The annual report, quarterly reports and press releases. are important vehicles to communicate corporate performance, accomplishments, objectives and mission. To reach the most readers it is important to utilize Internet visibility however not at the exclusion of the printed report as that is still an important distribution method.

Annual and quaterly report length continues to grow in a post-Sarbanes-Oxley environment. The emphasis on financial information in these reports is increasing, and often now comprises between 60 and 70%of a typical report.

The ultimate responsibility for this type of reports lies with the board of directors or the management team. But in most organizations it is the communications or PR department that co-ordinates these communications.

This means they need to manage a cross departmental project with often up to 80 or 90 people involved (internal and external). Using tools like MS Word documents, copy and paste and email as the primary workflow tool; managing master documents and sub master documents sending around parts of documents with underlying documents to validate, and more. Creating an unstructured, almost unmanageable situation where there is no control whatsoever about who did what and when in the process. Errors and mistakes are usually found by coincidence and luck than anything else.

uniplicity|report helps these large repprting projects by offering a structured and controlled approach where people have dedicated tasks, managed from a single source database containing all report elements. Where the project owner can structure and control the project in a timely manner. With proper audit and trace functions and where content and format are separated and brought together automatically. All changes, including last minute changes, are managed and made visible through a single repository containing a log of all changes.

uniplicity|report also manages the output to different report formats without rewritting any content, using a single source database. With a few clicks, tailor made (sub)publications can be made in any format required, whether it is on paper, html for web publications or any other required format.