Controlling the flow and management of multiple documents within an organization has long been a headache for business owners. Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) 2007 helps ease that headache by providing a central location for employees to build, collaborate and work on documents, in a structured and organized way.
Recognizing the need to follow through on this initial collaboration by providing a bridge to Alterian Content Manager's (ACM) shared content repository, Alterian developed a MOSS Connector for ACM. The Connector enables organizations to reap the benefits of letting users simply create documents, images and pages of content quickly and easily with MOSS 2007, whilst delivering that content through ACM's enterprise web delivery infrastructure to one or more websites.
The MOSS 2007 Connector:
- Allows you to use all the collaboration features of Microsoft SharePoint;
- Enables the business user to browse for SharePoint content from within ACM and publish it on one or more websites, intranets and extranets;
- Unlocks the knowledge held in departmental silos;
- Decouples your critical enterprise web delivery from your SharePoint infrastructure;
- Supports integration between your website(s) and back office business processes.
It's easy
ACM has always been about making life simple, about giving users a tool they'll love to use as well as enabling them to use the tools they are already very familiar with, or that harness extra functionality that isn't part of an Enterprise Web Content Management solution:
- Want to edit an image? Select the image in ACM and fire up Photoshop or any other image editing application;
- Want to manage a job application process and work together at the wording of the job advertisement? Use Microsoft SharePoint and then browse for the approved content from within ACM and publish it on your website.
Microsoft SharePoint and Office Live users can simply create documents, images and pages of content as normal, using the tools they know. Content is made available for web publishing through standard workflows and views.
Users then simply browse the exposed SharePoint content in ACM and use it - regardless whether it's a page, image or document - on their websites.
Choose what you want
But what if you don't want to synchronise everything from Microsoft SharePoint? What if you are just interested in just a few HR Policy documents, or images for a particular type of product? No problem. Users can simply select what they want to synchronise and ACM does the rest.
Close the loop
But it's not all one way traffic. How about if you want to create a form on your website that captures job applicants' details and feed that back into your HR business process - well you can do that too.
Automated processes keep information synchronized, so your website will always be displaying the very latest approved version that's available and SharePoint users will always have direct access to information captured on the website.
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The ACM MOSS 2007 Connector plugs into the generally available standard collaboration and communication services of SharePoint (called WSS), so there is no technical setup required. The Connector ensures that if SharePoint is down the website is unaffected, meaning that you can architect your resilient technical architecture more efficiently. Due to the way the ACM MOSS 2007 Connector has been designed, it's extremely easy to implement - avoiding lengthy and expensive consulting work - and yet it delivers all the powerful features that you need to fully exploit the joint power of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and ACM.