With just under 1 week till ESPC21 Online, Europe’s largest gathering of the Microsoft 365 and Azure community in Europe… it’s time to start browsing the programme and build your agenda for the week. “In this blog, I’ll highlight the sessions I personally find the most interesting and are worth attending for customers that work… READ MORE
Check out this brand new demo of how OpenText and Microsoft optimize the efficiency of plant asset documentation and maintenance activities for Manufacturing & Resources customers in Power & Utilities, Oil & Gas, Mining, Manufacturing Discrete and Process Manufacturing. This solution integrates and extends SharePoint with information from ECM and ERP systems to improve quality, consistency, and compliance of a customer’s plant maintenance procedures, management of change (MoC) and asset documentation.
At the last OpenText Content World I was asked to do a session about Microsoft SharePoint and SAP Business Suite. When Adrian, my colleague from the SharePoint line of business, and I discussed about the content of this session we quickly agreed that SharePoint perfectly fits into the content enriched business process story of SAP Extended ECM. In another session, and based on this in my post Improve Customer Interaction Efficiency, I described the concept of content enriched business processes in the context of customer interaction. Therefore we enhanced this context by assuming that the professional services department uses SharePoint for collaboration about customer projects. Looking more into the details we identified quickly business processes like:
What does the energy sector have in common with the banking and insurance industry? They are both subject to increasingly stringent regulations and need to invest more and more in order to win – and keep – the trust of the public. Recent analyst studies show how companies from these two industries can implement a combination of Microsoft SharePoint and OpenText’s ECM solutions to cope with these challenges – while achieving an ROI of up to 376 per cent.
The two IDC studies are available in the “Resources” section of www.better-together-central.com, a website run jointly by OpenText and Microsoft. Along with the studies, companies can also test the Benefits Analyst, a new ROI calculator tool. In just a few clicks, the tool enables users to determine the savings and productivity gains they can achieve with SharePoint and OpenText.
