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Hundreds
of employee hours saved through automation ...
Client Profile:
Problem Statement:
This health care insurer was in the process of
converting hundreds of pages of internal "how-to" and process manuals from
simple text documents into an HTML format that could be published on a new
company intranet, allowing for employees to easily search and review documents
online. When we engaged with the client, the initial approach adopted by
the client was to hire temporary staffers to manually convert and edit each
document to a preferred HTML format, a process estimated to take over 100
hours.
The Technical Challenge:
In converting a large set of text files into one common format, a custom string
parser needed to be written that would recognize common string patterns within
a text file and convert them to an agreed upon HTML format. Leveraging
the newly released (at the time) Microsoft VB6.0 platform, we were able to
write a code module in less than a week that took advantage of the Microsoft
Regular Expression engine and its advanced string parsing to quickly and
effectively convert all text documents. Due to the extreme
efficiency of this approach the client was also able to quickly make
changes in their transformation rules and output format and re-run the
transformation numerous times. When additional documents were found that
needed to be transformed, the client had the option of re-run the
transformation at any time and include the additional documents.
Results:
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Client was able to convert 100's of pages of documents in less than 15
minutes, saving weeks of labor intensive conversion.
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Documents were published to intranet site ahead of schedule, allowing
the project to complete under budget.
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Service workers were able to electronically search and index
what was previously a set of paper documents.
Technologies Deployed:
Microsoft VB6.0, Microsoft IIS 4.0
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