FileNet Corporation, the leading provider of Enterprise Content and Business Process Management solutions, has announced the launch of its FileNet Records Manager 3.5, the latest release of its Records Manager suite.
The FileNet Records Manager 3.5 release brings significant new features and capabilities to the Middle East market, including Intelligent Retention, which provides alternative or optional retention periods based on any number of variables or rules that may be imposed upon an organization by multiple regulatory authorities.
Carlo Stellati, Vice President, South Europe, Middle East and Africa, FileNet, said, “FileNet Records Manager 3.5 can enable enterprises in the Middle East to effectively address growing challenges in managing corporate records. The product comes equipped with newly-developed capabilities, allowing businesses enhanced flexibility to meet compliance needs across multiple content repositories and legal jurisdiction.”
FileNet Records Manager 3.5 is also integrated with FileNet Content Federation Services (CFS), which enable it to be integrated with and federate content from a broad range of both FileNet and non-FileNet content repositories. This would enable businesses to search, catalogue, classify, secure, retain, comply, activate, update and delete content residing in repositories across the enterprise.
The combined capabilities of Records Manager and Content Federation Services help prevent unauthorized access, inadvertent or intentional alteration or destruction of official records, and enforce legal holds while preserving a full audit trail.
The launch of Records Manager 3.5 closely follows the company’s announcement that it had entered into an agreement to acquire compliance software developer Yaletown Technology Group, including Yaletown’s recently announced Records Crawler for FileNet technology. The addition of Records Crawler now makes FileNet Records Manager the first enterprise-class records management solution to offer an integrated, intelligent rules-based capture and management solution for unmanaged records at the file system level. Applying the same set of server-based rules used for FileNet Email Manager, Records Crawler controls and audits the document upload process, automating the decision whether to upload a record.
“The acquisition of Yaletown Technology Group and the inclusion of Records Crawler, Intelligent Retention and Content Federation Services into the FileNet Records Manager 3.5 solution enables FileNet to support our customers’ most critical regulatory compliance needs,” added Stellati. “For the first time, an organization now has a rules-based capture and management solution that fully accounts for multiple regulatory bodies and the numerous content repositories across an entire organization. This comprehensive and flexible solution can clearly deliver our customers a distinct competitive advantage.”
