HotDocs by CARET vs. OpenText Exstream

It is well suited in the organisations which deals with lots of paper work like legal, teaching, research, etc as they need similar kind of documents again and again. In a typical office set up it is of great use by human resource, marketing and legal department. Hot docs is not suitable if you have a proprietary or solo business as it do not caters to them.

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OpenText Exstream is well suited for creation of documents in a corporate environment with huge throughput, but at the same time needs a very structured set of document types due to layout requirements.

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• Personalized training. We were able to get an expert on a video call who walked us through solutions to each of our unique problems (i.e. all fifty states have different notary blocks, how can we auto-populate it when the state of the deal is selected?).
• Team access. Multiple people can work with the templates at once, thus allowing the members of our team who deal with financials to work on their documents while others focus on the organizational and legal documents.
• Once you have successfully drafted your templates, it runs incredibly smooth (barring any minor hiccups that happen with software updates) and efficiently.

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• Secure Document Generaration
• Customer Communication
• Fast Batch processing
• On demand API based document retrial and re-printing

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• Most HotDocs templates demand high-level code. This includes complicated Word codes
• Using HotDocs is incredibly user-friendly. Creating and maintaining templates is a programming task

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• merge the design manager and designer
• the way components are used accros applications
• when using XML the array handling must be improved

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Could be more intuitive - could even "suggest" fill-ins with the option to take or not take the suggestion.

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I haven't had to contact HotDocs very often for support. I suppose I rated them mid-level simply because I would like to see more online training options or white papers to view to assist with learning. I want to understand how to do something versus having it done for me.

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If you use WordPerfect X9 - choose"no word-processing software."

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I haven't evaluated other products. We are so used to HotDocs that it would be difficult for us to switch to something else. We continue to use HotDocs because switching cost is high once you have already started. Be careful before beginning to use this program, as it is hard to breakaway.

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Design flexibility, customer communication and lesser cost of ownership.

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• Time savings by employees when generating documents mean better ROI efficiency for labor.
• Faster, more accurate turnaround for documents needing to be generated from templates.
• Large capital expenditure depending on the number of users and developers.

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• increased customer and employee satisfaction

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