SAPERIONvelocity - independent, fast, and intuitive!

Companies without transparent records processes can find themselves spinning their wheels. But these companies often hesitate to adopt ECM solutions because they fear that launching such solutions will be complicated and costly.

This is precisely where SAPERIONvelocity comes into play. It quickly integrates into both enterprise processes as well as individualized user processes.

A large number of standardized ECM functions and an approach that stresses configuration over programming greatly reduce expenses within your ECM projects.

Electronic records from SAPERION can greatly improve your employees’ productivity and job satisfaction by minimizing the amount of training required and by providing them with context-based help functions and common Web 2.0 features.

Many companies in the energy sector, for example, work closely with public institutions. With SAPERIONvelocity you can clearly assign business partners the rights and roles they need and view shared data, yet simultaneously protect your own sensitive information. Requirements that arise through unbundling can also be handled with ease.

How you benefit

• full location independence
• permanent traceability of process and document history
• reminder function
• completeness inspection
• differentiation in procedural and customer records
• attribute and full-text search within records
• comprehensive role-based authorization concept
• mandatability and multiple languages
• desktop-like functionality (check-in/checkout, keyboard shortcuts, drag and drop)

New web-based records management

In addition to its focus on user friendliness, SAPERIONvelocity is specifically designed to be readily adaptable. Its web-based framework is easy to learn and reflects the philosophy that "configuration is better than development", so it can quickly adjust to specific requirements. As a Java web application, SAPERIONvelocity strictly follows the model view control pattern.
Having a clear separation between design and business logic allows web designers, developers, and administrators to work independently of each other. As a result, tasks can be executed in parallel, ensuring rapid launching and high user acceptance of the application.

Extensive configuration

SAPERIONvelocity is configured at several levels. It is designed to allow users with operational expertise to customize their settings (such as sorting order, favorites, columns, etc.) without previous training.
The SAPERIONvelocity administrator has additional capabilities for configuring which functions and views of documents or records are assigned to particular user levels. He or she can also define which fields can be edited or viewed in the respective document and records class. During execution of the project, an Eclipse-based configurator is used for fundamental configuration of the XML files. This avoids the need for cumbersome rewriting of XML files. As before, a graphical user interface makes these tasks very straightforward and efficient.

Division of administrative tasks

The administrator responsible for business objects (such as groups, roles, and records) uses the familiar SAPERIONvelocity web interface. Therefore, you can have a special administrator whose only responsibilities are to create projects and administer rights. If the administrator will be responsible for realizing additional functions, then he should have knowledge of Java in order to develop additional plug-ins. If other people perform extensions, the administrator will simply be required to expand the XML files in the graphical editor and add them accordingly.

Distributed architecture

By strictly dividing the connector from the backend, the web application server can be separated from the SAPERION Content Repository server. As a result, the infrastructure can extend across multiple servers, opening the door for outside users and eliminating the need to release sensitive data and insecure zones. Using an http server like Apache or IIS and forwarding guidelines allows the web application server to be included in the secure zone.
As a Java web application, it is not essential for SAPERIONvelocity to have a fully functional application server like JBoss or WebSphere. A servlet container such as Apache Tomcat is fully adequate and scales up flawlessly even in large environments.
Since SAPERIONvelocity does not use any functions that are specific to a particular operating system, any operating system with Java runtime may be used. SAPERIONvelocity administers documents, records, and their meta-data in the backend, keeping the demands on the database to a minimum. A database is required only for configuration and personal settings. JDBC is used exclusively for this purpose, permitting integration of many databases (MS SQL, Oracle, MySQL, etc.).

Operational experts can do their part

Department managers or operational experts have the ability to independently customize settings in SAPERIONvelocity without much training. For example, they can set up favorites for commonly used objects, save search settings, define how results are sorted, and adjust associated columns as needed.
Having the ability to rapidly develop prototypes with SAPERIONvelocity allows users to quickly satisfy requirements, discuss important matters with technical departments, and immediately integrate specialized knowledge into depicted processes.