Enterprise Content Management
Configurable ECM End-User Application for Sharepoint.
Bluethread’s SmartDesk fulfills a unique need within the ECM marketplace as it solves two of the most common challenges that many organizations face when they decide to leverage ECM technologies. On one hand, organizations that select an ECM platform often struggle with the process of implementing business-specific applications required to solve their unique requirements... typically having to build and maintain "one-off" solutions. On the other hand, organizations that select specific and often vertically or horizontally-focused ECM-based solutions frequently find themselves constrained to extend the use of these applications to serve other strategic business purposes throughout the enterprise.
SmartDesk is designed to fill the gap between these all-too-common extremes.
Rather than having to build distinct “one-off” applications for different departmental business processes within your organization, SmartDesk allows companies to quickly address the unique needs of business process owners across an organization by eliminating long development cycles and the risk of misinterpretation of user requirements.
Optimized End-User Experience
SmartDesk controls the user interface based on work type, user privileges and preferences, dynamically customizing the desktop for maximum worker efficiency.
Improved Manageability and Scalability for Sharepoint.
Bluethread’s StoragePoint allows content managed in Sharepoint Record Center to be stored outside of Sharepoint. While the metadata associated with the content, along with a pointer to the externalized content, remain stored in Sharepoint, the actual BLOB (binary large object) can be written to an external data store such as an EMC© Centera© storage system.
Compliance and HSM
In addition to the database manageability benefit, StoragePoint also addresses the regulatory compliance needs of many organizations, most notably those in the financial services and health care sectors that operate under regulatory guidelines such as SEC, SOX and HIPPA that require content declared as a record to be unalterable.
By extending the Record Center capability delivered within Sharepoint to allow for the externalization of content to a WORM-based storage medium, StoragePoint provides a solution to this requirement. And since StoragePoint is configurable per Record Routing rule, a single MOSS Records Center can externalize content to any number of external data stores of the same or different types. An organization can also leverage StoragePoint’s Information Management Policy actions to setup a multi-tiered storage hierarchy or HSM, where less expensive storage is used to store content as it ages.