ICL Africa has been appointed strategic channel development partner for Meridio document and records management software.
Kethan Parbhoo, ICL Africa solutions business unit manager, says the tools are suitable for customers with large-scale requirements, and integrates easily with a range of applications across the enterprise, including legacy.
Meridio acts as a secure repository for "as many electronic documents [in] as many types as are required across the enterprise". It comprises "many" mechanisms for indexing and locating information, supports access to information via diverse channels and other line-of-business applications, all subject to secure access controls, he added.
The Meridio SDK (software development kit) facilitates integration with "legacy, current and future" line-of-business products as well as third-party applications, such as scanning and workflow applications. It acts as a central repository for unstructured content from a wide range of data sources, such as Word documents, faxes, e-mails, paper, Web-content, scanned images and legacy application data.
<B>ICL extends BEE partnership</B>
ICL and InfoQuest, a black economic empowerment (BEE) systems integrator, have extended a five-year partnership to address the government and utilities markets. While InfoQuest acted earlier as a hardware partner for ICL-branded PC equipment, it now also offers Sun Solaris-based services and support in partnership with ICL. InfoQuest MD Fani Mabilane says the partnership will centre on ICL`s Sun division. Sun`s hardware will form the basis of InfoQuest`s solutions. Together the companies have won "large contracts with organisations such as Transtel, SARCC and Metro Rail".
"It is completely independent of the type of content source and will integrate everything on the same server," says Parbhoo. Meridio`s XML and SOAP facilities makes it possible to integrate business content from a variety of technical environments - both within the enterprise and in an e-business context, Parbhoo claims.
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