Wider adoption of ECM Systems across the organization and beyond continues to be the major challenge for ECM vendors and to a larger extent their clients. Delivering ECM solutions that are more pervasive results in larger and faster deployments, lower support costs and better return on the investment. To achieve such economies of scale, customers need to assure their ECM solutions are simple-to-use while capable of addressing their specific usage patterns.
DocAttach is simply about Sharing Content Intelligently. The focus and all associated capabilities in DocAttach are centered on delivering the right content that is easily consumable by users as well as enterprise applications like CRM, ERP and Social Media alike. The goal is to help customers drive maximum value from their ECM investment by putting enterprise content to use intelligently and cost-effectively.
Central to DocAttach capabilities is the concept of organizing and personalizing content for various usage patterns (use-cases). Content organization and sharing is specified through what is called the (folder) “Manifests”. The notion of using “folders” to represent content-sets is simply because when it comes to documents, users are familiar and used to working with folders; anything else is a custom application and requires training. This explains why SharePoint, Dropbox, etc. have become so popular so quickly for sharing content. It’s imperative to understand that folders in DocAttach are merely for presentation of information-sets and serve as logical and intelligent containers. Unlike SharePoint and Dropbox, folders do not represent physical storage of content. Folder presentation in DocAttach can be changed on the fly without impacting how the content is stored in the ECM system and retaining all audit-trail information. This creates a very flexible and evolving environment for supporting and changing the presentations based on the customers required usage patterns without locking them into any physical (hard-wired) structures like physical folders on file-shares.
The major change in design of ECM system with DocAttach is that clients will be using the Manifests to intelligently express the content structure (what’s needed) for their use-cases/applications. This is a more dynamic and human understandable form, replacing the current hard-to-change structural (document type/index values) model that’s used when content is stored in the ECM system. The new way is also more intuitive and resembles how people think about content as a collection of related information. The Manifest also is used to show not only the content that is available currently in the system, but also what is missing. Last but not least, integration effort is almost non-existence with DocAttach, since the design takes care of encapsulating all relevant content into a single collection/instance with specific Identification (URL) that’s easily referenceable from any application, device or location.
DocAttach introduces two simple concepts of “Subscription” and “Expiration” which along with document Status information provide very easy-to-understand and effective collaboration as well as automated communication and notifications. This is all done while assuring the main objective of making DocAttach very simple to use anywhere on any device. Specifically, with DocAttach we are committed to meeting our top benchmarks for No user-training, No more than 2 clicks, No more than 1 month of enterprise application integration and No infrastructure required utilizing a cloud-based offering.
About Atrium Solutions
With offices in California and Asia-Pacific, Atrium is a privately held company led by a seasoned management team with proven industry success. Atrium’s technology team possesses more than 100 years of combined ECM/BPM experience with industry leading products from IBM and Microsoft. Atrium’s subject matter experts provide comprehensive domain expertise and assist customers in all of their ECM/BPM implementation efforts. From business process analysis to custom project implementation, the award winning Professional Services Team tops off the solution guidance offered by our industry experts. Real-world, domain-specific implementations allow Atrium to add new tools and templates as well as enhance the existing ones. This on-going evolving cycle positions Atrium as the most complete ECM solution provider that can ensure the client’s success by efficiently and cost-effectively delivering best results.
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