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OpenText Enterprise Library

Providing integrated records, metadata, archiving, and storage management services to the OpenText ECM Suite

OpenText Enterprise Library is one of the core services of OpenText ECM Suite Shared Services. It provides a foundational repository to consistently enforce and manage retention schedules, corporate governance, and regulatory compliance policies for all content types enterprise-wide. The trusted repository enabled by Enterprise Library delivers a shared service for all content, allowing organizations to set and enforce a single set of policies for managing and archiving content in a consistent and compliant manner, meeting internal policies and external regulatory requirements, while at the same time significantly reducing storage costs.

Enterprise Library provides the critical foundation for a true enterprise-wide ECM strategy. It allows organizations to manage content and metadata in a consistent manner throughout the OpenText ECM Suite, regardless of whether the systems that created the content are SAP Business Suite applications, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, shared file systems and email servers, or the ECM Suite itself.

Leveraging records management capabilities that are compliant with the US Department of Defense 5015.2-STD and similar regulations worldwide as well as archiving capabilities, content can be archived and stored based on a lifecycle defined by records retention and disposition rules and the value of the content to the organization throughout its lifecycle. Because of the powerful retention and archiving services of Enterprise Library, organizations gain added value from critical systems such as email or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server by ensuring that content is retained in accordance with stated corporate policies and retention schedules while reducing costs by efficiently utilizing lower cost storage mediums.

Highlights

Enterprise Library provides:

  • A single service-oriented architecture: By combining the disciplines of archiving and records management into a single service-oriented architecture, Enterprise Library enables the adoption of a unified strategy for enterprise-wide records management aligned directly with an organizational strategy for addressing both electronic and physical storage.
  • Lower total cost of ownership: Business applications work in concert with enterprise storage strategies, influencing storage decisions rather than being constrained by them. Likewise, enterprise storage strategies are enhanced and improved with the added context that applications provide bringing the lowest total cost of ownership for storage services without negatively affecting the businesses that rely upon them.
  • Archiving: Rather than have storage requirements define where content is stored, Enterprise Library lets retention rules, policies, and applications creating the content to work together to define how information is stored—right down to defining specific storage platforms—so that storage costs can be controlled. Enterprise Library integrates with all major storage systems, from leading vendors such as EMC, Hitachi, Sun, HP, KOM Networks' KOMpliance, and others, so organizations enjoy the freedom to use any combination of storage systems they choose.
  • Powerful content search and retrieval: Enterprise Library provides comprehensive search capabilities, including federated (brokered) search, to help information workers easily locate content across multiple systems to accelerate project and decision-making processes.

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