Bring Content Into Context of the EcoSystem with EP2 (SAP, Sharepoint, SuccessFactors, Salesforce, Oracle) and More

Many of the OpenText EcoSystem products (quick reminder – EcoSystem products are solutions for SAP, Microsoft, Salesforce and Oracle) are part of the EP2 release,…

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Jonathan Beardsley

May 3, 20176 minutes read

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Many of the OpenText EcoSystem products (quick reminder – EcoSystem products are solutions for SAP, Microsoft, Salesforce and Oracle) are part of the EP2 release, building on the foundation laid down last year with Release 16 and adding features requested by you, our customers to improve productivity and speed to implement.

xECM Platform: the xECM family of products has grown from xECM for SAP, Oracle EBS and Microsoft Sharepoint this year with new products xECM for Process Suite and xECM for Engineering Documents all based on the platform foundation. You can find more details about these xECM versions, as well as the rest of the Enterprise Applications in the Content Suite EP2 launch blog here, but wait – don’t go just yet, there’s lot’s more to read here too!

xECM the platform EP2 has new features to improve Workspace Creation from the lead application, better browsing and View integration as well as Batch Creation. Also, and probably most importantly, Completeness Check. This much requested feature from our customers ensures that a workspace is fully populated, be it a HR workspace for SuccessFactors, or an opportunity workspace for Salesforce. Of course, all of the features in the Core platform are available within the various version of xECM as well.

xECM for SAP EP2 continues its market leading, Pinnacle Award winning (10 years in a row) integrations into SAP applications with support for SAP Hybris Cloud for Customer, offering full support for EIM into the Account, Lead and Opportunity workspaces integrated into the C4C UI. To support organisations moving to S/4 HANA Cloud, xECM now extends the CMIS interface to support the SAP CMIS profile. Finally, enhancements have been made to the Business content windows and to the way metadata properties are assigned – improving the implementation times and reducing the need for custom development.

xECM for SuccessFactors EP2 adds some very impressive new capabilities including support for HCM on premise. This is critical for customers who have HCM and are migrating to SAP SuccessFactors as you can now view employee data from two systems connected to a single Employee File. Other features include document completeness validation – ensuring all documents are present when a workspace is created and finally, Duration management capabilities to schedule automatic HR document follow ups to aid in HR compliance (e.g. automatic reviews, escalations and expiry dates). These are just the top 3 features in xECM for SuccessFactors however there are many more.

xECM for Salesforce EP2 is all about support for Lightning. With EP2 OpenText upgrades the widget integration to Lightning, Salesforce latest experience platform. Following Lightning design principles the integration of the OpenText widget can be flexibly configured to deliver modern enterprise apps. Building on the Lightning design also allows xECM For Salesforce Ep2 to be fully mobile

xECM for SharePoint EP2 adds new capabilities to support search, browse and favourite Business Workspaces from within Outlook, making it seamless to add emails to a workspace both from the desktop and web interfaces. Also in EP2 is support for Office Groups integration allowing users to view group calendars, tasks conversations and notes into the Business Workspace and finally a new Search Widget allows Office 365 users to search natively for content in the xECM repository.

xECM for Oracle EP2 receives a new coat of paint and now supports the new Smart UI as well as the classic UI, fully integrated into the Oracle EBS (12.1 and 12.2) UI as well as the platform capabilities outlined above.

It’s not just xECM – EcoSystem products that offer specialised capabilities are also covered with EP2:

Microsoft Application Governance and Archiving EP2 (AGA) is given the same capabilities as xECM for Sharepoint to support search, browse and favourite Business Workspaces from within Outlook, making it seamless to add emails to a workspace both from the desktop and web interfaces. Outlook is where collaboration happens, but it must not become a silo and the new EP2 capabilities helps solve that problem. As well as Outlook integration, AGA also includes the same Search capability to allow users to search inside the archive for content from Sharepoint. There are also some additional enhancements to simplify common tasks and configuration when archiving content from Sharepoint to the Archive

Document Access and Archiving and Archive Center for SAP Solutions, Cloud Edition EP2 has enhanced support for the SAP Fiori UI with the new Business Object Browser, ensuring that all content is properly presented in context. In addition they contain more flexible layout in the SAP Business content window. Document Access has a new asynchronous report for record declaration to enable full text search of existing content. Recently licensed features of Archive Center Cloud Edition are CMIS interfaces and file share archiving and additional enhancements to the Archive Center application

SAP DAM EP2 (just to remind you this is the number 1 rated DAM solution on the market, and the only solution preferred by SAP Hybris – in-case you forgot) has an all new Workflow engine to reduce the time and complexity in setting up the platform with a more lightweight workflow engine. In addition to a host of new UI features, SAP DAM is further integrated into the new Customer Experience capabilities of Hybris 6.x releases, and SAP DAM 16 EP2 exposes new widgets to ease integration into Hybris smart edit. We also gain advantage of the improvements made to the OTMM platform, on which SAP DAM is based and extended (you can read about some of these here)

Document Presentment does have an EP2 release, however there are so many new capabilities within this product, it deserves a blog in it’s own right – to follow shortly

Employee File Management EP2 received some minor updates and fixes.

For customers who are wondering where the EP2 launch is for VIM and Business Center – don’t worry, we’ve got you covered in the EP3 launch later in the year.

EP2 for the EcoSystem continues to expand on the foundation of Release 16, making xECM the platform even more the future of ECM, by bringing Content into Context, as well as making the other applications in our Portfolio even more mission critical.

And keep reading our EcoSystem blogs for details on upcoming events including a South African Customer Day, Digiruption, SAP Sapphire and Enterprise World 2017.

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Jonathan is a Program Manager in Business Transformation and Digital Disruption, particularly interested in how customers are digitally transforming their supplier, customer and business relationships and where OpenText can help. Previously a CEM Architect for 15 years working across a variety of Digital Marketing requirements, helping customers deliver new and innovative online and digital channels.

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