PC DOCS asserts presence in manufacturing
Known for its domination of the legal marketplace, PC DOCS is making noise in the manufacturing sector through separate deals with a software developer and a petrochemical manufacturer. PC DOCS and Exovision will jointly market Exovision's RocketLink and RocketReView Pro technical document management (TDM) applications and PC DOCS' software to the manufacturing sector. PC DOCS will include Exovision's TDM product line as part of its own product suite. The combined products will offer "flexibility, low cost, higher product quality and better channel management" to manufacturing companies entering complex relationships with channel partners and customers, according to PC DOCS president Brian Zanghi.
PC DOCS has also signed its biggest manufacturing customer to date: Equistar, a Houston-based producer of petrochemicals, polymers and resins. Equistar will deploy PC DOCS' browser- and Windows-based document management software, allowing roughly 6,000 employees to access enterprise information residing in ISO documents, regulatory compliance documents, policies and procedures. Equistar also plans to integrate the PC DOCS system with its SAP enterprise business application system. "The need to access broad information sources and to manage information across an organization as large as ours is very important," said Kara Achtermann, manager of technology planning and evaluation at Equistar. Achtermann said that adherence to open standards, scalability, ease of use and PC DOCS' strong relationship with Microsoft were key factors in the deal.