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Principles of Software Engineering

Notes • Break large, complex sections of code into smaller, comprehensible modules.

Do not open data connections using a specific user’s credentials. Connections
that have been opened using such credentials cannot be pooled and reused,
thus losing the benefits of connection pooling.

Redwood Software Inc. expands its Report2Web

Burster to integrate PDF document processing

Brief Portrait
Redwood Software Inc. was founded in 1993. Its product range includes software solutions
in the field of business intelligence and controlling, among others. Redwood Software
provides its customers with direct added value in the form of a high level of automation in
reporting processes.
Report2Web is an innovative, web-based solution that provides safe and professional content
reporting and archiving within the company. It enables any system to make any kind of
electronic document available throughout the corporation safely, speedily, reliably and on
time.

Customer Application Requirements
The highly flexible and reliable functionality of the Report2Web solution splits large numbers
of related, corporation-wide reports in PDF format and merges them with new content to
form new documents. The program must be able to handle incoming reports with different
formats.

It should be possible to extract individual reports from the overall reporting system and
make them available to executive staff in individual areas of the company as part of the
management process. The program should also guarantee a smooth internal and external
document flow, thus forming the basis for safely archiving the reports in the archiving
system used by the customer.

Solution Concept
PDF Prep Tool Suite and the PDF Library Software Development Kit (SDK) enable highly
flexible PDF document splitting. The solution ensures that no content is lost and that
readability and availability is guaranteed at all times.
Benefit

By utilizing PDF Prep Tool Suite and the PDF Library SDK from PDF Tools AG, Redwood
Software was able to significantly increase the performance scope of Report2Web Burster for
processing PDF documents. The technology from PDF Tools AG enables the customer to use
the intelligent processing ability of Report2Web Burster for reports not only for ASCII texts
but also for PDF formats. This ability has made Report2Web Burster a central processing
module in the Reporting product family of Redwood Software.
Questions
1. Explain the customer application requirements.
2. Explain the Report2Web.

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