It's counter-productive, for a software vendor, to explain all this details and intermediate stages. It's more impressive to state that a program can start from the FID and automatically generate the article (and maybe even sending it via email to the editor of the JOC!). If such a monolithic thing really exists, it would be a case of bad design, but the marketing appeal can't be argued.
Selling a program is easy. Convincing the customer to use it, that's difficult!

A software vendor can't say: "Our research team is working hard to deploy a New Integrated Software Solution (TM) that automatically solves the most difficult cases" and in the meanwhile leave the user alone. The customer needs to publish his article right now, he can't wait for the next release of the software.
We have 3 established, long-standing and effective methods. They can be applied to different regions of the same spectrum. Let the Report Generator act as a central server, capable of accepting input by any method, even those that I am forgetting now, and of sending out the results in many different formats.
Suggested Reading:
The J Manager as a Center of Gravity.
This tutorial can be followed in practice, because it includes the same sample files that are shown into the pictures. There are also step-by-step instructions. The concept should be clear.
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