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Content-Centric Applications

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  • Overview
  • Business Needs
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Overview

Content-Centric Applications Overview

Managing collaborative work, unlike managing structured, high volume, repetitive activities, requires a high level of flexibility, both in terms of how end users go about their tasks and for the resources that manage the systems designed to accommodate. Purpose-built applications specific to the needs of discrete business functions and organizational groups create silo’d knowledge and a barrier to change, inhibiting innovation and organizational growth.

Content-Centric applications help solve issues involving complex, knowledge-based, and often long-running processes frequently requiring the review and approval of high-value content by multiple stakeholders in the organization. As content moves through a process, its value increases exponentially; users collaborate, often at high cost, and quick access to information is critical in driving strategic, high-risk decisions and moving the process through to completion. For these reasons, governance of these processes and the associated content is critical.

Content-Centric Applications delivered via OpenText ECM provide an environment for teams to work together more effectively, share information, capture knowledge, manage collaborative processes and projects, and resolve issues with speed and confidence. Content-Centric Applications break departmental and geographic barriers, and ensure information is delivered in a manner that enables all users to consume it in a way most suited to their specific role, where and how they work and via whichever device or application they spend their days.

With OpenText ECM creating a baseline for information governance, Content-Centric Applications rapidly adapt ECM to business needs and help classify information without end user intervention, enabling users to discover information, assured it’s the single version of the truth required to drive effective decision making.

Featured Products

OpenText™ Content Intelligence

Content Intelligence combines the proven WebReports and ActiveView technologies, along with new productized dashboards, reports and wizards to help delight users.

  • Accelerate user adoption, productivity, and management insight
  • Quickly deploy tailored user experiences for each department that aggregate multi-system information
  • Develop with standard web technologies

OpenText Extended ECM for Engineering

Enables more effective management of engineering information and work processes across projects

  • Controls risks to project scope, schedule and costs
  • Ensures faster return on investment by speeding time to production and operations
  • Improves project efficiency and control via process automation, revision transparency, and concurrent document revisions
  • Adapts to needs of Engineers, Document Control Managers, Project Leaders and Contractors working for Owner-Operators and Engineering Departments
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OpenText WebReports

WebReports brings together content of all forms including documents, email, workflow and databases, delivering management dashboards, integrated reporting and creating process driven applications.

  • Multiple Sources for data queries
  • Form based powerviews
  • Interact with data within the Content Server repository
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Business Needs

Business Needs

Optimize operations by delivering content in the context of business processes

The OpenText™ Extended ECM Platform pioneered the concept of extending content management best practices into the industry lead applications that drive business processes, such as SAP, Salesforce and Microsoft. Building on that expertise, OpenText provides a class-leading, flexible development approach—providing the tools, APIs and templates needed to create customized integrations to virtually any application for:

  • Enhanced information flows with current lead systems and better business outcomes using existing IT investments
  • Maximized process and operational efficiencies through automation, identification, classification, analysis and distribution of information
  • Improved productivity and user experiences with seamless instant access to information for improved employee insights
  • Better information governance and content control across the entire organization
  • Minimized development cycles to free up IT resources for higher-level strategic purposes

Establish consistent and defensible Information Governance across the business

Enterprise information is growing at an exponential rate, where business applications are moving from the desktop to a variety of mobile devices and where information itself resides anywhere—in the cloud or on–premises. The firewall is no longer the "boundary" of the business, making it harder than ever to enforce information management policies and ensure compliance.

Companies everywhere are realizing the value that an Information Governance initiative can have for their business—in more ways than one. With the amount of information growing at an exponential rate, new regulations and policies are constantly coming into effect, and this has increased both the need for, and value of, Information Management.

Best practices and solutions that help meet compliance and risk mitigation mandates imposed by law, regulators, or internal quality standards are complemented by a keen focus on developing ways to capitalize on the kinds of productivity and efficiency gains that grow out of an asset-management approach to corporate information. Information Management solutions can help companies deliver a governance program to deal with corporate information, the consumers and creators of that information, in the context of real business processes.

Successful Information Governance programs demand that companies balance the needs and priorities to mitigate legal and business risk, take advantage of information to drive business value, and minimize the costs of managing information.

Products

Content-Centric Applications Products

OpenText Extended ECM for Engineering

Enables more effective management of engineering information and work processes across projects

  • Controls risks to project scope, schedule and costs
  • Ensures faster return on investment by speeding time to production and operations
  • Improves project efficiency and control via process automation, revision transparency, and concurrent document revisions
  • Adapts to needs of Engineers, Document Control Managers, Project Leaders and Contractors working for Owner-Operators and Engineering Departments
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Streamlines and secures a complete and transparent transmittal lifecycle, from creation and review to compliant auditing and retention.

  • Reduces the risk of errors and delays associated with manual processes
  • Increases productivity by simplifying and automating the transmittal process
  • Enforces partner accountability and expedites conflict resolution with robust auditing and document-based transmittal histories

Regulated Information Management

Manage how, when and under what circumstances electronic documents can be authored, updated, approved, published and archived to maintain compliance under strict regulatory guidelines (e.g., 21 CFR Part 11 and Annex 11).

  • Ensure compliance; reduce time-to-market
  • Manage all regulated document types
  • Support a full document lifecycle
  • Provide convenient, controlled access
  • Standardize documents within a controlled or managed environment
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OpenText™ Content Intelligence

Content Intelligence combines the proven WebReports and ActiveView technologies, along with new productized dashboards, reports and wizards to help delight users.

  • Accelerate user adoption, productivity, and management insight
  • Quickly deploy tailored user experiences for each department that aggregate multi-system information
  • Develop with standard web technologies
Learn More

OpenText WebReports

WebReports brings together content of all forms including documents, email, workflow and databases, delivering management dashboards, integrated reporting and creating process driven applications.

  • Multiple Sources for data queries
  • Form based powerviews
  • Interact with data within the Content Server repository
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OpenText ActiveView

Configuring the end-user experience with simplified interfaces tailored to display the relevant information and actions needed to perform role-based knowledge work.

  • An enriched user experience with personalized, role-based views
  • Easy to use and fast-to-deploy interfaces
  • Device Centric Views
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OpenText Brava!™

Brava!™ enables workers to view the content they need, collaborate with coworkers and external stakeholders alike, and even sign off when they are finished—all within the business rules.

  • Securely view, annotate, redact, and transform practically any file—including Microsoft Office documents, PDFs, CAD drawings, and images—without needing the native applications
  • Increase productivity with digital document reviews, file comparisons, and approvals all conducted within the browser
  • Access content anywhere with the zero-footprint HTML client, including on PCs, Macs, and mobile devices
  • Extend OpenText Content Server permissions to control view, print, print screen, and download functions
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OpenText Blazon™

OpenText Blazon is document transformation software that can create PDF, TIFF, or secure Content Sealed Format (CSF) renditions of practically any file including: Microsoft Office documents, PDFs, images, emails, and CAD drawings. Blazon can also perform OCR to convert flat scanned files to text-searchable PDFs.

  • Create secure CSF files with file expiration and other security settings
  • Apply stamps, watermarks, or banners such as draft status, time stamps, or other text
  • Automatically monitor a folder or library for new jobs to process
  • Markups created in OpenText Brava! can be burned in for sharing with outside parties.
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