Interwise Transforms Business Meetings into Real Time Content with Interwise Connect for Documentum

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Interwise today unveiled its second solution supporting EMC's collaboration product platform, Interwise Connect for Documentum. The solution addresses a new frontier in enterprise content management — the transformation of live business meetings into real time content that can be stored and managed to enhance project collaboration, compliance and other key business activities. Designed to operate seamlessly with EMC Documentum, the solution has been tested and awarded the "Designed for EMC" designation. Also today, the company delivered enhancements to its Interwise Connect for eRoom solution that adds unlimited, live meeting capabilities to EMC Documentum eRoom workspace environments.

Interwise Connect for Documentum allows enterprises to capture, manage and store the live information assets and records produced during voice, Web and video conferences and face-to-face meetings. It supports the trend in enterprise content management (ECM) for capturing and storing the transactional content that comes from applications like e-mail, ERP (SAP/Oracle) and others. It also demonstrates the increasing levels of integration predicted by Gartner, between unified communications technologies such as converged conferencing and collaboration solutions like ECM.

"Unified communications, the convergence of once separate communication modalities such as e-mail, instant messaging, Voice over IP and audio/video/Web conferencing is beginning to integrate with traditional collaboration solutions to provide an overall contextual framework for workgroup and project collaboration efficiencies," said David Mario Smith, research analyst for Gartner Inc.

Users can schedule audio conferences and Web meetings, as well as upload materials and invite participants, directly from within EMC Documentum. All Interwise meeting components—telephone and online meeting discussions, whiteboard drawings, shared applications and documents, meeting invitations and participant lists—can be categorized as metadata within Documentum for later indexing, searching and playback. The solution also allows users to integrate their meeting assets into Documentum workflows and business processes. The assets are stored within Documentum's secure content repository.

"We are extremely pleased with the response we are seeing to the idea of storing meetings as real time content," said Frank Zvi, president and CEO of Interwise. "Important information is exchanged during business meetings that when stored intelligently for reuse, has great potential to improve corporate agility, business performance and compliance capabilities. We are pleased to be teaming with EMC and look forward to bringing more high-value offerings to market."

16.01.2007, Business Wire