FileNet Corporation, the leading provider of Enterprise Content and Business Process Management solutions, has announced that it has been selected to supply content management solutions to Eurocopter, the world’s number one supplier of civil helicopters. Eurocopter will standardise on FileNet content management technologies in a bid to increase global efficiency and standardise systems and streamline processes.
FileNet will provide Eurocopter with FileNet Content Manager, Business Process Manager and Email Manager on the unified FileNet P8 platform in order to improve on the way in which Eurocopter archives, tracks and accesses content across multiple geographies and multiple business processes.
Manfred Seiler, Senior Manager, IT-Projects and Applications, Eurocopter said: “Up to now we were using a range of in-house and different vendor applications for documentation management and we had no future-orientated group strategy. The applications were based on different technologies, many of which were fast becoming obsolete, and not fulfilling security requirements.”
“The cost of ownership for each application was also increasing. Tracking content across multiple repositories was slow and prone to errors. FileNet is providing us with a future-proof solution that will enable us to improve efficiency, reduce response times and increase data quality based on globalised security rules,” he pointed out.
The FileNet solution will be adopted step-by-step across all parts of Eurocopter’s business from product design and manufacturing to customer support. It will initially be used to ensure compliance with contract management, procedures and guidelines and to enable the effective management of software support documents.
Stephan Van Herck, Senior Vice President, FileNet EMEA said: “Customers come to FileNet because they need to be able to manage all content types including email, voice and SMS messages and to understand the role of that content in different business processes. That level of control and insight is essential to enable global companies like Eurocopter to make the right decisions quickly and to audit the process by which those decisions are made.”
About Eurocopter:
Eurocopter Group, the world market leader in helicopters, employs a workforce of approximately 13,000. The company managed to sell more than 400 helicopters in 2005, achieving a consolidated turnover of 3.21 billion Euros. Five main development and production sites are located at Marignane and La Courneuve in France, Donauwörth and Ottobrunn in Germany, and Cuatro Vientos in Spain. The Group maintains a strong worldwide presence through 16 subsidiaries on five continents, backed by a dense network of distributors and certified agents. Eurocopter’s presence is also reinforced by over 30 years of experience in international cooperation, developed with 34 countries. More than 9,300 Eurocopter helicopters are currently operating in 139 countries on behalf of some 2,500 customers.
About FileNet
FileNet Corporation (NASDAQ: FILE) helps organizations make better decisions by managing the content and processes that drive their business. FileNet’s Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions allow customers to build and sustain competitive advantage by managing content throughout their organizations, automating and streamlining their business processes, and providing a spectrum of connectivity needed to simplify their critical and everyday decision-making.
FileNet ECM products are designed to deliver a broad set of capabilities that integrate with existing information systems to provide cost-effective solutions that solve real-world business problems.
Since the Company’s founding in 1982, more than 4,30 organizations, including more than three quarters of the FORTUNE 100, have taken advantage of FileNet solutions for help in managing their mission-critical content and processes.
Headquartered in Costa Mesa, Calif., the Company markets its innovative ECM solutions in more than 90 countries through its own global sales, professional services and support organizations, as well as via its ValueNet® Partner network of resellers, system integrators and application developers. For more information, please visit the company's website at: www.filenet.com.
