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      Create compliant PDFs for your regulators all around the world.

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      Check and fix your PDFs to make sure they meet internal and external guidelines.

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      Create navigation-rich, searchable PDF reports by merging documents into single or multiple PDFs. 

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      Mass convert all your enterprise files to future-proof file formats such as PDF/A or TIFF.

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      Monitor e-mail inboxes and automatically convert e-mail & attachments to PDF or other formats for correspondence tracking or other purposes.

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      Convert your audio and video files to the format of your choice.

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      Centralize the conversion to PDF for your entire organization.

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      Mass convert all your enterprise files to future-proof file formats such as PDF/A or TIFF.

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      Monitor email inboxes and automatically convert mails and attachments to PDF or other formats.

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      Generate repeatable documents by bringing templates and data together. At scale.

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      Convert old file formats to the latest standard to ensure accessibility and readability of your valuable content.

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      Convert your audio and video files to the format of your choice.

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How Docker puts your rendering farm on steroids

  • November 15, 2019

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Infinite scalability in document conversion through container technology

Container technology* has been around for a while now. The benefits are clear: scalability, rapid deployment, cost savings, simplicity. In 2020, 71% of all companies have moved workloads to containers, according to a study by DivvyCloud.

Containerization has now come to the advanced rendering space. In this blog post, we focus on the use cases and advantages of running advanced rendering on Docker. 

*Container technology is a method to package an application, so it can be run, with its dependencies, isolated from other processes. A container is a package that includes everything to run an application. Containers rely less on external hardware and software and can run on any environment (Microsoft, Linux, Mac etc.)DocShifter and Container (Docker) technology for infinite scalability and easier deployment

Why should you investigate running your rendering farm on Docker?

Document conversion is a resource intensive process. Moreover, the workload is highly unpredictable in most cases. And there is typically considerable time pressure. 

Think of thousands:

– of ICH compliant PDF files that need to be generated at submission time in Life Sciences. 

– of payslips that need to be sent at the end of the month. 

– of documents that are flowing into the organization, that need standardization/harmonization before being added to a content repository.

Today, most companies have architected their solution for peak loads. They have built huge rendering farms for doomsday. And these sit idle most of the time. Resulting in an IT architecture that is largely over scaled, expensive and inefficient.

DocShifter on Docker - Ultra scalability at lower cost
With DocShifter implemented on Docker, you can scale when you need to. When your business requires it. It gives you the ability to spread your workload over as many resources as needed.

Scalability taken to the next level. Effiency²

When we designed DocShifter years ago, it was already designed with maximum scalability in mind. Our customers can scale, by adding additional transformation engines, or receivers.

DocShifter on Docker takes this scalability to the next level.

With DocShifter implemented on Docker, you can scale when you need to. When your business requires it. It gives you the ability to spread your workload over as many resources as required. Eliminating the costs related to setting up and maintaining an oversized rendering farm. 

DocShifter architecture automatically starts as many transformation engines as necessary to support your business. And it is the transformation engines, or receivers, that takes care of the heavy lifting. 

Combining the speed of DocShifter with the efficiency of Docker puts your rendering farm on steroids. Effiency². Thanks to the nature of Docker, fewer hardware and software resources are needed to run the same application. DocShifter on Docker allows organizations to save big.

This setup allows for true transversal services for content transformation – serving multiple departments within your organization. Centrally.

Automate deployment

You decide where you run your content transformation operations: on-site, in a private cloud, a hybrid cloud or in a public cloud. If it runs on your system, it runs everywhere. 

With DocShifter on Docker, combined with Kubernetes – you can automate your deployment, scaling and operations of content transformation containers across clusters of hosts. With DocShifter, you get all the benefits from running Infrastructure as Code: time saving, cost saving – and reduced risk!

About DocShifter

Speed, quality, scalability, and configurability are reasons why Life Sciences organizations choose DocShifter to generate technically compliant, submission-ready PDF. High volume, high-quality document conversion, on-premises, or in the cloud. Super easy to set up. Automate. Centralize. Eliminate manual intervention. Reduce risk. Reduce IT infrastructure costs.

Last update: 08/01/2021

Infinite scalability in document conversion through container technology

Container technology* has been around for a while now. The benefits are clear: scalability, rapid deployment, cost savings, simplicity. In 2020, 71% of all companies have moved workloads to containers, according to a study by DivvyCloud.

Containerization has now come to the advanced rendering space. In this blog post, we focus on the use cases and advantages of running advanced rendering on Docker. 

*Container technology is a method to package an application, so it can be run, with its dependencies, isolated from other processes. A container is a package that includes everything to run an application. Containers rely less on external hardware and software and can run on any environment (Microsoft, Linux, Mac etc.)DocShifter and Container (Docker) technology for infinite scalability and easier deployment

Why should you investigate running your rendering farm on Docker?

Document conversion is a resource intensive process. Moreover, the workload is highly unpredictable in most cases. And there is typically considerable time pressure. 

Think of thousands:

- of ICH compliant PDF files that need to be generated at submission time in Life Sciences. 

- of payslips that need to be sent at the end of the month. 

- of documents that are flowing into the organization, that need standardization/harmonization before being added to a content repository.

Today, most companies have architected their solution for peak loads. They have built huge rendering farms for doomsday. And these sit idle most of the time. Resulting in an IT architecture that is largely over scaled, expensive and inefficient.

DocShifter on Docker - Ultra scalability at lower cost
With DocShifter implemented on Docker, you can scale when you need to. When your business requires it. It gives you the ability to spread your workload over as many resources as needed.

