Xplor International
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Xplor International also known as The Electronic Document Systems Association is an international trade association specifically focused on the issues of transaction document
Transaction document
Transaction documents refers to legally relevant documents that are either printed, inserter and mailed, or electronically presented. They consist of a mixture of fixed and variable data....

s. Transaction documents are legally relevant documents that are either printed and mailed or are electronically delivered e.g. bills
Bill (payment)
A bill or invoice is a document requesting payment for an order previously supplied. Presentation of a bill is common practice on the part of credit card companies, utilities, and other service providers...

, bank statements, insurance policies etc.

The acronym XPLOR was derived from Xerox Printer Liaison ORganization, the original association name. Xplor expanded its mission in 1983 to include other vendors' technology and adopted the acronym as the organization's name.

History

Xplor International was founded in 1980 as a trade association specifically for transaction document applications, due to the difference in emphasis on variable data. Originally a user group for the Xerox
Xerox
Xerox Corporation is an American multinational document management corporation that produced and sells a range of color and black-and-white printers, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies...

 9700 laser printer, they reshaped its mission in the early 1980s to address the entire transaction document industry. Hardware companies like IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

, Siemens
Siemens
Siemens may refer toSiemens, a German family name carried by generations of telecommunications industrialists, including:* Werner von Siemens , inventor, founder of Siemens AG...

 (later Océ
Océ
Océ N.V. is a Netherlands-based company that develops, manufactures and sells printing and copying hardware and related software. The offering includes office printing and copying systems; production printers and wide format printing systems for both technical documentation and color display...

), Hewlett Packard, Pitney Bowes
Pitney Bowes
Pitney Bowes Inc. is a Stamford, Connecticut-based manufacturer of software and hardware and a provider of services related to documents, packaging, mailing, and shipping, collectively referred to as mailstream. The company has approximately 36,000 employees worldwide. It is one of 87 existing...

, Böwe Bell & Howell
Böwe Bell & Howell
Bell & Howell is a U.S.-based former manufacturer of motion picture machinery, founded as Bell & Howell in 1907 by two projectionists, and headquartered in Wheeling, Illinois. The company merged with Böwe Systec Inc...

, and Xerox
Xerox
Xerox Corporation is an American multinational document management corporation that produced and sells a range of color and black-and-white printers, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies...

 have been actively involved as have software companies like Image Sciences (later Docucorp International), Document Sciences, Cincom, GMC Software Technology, Xenos, Crawford Technologies, supported Xplor in order to promote a venue for the issues that are unique to the creation of transaction documents.

In the 1990s, Xplor began to shift from solely document “printing” to document “printing and presentation”, as transaction documents came to be presented on the Web.

Membership

Xplor’s membership of users and vendors is worldwide, with approximately 45% of the membership in the early 2000s being outside the US.

Xplor honours and awards

Xplor awards various technology providers with awards each year, including:
  • The Technology Application Award is presented to an individual, a company, or an organization to recognize outstanding achievement in the imaginative application of current technology and/or unique implementation of existing electronic document
    Electronic document
    An electronic document is any electronic media content that are intended to be used in either an electronic form or as printed output....

     systems.
  • The Innovator of the Year Award honors an individual, company, or organization that has conceived and developed an original concept leading to a significant advancement in the industry. The "Innovator" has advanced a new program product or technology that notably enhances the capabilities of electronic document
    Electronic document
    An electronic document is any electronic media content that are intended to be used in either an electronic form or as printed output....

     systems.
  • The Xplorer of the Year is Xplor International's most prestigious award; it honors significant service to the Association, dedication to the Xplor mission, and notable achievement promoting the interest of the electronic document
    Electronic document
    An electronic document is any electronic media content that are intended to be used in either an electronic form or as printed output....

     systems industry.
  • The Brian Platte Lifetime Achievement Award, established in 2007, is given to an individual whose efforts and contributions have significantly changed the course and development of the digital document industry.

Electronic Document Professional

Xplor manages the Electronic Document Professional
Electronic Document Professional
The EDP is a professional designation awarded by Xplor International for participants in the electronic document industry who have satisfied a number of criteria....

 (EDP) certification program for people experienced in electronic document
Electronic document
An electronic document is any electronic media content that are intended to be used in either an electronic form or as printed output....

 systems and/or application development.

Associations in related fields

  • Association for Information and Image Management
    Association for Information and Image Management
    The Association for Information and Image Management or AIIM is a non-profit organization that provides education, research, and best practices for document management and enterprise content management...

    , the association for electronic content management
  • Association of Records Managers and Administrators, the association for records management professionals
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