Content Consolidation and Application Offloading

Business Context

In the contemporary business landscape, organizations produce vast volumes of unstructured content that are distributed across diverse locations and systems. This situation presents several critical challenges, including escalating costs, diminished productivity stemming from content retrieval difficulties, decision-making bottlenecks due to inadequate metadata quality, and compliance concerns.

To address these issues, businesses can effectively manage unstructured content by transitioning it to dedicated content management platforms. By integrating this consolidated repository with line-of-business applications responsible for generating and utilizing content, companies can achieve cost reduction, alleviate the strain on core business applications, and enhance their overall performance and scalability. Additionally, centralizing unstructured content fosters improved information management and compliance, mitigating the risk of data breaches and ensuring the trust of customers and stakeholders.

 

Everything you need to KNOW

Challenges Related to Unstructured Content Consolidation
Disparate Content Sources:

Organizations grapple with the management of content scattered across various repositories, applications, and systems, complicating accessibility and control.

Content Duplication:

Duplication of content across multiple repositories leads to confusion and inefficiency.

Inefficient Search:

Scattered content makes it challenging to swiftly locate pertinent information, impacting information worker productivity.

Security and Compliance:

Ensuring the protection of sensitive data and compliance adherence becomes complex when content is distributed across numerous locations.

Challenges Related to Enterprise Applications Offloading
Performance Issues:

Storing and delivering content from an application’s primary server can result in performance problems, particularly during peak usage periods.

Scalability:

As applications expand and usage surges, scaling infrastructure to meet the demand can become a daunting task.

Complex Integrations:

Integrating content storage and delivery with an application demands intricate coding and maintenance.

Content Consistency:

Managing content consistency across various versions becomes challenging when content is stored in multiple locations, leading to confusion and errors.

Access Control:

Separating content from the application repository can make controlling access to the content difficult, potentially causing compliance issues.

Our Solution

Enterprises struggling with unstructured data management, compliance assurance, and application performance enhancement have practical solutions at their disposal.

We provide advanced software platforms that leverage AI and metadata-driven content management to deliver content efficiency, compliance, and automation. With its low-code digital process automation capabilities, our software platforms empower businesses to streamline content management and automate compliance processes while seamlessly integrating with major enterprise applications responsible for generating unstructured content.

Our open platforms have extensive integrations with enterprise applications and productivity tools like SAP, Salesforce, SharePoint, Microsoft Office / O365, and Teams. It also boasts advanced APIs to connect with external applications.

Tangible Benefits

Save money

Radically reduce costs through document digitization, consolidation, deduplication, and automation.

Increase Efficiency

Transform paper-based workflows into digital ones and automate document-centric processes to optimize operations.

Unlock AI/ML for Business Value

Digital documents enable AI/ML-powered insights such as automatic document classification and compliance issue detection.

Modernize Architecture

Adopt a digital, modern, metadata-driven architecture to replace paper-based systems or outdated digital platforms with obsolete frameworks.

Improve Regulatory Compliance

Ensure compliance through unified governance, records management, and policy enforcement across the entire content lifecycle.

Delight Business Users

Intuitive design ensuring high adoption, minimal training, and greater productivity for business users.

Find out why we are DIFFERENT

Optimized Pricing

Competitive licensing, fast implementation, rapid user adoption and low maintenance costs vs. traditional DMS/ECM platforms

Metadata-Driven

Metadata-Driven Architecture: Empowering Content with Business Context

AI/ML-Powered

Document Understanding, Automate Document Tagging and Categorization and Intelligent Metadata Extraction

Low-Code

Low-Code Efficiency: Build Business Solutions Faster with Clicks and Minimal Code

Ease of Use

Powerful yet simple interface, designed for business / non-IT users

Designed of Compliance

Automate Management and Improve Information Accessibility for Daily Business, Audits, and Litigation

Ready to Integrate

Seamless API Integration with On-Prem and Cloud Applications for Cross-Platform Processes

Hybrid Orchestration

Orchestrate Unstructured Content Management and Compliance Across On-Prem and Public Cloud, for Data Mobility and Rule-Based Control

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Enterprise Applications Offloading
Better Applications Performance

Offloading unstructured content from enterprise applications improves overall performance as it is often a performance bottleneck.

