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Leverage Your SharePoint Investment

For Content Manager customers, integration with SharePoint user interfaces enables organizations to leverage critical business documents stored within Content Manager repositories, directly within SharePoint. Instead of being forced to develop a content migration strategy or addressing the challenges that SharePoint presents for managing high volumes of documents, organizations can continue to leverage your investment in Content Manager while providing access to content through common, user-friendly SharePoint user interfaces.

Using this configuration, organizations can leverage the strengths of both SharePoint and Content Manager. Microsoft SharePoint provides a unified interface to search, access, and work with office document types. Business documents that benefit from workgroup collaboration are managed by SharePoint, while fixed assets, such as scanned documents, are stored in Content Manager and seamlessly accessed through the SharePoint interface.

To support comprehensive access to Content Manager documents within Microsoft SharePoint, Content Manager provides two methods of viewing Content Manager content within SharePoint:

• Content Manager Web Parts provide the Content Manager look and feel, directly within a SharePoint portal; Content Manager searches may be performed and results lists—including those returning thousands of documents—may be displayed
• External Content Management Lists enable Content Manager documents to participate in SharePoint search, event notifications and workflows, and to be linked with other SharePoint lists and items

These lists may be kept in sync if metadata changes are made by a SharePoint user or by Content Manager end users with other Content Manager client applications such as desktop, web or workflows. With both options, a generic Content Manager viewer is provided to display documents without requiring the native application. Additionally, the viewer can display redactions and annotations on the images.

Content Manager SharePoint integration enables organizations to both leverage their existing Content Manager investment as well as extend the value of Microsoft SharePoint, providing a solutions for managing high volumes of SharePoint content, aggregating content from multiple SharePoint sites, and enhancing SharePoint's ECM functionality, including workflow, imaging and retention.

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