2008年9月14日星期日

SAPERION - BPM

SAPERION WORKFLOW EDITION
SAPERION工作流
Continuous process optimization:
The best way to increased efficiency and improved customer satisfaction
Increasing your company’s productivity and responding to customers’ requests in a fast, flexible and reliable manner will improve your competitiveness. For that purpose, you have to accelerate and optimize your business processes.
Using the SAPERION Workflow Edition, you can manage and control workflows and evaluate results, which can then be used for consistent optimization and acceleration of business processes.
使用SAPERION工作流,您可以管理和掌控工作流并评估结果,从而用来对业务流程进行持续的优化和提速。
At a Glance
Compliance:
The SAPERION Workflow Edition helps you to comply with legal requirements and regulations. Every workflow is logged, which makes them accessible. Monitoring functionalities contribute to high transparency.
Efficiency:
Clear role and job assignments increase the efficiency of your staff members. This leads to decreased costs and increased process quality and transparency.
Modeling business processes:
Every single employee is assigned roles, rights and responsibilities and on his basis, they automatically receive relevant documents. Serial and parallel workflows are possible and several processes can be easily interconnected.
Usability:
Workflows can be easily designed and they reflect reality. This process does not require any programming skills. Releasing, signing and forwarding documents are jobs that are also implemented and which can be easily configured, e.g. escalation techniques, reminders and substitute regulations. Furthermore, ad hoc workflows can be implemented to control infrequent or one-time processes.
Continuous optimization:
The SAPERION Workflow logs all process activities and thus provides the perfect basis for controlling and monitoring jobs (e.g. Neartime Business Activity Monitoring). Line managers are thus informed about critical situations before they actually happen and may therefore avoid problems by being proactive. As a result, staff members that work in an area where there is currently not too much work can be employed in problem areas. Division managers are able to keep an eye on their key figures and can respond to them whenever necessary.
“SAPERION helped us to improve our system’s document management capabilities. Workflow, archiving and document management is key for any insurance company that is looking to provide a better customer service as well as regulatory and corporate compliance. Our customers can now rely on the benefits of a world class solution integrated into our leading Policy Administration System along with Claims and Reinsurance. We are excited about the opportunity to work with SAPERION.”
JUAN MAZZINI, VP NEW MARKETS, SYSTRAN, CORPORTATE HEADQUARTERS – BUENOS AIRES
SAPERION Workflow Edition
Workflow Engine:
· Reflection of parallel and serial processes
· Multi-level escalation, reminder
· Definition of substitutes/vacation replacement
· Cumulative releases and forwarding
· Coordination procedures and distribution rules
· Statistical analysis as the basis for further process optimization
· Integration allows for data exchange with third-party application
· Processes can be designed in any way – from structured to ad hoc
Process Designer:
· Intuitive use
· Can be used without programming experience
· Pre-defined activities
· Integration into SAPERION user interface
User SAPERION Workflow to continuously improve the processes for all jobs and to control workflows and make them more productive.
For each transaction, authorized users can start the respective processes. Associated records, documents and forms are routed o the relevant staff members, a process that is managed by the Workflow Engine.
In-boxes become workflow boxes: All workflow tasks can be sent as an HTML-form via email using any email client.
BENEFITS/FACTS
· Accelerate your processes so they take a few minutes rather than several days
· Avoid media disruption and thus the time required for entering information several times
· Minimize your operational risk because the workflow component automatically ensures that all workflows are conducted as defined
· Improved capability to provide information because every transaction can be traced
· Continuous optimization of Business Process Management as a result of monitoring and analyzing processes
SAPERION PRODUCTS:
· SAPERION ECM Edition
· SAPERION Inbound Suite
· SAPERION Office Integration
· SAPERION Web Gateway
CORE FUNCTIONALITIES:
· Graphical modeling of structured business processes
· Responsible staff members define and start processes ad hoc
· In-box containing jobs can be individually designed and comprises reminders, delegation functions and remarks
· Authorized persons have the chance to intervene with current transactions using a control center
· Insight into history of current and past business transactions
· Logging of all workflow activities as the basis for statistical analysis

CONTACT
If you are interested in partnering with SAEPRION, please contact:
Phone: +86 13501356853
Email: Saperion.china@gmail.com
Website: www.saperion.com

