Microsoft SharePoint Powers Portal-Based Document Management

Elite Information Systems (www.eliteis.com) has announced a portal-based document management system built on Microsoft's SharePoint Portal Server (www.microsoft.com/sharepoint). According to the Los Angeles-based company, Elite Encompass is the first document management system built to run on top of the Microsoft portal and collaboration server software.

Elite Encompass adds support for extranets, folder storage policies, off-line content use and application integration to SharePoint's existing document management features. Encompass is said to streamline the creation and modification of documents and subsequent access, organization and data sharing from internal and external sources. Integrating document management into a Web portal simplifies the user experience and lets users work more efficiently by providing access to all enterprise content through a single online interface.

Encompass also integrates with Microsoft Office and WordPerfect Office, giving users document management features at the application level. Full-text search works on HTML, PDF and TIFF image files and on Exchange 5.5 and 2000 public folders. Documents can be automatically categorized with metadata from external data sources, eliminating the need to manually replicate metadata. Elite Encompass was set to finish beta testing in January and will be priced at $295 per seat.

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