Extended ECM

Connection of SAP Business Processes with Enterprise Content

Increase productivity and reduce costs and risks

OpenTextTM Extended ECM (short xECM) for SAP® Solutions extends SAP® business applications (ERP, CRM, SRM, …) with comprehensive ECM functions for file and document management, records management and collaboration.

Challenges

Bridging the gap between structured data in SAP® Business Suite applications and the associated (unstructured enterprise content (documents, e-mails, images, …)
Increase the efficiency of content-specific SAP® business processes
Control unstructured content across the enterprise

Advantages

Increase process efficiency by connecting SAP® business processes with associated enterprise content and promoting collaboration across application and system boundaries
High level of consistency and control through the use of SAP® data, structures, and organizational and organizational authorizations
Categorization of unstructured content
Reduce risk by controlling enterprise content throughout the lifecycle
Reduce costs by digitizing paper documents and the associated handling and archiving costs

Business Workspaces

The focus of xECM is on so-called workspaces. They are often created in relation to a leading SAP® business object (customer, vendor, purchase order, order, material, etc.) and serve the centralized and structured filing as well as the authorization-controlled retrieval and inspection of enterprise content (documents, e-mails, pictures , …).

In addition to the structured representation of enterprise content in the center of a workspace, all process-relevant business data from SAP® can also be integrated so that a user receives a complete 360-degree view of all current data and documents for a business case. With the help of workflows information, processing and approval processes can be supported.

xECM can be integrated into many user interfaces so that a user can access a workspace directly from his preferred working environment (SAP, Microsoft Windows / Office / Outlook / SharePoint, Web / Portal, mobile devices).

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