Process Driven Content Core
business processes form the foundation of the most successful business
initiatives. Value creation for an organization (increased market share,
profitability, faster return on investment (ROI), reduced cost of ownership) is
the result of the identification and combination of business processes aligned
with a coordinating business strategy. These processes serve to exploit business
opportunities by unifying customers, suppliers and partners in a real time
information sharing (federated) collaborative. In order to gain full value and
incremental benefit, traditional ERP systems are rapidly being recast as
discrete applications in support of these key business processes. Examples
include order fulfillment, human resources, customer relationship management,
accounts payable, accounts receivable, claims processing, e-procurement and
supply chain management. Content Scope and Reach Content in support of these
processes extends far beyond the reach of traditional web content management
products. Companies that have taken this ‘web first’ approach have experienced
high expenditures in third party product integration and maintenance. These
point solutions have resulted in significantly higher cost of ownership, missed
time to market opportunities and generally dissatisfied user communities.
Reactive attempts to form ‘loose’ partnerships contribute to further disruption,
as once complementary vendors realign to become head on competitors. As core
processes are transformed to applications in support of key business
initiatives, an expanded community of users must be supported based on unique
requirements and roles. Deployment for these process-focused applications ranges
from department level, to inter-enterprise, to public Internet access, each
having specific profiles for content contribution, content management,
personalization and security. VIP Enterprise Architecture Gauss VIP Enterprise
Platform bridges the content divide between core business processes and business
strategy through a modular, yet highly integrated product suite, including
document management, workflow management, content management and portal
management. A key differentiator of VIP Enterprise 8 is full support for both
process workflow and content lifecycle management under one integrated
environment. Content is viewed as an active environment driven by business
processes rather than data collection. This dynamic nature requires both roles
and rules based workflow and notification as processes are changed or become
obsolete.