OpenText eDOCS for Microsoft SharePoint

OpenText eDOCS Suite reflects the acknowledgement that organizations have invested significant time, effort, resources, and money in IT infrastructure. It delivers on the promises of integration and interoperability so common in the ECM market.

By choosing OpenText eDOCS, organizations are assured that their investments in business systems will be protected - and respected. OpenText is committed to delivering a modular architecture by virtue of which eDOCS content enabling components are exposed as consumable services and delivered to a wide range of channels, such as thick-client applications, Webtops, office productivity applications and email clients, and mobile devices.

OpenText is committed to standards, including Microsoft .NET, and to leveraging those standards in order to form the basis for developing interoperable content lifecycle management solutions.

OpenText will continue to provide a strong value proposition where security, content management, beyond-basic library services, governance, and regulatory compliance are key requirements and core functional components.

Interoperability highlights of OpenText eDOCS include:

Unparalleled Integration with Microsoft Office

eDOCS builds on its reputation for seamless integration with the Microsoft Office System. One of the keys to success in terms of ECM deployment is striking the perfect balance between the need to secure and control content and the need to make user interaction with the system as natural as possible. eDOCS achieves this balance.

Organizations can deploy content-centric business solutions that achieve corporate goals of compliance, business risk mitigation, and cost reduction while at the same providing users with an environment that is literally as easy as using the intuitive, familiar Office applications they work with every day.  

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  eDOCS features seamless menu-level integration that enables users to access, search for, retrieve, save, or share work product all from the standard drop-down menus in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Users don't have to learn new technology to interact with eDOCS - they simply continue working with the same "Save," "Save as…," "Open," "Send to…," and other menu commands that they use on a daily basis. In seamless and transparent fashion, eDOCS controls the traffic of content to and from its highly secure repository to the user desktop.
  
  Interoperability with the Microsoft Office System doesn't end with the productivity suite. eDOCS features the ground-breaking eDOCS Client for Microsoft Outlook to ensure access, search and retrieval of all content from within the industry-leading and familiar email environment. Additionally, by tightly integrating with Microsoft Outlook, organizations can streamline and simplify enterprise email management initiatives - having users store and business-critical emails to the content management repository or, alternatively, employing the automated email management capabilities of eDOCS to automatically apply internal or regulatory mandated policies to email. This makes efforts to enforce compliance-related policies regarding email extremely straightforward and far easier than traditional, manual intensive processes.

Microsoft SharePoint Coexistence

Organizations are continuing to increase investments in Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies in order to provide users with a straightforward, easy to use collaborative environment for document sharing and information access. At the same time, the demand for ECM software, including eDOCS, is on the rise, due to organizational goals of mitigating risk (regulatory compliance), reducing and controlling costs across all departments, establishing content-centric business solutions, and generating business advantage through better management of business content.

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  In order to support and balance these dual trends, OpenText has developed a series of connectable components that enable a joint Microsoft SharePoint and eDOCS solution. Leveraging its rich heritage of integration with the Microsoft platform, OpenText enables organizations to enjoy the benefits of Microsoft SharePoint while ensuring the security, scalability, and superior document, records, and knowledge management capabilities eDOCS - the industry-leading ECM software.
  
  For organizations already invested in or planning deployments of Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, a coexistence approach that includes eDOCS will enable to truly capitalize on a best of both worlds strategy for long-term, sustainable ECM success.