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The world fifth largest company HITACHI, which is also one of the ten largest IT companies has organized a conference of its Data Storage devision in Poland. More than 140 people from 40 organizations has joined the conference. SAPERION participated as one of the main sponsors and presented its new version SAPERION V6 with the new JAVA architecture.

Also SAPERION presented its iniatives in the Business Intelligence sector by intergrating into QlikView and SAP Business Objects. The audience were IT and business decision makers from various industries. HITACHI presented its highend sophisticated HCAP solution which allows a central data storage and cloud functionality. HCAP is supporting several connectivity standard (e.g. HTTP, NAS) for storing highend volume of data. Big installations like city archive of Amsterdam is storing several Petabytes of data in HITACHI storages. SAPERION support all HITACHI highend devices and had already several succesful projects delivered together.

SAPERION continous its expansion in eastern Europe after receicing a lot of success in Russia and Baltic states. More than 100 customers across all industries in east Europe are trusting already SAPERION. Companies like Gazprom , SUEK, BP Russia, Rostelecom, Bite and PZU Lithuania are some of them which have chosen SAPERION to manage and process all their content company wide.

Saturday saw the announcement on the OASIS members email list that Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Version 1.0 was ready for public review. Review remains open until Dec. 22nd, and is open for non-OASIS members as well; thus we encourage everyone to participate and provide comments on this important ECM standard. Here is how to do that:

“Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be located via [...], or directly at: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=cmis.”

Now, we are already at work to support CMIS (see CMIS, Chemistry and SAPERION Content Repository) but what about you? So far, CMIS is all the rave among the vendors, but the user community remains somewhat quiet ;-)

Authors: Alexander Groenewold, Jan Schwarz, Dr. Martin Bartonitz

Almost every company has its own set of business rules and processes. This could make even the simple and common task of determining the next receiver of a workflow a complex and in-transparent decision. A frequent occurrence of this problem is for example during invoice processing, where several exceptions and rules usually constrain the procedure and prevent it from leading to the happy path.
In the past, when facing such complex systems of rules, our professional services teams often invented individual scripting solutions. This, however, is very time consuming, error-prone and needs more maintenance, and allows almost no flexibility or simple adaption of company’s business rule and processe changes. An elegant solution is in the use of a Business Rule Engine. (more…)

Last but not least, mapping names is not the only ordeal required to achieve an integration of CMIS with SCR.

Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) is an upcoming standard for exposing web services     (primarily REST) on top of various types of content repositories. Among them: SAPERION Content Repository (SCR).

While CMIS is in the making, Apache Chemistry is a readily available implementation that delivers most of what is needed to make CMIS work on top of SCR.

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Well, it’s been a heck of a get together in London the last two days – delegates from across Europe met for the Gartner PCC to get the latest and greatest about Enterprise Content Management. To summarize, Gartner recommends not only to consider cost cutting in these uncertain times, but to think about what makes your company more likely to survive / perform well.

Jaak presents a success story, Henkel's Accounts Payable

A particular company that performs better using SAPERION is Henkel. Together with Jaak van Wanseele, SAPERION’s Tanveer Saifee gave a presentation on APSA, the Accounts Payable Solution for Henkel. With currently more than 30.000 users worldwide, a roll-out done in less than 6 months so far, it certainly was one of the more demanding projects. Jaak and Tan presented how managing content helped to achieve business goals and reduce cost. The accounts payable solution is available as a solution from SAPERION today. Gartner calls such solutions CEVAs, or more recently, composite content applications, meaning that they comprise product, best practices, and experience thus reducing risk and implementation cycles.

You may already have heard that SAPERION 6 has finally been released (hmmh, okay, it took a little longer than first expected, but we’re far from becoming an entrant of the Vaporware Awards…). With this new release, we have added more than a 100 new features, greatly overhauled the core architecture, and made available more than a 1,000 API calls in addition to those already available. While in the process of creating SAPERION’s newest ECM release, we also created SAPERIONforge, a SAPERION-centric platform for open source developers we intend to further expand in the future. (more…)

ECM is mission critical for the success of your business

With our Lithuanian Partner Affecto (www.affecto.com) and Abbyy we have organized a very successful “ECM Conference 2009″ in the capital of Vilnius. The conference took place on Thursday 05th of March in the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Round about 100 participants from 66 organizations and companies were participaiting the event. The message of the “ECM Conference 2009″ was the optimization possibilities with the usage of ECM.

Mr. Rudolf Gessinger held a presentation about the “Total Cost of Ownership by using SAPERION”. A presentation about “SAPERION – your central information platform” was held by Mr. Morad Rhlid and Mr. Christian Koch was leading the technical SAPERION workshop about SAPERION 6 with the participaiting 10 SAPERION customers (e.g. State Tax Inspectorate, SEB Leasing). (more…)

We think: yes. There are several reasons to believe just that, among the least important of which is the fact that MS was among the group of companies who originally submitted the standards effort to OASIS. However, there are other things that make us believe that CMIS may be in for a treat by MS, particularly that MS folks have started to prove the point of CMIS by actively publishing an example about CMIS-based MOSS integration on MSDN.

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A (actually, the first) CMIS TC F2F in Redmond is coming to an end (ok, at the time of this writing, folks are still considering the issues that have been raised so far (see the CMIS Jira at http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/CMIS)). Many valuable contributions and discussions evolving around controversial aspects have taken place. Not surprising, one of the important results is the aggressive schedule set for the release of CMIS 1.0. The preliminary schedule leading to a first public draft can be found here: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/30951/CMIS%20strawman%20schedule.xls. This schedule requires some functions to be restricted to a common denominator or to be dropped entirely. Thus, ACLs (particularly, the distinction between reading and writing ACLs), batch processing, and mix-ins (or aspects, think decorators when not familiar with AOP) will need to be further refined. (more…)

At the current DLM Forum (www.dlm2008.com), MoReq2 is a hot topic. Here, a delegate from Romania is detailing changes required to make MoReq2 a worthwile and lasting iniative.

Update: imbus and the DLM Forum have just signed a Memorandum of Understanding effectively paving the way to make imbus the first MoReq2 testing center.