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Gain greater control over your shareholder reports and prospectuses. Bowne technology puts you in control of the composition process—from converting Word™ and Excel® documents into composed, print-ready files in minutes, to managing a common text library across multiple documents. From start to finish, the focus is on process improvement. FundAlign Reports and FundAlign Prospectuses let you collaborate across multiple organizations and departments to achieve new efficiency, saving you time, increasing productivity, and reducing costs. All while making it easy to monitor the approval cycle of your documents from one secure online location. FundAlign is also fully integrated with Bowne Composition Services, so we can handle your overflow whenever necessary.

Automate your documents and manage online collaboration

Work in familiar formats. Bowne makes learning a proprietary typesetting system unnecessary. With FundAlign, you create documents in Word™ or Excel®, allowing everyone to work in formats they know and are comfortable with, while simultaneously reducing typeset time. Tracking changes, spreadsheet formulas, and other Word™ and Excel® formatting tools are fully supported. When your files are ready, they're automatically converted into typeset documents in seconds and routed for approval, with different document sections assigned to different groups.

Edit with flexibility. FundAlign is designed to allow different departments within your organization to work differently. If some groups prefer submitting changes traditionally, rather than checking documents into a secure, web-based portal, they can. Either way, changes are made across multiple documents, and team project managers can still view full proofs online and easily route completed documents for approval.

Comprehensively control document versions. All versions of documents created in FundAlign are saved to an archive, so you can easily access, review, copy, and restore them. Document versions are date-stamped and display the name of the last person to access the file, creating a comprehensive archive which you can access at any time. Archiving legal and auditor's comments for future reference is as simple as using PDF comment tools.

Automate typesetting. FundAlign automatically composes your Word™ and Excel® files using a financial typesetting system based on your predetermined style requirements. Typeset versions of your documents are available as PDF files almost immediately. Bowne makes every feature found in a financial typesetting system, available to you, including table and chart layout, heads and footnotes that run for several pages, blacklining, and automated conversion to EDGAR (HTML). When it comes time to circulate a document for review, typeset proofs allow marketing, legal, auditors, and all other reviewers to work with fully formatted documents throughout the document creation lifecycle.

Manage your workflow. Bowne's advanced technology tools streamline your workflow process. FundAlign makes comments, task lists and assignments, calendars, e-mail notifications, and approval routing available for all your documents, simplifying the way you handle document creation and approvals. Because many people are able to access the system simultaneously, you're free to assign roles and levels of access to every person you choose to authorize.