Today is Tuesday and within a week EMCWorld will be in full swing. Todays blog is all about the new EMC concept for partners: SpringBoard. EMC acts as the middleman to connect the different partners to deliver the perfect solution for their customers. EMC understands that this is the best way forward if they want to increase the license sales of their product. Do not compete with partner products but embrace them and make a great joint venture to the benefit of all.
We at Informed Consulitng are all about this concept. Even before SpringBoard we had very good relations with a large group of partners who are often also competitors. In the end we think that when we work together there will be a lot more for all than if we try to compete hard. It might not be the only way to get the biggest piece of the pie, but for sure the pie will be a lot (LOT) bigger.
Today we released a perfect example for the SpringBoard concept. With SPA4D we created the perfect collaboration interface for Documentum. Using SharePoint as THE interface of choice for a large part of the organization it is only logical to have an easy to use connection to the information stored in Documentum and be able to leverage the good collaboration functions like simultaneous editing, OneDrive or sharing from SharePoint on your Documentum information.
But only having SharePoint functions available does make your Documentum solution limited. We already added things like renditions, full versioning (including meta-data), workflow, etc.. but where we got stuck is the whole concept of annotations. How can you support the user with RELATE permissions to be able to leverage that unique Documentum concept and enable them to create the standard Documentum annotations?
The answer was simple and perfect. We already had a close working relationship with Aerow. They have their certified solution ARender as a replacement for PDF-annotation services, as that is eol. This easy to use and configurable solution has a perfect webservice handle to open a document and start the read/annotate process.
Within days we added this function to our SPA4D product and without any programming on both sides this function is now part of the solution package. On premise and in the cloud. So now even more Informed Consulting and Aerow join forces to deliver the best Documentum solution to our customers.
So come see us at the booth at EMCWorld and we will show you this perfect SpringBoard example!