OpenText BPM Server Integration for eDOCS

Control the flow of work throughout the organization

The Business Challenge

The ways in which the elements of modern business processes interact are increasingly complex. People, enterprise business systems, and content must work seamlessly together in order to deliver on the promises of optimal productivity, improved business relationships, and quicker decision-making timeframes.

Benefits

  • Unlimited scalability with high volumes of complex processes
  • Manage business process lifecycle
  • Create and capture critical business content and processes
  • Rapidly develop processes, create forms, and centralize information

OpenText BPM Server Integration for eDOCS

OpenText BPM Server Integration for eDOCS empowers business owners and content managers to easily define, apply and reuse business logic and processes providing them with the ability to generate cohesive interactions among people, business systems, and content.  This integration brings OpenText eDOCS DM/RM documents/records/folders into BPM processes/workflows harnessing the power of both product lines.

Integration Features

  • Search for and attach documents, records and folders as content from eDOCS repository (DM 5.2.1 or DM 6.04, and higher).
  • Access to eDOCS DM/RM functions within the BPM interface – profiles, view, history, edit, make record, etc. available both as user functions and form displays.
  • eDOCS DM/RM functionality as an automated part (Agents) of a BPM process.
  • Automatically trigger processes based on content lifecycle events like check-in, publish, dispose

BPM Features

  • Event-based processing: Increases business agility and responsiveness by automatically reacting to transactions and business events within eDOCS DM/RM – lifecycle events like edit, publish and file part close.
  • Application Integration: Integrate business applications, like ERP or legacy apps, not just to ensure the process flow, but to also provide an integrated user-friendly interface for end users struggling to work between different applications.
  • Process accountability: Auditing, analysis and reporting ensure optimized business decisions by controlling workflows, perform detailed analysis of current and historical process information and validate process changes.
  • Escalation management: Helps shorten processing cycles by monitoring timelines.
  • Process capabilities and scalability: Manages diverse business processes, including complex ones with millions of transactions and thousands of users.
  • Graphical process design and modeling: Fast and efficient implementation of business processes with the flexibility to handle changes.
  • Standards support: Supports standards like XML and WfMC (Workflow Management Coalition Interface) to protect investments and provide integration capabilities.
  • Easy-to-use: Web Interface, Sharepoint Integration and Email notification allow for fast implementation and roll-out and ensures user acceptance and satisfaction.