Stikeman Elliott has a Single View into Enterprise Content Using Open Text eDOCS Integration for Microsoft® SharePoint® by SeeUnity Inc.

SharePoint content is consolidated into a centralized system to help streamline matter management.

Stikeman Elliott began using Open Text technology in the 1990s when the firm selected Open Text Document Management, eDOCS Edition (eDOCS DM), and in 2001 its corporate intranet, STELLA, was created. Although the firm had been satisfied with the Open Text portal application for many years, Stikeman Elliott decided to deploy Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007 for its intranet solution. The firm relies extensively on Microsoft® technologies and SharePoint integrates seamlessly into its existing IT infrastructure. As a result, the firm needed to be able to integrate its Open Text eDOCS DM system with SharePoint and selected Open Text eDOCS Integration for Microsoft® SharePoint® to do the job.

With the Open Text solution, end-users don’t need to worry about where their documents are stored. Entering through the SharePoint front-end, users can work on whatever they want, and wherever they go, the appropriate documents will be in the system for them to work on. This could be related to a matter or to any other type of team site that the firm is building for a non-lawyer department. For example, a team site was built for the firm’s marketing department, while another one was built for its student and associate programs. All content associated with those two sites is managed by eDOCS DM in the back-end. The IT team can control the interface entirely by building a customizable front-end interface based on user needs.

Open Text eDOCS Integration for SharePoint covers all aspects of the integration with a consistent, easy-to-deploy architecture. Once content is uploaded, users have full use of all the SharePoint collaboration features and synchronization of all changes back to the eDOCS repositories to insure that the content is managed appropriately. This way, version control and security of the document can be maintained in eDOCS and users can be assured they have a ‘single version of the truth’ across multiple departments, workgroups or team sites.  eDOCS also provides an audit trail of the lifecycle of the document including who worked on the document and when.

“Like so many law firms around the world, Stikeman Elliott’s information and knowledge management path is an on-going process and the firm needs to adopt the technologies that make the most sense for its business,” said Todd Partridge, General Manager eDOCS and Legal Solutions for Open Text. “Open Text eDOCS Integration for Microsoft® SharePoint® has enabled the firm to efficiently consolidate, not only its SharePoint content, but all other content within the firm into one, secure centralized system helping to streamline business processes.”

For more information on Stikeman Elliott’s integration, read the full customer success story here.

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• Open Text Email Filing: Is Email Filing 3.0 supported on Windows 7? See 17910036 for details.
  
  
• Business Intelligence: Using the "Enforce Connect Per Query" and "Cache Passwords" permissions, the first database connection password you provide is cached, regardless of whether the password is correct or not. If an incorrect password is cached, all subsequent attempts to log on are unsuccessful. See 17906586 for details.
  
  
• Open Text Document Management (eDOCS DM): DM Indexer - Real-Time Defragmentation software might cause index corruption issues. See 17903142 for details.

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Open Text eDOCS Product Release Schedule

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Open Text eDOCS Training

Open Text is committed to maximizing your technology investment by effectively leveraging and enhancing the Open Text ECM Suite of Products and Solutions. Our comprehensive education programs are designed to meet the needs of all Open Text users, ensuring the long-term success of your ECM deployment. Our goal is to help you develop both the technical know-how and the creative vision it takes to meet your most demanding business challenges.

The following courses are scheduled at various locations in September:

• 342 Implementing Records Management using RM (v5.x)
• 786 Open Text Business Process Management (BPM) Server and eDOCS Integration
• 3099 Implementing BI Query with BI Server
• 3090 Implementing BI Query
• 1093 The Complete BI Query User and Reports
• 335 Implementing Document Management using DM (v5.x)

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