Truly collaborative DM
Interwoven has released WorkSite MP 4.0, enterprise-class collaborative document management software for multiple platforms.
WorkSite MP 4.0, Interwoven reports, brings collaborative document management to front-office professionals (such as lawyers, consultants and other domain experts), improving employee effectiveness and productivity. The new version features improved usability, better business unit-level configurations and significantly enhanced compliance capabilities.
Interwoven claims WorkSite MP 4.0 Server software provides a strong foundation for companies to solve complete collaboration and document management challenges. Version 4.0 is an Internet-based product suite that delivers collaboration and document management solutions capabilities to allow teams, departments and divisions of even the largest enterprises to collaborate, build and share information and manage projects. Interwoven adds that software is available in a browser-based interface, integrated with front-office applications such as Microsoft Office, Outlook, and Lotus Notes or as portlets for the industry's most widely used portals.
Interwoven calls WorkSite MP 4.0 the only true multi-platform collaborative document management solution in the marketplace today, and the first document management platform built from the ground up to tap the power of the open computing standards of J2EE and XML. Further, it says, the caching and security model of WorkSite MP 4.0 keep a company's collaborative content safe, secure, yet readily available to those with proper access rights both within and beyond the company.
Interwoven explains that key features of WorkSite MP 4.0 include:
Records retention. WorkSite MP 4.0 has the ability to declare items including documents, folders and even entire workspaces and apply retention rules that govern retention and disposition of specifically identified items. Records managers can use an administrative console to manage declared items.
Offline mode. This module enables users to add and edit content including documents, collaborative items such as discussion threads, calendar items and workspace while disconnected from the repository. It includes conflict resolution when users re-synchronize content.
BEA portlets. This feature exposes personal content such as subscriptions, checked out documents and workflow inbox within the BEA WebLogic Portal. Portlets offer an alternative home page for companies with employee and partner portals.
Virtual folders. This capability aggregates content from across the repository using a combination of full text and metadata search criteria. Virtual folders help users leverage organizational knowledge for reuse.
Configuration tools. Individual departments can now completely localize their interface to an enterprise repository centrally managed by IT, helping to drive the adoption of corporate document management practices by bringing enterprise technology to business users in a form that is intuitive to them.
.Net SDK. Companies can leverage their Microsoft skills to customize the desktop applications through the fully documented .Net software development kit. OEMs can use the SDK to develop full .Net applications.