Improved User Experience

Integration with major enterprise applications provides users with unified content access, enhancing the overall user experience by facilitating information discovery and retrieval.

Reduced Storage Costs

Offloading unstructured content reduces storage costs, as the unified repository is optimized for unstructured content storage, utilizing object storage infrastructure.

Better Data Governance

Centralization in the unified repository enables consistent policies and procedures for all content data, regardless of the source, enhancing data governance practices.

Our solutions
Content Management Modernization

It’s time to get rid of legacy ECM (enterprise content management) and move to the next-generation content services platform. Use our proven “application-aware” content migration platform – StarMigrator Engine together with a proven and tested methodology to deliver a seamless, risk-free, fast content and metadata migration from legacy platforms (Opentext Documentum, OpenText Content Server, IBM Content Manager, IBM FileNet, Alfresco, etc. into SEAL and start saving money while moving to modern architecture and provide an amazing user experience to the line of business users. Use SEAL to optimize up to 50% of the content management costs, to boost user adoption while leveraging comprehensive content management, information governance, and records management capabilities.

Today, organizations generate massive amounts of unstructured content that are dispersed across various locations and systems. This situation poses several challenges, including escalating costs, decreased productivity due to difficulty in finding relevant content, decision-making delays caused by poor metadata quality, and compliance issues.

By moving unstructured content to dedicated content management platforms and connecting this unified repository to line of business applications generating and using content, companies can reduce their costs, the burden on top line business applications, improving their performance and scalability.

Additionally, consolidating unstructured content into a single platform allows for improved information management and compliance, reducing the risk of data breaches and maintaining trust with customers and stakeholders.

In today’s business world, companies face an increasing range of regulatory requirements that they must comply with, including those related to tax, fraud, bribery, competition, data privacy and protection, consumer protection, quality, HSE (Health, Safety and Environment), and more. In addition, organizations must be prepared to respond to audits and investigations that are designed to ensure that they are meeting these requirements. These audits and investigations can be costly and time-consuming, and failing to respond to them adequately and timely can lead to significant fines, reputational damage, and legal liability.

One of the biggest challenges that companies face when responding to an audit or investigation is identifying the relevant information that must be produced. This information is most of the time spread across the organization, “buried” in tens of thousands of documents, emails, audio and video files and other records. Finding and organizing this information can be a daunting task, particularly when time is of the essence.

SEAL is a cutting-edge platform designed to revolutionize how organizations manage and utilize their corporate documents. Acting as an Active Document Store, SEAL supports the entire lifecycle of business documents, providing advanced content-centric features essential for digital operations. The platform facilitates end-to-end digital processes, enabling document composition, collaborative authoring, review, approval, and e-signing capabilities.

SEAL is a cutting-edge platform designed to revolutionize how organizations manage and utilize their corporate documents. Acting as an Active Document Store, SEAL supports the entire lifecycle of business documents, providing advanced content-centric features essential for digital operations. The platform facilitates end-to-end digital processes, enabling document composition, collaborative authoring, review, approval, and e-signing capabilities.

Sales & Customer Service

In today’s competitive market, delivering exceptional sales and customer service is paramount for organizations seeking to retain customers and enhance their brand reputation. Managing customer-related documents efficiently and ensuring timely responses to feedback and complaints are critical components of this endeavor. Companies must centralize and streamline their document management processes to provide quick access to customer information and automate the handling of feedback and complaints. SEAL addresses these needs by offering a comprehensive solution designed to optimize sales and customer service functions through advanced document management and process automation.

SEAL for Contracts Management is a cross industry solution that offers control and visibility over all your contracts and supporting documents during their entire lifecycle using full paperless operations. Every single contract is stored, categorized and can be easily and securely accessible from anywhere using any device for a new level of productivity.

