Executive Summary

Enara Technologies Inc. is a professional services firm that focuses on providing Integrated Information Management Solutions for small, medium and large enterprises.

Our solutions utilize Knowledge and Document Management, Imaging, Storage Management, Records Management, and Workflow processes to provide secure and instant access to all types of documents.

Enara Technologies is the
North American Competence Center for
Saperion®.

Saperion is a multi-tier, highly scalable product with a distributed architecture that can manage the growing information storage and management needs of very large enterprises with many locations. Saperion® integrates all important EDMS technologies to deliver a one-stop Readyto-Run solution that requires no 3rd party software add-ons or complex integration.

Saperion® is one integrated product that includes Imaging, Document Management, ERMCOLD, Storage Management (magnetic and optical jukeboxes), Web Clients, Workflow, Event Management, and many other options. It also integrates easily with existing IT environment, and supports Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes, GroupWise and SAP.

Saperion® empowers every member of your organization, at any location, by giving them immediate & transparent access to all information, no matter where it might be stored, in a cost effective way. It is easily scalable from a small departmental solution up to enterprise wide deployment with multiple Document Servers and thousands of users at multiple locations.

Saperion’s flexible architecture allows for quick integration with other line-of-business applications to deliver more comprehensive and productive business solutions. Saperion can plug into or integrate easily with current business solutions in areas like Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Information Files (CIF), Business Intelligence (BI), and other solutions.

Doculabs, an independent industry assessment firm, has twice reviewed Saperion and ranked it as a leader in this field. Some of their comments were: “simple to install, configure, and implement.” …“Only the most expensive systems on the market provide as tightly integrated and robust optical storage subsystems”…”SAPERION is ideal for supporting many eBusiness initiatives.”…”highly configurable architecture”… “We consider SAPERION to be at the forefront of EDMS innovations”

Saperion Summary Features

  • Single source for all core technology (no 3rd party products) for Imaging, Document Management, COLD, Storage Management (including Optical Jukeboxes), Workflow Event Management, Data Mirroring and Disaster Recovery.
  • Multi-Tier Architecture: This makes it easier to deliver high performance while scaling a solution to a vast number of users in multiple locations.
  • Strong security management over the storage repositories, users, groups, documents, and pages within a document or Folder.
  • Integrated Workflow: Includes a graphical process designer which makes it easy to design powerful business processes that for example approval invoices, forward documents based on certain conditions, or notify supervisors if action is not taken, and much more.
  • Encryption and Digital Signatures.
  • Highly Scaleable from small pilot installations to very large projects with distributed Document & Caching server in multiple locations.
  • Storage Management that includes RAID and direct support for optical jukeboxes, Placement Strategies, very large configurable Caches, Multithreading and Real-Time Mirroring for replication and fail-safe operation.
  • Caching Servers can serve the needs of groups of users, or geographic locations for fast access to those documents that relate to them. There can be an unlimited number of these servers.
  • Broker Server: significantly raises performance and efficiency by moving all file and database operations from the client stations to a central server. OCR and Rendering is now also a function of the Broker server. In addition, only the Broker server requires an ODBC connection to the database, eliminating the need and cost of setting up ODBC on all client stations.
  • Universal Web Client: Enables all client features through a Browser. This includes scanning, indexing, viewing, and administration
  • Rendering option on the server to create PDF files and multi-page TIF files.
  • Classification and Full Text search engine interfaces.
  • Directory Services support: Novell NDS, Microsoft Active Directories, and Unix LDAP
  • Complete disaster recovery ability that restores ALL information including all revisions and metadata.
  • Low Administration Overhead: Microsoft Management Console Administration of the Document and Broker servers can now be done via the MMC from any authorized station.
  • SQL Databases: Includes an internal database, and can also use Microsoft SQL-Server, Oracle, Informix, DB/2 and other databases.
  • User administration can be synchronised with Windows/NT and Novell NDS.
  • Integrated with Microsoft Outlook, Windows Explorer, Lotus Notes, GroupWise and SAP.
  • Multilingual support with multiple languages on the same network at the same time.
  • Audit Trail tracking with a comprehensive built-in report generator.
  • SmartLinks simplify document navigation through a point-and-click interface.
  • Easy Integration with the COM/DCOM API to develop integrated solutions directly with other products or using Visual Basic, Power Builder and other tools.
  • Outliner provides a graphical hierarchical search feature.
  • Integrated image viewer with secure annotation features. These include highlighting, Sticky notes, Arrows, Black markers and Stamps.

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