Optimizing SAP Document Management

Digital Content Workplaces.

They can have significant impact on improved business efficiency and user productivity. As an integral aspect of today’s business processes; the availability, usability and quality of supporting documentation is an increasingly complex requirement.

Limits of SAP ECM & ArchiveLink

Document management in the SAP space is well known to suffer from the most basic of impediments plus be limited by more advanced gaps which impact user productivity and impede SAP content processing efficiency. SAP ArchiveLink provides a basic framework to attach an external ECM system, but does nothing to enhance content usability, support advanced search for documents, provide contextual business data related to documents, or allow for users outside the SAP system to work with the same documents or participate in shared workflows and process automation activities.

3rd Party ECM solutions for SAP

especially in a cloud world. In this paper, we will explore SAP's standard functionality for content utilization, and why SAP customers often consider using third-party ECM solutions, to content enable SAP processes, especially if there will be a move to the cloud with SAP HANA and/or S/4HANA

Microsoft’s SharePoint, Office 365 and/or Microsoft Azure

We will specifically consider how Microsoft’s SharePoint, Office 365 and/or the Microsoft Azure platform can be used as a SAP ECM system via ArchiveLink.

Beyond just ECM; Smart SharePoint Add-ins for SAP

These ready-to-run solutions add smart content processing functionality to SAP; delivering process improvements, with added, more intuitive digital workplaces for users outside and inside SAP.

Digital transformation for the business.

Leveraging such add-on functionality for SAP with built-in interoperability and integration capabilities for SharePoint, can truly contribute to initiatives to help the business run even better.

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