More than ever before, procurement teams are operating in a challenging and fast-changing environment. They’re tasked with tough operational excellence goals while working with fewer personnel and reduced budgets. By digitizing and automating document-intensive business processes, organizations can gain enhanced visibility and optimize their mission-critical supply chains while reducing manual data entry and data entry errors, improving supplier information management, lowering transaction costs, and accelerating the receiving process.

Responsible for planning, controlling and auditing the company finances and cashflow, the finance department is a crucial component of any business. Though not always obvious, this department is a core enabler of a company’s growth and development. By implementing digital and automated processes to manage and distribute financial documents, finance managers can free up their staff to focus on strategic initiatives and serve the lines of business with accurate and relevant information.

The HR department depends on document-driven processes, usually on paper. Paper requires archiving cabinets, and, in time, the amount of paper stored quickly become unmaintainable. Plus, paper tied to bloated processes slows HR Managers down from doing important work that pushes a business forward. Automation and digitalization can help you to reduce the time it takes to complete your HR tasks without sacrificing quality of work.

In today’s business environment, organizations face numerous legal challenges and risks, including compliance with regulatory requirements, managing litigation processes, and ensuring the integrity of legal records. Efficiently handling these legal matters is critical for minimizing risks, controlling costs, and achieving favorable outcomes. SEAL provides a next-generation platform designed to support legal and litigation management by automating case management processes, ensuring secure document handling, and facilitating compliance with legal standards.

Banking

The banking industry is undergoing a digital transformation, and document automation is a crucial component of this process. Banks need to efficiently manage large amounts of unstructured data (documents, emails) scattered across various locations and systems, while ensuring security and regulatory compliance. Document-centric processes require specialized platforms that are optimized for unstructured content
management and automation, as they should not be managed by the core banking or other transactional systems.

The insurance industry faces several challenges, including intense competition, taught compliance regulations, meeting rising customer expectations, and the management of extensive amounts of data and documents.

Automating document-based tasks, including managing internal regulations and policies, risk analysis, claims management, and underwriting policies, is a crucial undertaking, given that many insurance processes rely heavily on documents.

The energy industry is undergoing a transformative shift driven by the need for decarbonization, regulatory pressures, and evolving technological advancements. Key challenges include managing vast amounts of unstructured data, ensuring regulatory compliance, and enhancing operational efficiency. Effective unstructured content management and automation are critical for addressing these challenges, enabling energy companies to streamline operations, reduce costs, and make informed decisions.

Operational excellence is vital in the manufacturing industry. Effective document management and automation is crucial and allows manufacturers to leverage their information to innovate and grow effectively.

The manufacturing industry needs also to ensure regulatory compliance and reduce risks. A massive amount of controlled documentation is necessary, where a mistake at any level can affect the production and the organization’s reputation.

Every aspect of the architectural, engineering and construction project involves an increasing number of documents that must be captured, processed, stored / archived and managed. SEAL enables contractors in the Architectural, Engineering and Construction industry to manage critical corporate content and business processes associated with the Projects (Build) and Operations documentation, thereby attaining compliance with industry regulations, cost reduction and a corresponding increase in operational efficiency.

The transportation and logistics industry generates and manages a vast array of documents daily, from invoices and bills of lading to shipping declarations and cargo manifests. Efficient handling of these unstructured documents is critical to operations. Tasks like adding files to document folders, sharing with external parties, issuing delivery proofs, or ensuring confirmation signatures often involve repetitive, manual processes prone to error.

By automating document workflows, companies can minimize errors, reduce reliance on paper-based processes, and streamline digital operations.

Resources & Insights
Modernizing Content Management
A Guide for Enhanced Productivity and Radical Cost Reduction
Discover how SEAL revolutionizes content management! This whitepaper explores the critical challenges of legacy ECM systems – high costs, poor user experience, and compliance risks – and shows how SEAL’s modern content management and automation platform reduces costs by up to 74%, enhances productivity, and ensures seamless content migration. Unlock the future of content efficiency today!

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