2008年9月7日星期日

SAPERION Case study - SIEMENS Archive

SAPERION case study
Siemens AG:
What happens today, belongs to history tomorrow – and becomes part of SAPERION
The challenge
· Access to all historical documents of the Siemens group
· Highlighting of the search terms
The solution
· A central archiving solution in the Siemens group archive
· Search from all subsidiaries in various countries via a flexible SAPERION interface
SIEMENS
The user approaches the Siemens archive, one of the largest and oldest business archives in Germany, using a SAPERION interface: the right search terms of some mouse clicks and the user is provided several aspects of the 160 years of Siemens history: 400,000 historical photos, 3,000 films, recordings and tapes, four kilometers of shelves containing records and documents and 17,000 exhibits. The members of the association of German business archivists were amazed when they held a conference at Siemens in May 2007. There, they saw what today’s possibilities are in the field of archiving whenever state-of-the-art software is used.
Since 2003, SAPERION has been applied to the Munich Siemens archive that was founded exactly 100 years ago. There, the system ensures access to all documents that so far were stored in the archive data pool. It permits to conduct the rapid and selective search from your computer. Selected archived information can be immediately displayed in the original layout” information can be searched using the full-text search option.
Every detail from corporate history can be searched within seconds
The huge historical collection is not only intended to be used for internal purposes but is also available to the public. Every day, the seven staff members in the archive receive requests from scientific historians, journalists, private persons or from people organizing exhibitions from all over the world about even quite unusual details of the long corporate history. “Lately, someone wanted to know, for instance, when Siemens dealt with air conditioning technology for the first time.” Ute Schniedermeier, Document Manager at Siemens Corporate Archives – that is how the archive is called – recalls. “By means of the thesaurus functionality available in SAPERION and due to the combination of the right search terms with Boolean algebra we found out quite soon: In 1876, company founder Werner von Siemens wrote about air conditioning in his room in a letter addressed to his brother.” In order to make e.g. historical correspondence available in digital form, we first of all had to copy the documents that were written either by hand or by using a typewriter. This is necessary because many of the documents could not be scanned. The texts generated in this way were combined with describing attributes and then were gradually integrated into the archive as files. The original scripts, among them 8,000 hand-written letters of the two Siemens brothers, are stored in air-conditioned storerooms at the Siemens Corporate Archive site at the Munich Oskap-von-Miller-Ring. In order to protect them, they are touched only in exceptional cases.
17,000 Siemens products –photos taken from every side
Pictures were taken from starting from the needle telegraph developed in 1847 to the first legendary Siemens radio from 1924 to the first personal computer by Siemens. Subsequently, the pictures and the respective describing attributes were integrated into the SAPERION archive. Photos, graphics, paintings or other image are available in three quality levels: 72 dpi for displaying them in the internet, 300 dpi in the jpg format for sending them via email and 300 dpi as tif file for long-term storage and for use in high gloss printing. The films are yet only available as descriptions.
The Siemens Corporate Archives as the historical archive on the one side and the individual registers with the current documents in the corporate units on the other side are separated using specific archival criteria. “We at Siemens Corporate Archives incorporate everything that meets the legal record retention periods, that is no longer needed in the current fiscal year and which has the required documentation value.”, Ute Schniedermeier explains. Of course, there are as well important current documents that can be integrated into document stock even today. This comprises circular letters, press releases, Website content or Siemens magazines. Scanning of these documents is not necessary because they are delivered already in digital form.
Every year, 1500 to 2000 requests on average get to the team of Corporate Archives by e-mail. In former times, exhibition organizers or museum managers had to travel long distances to Munich-Perlach in order to view and select exhibits whenever they planned to borrow some of them. Alternatively, staff members of the archive had to send photos for decision guidance. Today, this process takes place electronically. “If someone plans to borrow household exhibition I just enter the respective criteria – category and time period – into SAPERION”, archivist Alexandra Kinter explains. “As a result, I receive a PDF list containing all characteristics of the product including photos. Then, I can send the list via e-mail and interested people can conveniently select the right items while sitting at their desks.” In 2006, Siemens appliances for 40 exhibitions worldwide were selected in this way.
Ute Schiedermeier and her colleagues can thus not only respond to all kinds of inquires a lot faster than before but scientific users can also take advantage of the software. In a visitors’ room of the Siemens archive, they can search documents and exhibits using SAPERION.
SAPERION permits highlighting search terms
Electronic archiving or automated archiving by means of a punchcard has been an issue at Siemens Corporate Archives since 1969. All previous systems, thought, were proprietary developments and were neither able to withstand the increasing data quantities over nor to meet the higher requirements on software and hardware in the long run. In 2003, several reasons militated in favor of the SAPERION solution: First of all, the system does not store the documents in a directory but rather in an encrypted way. In this way, confidential data is protected against unauthorized access. A second reason for the SAPERION system was the possibility to conduct SQL full-text search inquiries, where the search terms are highlighted in the bitmaps scanned. Thus, in contrast to Google, search terms are marked in the partly extensive newspaper articles and business correspondence in SAPERION. In this way, the right part can be found quite easily. “Full-text search is our daily business”, Ute Schiedermeier explains. “and highlighting is a significant feature in order to get immediate results.”
Integration of subsidiaries in other countries are in the pipeline
The capabilities of SAPERION regarding the management of access authorizations are of special significance whenever decentralized archives of the Siemens units are to be integrated. Siemens Corporate Archives has the right to give instructions and also provides consulting services to the archive on medical engineering in Erlangen, to the archives of the gas turbine station in Berlin, to Siemens VDO and to the national organizations in Austria and Switzerland. This means: Original documents will always stay on –site whereas digital copies and the according attributes are stored centrally at the SAPEIRON server in Munich. There, staff members determine who is permitted to access which documents. Once the first English-speaking subsidiary is connected to the system – in autumn 2007, the archive stock in India will be established and connected – the flexible interface of SAPERION will prove to be indispensable because in this case, it is adjusted on-site in order to meet search requirements.