Key Benefits

• Operational efficiency — Improve availability and efficiency of enterprise applications such as SAP. Streamline business processes throughout the enterprise.

• Accelerated time to market — Shorten product development cycles by ensuring secure access to all types of information throughout both the enterprise and supply chain.

• Improved customer and dealer communications — Ensure product quality. Use web content management and collaboration tools to improve the quality of customer and dealer communications.

• Compliance — Automate the entire information lifecycle so that your information remains complete, accurate, and safe, while enforcing compliance and retention policies.

Solutions

Engineering and New Product Development for Manufacturing and High Tech

• New Product Development & Engineering — Enable secure sharing of intellectual property with design partners and suppliers through each phase — requirements, analysis, proposals, design and product requirements documents, and more.

• Technical Publishing — Develop, distribute, reuse, and manage all your product and maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) documentation—for print or the Web.

Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management

• Supplier Collaboration — Work together with supply chain partners in a secure virtual workspace, quickly resolve issues, and shorten the time required to select suppliers or negotiate contracts.

• Information Lifecycle Solutions for PLM — Manage product data, meet service-level requirements, and migrate data across storage tiers throughout the PLM data lifecycle.

• Plant and Facilities Management — Share facility information such as computer-aided design (CAD) drawings, specifications, contracts, invoices, environmental analysis, inspection reports, and standard operating procedures (SOPs).

• OSHA and ISO 9000 Programs — Effectively manage all OSHA and ISO 9000 programs on a global basis. Speed setup of program processes and documentation with templates and collaborative team workspaces and keep projects on track via management dashboards.

Marketing and Sales

• Sales Proposal and Contracts Management — Create, negotiate, and track versions of contracts, ensure use of approved terms and conditions, and ensure secure global access and reuse.

• Web Publishing — Provide up-to-date brand, image, and product information on websites, intranets, extranets, and portals from one common content repository.

Information Infrastructure

• Solutions for SAP - Improve system availability, minimize disruptions, and streamline your SAP production environment. Improve decision-making by integrating unstructured content with your SAP environment.

• Compliance and eDiscovery — Meet the strictest International Organization for Standardization (ISO), government, and military requirements for information retention, audit trails, and control of documents, process, security, and access.

• Information Security — Ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and access control of all types of information throughout its lifecycle.

• Backup, Recovery, and Archiving — Replicate and recover data to provide stronger information protection and enable compliance with regulations and corporate policies.

• Application High Availability for Manufacturing — Ensure high availability of mission-critical business applications, replicate data to local or remote locations, and monitor your applications, services, and servers for automated failover and business restart in the event of scheduled or unscheduled outages.