Saarbrücken and Karlsruhe Besides detailed product information VBL offers its insured persons, employers and pensioners the possibility to calculate tariff premiums and payment plans for company pension plan products online via its website www.vbl.de. Firstly the data which are important for the calculation are requested using various HTML forms. A printable insurance offer (PDF) is then created from the collected data in real time on the part of the server by using the PDFreactor. This offer can then be downloaded directly by the customer or is sent by post via an automated process. The project was carried out by SITEFORUM GmbH by order of the VBL.

With RealObjects PDFreactor® VBL has supplemented the web-based offer process to an optimum extent. Compared with the Open Source Tool HTMLDOC, PDFreactor® offers a multitude of benefits. This relates above all to the possibility to be able to define page layout and styles using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). It was only through this that it was possible to exactly implement the offer templates requested by VBL. The tool on the part of the server enables a fast, realizable, cost-efficient and high-quality printing functionality within the VBL offer creation process.

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About VBL

The Versorgungsanstalt des Bundes und der Länder (VBL) has been providing public-sector occupational pensions for 80 years. It is the largest provider of supplementary pensions in Germany. Occupational pensions are based on the collective labor agreements negotiated between employers and the unions.

Currently some 5,450 participating employers and about 4.1 million insured employees use VBL’s services. VBL manages more than € 14 billion of employee and employer contributions. Therefore VBL is one of the biggest institutional capital investors in Germany.

More than 1.1 million pensioners receive a supplementary pension from VBL alongside their state pension. VBL pays out about € 360 million in supplementary pensions every month.

VBL is the first port of call for the public sector when it comes to occupational pensions. VBL advises and informs employees, pensioners and employers alike. As a public agency, it doesn’t charge broker commission or sales fees. The customers benefit from below-average administration costs.

 

About RealObjects

Headquartered in Saarbrücken, Germany, RealObjects is a manufacturer of standards-oriented, cross-platform software tools for content authoring and electronic publishing. The company ranks as a pioneering developer of easy-to-use, affordable and quick-to-deploy WYSIWYG HTML/XHTML/XML editor solutions, which enable content authoring in Web- and Java-based applications.

The privately-held software company has more than 2000 corporate customers in over 30 countries, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises, educational institutions as well as government and non-profit organizations. RealObjects has a strong network of key business alliances, value added resellers and OEM partners.