Scalability taken to the next level. Effiency²

When we designed DocShifter years ago, it was already designed with maximum scalability in mind. Our customers can scale, by adding additional transformation engines, or receivers.

DocShifter on Docker takes this scalability to the next level.

With DocShifter implemented on Docker, you can scale when you need to. When your business requires it. It gives you the ability to spread your workload over as many resources as required. Eliminating the costs related to setting up and maintaining an oversized rendering farm. 

DocShifter architecture automatically starts as many transformation engines as necessary to support your business. And it is the transformation engines, or receivers, that takes care of the heavy lifting. 

Combining the speed of DocShifter with the efficiency of Docker puts your rendering farm on steroids. Effiency². Thanks to the nature of Docker, fewer hardware and software resources are needed to run the same application. DocShifter on Docker allows organizations to save big.

This setup allows for true transversal services for content transformation - serving multiple departments within your organization. Centrally.

Automate deployment

You decide where you run your content transformation operations: on-site, in a private cloud, a hybrid cloud or in a public cloud. If it runs on your system, it runs everywhere. 

With DocShifter on Docker, combined with Kubernetes - you can automate your deployment, scaling and operations of content transformation containers across clusters of hosts. With DocShifter, you get all the benefits from running Infrastructure as Code: time saving, cost saving - and reduced risk!

About DocShifter

Speed, quality, scalability, and configurability are reasons why Life Sciences organizations choose DocShifter to generate technically compliant, submission-ready PDF. High volume, high-quality document conversion, on-premises, or in the cloud. Super easy to set up. Automate. Centralize. Eliminate manual intervention. Reduce risk. Reduce IT infrastructure costs.

Last update: 08/01/2021

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"DocShifter is converting 36.000 documents per day, coming from all over our company (and external). We have no control over what is coming in. And still the failure rate is below 1%.

And what really sets it apart from what we were doing before, DocShifter tells us what went wrong, so we can act upon the documents that did not convert".
Operations Manager Large European Bank
"DocShifter will save us over 750 hours of manual work per year. And we expect the time savings to increase as we continue to expand our use of DocShifter.

This is significant for our clients who need the eCTD sequences to be published quickly, accurately and efficiently. "
Jennie MayDirector, Regulatory Operations - PharmaLex
"Very powerful tool for document conversion and generation. The DocShifter software goes further than our current needs, and from my point of view quite unique in the industry. Quick adaption due to user-friendly workflow creation functionalities. Possibility to create workflows in a user-friendly (non-IT) way. Possibilities for seamlessly integrations into existing solutions."
Kris V.ITS Business Partner, Clinical Development
"We are using DocShifter in conjunction with Documentum software. The rendition performance that is observed so far is more than 4000 documents per hour (on 1 single instance). The output provided is fully compliant to health authority specifications (FDA, EMA, PMDA, HC, SwissHealth, etc.) and is configurable for different countries. A true enterprise document conversion solution.”
Piyush J. Solution Manager
"We use DocShifter to prepare compliant, submission-ready PDF renditions for all regulatory content.

The product is reliable, extremely fast and produces output that is compliant with multiple Health Authorities."
Large US biotechnology companyRegulatory Information Systems Manager
"We implemented DocShifter into production and have converted over 35.000 documents. Our failure rate has dropped from over 10% to well under 0.1%. We have seen an astronomical improvement in our document conversion processes thanks to how easy DocShifter was to implement and to use. In the course of 12 months, we are going to convert more than 100.000 documents with DocShifter. Fantastic document conversion solution!”
Chris B. IT System Administrator - PeopleScout Technology
"We have documentation in different languages, but when converting everything to PDF for submissions, things got complicated really fast. Our rendition engine couldn't cope with all those fonts, and we lost a lot of time fixing problems that weren't supposed to be there in the first place. We decided to make a switch to DocShifter. Scalability during our peak times, ability to deal with multiple fonts, automation (conversion of source documents to simultaneous submission-ready PDFs for multiple health authorities) and performance. These are just some of the things that make DocShifter such a powerful rendering engine."
Jade O. Document Management Professional
"We selected DocShifter for the incredible ease-of-use, the simple configuration and implementation, the high-quality ICH compliant output, and the huge number of formats supported. Performance is excellent, and we reduced the number of rendition servers by a factor of 3. All of this, plus the company’s responsiveness made it an easy choice."
Regulatory Operations & Global Submissions SpecialistLarge pharmaceutical company
"DocShifter powers the document conversion solution in Generis’ new CARA cloud offering. “We already support many joint customers who have advanced document conversion requirements met by the integration of DocShifter with CARA. We are now happy to be able to offer this on a pre-built package with New CARA on our cloud for such customers.”
James KelleherCEO - Generis
"As we are in the middle of a paradigm shift from analogue to digital in Japan, I have been looking for the right solution to support this for many years. In DocShifter we have found a company with solutions that have been selected by organizations of all sizes because of their responsiveness, cost-effectiveness, class-leading performance and unique capabilities that rise above the competition.”
Kosuke OmodaPresident - eSA Japan
"One of the things we love about DocShifter is the graphic interface to configure file transformation flows. The user interface is very simple to use and rare to find within other similar document conversion products. Wide selection of connectors to different solutions (EIM & DMS systems) make DocShifter a great choice for our company as well. We also are very happy with the customer support we receive: extremely friendly and prompt.”
Nikita L.Information Management Consultant
"With DocShifter, we are seeing better performance with even less resources, compared to our previous solution. The deployment is very easy, and the utilization of hardware/software resources are extremely efficient. Thanks to DocShifter's architecture and not needing Office applications, we were able to save a lot of money and resources by the switch.”
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