Where IDP ends and IDP++ begins.
Document in, data out is turning into table stakes. Every vendor ships it, and the price keeps falling. The capability that holds retention and margin sits higher up the ladder, where the workflow stops handing back a payload and starts acting on a live object.
From a document to a content object.
The jump from IDP to IDP++ is a change in the unit of work. Classic IDP treats the document as the job: open it, read it, hand back the fields. IDP++ keeps a single live object that the workflow acts on for as long as the work is open.
The unit of work is a document.
Batch in, fields out. The model reads a file and returns a payload. Once the data lands in the target system, the document has done its job and is set aside.
Every run starts cold. There is nothing for the next correction, rule, or system to attach to.
The unit of work is a content object.
One live object the workflow keeps acting on. It holds the documents, their structure, the linked attributes, and the audit trail together, so every rule and every service has something durable to work against.
Change one value. The object reacts.
A content object is live. When a human or an agent changes a value, the rules re-run, the connected systems update, and the audit trail records it. Nothing gets re-run by hand.