Overview

Bridge content silos, expedite information flows and improve governance

OpenText™ Extended ECM Business Workspaces offer fast access to pertinent information in a simple-to-digest view. Using pre-built templates, business users can quickly organize content, data, people and tasks related to a project, case or business activity. Business Workspaces free up IT resources to deliver business applications, connect content to enterprise applications and minimize point solutions.

Why choose Extended ECM Business Workspaces?

  • Multi-purpose solution

    Configure Business Workspaces to address a multitude of business process challenges using platform capabilities. No need for multiple team productivity point solutions.

  • Goal oriented collaboration

    Transform inefficient knowledge management practices and fragmented or paper-based processes with a centralized view of related business content, metadata, people and tasks.

  • Content integrated with process applications

    Integrate content management and collaboration with enterprise applications, such as SAP®, SAP® SuccessFactors Salesforce, Microsoft 365® and Microsoft Dynamics®.

  • Automated file plans and content governance

    Remove the compliance risks of ad hoc information exchange by applying automated and transparent records management and governance principals.

How Extended ECM Business Workspaces can benefit business

Discover the advantages of using OpenText Extended ECM Business Workspaces.

  • Eliminate inefficiencies

    Replace inefficient manual tasks with modern, digitized work streams that bring content, people and workflows together to improve team productivity and results.

  • Improve business outcomes

    Integrate with enterprise applications for a holistic view of content, metadata and processes to improve productivity and results.

  • Empower the business to configure applications

    Offer self-administered workspace templates to meet unique departmental needs and enable quick creation of new workspaces to provide a 360-degree view of needed information.

  • Remove the risk of ad hoc information exchange

    Protect regulated information using the Extended ECM records management best practices embedded in each workspace template.

  • Free up valuable IT resources

    Use the common framework of Business Workspaces to address business needs in the ECM platform, avoiding sourcing, deploying and managing a multitude of applications.

  • Capture and utilize organizational knowledge

    Increase information findability with metadata enriched content and empower AI and machine learning “IP harvesting” to enhance organizational strategy and performance.

Features

  • Customizable workspaces

    Delivers a custom, intuitive user experience in each Business Workspace using predefined folders for content, document templates, metadata and classifications, users and groups, permissions, tasks, discussions, workflows and more.

  • Productive business processes

    Ensures visibility to content and information across related workspaces and through multiple processes to help teams reach shared goals using workflows, tasks, follow-ups, milestones and phases.

  • Embedded collaboration

    Reduces the need for users to switch applications with embedded collaboration tools, such as blogs, wikis, activity feeds, discussions, forums and comments. Extends collaboration to external parties securely using OpenText™ Core Share.

  • Comprehensive, trusted governance

    Automates information protection without the need for user intervention using metadata and records management classifications built directly into Business Workspaces templates.

Take advantage of OpenText and partner services

Deployment

OpenText offers deployment choice and flexibility for Extended ECM Business Workspaces.

Professional Services

OpenText Consulting Services combines end-to-end solution implementation with comprehensive technology services to help improve systems.

Partners

OpenText helps customers find the right solution, the right support and the right outcome.

Training

OpenText Learning Services offers comprehensive enablement and learning programs to accelerate knowledge and skills.

Communities

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Extended ECM Business Workspaces resources

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