Bateleur Software Solutions has responded to customer demand for content repositories that support their environments by announcing ViewDirect RM for SharePoint 4.6, a complete records management solution for users of Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies from Mobius Management Systems.
Joe Rios, Content Management Consultant at Bateleur Software Solutions, says the comprehensive solution enables compliance and enforces retention where required. Bateleur is the official South African representative of Mobius Management Systems, the predominant provider of total content management (TCM) solutions.
"Mobius has seamlessly integrated the flexibility of the familiar SharePoint interview with the power of its enterprise repository," he explains. "The fact that Mobius works transparently in the Microsoft environment is a distinct advantage, since many of our corporate customers use SharePoint."
As content management requirements grow, it becomes increasingly important to base a content management and archival strategy on technology that adapts to evolving needs. Mobius has demonstrated this capability for more than 20 years, extending its repository to replace point solutions from other vendors which could no longer support growing business requirements.
"In the current economic climate, where the emphasis is on investment protection and ROI, we`re enabling organisations to leverage their current investments while taking advantage of new functionality," Rios says.
This new release enables organisations to index, link, store, search, access and manage records stored in SharePoint over the complete lifecycle, and destroy them in a timely manner, thus enabling compliance with regulatory requirements as well as corporate retention and disposition policies. These capabilities are achieved through a `touchless` approach that allows ViewDirect RM for SharePoint to manage the record lifecycle while the records remain in the SharePoint SQL repository.
ViewDirect RM for SharePoint is a component of the ViewDirect TCM suite for total content management. ViewDirect TCM comprises a highly scalable, high-performance content repository as well as a diverse range of products that integrate content across disparate repositories, support regulatory compliance and automate business processes.
Full integration will enable migration of records from SharePoint to the ViewDirect TCM repository, where they can be managed according to retention rule definitions and remain until disposition. Documents that have been archived into the ViewDirect TCM repository will remain accessible through the SharePoint interface, as will content stored in other repositories using ViewDirect Total Content Integrator, a Web services-based gateway that consolidates content across multiple, disparate repositories. These capabilities provide a highly scalable and economical solution for managing records in the SharePoint environment.
"Managing corporate information at the enterprise level is not new for Mobius," Rios says. "Major companies in all industries use the ViewDirect TCM repository as both a long-term archive for regulatory compliance and a real-time engine for Web delivery of diverse content, including bills, statements, cheque images, e-mail, report output, scanned forms and correspondence. ViewDirect RM for SharePoint offers unparalleled flexibility for managing records in SharePoint and automatically invoking retention rules to migrate them to enterprise-level repositories and economical storage devices."
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