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Siemens AG, headquartered in Munich, Germany, is a technology conglomerate with more than 400,000 employees and a presence in over 190 countries. When Siemens needed a comprehensive ECM solution in order to provide streamlined processes, collaborative workspaces and shared content to eight unique business areas, they turned to Open Text
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For today’s manufacturing company, operational excellence is an absolute must. Intense pressure from competitors around the globe requires that manufacturers continually strive to improve supplier, partner and customer relations, enable continuous process improvements for efficiency and improved product quality, while controlling capital expenditures and improving operating margins.
Open Text ECM Suite applications for the Manufacturing industry improve information flow and availability to staff while addressing regulatory demands for long-term retention. They provide full visibility of content and context via the user’s preferred interface, whether that is an enterprise application, email, browser or office productivity tool. Because the operational information is made available in context as required, but also captured, classified, archived and ultimately destroyed according to established records policies, each business unit (including research, development, legal, compliance, finance, sales and marketing) can access it as required to support their specific objectives.
Built on the Open Text Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Suite, Open Text ECM Suite applications for the Manufacturing industry improve current and planned processes, integrating with and supporting other enterprise software ranging from resource planning (ERP), database, testing and maintenance, staff training (HR) and customer relationship management (CRM) systems.
Open Text ECM Suite applications for the Manufacturing industry include:
Open Text Capital Projects enables the various stakeholders such as project teams, engineering, procurement, & construction (EPC) contractors and vendors to communicate and collaborate easily throughout the construction process lifecycle.
Open Text Engineering Document Management provides engineers and supporting teams with a secure, collaborative web-based environment to create, capture, review, and manage, both completed and work-in-progress engineering documents.
Open Text Management of Change helps manage a compliant and documented process for facility change to reduce risk, increase efficiency, safety and reliability, and minimize environmental impact.
Open Text Quality Management is a complete solution for businesses operating in highly regulated industries that helps to ensure quality regulatory compliance in their products and services.
Open Text Regulated Documents for Microsoft SharePoint takes advantage of the collaboration features in SharePoint, such as the document information panel, Windows Workflow Foundation, InfoPath Forms and content management capabilities and thus significantly improves end-user experience and enhances productivity.