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New Product by CONET - Lotus Domino data made available for SAP Knowledge Management (KM)
CONET offers the SAP KM Repository Manager for Lotus Domino in its first general release. The new member of CONET’s award winning you@web product line has been developed particularly for the integration of Domino data and applications into the SAP NetWeaver infrastructure. Test installations at select early adaptor customers have proven to run successfully.
The new software enables organizations to benefit from the Knowledge Management (KM) functionality of SAP NetWeaver while keeping Lotus Domino as the basic system for information storage. Typical areas of use are, for example, the combination of Domino and non-Domino content in a source-spanning information pool or the integration of SAP TREX (Text Retrieval and Information Extraction) and Repository Manager to form a search engine for any kind of Domino application.
The early adaptor customers currently involved express their confidence in the new software product’s first installations. "We are very much satisfied with the results", Gerhard Peter, responsible project manager at Festo AG, a leading company in automation, says. Festo had a complex, historically evolved Domino infrastructure. The Repository Manager thus formed a key technology for Festo’s Internet presence and intranet alike. "Bringing information from Domino and SAP NetWeaver together via the SAP KM is definitely a step in the right direction. In the end, such a unification is the prerequisite for establishing a powerful search mechanism for our customers and employees, enabling them to identify relevant information faster,” Peter concludes.
The major challenge in developing the new software architecture lay in designing the application in such a way that all user groups are provided with the easiest mode of operation possible. "SAP Portal Administrator and Domino Administrator are, in the majority of cases, two different people", Markus Marenbach, Director Portal Solutions at CONET, explains. In the customers’ working environment there were often up to 1,000 individual Domino databases arranged in vastly decentralised infrastructures. Because of this fact, CONET put special emphasis on the easy usability for all parties concerned in view of configuration and handling. "Now it is possible to connect a Domino database to the SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal’s search engine (SAP TREX) in less than two minutes."
"We are already experiencing great interest in our new product", Marenbach says. "This comes as no surprise to us. After all, depending on the regional market surroundings, between 40 and 60 per cent of all SAP NetWeaver users do employ Lotus Domino as well. Thus by combining SAP NetWeaver with Domino the value of investments put into SAP NetWeaver and Domino are secured at the same time." Consequently, SAP’s support in developing, consulting and sales had been excellent.
With the release of the SAP KM Repository Manager for Domino CONET continues to pursue its ongoing strategy of a consistent supplementation of integrative portal solutions for SAP NetWeaver. Last year, the Hennef-based IT systems and consulting provider had already expanded its range of solutions in the field of portal solutions with the you@web SAP EP Knowledge Director for Lotus Domino.
Festo is a world-leading supplier of automation technology. In course of its 40 year long history, the globally active, independent family-run business with headquarters in Esslingen a. N. has developed into the leading performer in its sector, offering high solution competence in the field of pneumatics as well as an unparalleled portfolio of comprehensive learning systems for vocational and further training for industry. The Festo Group achieved a turnover of about 1.3 billion Euros in 2004 and employs 11,000 staff at 250 locations all over the world. 21.12.2005, Simon Vieth, CONET Solutions GmbH
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