Frequently, traditional ECM (Enterprise Content Management) software is used mainly for unified content repository, archiving and records management, which translates into high maintenance & operational costs and poor user experience. Due to inflexible platforms and lack of advanced records management capabilities we are seeing a surge in the number of unhappy customers and thus huge business opportunity to decommission/replace legacy ECM.

• Organizations are looking to archive and manage multiple content types;
• Aging on-premises archiving platforms are being replaced by more modern solutions;
• Need for decommissioning legacy application while still keeping access to their data with lower costs;
• Mobile access − access to archived content through a mobile web-based browser (smartphone, tablet, laptop, and so forth) and mobile apps for iOS and Android;
• Enterprise Content Management Companies have more than 15.000 active and mostly unhappy customers;
• Legacy ECM losing focus on technology and benefits;
• Limitations of legacy ECM architectures and poor cloud integration and support (no multi-tenancy, difficult back-up and restore process, difficult automatic failover and failback processes);

• Archiving as a service (a.k.a. cloud archiving) has rapidly surpassed on-premises archiving;
• Lack of advanced records management capabilities (WORM, retentions, digital shredding, extra cost for specialized records management capabilities etc.);
• High maintenance costs with the information archiving platform software maintenance renewals, support contracts and with the document capture component;
• Extra costs for standard functionalities (viewer, records management functionalities, etc.);
• Poor user experience for unified content repository, archiving and records management use cases;
• Poor support for mobility of traditional ECM platforms;
• Lack of advanced integration with Hitachi Content Platform.

Expanded HCP use for existing customer – IMPROVE the existing HCP in relation with existing legacy ECM with Star Connectors.

• Migrate content managed by existing Legacy ECM from current storage platform to the existing HCP and increase usage of the existing HCP / sell more capacity.

New customers for HCP – IMPROVE the existing Legacy ECM with a new HCP and Star Connectors.

• Replacement for current content storage platform with a new HCP;
• Replacement for current content storage platform shared among multiple applications.

Content Migration Services to HCP – MIGRATE in place enterprise content management solutions from existing storage environment to HCP

• “Application aware” Content migration (metadata, objects) from legacy ECM to HCP / SEAL;
• Utilizes standard tools: Star Connectors for HCP / Star Universal Content Migrator for SEAL / HCP;
• Star Connectors for HCP projects involve also content migration services.

New customers for HCP – REPLACE existing legacy ECM with SEAL and drive HCP sales / adoption.

• Replacement of existing legacy ECM with SEAL / HCP.

Secure enhanced content storage and governance

• External (to application server and users) storage area
• WORM storage option
• Inherent HCP resiliency (“backup-less”)
• Enforce retention at storage level
• “Shredding” and “holding” options independent of application
• Prevents unintentional/unplanned deletions of content

Migrate content without disruptions

• No impact on legacy ECM users
• No impact to core document management functions
• All operations are transparent to legacy ECM user

Improve data reliance

• Simplify backup and restore procedures
• Reduce the backup footprint - to HCP files which don’t need to be modified
• Improve recovery with automatic failover and fallback with HCP replication

Enable private-cloud architectures

• With HCP multi-tenancy.

Aggregation of both content and metadata on HCP

• Enables (legacy ECM) application independent searching

• Hitachi Content Platform advance integration / certified;
• Competitive pricing (license & maintenance).
• Unlimited internal & external users licensed as standard;
• Great user experience, from desktop to mobile devices;
• Designed for Cloud, multi-tenant capable;
• Mobile-Ready with CMIS implementation and native mobile apps;
• Optimized for fixed content vs. Legacy ECM complexity;

• Advanced imaging capabilities included as standard - document capture with unlimited OCR and integrated viewer;
• Dynamic Security - powerful and flexible security rules based on metadata;
• Information retrieval and discovery-centric, making it easy for the user to find and see the data (perspectives) – vs. the rigidity of legacy ECM;
• Metadata schema flexibility − dynamic adaptive data model for “IT independent” information governance and “adaptive-schema” indexing;
• Content encryption and digital signature support;
• Advanced Records Management with file plan, retention, and holds as standard − all these features leverage HCP retention and retention management architecture and capabilities.