SharePoint integration allows enterprise content
management (ECM) users to securely access and manage content
stored in external ECM repositories – directly from SharePoint.
SharePoint integration combines the security,
features and metadata of your ECM system with the web-based,
collaboration tools of SharePoint. This simplifies the user
experience by consolidating access, and improving access
and performance, by allowing your ECM information to be leveraged
by new SharePoint tools.
Business Benefits
- A single web based user interface reduces cost and complexity
- Work
with multiple ECM systems from a single SharePoint user
interface
- Improve search and browsing performance
- Simplify training
and change management processes
- Make centrally stored ECM
content accessible to users across your enterprise, via
SharePoint
SharePoint integration products:
Enterprise
Integration for SharePoint (EIS)
EIS makes external ECM content and controls accessible
to users directly through SharePoint. Over a dozen EIS
web parts are available to create robust applications.
From
SharePoint, users can access one or many ECM repositories.
Commonly used EIS web parts include:
- Explorer Tree: navigate and access of all your ECM
systems and content sources from a single view in SharePoint.
- Workspaces: browse and sort content using a customized
detail-view of ECM folders, libraries and other objects.
- Search
Trees: navigate collections of search forms from your
external ECM systems.
- Search Forms: use your familiar
ECM search forms by exposing them directly in SharePoint.
- Content
Creation & Upload: use SharePoint to upload
and profilelocal documents to your ECM, or to create
new documents or records.
How EIS provides the best SharePoint integration
for your ECM:
- Out-of-the-box, intuitive installation - point-and-click
configuration
- Expandable web parts can be easily combined
and customized
- Deep integration includes read-write functionality
and ECM user controls embedded directly within SharePoint
context menus
- Single sign-on and security trimming extends ECM
security into SharePoint