BCC Ignite
Automate, Simplify, and Scale Your Mailing Processes with BCC Ignite
BCC Ignite is a robust, enterprise-level platform that unifies multiple BCC Software products into a cohesive, automated data and mailing solution.
If you are managing high data volumes, facing workflow bottlenecks, or relying on manual processes to handle complex mailing tasks, then you should investigate BCC Ignite as a solution to streamline operations, reduce errors, and scale efficiently.
Key Benefits of BCC Ignite
Enhanced Efficiency: Cut data processing times from hours to minutes, allowing teams to accomplish more without additional resources.
Automation: Create workflows that run unattended, reducing the need for manual intervention and lowering error rates.
Scalability: Scale up processing power effortlessly to meet growing business demands.
Cost Savings: Minimize labor costs by eliminating overtime and outsourcing, while reducing software licensing fees.
Integrated Data Management: Streamline data handling across multiple sources with custom configurations and extensive integration capabilities.
Is data processing a bottleneck?
Most companies have a data processing operation that is manual, complex, and inefficient.
| Current State | Ideal State with BCC Ignite |
|---|---|
| Manual, complex, and inefficient processes | Fully automated workflows |
| Each developer creating unique scripts, increasing errors | Standardized, reusable workflows across jobs and clients |
| High maintenance demands and slow processing times | Low-maintenance with fast processing – from hours to minutes |
| High reliance on human touchpoints, increasing error risk | Minimal manual intervention with advanced quality assurance |
| Limited scalability, requiring additional resources for growth | Scalable with no added resources needed for expansion |
How Ignite Streamlines Your Workflow
BCC Ignite brings together BCC Software’s top solutions in a seamless platform, automating and optimizing data processing, mailing, and address quality tasks for enterprise-level operations. Here’s how Ignite streamlines your processes from start to finish:
Unified Data Processing with RedPoint Data Management
At the core of Ignite is RedPoint Data Management, an advanced ETL tool that manages data integration across multiple formats and systems. RPDM handles complex parsing, matching, and database lookups, enabling efficient data transformation for high-volume workflows.
Dynamic Workflow Automation through AddressFlow
AddressFlow serves as Ignite’s orchestrator, coordinating data processes across BCC Software components and external systems. It creates a continuous, rule-based flow, moving data from source to destination with minimal human intervention, allowing you to build, reuse, and customize workflows based on business needs.
Enterprise-Grade Mailing Components
BCC Presort: This robust presort engine organizes mailing data into USPS-compliant formats, helping streamline mail preparation for large volumes.
BCC Architect: Architect powers CASS processing for address verification, manages PAFs, and enables access to Track N Trace (TNT) for end-to-end mail tracking.
Post-Presort: Handle post-mailing tasks, such as Mail.dat editing and logistics, with integrated post-presort capabilities for smoother delivery planning and compliance. This tool is optional.
Integrated Data Services and Automation Packs
Ignite offers pre-configured Data Services Packs, featuring reusable macros and automated templates for tasks like address parsing, deduplication, and suppression. These packs simplify the setup of repetitive jobs and make ad-hoc tasks faster and more consistent.
Flexible Integration Options
Ignite can incorporate third-party tools like Quadient Inspire, Infuse Web Services, and LENS, giving your operation the flexibility to scale as business requirements evolve. It enables easy integration of non-BCC Software applications, ensuring all processes work in harmony within the Ignite framework.
Scalable and Customizable Solutions for Growth
Designed to grow with your business, Ignite supports multi-location operations and complex data workflows, offering scalability through additional data processing cores and optional automation or security packs.
Must-Have Features
Create reusable templates with drag-and-drop macros, simplifying job setup and enabling consistent automation across multiple projects without needing extensive programming skills.
Support for multiple hot folders that trigger different automation workflows, giving customers the flexibility to run various jobs concurrently and efficiently manage high data volumes.
Users can manage and monitor all data processes in one place, simplifying oversight and scaling operations without additional complexity.
Connect easily with third-party applications and other BCC Software products for a fully integrated data solution.
Integrated Data Services: Customers benefit from built-in data services, such as CASS, NCOA, DSF2, LENS (limited), and Infuse Web Services.
Track N Trace (TNT) Capabilities: Provides real-time mail tracking, offering transparency and better customer communication.
Automation Examples
a brief look
Automated Address Verification and Data Cleansing
Ignite can automatically pull in customer data files, verify addresses using CASS certification, and perform NCOA processing to update move information. The cleaned data is then formatted and prepared for immediate mailing, eliminating the need for manual data review and greatly reducing turnaround time.
End-to-End Mail Preparation Workflow
Ignite automates the full mail preparation process by integrating data parsing, presort, and post-presort steps. For each mailing job, it processes data, applies necessary presort settings for USPS compliance, and prepares final Mail.dat files without manual touchpoints, ensuring mailings meet regulatory standards and get out the door faster.
Job Monitoring and Error Alerts
Ignite can monitor FTP sites for incoming files, trigger workflows as files become available, and validate each step in the process. If errors are detected, automated alerts notify team members, allowing quick intervention. This automation reduces delays and helps maintain high-quality output with minimal human oversight.
Real-Time Mail Tracking Integration
By leveraging Track N Trace (TNT) within the Ignite framework, users can set up automated mail tracking workflows. After processing, Ignite uploads data to the tracking system and provides real-time status updates, so customers can monitor deliveries and adjust their campaigns based on live data.
What If You Could Cut Data Processing Time by 30%, 40%, 50% or more?
Imagine a mailing operation handling 50-100 files per week, each with around 25,000 records.
Currently, two full-time data processing staff members, along with one flexible support team member, are stretched thin, spending significant time on repetitive tasks and complex jobs.
On average, processing each job takes 45 minutes, with some complicated jobs requiring significantly more time.
Quality control alone consumes over a full day of work each week, checking and verifying rules that often vary from job to job.
Now, Imagine This Instead:
With BCC Ignite, nearly half of all jobs can be fully automated, with repeat processes becoming seamless. Jobs that once took 45 minutes could be completed in under 15 minutes, freeing up valuable hours across the week.
Even the most complex tasks, which previously required manual oversight, could be streamlined through reusable macros and customizable rules, enabling faster processing with minimal human intervention.
Ignite’s integrated automation and flexibility in data handling eliminate redundant setup, reduce quality control time, and provide real-time auditing for instant error correction.
The team now spends less time fixing errors and more time adding value—achieving faster, more reliable output with the same resources and no added labor costs.
