Key Benefits

• Improved margins — Ensure seamless collaboration with design partners. Speed the flow of information across the enterprise. Get increased control over contract terms.

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

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

• Risk management and compliance — Automate the entire information lifecycle so that information remains complete, accurate, and safely stored while enforcing compliance and retention policies.

Solutions

Engineering and New Product Development

• Engineering and New Product Development for Manufacturing and High Tech — 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 for PLM Environments — 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

• 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.