lite
Licenses Required – 1000 desktop users
Approximate cost per installation - $1
Client Requirement: Client needs a simple way to optimize PDF documents for storage upon conversion with an in-house application that utilizes GhostScript on the desktop. By using activePDF Toolkit, the client can reduce the document size by removing duplicate objects and set viewer preferences so that the file appears correctly when retrieved for viewing.

User Case – Image Conversion for a Major Copier and Scanner Manufacturer

OEM Product – activePDF Toolkit Professional
Licenses Required – Unlimited server installs
Approximate cost per installation: $4
Features Used – Conversion of TIFF and JPEG Images to PDF
A leading scanner manufacturer needed to convert scanned files (TIFF and JPEG images) to PDF for storage in a proprietary document retrieval system. activePDF Toolkit Standard enables the conversion of 40 different image types to PDF as well as the programmatic generation of PDF cover pages for cataloging. This activePDF client has been using activePDF Toolkit since 2002 with thousands of successful installations.

User Case- Policy Generation Application for the Insurance Industry

OEM Product - activePDF Toolkit Standard
License Required - 500 server licenses
Approximate cost per installation: $20
Features Used - merge PDF files, create headers, footers, and cover pages, import customer data to headers and footers, import customer data to pre-determined PDF form fields.
A leading insurance software publisher provides a popular policy builder application to the industry and needed to use a universal file format to distribute policy documents. The application contains several policy templates. Based on a customer’s individual policy entitlements, a single PDF of the policy document is generated by merging the appropriate customer information and programmatically populating the corresponding data fields. The finished ‘product’ is a presentation of the complete policy customized to meet specific client requirements.

User Case - Print Shop Management Software Incorporates Business Card and Letter Builder Application

OEM Product - activePDF Toolkit Standard
License Required- 500 Server Licenses
Approximate cost per installation: $20 
A software publisher specializing in print shop automation enhanced their product offering with activePDF Toolkit by providing a module to allow users to dynamically generate business cards and letters in PDF format. This incorporates PDF field population with custom information, stamping of custom logos and selection of fonts to be ready for press.

Customer User Case – Dynamic PDF Form-filling and Merging

OEM Product - activePDF Toolkit Standard
Licenses Required – 100 server licenses
Approximate cost per installation: $50
A well-known software company has built an application that allows PDF forms to be filled in by clients via a web interface and merged with additional data based on client choices and additional input. The completed form is merged with additional PDF documents to create the finished package and allows the client to submit everything electronically.

A Sample of activePDF’s Co-Opetition OEM Partners

Datacare Corp
Accu Med
Deltek Systems
Precision Computer Systems
Merrick Systems
A2C Insurance Solutions
Best Software
New Front Software
Bisys Document Solutions
Richo Copiers
4GL Schools
IZB Soft

A Sample of activePDF’s Co-Opetition Corporate Partners

Family Direct Insurance
Johnson Controls
Marsh USA
Merrill Lynch
PP & G
Reuters
Symetra Financial