ecspand enhances Microsoft SharePoint 2010 to become a true ECM platform.
ecspand completes and enhances Microsoft SharePoint 2010 by enabling it with cutting-edge Enterprise Content Management capabilities.
ecspand is a complete ECM service. It is not a bridge or connector solution as is offered by almost every other SharePoint solution in the ECM market!
ecspand turns Microsoft SharePoint into a complete ECM solution capable of offering DMS, Imaging & document capture, Rendering, Compliance, advanced Storage Management, email management, as well integration with ERP systems like Microsoft Dynamics and SAP.
ecspand is considered a unique approach for implementing SharePoint ECM solutions due to its comprehensive set of enterprise content management components that are delivered as a service within SharePoint without having to invoke external ECM modules.
ecspand Document Management and Imaging
- Quick roll-out of central and remote scanning stations
- Easy integration of existing hardware into the SharePoint 2010 environment
- Integration of desktop or network scanners
- Integrated OCR functionality
- Manages all kinds of document formats
- Provides multiple previews also in PDF or Tiff format
- Easy and intuitive creation of sophisticated record folders
- Manages “annotations” like stamps on images
ecspand Storage Management
- Improves performance and decrease the load on your SharePoint SQL database
- Supports the “SharePoint Records Center”
- Flexible configuration of retention periods
- Quicker backup and recovery
- Optimal storage utilization
- Supports connection to 3rd party ECM systems
- Simple administration through SharePoint
ecspand Email Management
- Decrease the loads on the Microsoft Exchange data base
- Taking over of .pst files
- Optimized recovery of the Exchange server
- Shorter back-up times
- Better performance
- Simple administration
- Microsoft Exchange 2010 ready
ecspand Rendering & Document Transformation
- Turns rule-based and completely automatic e.g. Word or Excel documents into defined target formats (including PDF/A support)
- Provides long-term storage formats while also retaining the original format
ecspand Desktop Manager
- Drag-&-drop upload of documents into SharePoint without opening your SharePoint account
Microsoft Dynamics Integration
- Available for Dynamics CRM, NAV and AX
- Direct access to the stored documents out of Dynamics
- Summary of all documents in specific transactions and dossiers
- Standardized Microsoft platform
SAP Integration
- Certified Archive-Link interface including content server connection
- Customizing over SAP standard processing of outgoing and incoming documents
- Certified document call directly from the SAP template
- Indication in Internet browser
- Archiving of documents
ecspand Records Organizer & Business Data Management
- Easy to create process-oriented structures via generic file structure
- Intuitive search routines without burdening users with complex searches
- Adding content types across websites as sources
- Configuration maintained and published within SharePoint “Property Bags”
- Advanced search web parts within records (thumbnail preview etc.)
- Enhancement of meta data either by
a) Inherited meta data
b) Data queries from external SQL data sources
c) Data queries from existing SharePoint lists
(which can be filled by BDC)
ecspand Integration Layer
- Provides multiple interfaces to ERP and scanning/capturing solutions
- Easy connection to other applications possible Bidirectional connection / Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)