The enterprise content management solution automates archival processes and offers rule-based archival features.Enterprise content management vendor OpenText has released a content archiving solution, OpenText Livelink ECM Document Archiving for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, which automatically archives documents from SharePoint in compliance with industry standards and guidelines.
Jens Rabe, director of Compliance Solutions for the Chicago, Ill.-based OpenText Corp., said the new release enhances Microsoft Corp.'s SharePoint by providing a stable enterprise archive system for managing and archiving content, along with content from other systems such as SAP, Exchange, Lotus Notes and Seibel.
"It also reduces costs by moving content from more expensive SharePoint servers to less expensive storage systems," Rabe said.
Rabe said for users the key three features of the release are the ability to automatically archive massive amounts of content, a very rich administration interface for managing automatic archiving in big SharePoint environments (server farms), and tight integration into the SharePoint portal search.
The OpenText Livelink ECM Document Archiving solution also offers a user-defined rules-based archiving feature to speed up the archival process. Rule-Based Archiving lets users configure storage rules for associated content and define specifically which storage media will be used to archive the content.
"Users don't have to worry about what to archive. The solution offers very flexible rules that can be set up so it's done automatically. The process is transparent to users and users can access archived content as easily as they did when the content was in SharePoint," Rabe said.
Customers can use the archiving solution to store all documents in a single long-term archive, said Rabe. The archive also offers full-text search capability and has auditing capabilities for tracking any activity related to a specific document.
OpenText also plans to add the ability to apply record management retention and disposition policies to all content maintained in the central archive to the product later this year. The addition will mean records management for all content applied uniformly across the enterprise, Rabe said, which will boost compliance benefits.
OpenText's content archive is compatible with all major storage systems, including those from Hitachi Data Systems, StorageTek (Storage Technology Corp.), Network Appliance Inc., EMC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Sun Microsystems Inc. and IBM.
More information on Document Archiving for Microsoft SharePoint, as well as other archiving solutions from OpenText, can be found here.
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