ZIOI - The answer to Basic Content Services for IBM ECM
Imagine every Microsoft Office user in your organization accessing MS Office documents stored in your IBM Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system as easily as using file shares. With Zero Install Office Integration your staff will find, open, edit and store Office documents without realizing they are working in the IBM ECM system. WeWebU Zero-Install Office Integration is so intuitive users do not need ECM system experience. A beautiful dream? No, reality!
These Basic Content Services are exactly what you get with WeWebU Zero-Install Office Integration. With it, WeWebU provides an interface familiar to MS Office users and makes interaction with your IBM ECM system simpler than ever. It allows use of your ECM system from MS Office intuitively and with virtually no training effort. Opening and editing documents from the IBM ECM system in MS Office and storing them back into the IBM ECM system becomes as easy as working with the local file system. Zero-Install Office Integration uses the standard MS Office menus and terms users are already familiar with, e.g. “Open” or “Save As”. Several document management functions are combined to intuitive menu items. Checkout and check-in run automatically in the background as documents are opened and saved. This feature saves users the effort of dealing with version status and other ECM terms thus allowing them to concentrate on their actual work using the MS Office products. The effort to store documents in the IBM ECM system is no greater than saving them in the local file system. Thus, redundant storage and overwriting of documents is avoided, while time is not wasted searching for the latest and “correct” document. Employee-productivity rises while at the same time all changes and versions are stored and tracked. Hence, compliance is easily achieved.
WeWebU Zero-Install Office Integration does not require any roll-out. Worldwide unique, it does not need any installation on the client computer and so avoids all related problems and resulting efforts and costs. At first usage just insert the link to Zero-Install Office Integration in the File Open dialog of MS Office and you are ready to work with the documents from your IBM ECM system!
Is Workplace/Workplace XT or a different UI best for our deployment?
WeWebU OpenWorkdesk offers a suite of applications for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) with an intuitive Web 2.0 front-end. Even users who do not have any ECM system experience can use state-of-the-art ECM functionalities with minimal training. Users enjoy “fat client like” features, such as adding documents via drag & drop, user defined shortcuts and right mouse button menus as well as context sensitive comprehensive help for every area. At any moment and within a single browser window it is easy to switch between document retrieval, file management and case management and even to use data from integrated third party systems. WeWebU OpenWorkdesk facilitates to work across the boundaries of different IBM ECM systems with a consistent look & feel. In various ways its standard functionalities can easily be customized according to your individual needs.
OpenWorkdesk applications are future-proof because your investments are protected by separating the user interface and application layer from the supporting IBM ECM system. Furthermore, OpenWorkdesk applications are easily expanded to integrate with line of business applications because it is based on the WeWebU OpenECM-Framework. This assures that you can continue to use WeWebU OpenWorkdesk and all project solutions implemented with it even after upgrades or migrations of the IBM ECM base system. Features that users ask for over and over come along out of the box. Many of these common productivity enhancing features are usually too expensive to include in custom built applications. Now your project team will begin with a feature rich palette and configure, rather than code, a custom solution that meets your content centric, process automation needs.
With the help of a fine-granular rights and role concept every user is provided with exactly those information and functions he needs to accomplish his tasks. If a user assumes several roles at the corporation, he can quickly switch between them by using the role selector without the need to logout and log-in again. Thus, just one account per user is needed. WeWebU OpenWorkdesk can be accessed via any modern internet browser, thus it is not necessary to install it on any client computer. Due to its multi-tenant capability several legally separated units can use one system. Thus, operation and implementation costs can be reduced.